The media's response to Trump's #Davos speech has to be based on our reality, not his. This is his Biden debate moment.

Trump just said he got a call from the 'Swiss Prime Minister, they don't have a President, but a Prime Minister. A woman' There is no female Swiss Prime Minister and there is no Swiss Prime Minister. For most people, that is a telling sign of cognitive decline. For Trump, it is a Wednesday.

Boy, haven't we all been wrong about this before. But could this #Davos speech be the beginning of the end for Trump? Never seen anything like it.

❤️‍🔥Tory sources confirm that Nadhim Zahawi made approaches to senior members of Kemi Badenoch's team about getting a peerage just weeks before defecting to Reform UK - but was turned down.

To save my long suffering friends, I have started a Substack. First post below, likely saying things you already know about Nigel Farage and Labour. More to come! olivermoyles.substack.com/p/act-like-r...

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Incentivising this kind of thing is parasitic, but what's even worse is that for a £100 oversize bag fee, they still only give staff £1 a pop for spotting them. Race to the bottom stuff.

Brilliant workaround here for the global oil price spike. He’s using his best plays when it matters most.

This whole interview is staggering

Bang on. A lot of what Musk has done via DOGE has been discussed by the online-right for years. Musk is just what happens when wealth and power allow those ideas to leap from the online to the real world. The consequence is unimaginable harm and suffering; the rich killing the poor.

About time. Greens have been asleep for too long and while influential, you can't blame it all on the media's Farage fetish. Blair's net zero blunder should have been their biggest moment of the year.

The art of the deal

It was inevitable the American Right would start eating each other. But Jordan Peterson going on Joe Rogan to complain about the delegitimising effects of right-wing media outlets platforming 'psychopaths' and weirdos is too much irony for a Thursday. www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-media...

There’s something joyously comic about Kemi Badenoch, a politician being radicalised on social media before our eyes, saying that Adolescence is not “the biggest thing that is happening in the world today” in terms of radicalisation on social media.

American war planning usually takes place in highly secure facilities. But the Trump administration planned its strikes on the Houthis using a group chat—and accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg. theatln.tc/IuULQFiY

And we wonder why the overwhelming majority of women don't report sexual abuse. The most disgraceful thing this US admin has done so far, but I suspect that won't last.

Phew!

American first!

This is a lie. Capital costs of phase outs by sector mapped against projected price decline of renewables - plus emissions budgets by sector - all analysed and reported on by @thecccuk.bsky.social. CCC also had mandate to order certain sectors to report, including on adaptation.

I think this is the clearest evidence to date that Musk has been radicalised by his own platform - now actively seeking biased information about European politics from the echo chamber he helped create.

Kemi Badenoch should be a brand ambassador for UK politics' race to the bottom #pmqs

so far in 2025, the incoming US administration has threatened to take over a country every 2 days. If that frequency continues we are in for a spicy year

"...if you're not prepared to stand up as a Tory MP and denounce what's been said about her, then you need to seriously think about why you're in politics in my view."

Number crunching: Parliamentary petitions From the new Private Eye, out now.

To kick things off here, I'll shamelessly plug something I wrote. Why COP29 - and all COPs - still matter #COP29 odi.org/en/insights/...