Britain’s attempt to ‘do the right thing’ over Chagos reflects a rules-based worldview that is under increasing pressure.

When frost and Russian attacks try to rob Ukraine of hope, Poland and the Polish people respond with solidarity. We are delivering power generators so that light, warmth, and safety can return. True strength is born in community. 💙💛

Rambling Trump runs through his achievements as worried world watches on

Donald Trump is not forgetting America’s old alliances – his goal is to destroy them | Rafael Behr

NEW: Marking DOGE's one-year anniversary, RDP has put together a report probing the origins, the personnel, and the harmful consequences of Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency.

“We know the old order is not coming back. We shouldn’t mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy… The powerful have their power. But we have something, too: the capacity to stop pretending.” — Canadian PM Mark Carney at Davos, basically announcing divorce from America and receiving a standing ovation

“Trump's decided to sink the EU,” declares one Russian paper today. Lots about Greenland in the Russian press. But also domestic economic problems: “Prices ready to soar”, Moscow cafes closing & “Russia’s car industry completely dependent on China’s.” #ReadingRussia

Not mistakes — these are targeted acts of terror. UkraineWorld documented the deadliest Russian attacks of 2025 against #Ukraine — those that killed ten or more people. Read the analysis for a detailed overview of the deadliest Russian attacks: ukraineworld.org/en/articles/...

Amnesty International issues a warning that the Trump administration’s "escalation of authoritarian practices, including closing civic space and undermining the rule of law, is eroding human rights in the U.S. and beyond.” www.amnestyusa.org/reports/ring...

Starmer turns away from Trump’s Board of Peace as US-UK tensions mount ft.trib.al/UFoNZ40

Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."

Much-needed clarity, which needs to be translated into action. The sooner the better. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“As the planet broke heat records, fossil fuel profits continued to surge. And in cyberspace, algorithms rewarded falsehoods, fuelled hatred, and provided authoritarians with powerful tools of control.” https://bit.ly/3LJEUH8

How did the position of Rostec and Sergei Chemezov "clan" change since 2022? His "clan" is known to groom at least three potential successor to Putin and he is an outspoken critic of Russian dependence on China ridl.io/rostec-s-pos...

'I don't think Britain should be embarrassed or humiliated at all' Darren Jones, Chief Secretary to the PM, reacts to comments by Donald Trump on social media that the UK's plan to hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius is an "an act of GREAT STUPIDITY"

There's a fun game the Alternate History community have where you make counterfactual Wikipedia boxes as a world-building exercise and letting people fill in the gaps to see how much they deviate from our own reality. Anyway. If I posted this two years ago I'd have been laughed out of the room.

The UK would be “foolish” to embrace the seemingly “simple solution” of a new customs union with the EU in an effort to boost economic growth, business secretary Peter Kyle has said despite growing fears of a trade war with Donald Trump. (FT interview) www.ft.com/content/73c8...

"Trump Invites Putin to Board of Peace" War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength - George Orwell, 1984. www.haaretz.com/us-news/2026...

Thank you for your resilience, your persistent brilliance...it transformed how the world navigates & understands our planet. Your work touches nearly every modern device & journey and more people should know your name. Goodnight and godspeed, Gladys West.🕯️ thezebra.org/2026/01/18/d... #WomenInSTEM

"In the immediate aftermath of the death of Renée Good in Minneapolis... an FBI agent in Minnesota conducted an initial review of the shooting and determined that sufficient grounds existed to open a probe into the actions of the officer who shot Good..." www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

The DOJ has decided not to pursue a criminal civil rights investigation into the fatal shooting of Renee Good. Instead, the department has shifted its investigative focus toward Minnesota officials, including Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey. Living in the upside down.

Gosh, if only there were a constitutional mechanism for removing a president who is mentally ill and unfit to hold office.

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Szíjjártó may want to brush up on the EU Treaty. This is not his choice (or his boss's choice or the choice of his idols).

Was on on Radio 4's PM earlier, discussing Trump, Greenland, and the future of NATO with Evan Davis and Max Hastings. If anyone's interested (though only if you're in the UK, I think), it starts at about 49:30 here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

A Russian neo-Nazi group has claimed responsibility for the destruction of a memorial plaque honoring Anna Politkovskaya, the Novaya Gazeta journalist who was assassinated in 2006. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

Wrote a long piece about why (almost) nobody's addressed deepfake sexual abuse, and how we, the pissed off masses, can dismantle the infrastructure behind it www.thewayfinder.net/p/i-never-wa...

"The underlying hum at the moment is how Americanised we’ve become, how much the far-right has penetrated our so-called mainstream politics, and how far we’ve generally shifted to the right," @zackpolanski.bsky.social tells Byline Times subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/82/z...

⚡️ Denmark 'substantially increases' Greenland troops as Trump won't rule out using force. Chief of the Royal Danish Army Major General Peter Boysen will also deploy to the island alongside soldiers.

Russia has intensified strikes on Ukraine’s energy system, triggering blackouts and heating outages that have stretched on for days in subfreezing temperatures. Here’s what Moscow’s new tactics could mean for the country’s power grid. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

Opinion: The Leonid Volkov controversy shows that Russia's opposition has too much in common with the regime they hope to replace, Boris Bondarev writes.

'We've got to stand up to Donald Trump, he's a bully' Liberal Democrats leader Ed Davey tells #BBCBreakfast the UK should cancel the planned visit by King Charles to the United States in the row over the US President's threat over Greenland

What ICE is doing on US streets looks terrifying, but don’t forget: it could happen anywhere | Nesrine Malik

In this week's column, I ask the question: is it time for women to start making fake porn of men, and flooding the internet with it? www.thetimes.com/magazines/th...

We cannot claim to uphold the “rules-based international system” by allowing it to be side-stepped by an pay-to-play club run by the world’s most unfit person, and without existing support, delivery, or logistics capacity, or accountability. All this does is kill the UN. (And no, that’s not good.)

A source confirms to me that this disturbing letter from Trump to the Norwegian PM is real.

mad king moment from the PBS Newshour correspondent

The government must work with our European partners on retaliatory measures to hit Trump and his cronies where it hurts, unless he drops these tariffs. It's time to show that Britain stands with our allies and we won’t be bullied into submission.

Today's UK newspapers, from left to right across the political spectrum, are dominated by Trump's threats over Greenland. The word "blackmail" is prominently used.

The Trump-Kennedy Center is another front in the battle for the soul of America | Charlotte Higgins

'Europe won't be blackmailed,' Danish PM says in wake of Trump Greenland threats

Resistance under Russian-occupation is beyond dangerous — even the smallest sign of supporting Ukraine can result in imprisonment, torture, and even death.

Russian attacks in Ukraine kill 5 civilians & injure 30; Moscow plans attacking substations powering Ukraine's nuclear plants; Polish civic groups raise $330,000 to buy generators for residents facing extreme winter conditions in Kyiv; and more.

This is a very good point. The November 2025 US National Security Strategy never mentions the Arctic at all. The idea that it's a genuine security priority for the Trump administration is not credible.

The world turns at a crazy pace. It's only 18 January and 2026 has already seen Venezuela, Iran, now Greenland again dominate the news. And through it all, innocent residents in Ukraine continue to freeze after the illegal invasion of their country nears a 5th year. Here's the🧵

⚡️ Russian attacks kill 5, injure 30 across Ukraine as Moscow again targets energy infrastructure. Ukraine's Air Force reported that it had shot down 167 out of 201 drones Russia launched overnight.

In the second Trump administration, online conspiracy theories are shaping real-world policies like never before.

BREAM: Is the FBI investigating the ICE agent who shot Renee Good? BLANCHE: What happened has been reviewed by millions of Americans bc it was recorded. We investigate when it's appropriate. That is not the case here. We are not going to bow to pressure. So no, we are not investigating.

UK politics ‘constantly suffering’ from online disinformation, says Labour MP

The Trump presidency only benefits China, Russia, Trump, and his billionaire inner circle