Starmer and Farage both drape themselves in flags but once again it's really clear where their loyalty really is. It's Trump first. They will always be on the side of the super rich and powerful - no matter how heinous the crime. This is not patriotism. It's subservience.

This is how you do it. No preamble to swear to God you don't like Maduro.

He is starting wars between naps, ffs, and still nobody will say "the Emperor is naked".

US chicken is chlorinated because America has no animal welfare laws where poultry is concerned. It has to be chlorinated because Salmonella and e. coli run rife The EU banned that practice in 1997 and as such the UK has among the highest welfare and standards in the world. 1/2

On iPlayer now, campy noir fans! 88 minutes of crackling genius

Has he thought this one through?

Poor Zelensky having to stand next to that orange dickhead. He's trying to save his people and in order to do that he can't speak his mind, its excruciating listening to Trump talk absolute bollocks. He could end this today if he really wanted to. He's happy to bomb Venezuelan ships willy nilly!

Sea foam skimming the sand at Joss Bay, Broadstairs, yesterday… 🥶💨🌊🎄

So fed up with the George story. Just leave Ambridge, George. #TheArchers

Welcome back to Canada, President Zelenskyy. Today in Halifax, we committed critical new support to help Ukraine end Russia’s war of aggression, and to recover and rebuild. When peace comes — and it will come — Canada will be there for the Ukrainian people. Slava Ukraini. 🇨🇦🇺🇦

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“We have sacrificed our national success because of our fear of immigration. And now, if Farage has his way, we'll do it all over again” Superb, important analysis of the profound harm Farage does to our country in his rabidly racist and egotistical bid for power liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/407...

the episode's synopsis is: "Mandy rarely dabbles in global diplomacy, especially over Christmas when it's so cold out and there's good telly on, but..." i think we can guess what's happened here. luv muh free speech

🔴 REVEALED 🔴 The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. 📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇

In this case, the court heard that detention had worsened the mental illness of two men and increased their self-harm and suicide risk.

More evidence of serious failures within the immigration detention system, as the High Court rules that there has been an unlawful failure of the Home Office’s system designed to protect vulnerable people from inhuman and degrading treatment in detention.

“The unthinkable has happened. The US is Europe’s adversary. The stark, profound betrayal contained in the Trump administration’s national security strategy should stop any further denial and dithering in Europe’s capitals.“

If you ask AI for a definition of a “vexatious litigant”, the answers sound very familiar… 🙄 #vexatiouslitigant

Classic dramatisation of a British sixties! SCANDAL (1989) 9:10pm Starring #JoanneWhalley #BridgetFonda #JohnHurt drama #TPTVsubtitles

And here’s #KinoQuickies podcast as companion, in which @domdelargy.bsky.social @norloll.bsky.social & I discuss the film & its genesis: www.kinoquickies.com/episode/12-s... #Scrooge #SeymourHicks #Scrooge1935 #AChristmasCarol #Dickens

Witness the earliest surviving English "talkie" version of SCROOGE (1935) starring #SeymourHicks at 1:45pm #TPTVsubtitles

“If this is the level of shamelessness [Farage’s] media supporters are willing to stoop to when he is a mere fourth party opposition politician, just imagine the levels they will descend to should he ever get a real whiff of power” It just *must* not happen. www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-farage...

This kind of ugly hypocrisy from Dan Hodges of the Daily Mail is exactly why our country has Farage - a brazen racist - riding high in the polls. And, also, of course, why we’re in the post-Brexit doldrums. A far right agenda is pushing us into a very bleak place.

YouTube channels spreading fake, anti-Labour videos have amassed more than a billion views this year, as opportunists attempt to use AI-generated content to profit from political division in the UK www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

If we are really worried about the pressure put on the NHS by flu then shouldn’t we have offered the flu vaccine to more people for free?

Looks really smart to have limited flu & COVID jabs this year, eh? Gov feigning surprise at “unprecedented” pressures. Shame no-one could have predicted exactly this… 🤔

Understanding Starmer’s reluctance to call out Trump doesn’t make it any more palatable - it’s leaving a very unpleasant taste… www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

“For every inch yielded, there’s going to be another inch demanded. Where does it stop?”

So what if they weaken ECHR human rights protections? So what if they interpret protection from torture differently? Will that improve services? Help the NHS? Bring better food, air & education? Eradicate poverty? Crushing rights is the most destructive distraction from the wrongs that need fixing.

"The big question for Europe is: when are you gonna fight back, guys?" ask former Obama staffers Tommy Vietor and Ben Rhodes. "He doesn't respect you, he's interfering in your political affairs, he's talking shit...at some point stop lathering him with praise" open.spotify.com/episode/6USY...

Oh, George! Just move away from Ambridge. #TheArchers

Anyone know why Paddington Station was evacuated this afternoon? Don’t see any posts about it. #PaddingtonStation

#BBCQuestiontime from Dover - “immigration special”? FFS! Just another BBC News programme whipping up racist bigotry, with Fiona Bruce salivating. Tell me again where the “left wing bias” is, or the “balance”?

"This explains why the administration refuses to declassify the memo...If the public saw how flimsy the legal footing is, they’d see the president is using wartime powers he does not have to kill civilians he cannot legally target..." open.substack.com/pub/defiance...

If you’re infected don’t spread it around. A significant proportion become ill enough to be hospitalised…some die This strain’s proving to be immune evasive…the vaccine provides reasonable protection against serious illness, but not infection That feels bad enough! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Very bad flu’ season this year and no sign of it peaking. 1,717 patients were admitted to hospital with the virus each day last week on average, more than twice as high as this time last year, according to NHS England statistics. Get vaccinated if you haven’t already.

Sir John Curtice "Joining the EU Single Market and Customs Union would give the Labour government a distinct purpose. There'd be immediate economic benefits and clear electoral difference to Reform Farage and Tories." Labour needs to ditch the Morgan MacSweeney strategy that is destroying Labour

This is the guy who gave Boris Johnson £1 million and then won a big MoD contract....

Nigel Farage used an LBC appearance in September to accuse the Bank of England of being “dinosaurs” for seeking to place restrictions on the use of Stablecoins by crypto firms like Tether. He did not declare that Reform had just received a £9 million donation from one of its biggest investors

First three words superfluous. This framing of unlawful things as a mere matter of legal opinion sadly not limited to US press.

"In the ashes of war... Europe pulled together to create collaborative bodies designed to prevent a repeat of the horrors of Nazi Germany. One such body was the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)."

Wes Streeting seems really to loathe & despise doctors, much as Gove had contempt for teachers. Why does government have to be hostile to those working in our public services? Surely it’s counterproductive to be adversarial, rather than supportive.

Utterly inhuman. WTF, America?

This should be the main story on all TV news programmes. The University of Essex is closing its Southend campus because of the fall in the number of foreign students and the loss of income they provided for the University. www.echo-news.co.uk/news/2566689...

Remember this, when you criticise doctors for asking for decent pay.

One thing I’ll never understand about the BBC, is that they seem not to realise they are the BBC. Still the most trusted news brand. They don’t need “star names” like Kuenssberg, Robinson, Mason etc. All news should be delivered by an anonymous individual with a bag over their head.

@markhertling.bsky.social: “When you're talking about striking against someone who's wounded and clinging to debris…Deliberately targeting such a person isn't a tactical decision, it's a war crime by the Geneva Convention, the laws of land warfare, and the U.N. Charter.”

This is the mayor of Akron, Ohio.

WHOA. Trump says he will pardon Juan Orlando Hernandez, who once said that he wanted to “shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos.” He had people killed as part of his narco-trafficking ring, which he at times operated directly out of his presidential office.