The Ghost of Christmas Future has a message for Keir Starmer. Alexei Sayle brings you his alternative Christmas message from the streets where Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol.

The first edition of The Kenny Everett Television Show was broadcast on this day in 1981.

😮 SHOCK: As Santa Is Cancelled. 👇🏻 Find out why - watch and then share this #BrokenNews report. youtu.be/I96albSd2w0

#Refugees www.justgiving.com/campaign/cal...

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Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (20th December 1973). The one with the roller-skates.

How showbusiness 'journalism' really works

Jeffrey Epstein & David Walliams leading all the bulletins but Kemi Badenoch knows that only men from ‘different cultures’ pose a threat to women.

Far right scum have been out harrassing the homeless on the streets & they are proud of it. The folks at @calaisappeal.bsky.social are doing everything they can to stand up to the hate 🙏 please stand with us 🙏 www.youtube.com/shorts/bxFVG...

Jimmy Kimmel: This looks like the promo for a Hulu series about personal injury attorneys, who fake bus accidents.

Suspect some female Tory MPs are quietly dying inside at this. When you’re so desperate to get in a bit of gratuitous foreigner-bashing that you find yourself arguing *against* preventative strategies that try to prevent sexual violence, ffs, what have you become?

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How it started ... How it's going. ReformUK-controlled Worcestershire council - one of three visited by Zia Yusuf's "DOGE" team, promising huge savings - has applied for permission to raise council tax by 10%! 😱 ~AA

I’m not often lost for words but…

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Christmas cancellation update

"If growth was actually your priority, you would not be doing this." (Me, stating the obvious) www.ft.com/content/2b60...

"Migrants who came to the UK on skilled work visas in 2022-23 will make a net contribution of £47bn to the public finances over their lifetime, according to new estimates from the government’s Migration Advisory Committee." Not surprising, but some observations (1/n) www.ft.com/content/10da...

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

Brexit Downsides, Part 742 ...

Thanks to @natashadevon.bsky.social on LBC, I checked Reform’s constitution and it does not say members have to be UK citizens or residents reformuk.org.uk/wp-content/u...

WHY ARE YOU ANNOYED THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED TO HAPPEN

The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party. Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar

🚨 “Can I tell you how many times in the last 45 years the European Court of Human Rights has ruled against the UK when it comes to deporting people from this country - only 13 times - in 45 years” Hugely important point made by @vicderbyshire.bsky.social 👏

A result which both illustrates the magnitude of the Reform threat and the problems with Labour’s “Farage is right, don’t vote for him” response. 37 point Lab to Reform swing. Labour go from first to 4th as anti-Reform vote splits 3 ways. Combined Lab/LD/Grn vote larger than Reform vote.

Paul Dacre desperate to avoid being sued by Prince Harry has been trying to uncover anything on Prince Harry to such an extent as making up stories nothing new really as he has done this for years as editor in chief of Daily Mail…⬇️⬇️⬇️

If handing someone their arse, was a video clip

Migration Advisory Committee report on fiscal impact of main work migration routes. Key table: they estimate 2022/23 cohort (those arriving in 2022/23) will over lifetimes pay about £47 billion more in taxes than they "cost" in public spending. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/693810...

Elon Musk, who was not born in America, has a problem with people voting in American elections who…. were not born in America….

Home Office Ministers state publicly, on the record, that they are deliberately making life worse for older people and people with disabilities who depend on care services, but it's worth it because it reduces net migration.

the growth government is at it again www.ft.com/content/2b60...

New Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to £10 billion with a central estimate of -£5.4 billion. It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops

I don’t think all conservatives are racists but the ones that aren’t are very quiet and therefore effectively pro-racist

This year I’m doing something different - I’m only going to talk about this one appeal. Please donate at the link here if you possibly can, or share this to beat the far right vigilante groups 👉 www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...

Technology is radically restructuring so many elements of social life, from development and education to dating and politics. Watch what happens to dating around 2007...

Every line of this by @willdunn.bsky.social is delightful:

Tomorrow's front page 📰 Nigel Farage attacks Glasgow pupils for being bilingual ... but is fine with his own children all speaking 'perfect German'

2 in 3 of Nigel Farage’s current and former partners do not speak English as their first language.

Unfortunately nowadays it is

So the Daily Mail owner's wife has just given £50,000 to Nigel Farage's Reform UK

Not satire, apparently…

This is getting properly unhinged

It's all bad but hadn't seen the bit where Farage says: "The European Union is the prototype for the New World Order." That is a seriously, deeply problematic term that taps into Illuminati and antisemitic conspiracy theories. How the fuck did this man direct the course of our politics?

Mark Kelly, "When Trump was writing birthday greetings to Epstein, I was the first on the scene to recover the bodies of my fellow astronauts"

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

ChatGPT is evil except when it confirms the message I am selling

Watched BBC 6 o clock news. Just a completely unserious broadcast. Chris Mason, acting like a children's entertainer, giving a prolonged impenetrable editorial. Not a whiff of informative content about the Budget or what it means for the country. Just playschool blah blah bollocks.