I don’t suppose he fancies boxing?

Never clicked on an article so fast

YouGov have Reform on 25% in both their first poll of 2025 and their final poll before Christmas. The only significan sustained gain across 2025 was Green Party +7, at expense of Labour Reform 25% tp 25% (-) Labour 26% to 20% (-6) Cons 22% to 19% (-3) LibDems 14% to 15% (+1) Greens 8% to 15% (+7)

Shout out to the parent who thought the best way to keep their kid entertained on the train was to bring along a xylophone

Saw Oppenheimer for the first time last night. Very bad. Like a three-hour trailer. Something interesting about to happen then they cut to five other things for 20 seconds. Telling too many stories with too little depth. Last half hour ok. #filmreviews

I guess even the Updike list guy doesn't read Updike nowadays. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Trump is a brainless brute but Vance has clearly looked around and decided he can build power by performing the most repulsive caricature of white supremacy. He deserves profound suffering.

The DOJ is continuing to redact more mentions of Donald Trump found in the Epstein files. On the left the original version, on the right today’s version. Source: justice.gov/multimedia/C... #OpDeathEaters

My entire X timeline is anti-EU posts from people I don't follow. Even if I change it from 'for you' to 'following', it switches back to 'for you' each time I open the site. X is being weaponised against the EU. And unfortunately X is still the public square for European journalists & politicians.

There are people being paid by the federal government to sit around and think of increasingly outrageous posts to titillate Nazis on the 9th most popular social media site in the U.S.

He's been! Here's everything I read this year (and a few things I wrote): Henry James! Joseph Heller! Penelope Fitzgerald! A biography of the unsuccessful 1928 Democratic presidential candidate, Al Smith! advicetothelovelorn.blogspot.com/2025/12/Book...

Who chose Steve Witkoff? Putin www.wsj.com/world/putin-...

Every time I'm in a restaurant I remember Kevin McAleer's reply to a waiter who told him the Soup Of The Day. "Where there any other contenders?" "Um, no?" "A hollow victory, then".

See that’s the kind of talk that gets you buried in an unmarked grave on a second-rate golf course

New picture of Donald Trump:

Fox reporting that all entries in the Epstein files discussing Donald and Melania Trump, other members of the Trump administration, and their friends have been blacked out of the Epstein files as released. www.foxnews.com/politics/eps...

Finally, one they've forgotten to fully mark up.

Well, yes, that was always how it was going to be until a whistleblower/hacker comes along.

To the barricades

It is completely glorious how shit this looks. Just magnificent work. Slightly different lettering. A bit wonky. Didn’t even remove “THE” at the beginning of the second line. Chef’s kiss.

See, he *can* write fiction

"The NICs rises went well, let's do that again" is an almost Trussian response to the original clear error

To everyone on Bluesky finding out about Walliams and despairing at the fact that "I read those books to my kids" I just want to reassure them that it's OK. He didn't write them.

Every time there's a breaking story about a celeb's treatment of women, everyone in the book world asks, "Is it finally Walliams?" Well, it finally is.

This headline could have been written at any point in the last 25 years.

I think, if you are reporting a press release, quite literally sent to you, as "sneaking out", and the 18th of December as "the last day before Christmas", you sort of asked and answered your own question.

Babe meets Knives Out with Wolverine plus Greg from Succession playing British, made by the guy who wrote Chernobyl?

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

Maria Shriver, niece of JFK: He was a man interested in the arts, culture, education, language, history... It is beyond comprehension that the president has sought to rename this great memorial. C’mon my fellow Americans! Wake up! This is not dignified. This is not funny... It’s downright weird.

Things are going great over at X, The Everything App

Not sure that complaining about this has gone the way lobby hacks wanted/expected it to go.

This is like an eight-year-old has been asked to write an approximation of a statement from an authoritarian state.

Look, a man who managed to get 35% from polling of 45% despite being up against the most unpopular government in decades is clearly an electoral genius.

This is superb

One of those promos the BBC used to be so good at making. A raft of comedy talent on display here

OK, I really want to know what exactly is being argued here despite suspecting that I will despise it immensely.

I'm not reading an article that begins this way.

To be expected - lots of hostile (racist) replies to this. Virtually all of them from made-up names. While the ones supporting Rachel come from people using their real names. A social network where people are accountable remains a distant dream...

Oh

Matthew Goodwin objects to prosecuting this: ‘I think it’s time for the British to gang together, hit the streets and start the slaughter. Violence and murder is the only way now. Start off burning every migrant hotel then head off to MPs’ houses and Parliament, we need to take over by FORCE.’

"Everyone over 40 thinks I'm a taxi firm"

Approx 80% of the depressing replies and quotes to this are proving Rachel's point effortlessly.

I'll say it again: if any other ethnic or religious minority said "please don't use this particular term or chant, you might not have bad intentions but it is deeply racist and threatening to us", the reaction would be mortified apology. And that's without a mass terror event four days ago

I hate Pope more than Henry VIII did. #theashes

This quote is so far from reality. And the administration produces multiples like this daily. It's like the laws of physics have been reversed in their world.