The White House Correspondents Dinner is going to be in a position to auction off its speaker slot next year, just because so many comedians will be looking to go after CBS.

A year’s supply of shortbread as assessed by Sir Andy’s typical consumption, or by mine?

Thank God for the security services www.jewishnews.co.uk/manchester-t...

Trump built his coalition by being transparently completely uninterested in what a person was like as long as they were loyal to him personally. It was utterly repulsive, but transparently so. The problem for JD Schvantz is he has to pretend it's some sort of ideologically righteous position.

The Number 10 Christmas seminar workshops are going to be fun!

Ooooh, a government ewe-turn!

Benny Safdie is playing Agamemnon. That’s the look of a man whose mother says “You see my son over there? Scion of the House of Atreus, Ruler of Mycenae, leader of the Coalition of a Thousand Ships, Sacker of Troy? His brother’s a doctor.”

Too…many…latkes…

Season's greetings

In which I say that "Piers Morgan appears to be someone who would invite a gibbon eating its own faeces onto his show if the ratings promised to be strong enough". www.jewishnews.co.uk/piers-morgan...

Congratulations, you win Olympic Gold for Mental Gymnastics

Throughout the Trump years I've wondered what, if anything, would bring his Joseph Welch moment. I doubt this is it. But I think it's getting close.

I had to check this was real, because when I saw it originally it looked so disgusting that I thought no-one would actually go that low, even Trump. But no, it's real, of course. Sickening.

I've written a piece about what I think some non-Jews don't understand about how Jews view security www.jewishnews.co.uk/a-short-guid...

And today provides another example as to why so many Jewish events are organised like this.

The end credits scene for Wall-E that we never knew we needed

"When you said there would be a TomTom to give me directions, this isn't quite what I had in mind".

So, this scene in Marty Supreme was a little unexpected:

Ben Swayne MP also said to be in the mix.

I've written about the Farage antisemitism allegations - and my dismay at the behaviour of some who, now that the accused is more to their political liking, seem keen to sweep this all under the carpet. www.jewishnews.co.uk/farages-scho...

Ooooh man, look forward to seeing how Infantino and FIFA try and weasel their way out of this one www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

A thousand stories involving major violence in the Old Testament and *that’s* the example she picks???

TBH, it’s a microcosm of how American society thinks in general. The focus is on the fact that Gatsby appears obscenely rich, throwing stupendous parties, and that this is a good thing - the American Dream, in fact. The rest of the novel completely passes people by.

Lars Porsena of Clusium, by the Nine Gods he swore. That the great house of Tarquin should suffer wrong no more. By the Nine Gods he swore it, and named a trysting day, And bade his messengers ride forth, East and West and South and North, To summon his array

“The Palantir is a dangerous tool,Saruman.”

I’m fully prepared to believe that Nigel Farage was an odious little shit at school, and much like I would never have dreamt of voting Labour with Corbyn at the helm, I’ve never voted for any party led Farage and never will. Other Jewish people will make their own choices 🤷🏻‍♂️

Free speechwriting tip for the PM: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Everyone who attended the Your Party conference fits into one of these four simple categories:

Awful that this was ever even considered as an idea, let alone that it almost got to the point of taking place!

Many thanks to popbitch.com for their service 🫡

In that letter from the lawyers for Farms not Factories, we got the same old tired line that "criticism of Zionism is not the same as antisemitism". I tell you what. Read the piece & tell me whether you think this is *just* "criticism of Zionism". Go on. www.jewishnews.co.uk/revealed-the...

I'll translate. What this means is that Elon's just read (or re-read) The Player of Games by Iain M Banks, seen the concept of getting slap-droned in the Culture and thought "that sounds pretty cool, why don't I pretend that my tech is going to be remotely capable of doing that?"

If you have a few minutes this morning, why not read a piece that resulted in a threatening 4-page legal letter when we asked for comment! www.jewishnews.co.uk/revealed-the...

I'm posting this on BlueSky to (hopefully) disprove a theory I have about this platform. Do people on here understand this is not 'pro-Palestine' activism, despite this individual describing her output as such? That this is in fact the Great Replacement theory so beloved of White Nationalists?

Since Musk likes Tolkien so much, I wonder if he's read about the character who turns up calling himself "Lord of Gifts", claiming to be bringing wonders and enchantment to the peoples of Middle Earth, but is just a horrendously evil character in disguise? Since we're talking Tolkien, that is.

"Now, Sergeant Hennimore, this is absolutely critical. Door One, which is yellow and blue, is the 'release from custody' door. Door Two, which is blue and yellow, is the 'send to immigration centre' door. We need to send the migrant sex attacker through the blue and yellow door."

I'm so glad Tolkien didn't live to see this crap www.ft.com/content/202d...

Trainer in the gym class: "And now we'll do a round of East-German ankle-crushers, followed by a set of Transylvanian throat-grippers!" Me: "Is that good"

A handy graph:

The Times is reporting that 8 Reform UK run councils are likely to raise council taxes next year after finding that there were not, in fact, huge cuts that could be made in public spending - www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

“Alas, poor Jenrick! I knew him well.”

GUYS, I POSTED THIS THREE WEEKS AGO WHEN DANNY KRUGER DEFECTED. AND NOW...

This is one of the prayers that Jews traditionally recite on Yom Kippur. Cannot read it without crying right now. Hold your loved ones close.

This is the news story I prayed I would never have to write www.jewishnews.co.uk/two-dead-and...

I’m sorry, I just can’t get over this. It’s like watching a shark get chewed up by a bigger shark.

A lot of people are reacting to the mad statement in headline, and sleeping on the even madder statement that "if we lose, we lose, but you lose by war anyway". You are running to be president of a country that won its independence *in a war*.

I think the one of the main issues about Andy Burnham to people outside the North is that he appears to have made the fact that he's a Northerner his *entire* personality. And I'm sure that works great in the North. Down here? Not so much.

"Backers of the political grouping still inexplicably known as 'Your Party' have now been informed that Direct Debits can instead be set up to the 'Corbyn Alliance Supporters Hub', or *CASH* for short."

THE THICK PLOTTENS