Q: Would you support ending federal vaccine mandates and just making those recommendations for schools? TRUMP: We're looking at a lot of things having to do with vaccines. We're going to be reducing it very substantially

Q: “You said you would have no problem with releasing the full video of that strike on September 2nd.” Trump: “I didn’t say that. You said that. I didn’t say that. This is ABC fake news.” Trump on Dec. 3: “Whatever they have, we’d certainly release. No problem.”

Academics at a Welsh University are writing the first complete dictionary of the ancient Celtic languages of Britain and Ireland wp.me/p8Mk4U-1agq

The Supreme Court on Monday seemed likely to expand presidential control over independent federal agencies, signaling support for President Donald Trump’s firing of board members. https://to.pbs.org/3MlqXiF

Trump can be heard yelling about "blue slips" on a hot mic as the press is shepherded out of the press event

He’s redistributing money from the urban cores that they’re terrorizing with ethnic pogroms to pay off his base for their loyalty

BRENNAN: If everything is fine, then why do farmers need a bridge payment from the Agriculture Department? BESSENT: Sorry? BRENNAN: Why do they need a bridge payment? BESSENT: You've gotta start financing for planning next year, when things will be very good

BBC slammed for not covering Palestine prisoners on hunger strike www.thenational.scot/news/2568122...

Never stop talking about Palestine!! Do not mistake silence for neutrality. Silence now means siding with destruction. If you are watching and saying nothing, you are giving permission. You are telling the world that some wars are acceptable. Never forgive, Never forget!!!!

Siri, show me British understatement: "There is scepticism about the party’s infrastructure and its ability to vet suitable candidates." ~AA Reform UK councillor’s company fined £40,000 for hiring illegal worker www.ft.com/content/de36...

These bastards. This is what they want. wdsu.com/article/marr...

I have stood with Palestine since the horrific invasion of Lebanon and the Sabra and Shatila massacre in the early 80's. My passion has only deepened as I truly came to understand the evil and horror that is Zionism.

Unsurprising mask-off racism from Nick Timothy here. Upset at the abolition of the two-child limit - because some of (British) kids who will benefit have (British) parents who are the wrong colour (were born in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Somalia, etc). archive.ph/rycVD

A group representing Welsh families who lost loved ones during the pandemic has written to the body that vets new peers urging it to block the appointment of disgraced former First Minister Vaughan Gething as a member of the House of Lords✍️Martin Shipton

An energy-rich Scotland must mean energy-rich Scots. We can’t allow Westminster to squander our energy wealth again.

As the saying goes: the right seeks converts, the left hunts traitors

Russia Russia Russia www.bbc.com/news/article...

The same Labour staffers that showed me no solidarity whatsoever when I resigned in a pandemic when the Labour MP I worked for turned out to be a massive transphobe

No warrant, no legal grounds.

He's so full of shit.

Starmer is not only useless Prime Minister he’s also so out of touch he won’t realise he’s backing the wrong horse till Putin’s tanks roll into Downing Street. Starmer praises Trump’s efforts to end war as Zelenskyy arrives apple.news/AwWY6fOksTmq...

Keir Starmer - "I’ve always wanted a Labour government but I’ve never worried about the future of our country under a Tory government." The words of a man so insulated from the harm done by the Tories he felt no compulsion not to continue the harm not being done to him and his.

This should not be getting live reporting and it shouldn't be the BBC's headline story (I checked incognito so it's not just that I'm signed in to a Scotland-based account), absolutely damning indictment of our ridiculous media that it is - to say nothing of the complete pish claims about who won.

It says a lot about how out of touch with reality this Labour government are, that they think people are overweight because they are eating too much in restaurants.

Huge welcome to Cllrs John Stuart & Ross McKenzie as they join the Scottish Greens 💚 Looking forward to working with them along with all our councillors in the fight for People & Planet before Profit 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✊️

Labour are attacking Greens. Fine. I have yet to see any party that has entirely affordable aspirations. But at least the Greens HAVE aspirations. Labour have seemingly decided the status quo cannot be touched, even when it doesn't work for 90% of people, or the viability of life on the planet.

The gig, as they say, is up.

FT - Tony Blair, the former UK prime minister, has been dropped from consideration for President Trump’s “board of peace” in Gaza, following objections from several Arab and Muslim states. www.ft.com/content/3f6c...

My latest blog piece, Westminster and Scotland's energy - Fool me once... Scotland must not allow Westminster to squander its vast renewable energy resources the way Scotland's oil and gas were squandered by Westminster. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/w...

Three more British MEPs in Nigel Farage’s bloc now alleged to have “followed the script” given to Nathan Gill by an alleged Russian asset, according to prosecutors. At least eight UKIP and Brexit Party MPs were focus of efforts by Nathan Gill www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Well in light of the Netflix-WB deal, I did get a laugh when I saw this.

Quite remarkable to see how many in Starmer's party are so trapped in a kind of Corbyn era PTSD that they can't grasp the kind of serious challenge the Greens represent rather than the 1980s flashback caricature of what Starmerites think the Left always will be.

Another one of the wars Trump stopped, eh?

They want to dilute human rights to enable deporting people back to countries where they could be tortured. But yeah, they're just economic migrants on the take.

The saddest part of the FIFA ‘peace prize’ was how excited Senile Satan got over a fake award.

After Europe had a weekend to digest the confrontative new US National Security Strategy, time to ponder the questions raised by @maxbergmann.bsky.social in this excellent piece:

Once a Russian asset, always a Russian asset. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Know your rights. Protect your neighbors. New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.

The calls from America this weekend to "abolish the EU" are for one simple reason: the EU is the only thing that can keep European nation-states from becoming Russian or American vassals.

A ruling could let Trump sweep aside a 90-year-old power that blocks presidents from ousting agency leaders freely.

Denmark posts its last letters as hallowed national mail ends Royal Mail should follow suit. Absolute shambles of a company that can’t deliver anything on time. apple.news/AbvS1m6TlRhy...

Tom Cotton would not even be in Congress, were it not for the huge defense contractors supporting him from the beginning and keeping him flush with cash.

A town in Illinois that is within driving distance of 10 states with abortion bans has become a hub for the procedure in the three years since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. trib.al/QYzy72l

As the US releases its National Security Strategy paper; an alignment with Russia and an abandonment from Europe becomes evident | Martin Burns

For some inexplicable reason I suddenly feel full of Christmas cheer www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/989c0d4...

Total failure.