Carney won the Canadian election partly due to Trump's threats to Canadian sovereignty. I find that very very funny. Perhaps that's what Trump should get an award for?

This is the best speech, just from a pure rhetoric perspective - its sophistication and persuasiveness - that I've seen a politician deliver in a good long while. Really recommend watching or reading the whole thing.

"I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"

If it was just Trump it would be manageable but plenty of those around him want an excuse to go after Europe. And while there's a pro-NATO majority in Congress they're being so supine...

I'm good thanks. I think I probably won't move to the country where the authorities pump out neo-Nazi memes and masked militias roam the streets.

Proposed title for a book on Danish foreign policy over the ages "From King Cnut to King C...."

Trump's latest tantrum is a sign he knows he can't actually invade Greenland - as he doesn't have support from the Senate or the military. Obviously Europe can't trade Greenland away so they'll have to try and mollify him some other way or take the hit.

🎶Where do you go to my lovely....🎶

I feel a total hypocrite and party pooper for writing this as I love the cut and thrust of Party politics but this will be the only focus of political journalists, politicians and commentators when there are so many other important issues which we need to focus us.

Don't believe I've ever found anything positive to say about Badenoch but think she's played a bit of a blinder here.

One day Chris Philp will say something accurate and valuable. I just don't think that day is coming any time soon.

I'm perhaps naively hopeful that big news stories about AI hallucinations wiil make more people check sources.

Ultimately it’s not a hard question, or shouldn’t be: if there were a website called creepywank dot org, where you could upload any picture or screengrab of anyone and get AI to produce a photorealistic picture of that person, regardless of age, in a state of undress…should it be legal in the UK?

Just thought I'd post this:

I marvel at the brass necks of politicians but Zahawi going to Reform is of another order entirely. Struggling to know what he think he'll achieve that he couldn't in all his many years in a Tory government?

In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.

I think it's very important that Rupert Lowe's "Million Nonce March" gets widespread media coverage. Critical to amplify diverse voices.

I'm just reminded of that time Sunak invited Musk to Number 10 Downing Steet and they replaced the '10' with an X on that iconic door. Thought it wrong then and it seems absurd now.

If your fear of the powerful leads you to abandon any sense of moral virtue, you should not be in public life.

I think all the Christmas chocolates are finally gone and I can begin my healthy eating and exercise regime. I can. Whether I will or not is an entirely different matter.

I mean, it's a vast improvement, but this should have been the position days ago. The position now should be "you have X hours to fix this or your website will banned in the UK until it's sorted"

A quick look at Reform run councils should disabuse them of the notion they'll "get things done".

I just want to cry at the vileness of this. WTF have we become?

Finding it hard to process the levels of hate and ignorance so many are exhibiting. Of course, I cd stay offline, but that won't make it end. How do we end it? I'm not taking sides as I loath whataboutery, and it's gets us absolutely nowhere.

It's always lovely when people remember your birthday however I never wanted it to be remembered as when "WW3 started.

one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it

That Miller chap seems nice. Why don't I meet men like that....?

Amorim sacked by United. A club fighting with Avanti and the government to be the least functional organisation in the UK.

(to be fair one reason Starmer sometimes takes ages to take a stance is Washington says stuff in the middle of our night & we have to respond in the middle of their night & it can take time to establish if eg a person's wife shitposting on social media is an invasion threat or just the usual wtf)

If you’re asking what is now stopping Russia from killing Zelenskyy, the answer is the same as it has been since 24th February 2022: Ukrainians. Not everything revolves around Trump and his actions.

This is interesting. Well done Ms Burke. There's no doubt the language and tone of the discourse around disability issues has been troubling from this Lab Govt.

I think the answer is "they're not white".

Here’s to 2026

"I don't always sit in boxes, but when I do, it's a box that contained something expensive you bought me for Christmas that I don't give two shits about"

I've yet to hear anyone say "It doesn't feel like Christmas." so let me be the first.

Scorpion vows no more stinging if frog treats him with respect.

To be fair they had some celeb ambassadors & PM all over it. I think fault is more on our (media) side. It’s a week since a man was jailed for burning a woman & her three kids to death *because her sister had ended their relationship* ffs, you’d think maybe aVAWG strategy could get taken seriously

What's next? The Golden Trump Bridge? The Trump Canyon? New Trump City? I'm laughing as it's healthier for me than tears.

I wish the Brexit dinosaurs would stop this "Erasmus is for posh kids" crap. Half the young population goes to university, these days, in UK and most of EU. And most of the half that doesn't is also eligible for Erasmus+, which covers schools, further education, adult learners and in-work training.

He really is the most ignorant, oafish and at the same time dangerous twat!

There must be a German word for the experience of sending yourself an email, then getting an email notification and thinking "ooh I wonder who that's from".

Reform being a explicitly racist party should be reflected in coverage

An unreliable ally is not an ally, just like an unreliable smoke detector is not a smoke detector. The essence of the thing is its reliability.

not the kind of behavior I expect from the winner of the fifa peace prize

I'm remembering a trip to NYC in Dec '95. A young Jewish man approached and asked if I was Jewish? I said no, and he gave me a present of candy and said "Happy Hannukah anyway". I hope for happier Hannukahs to come.

And this is why we must continue to hope in humanity however impossible that can seem.

now you come to me and you say, "pobrecita chancleta, bring me justice." but you don't ask with respect, you don't offer friendship. you don't even think to call me catfather.

It's true, just ask my husband...

🎶You walked into the party like you were walking onto a yacht🎶