Labour’s answer to Priti Patel Patelling uglyly. Who’s going to be the Braverman-a-like…? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Jeremy Doku got baptised the other day, because when that happens, ‘your old nature, your old sinful nature, dies and you start living with God.’ [sighs] [watches space]

The NYT ahead of the curve, here…

Another rent-a-gob. But to whom is Nick Clegg plausible…? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Just another day in countries not governed for the people who live in them…

It’s official. We’re now as dumb as the Yanks. www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

Norrie giving me hope following my osteoarthritic elbow diagnosis. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/a...

Another ‘deary me…’ moment at hand, if you please, Chaz…. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Don’s appreciation of Vlad knew no bounds…

We are all migrants, now… www.lbc.co.uk/news/uk/robe...

Lammy in the news this week, breathing a sigh, that he’s confident we’re ‘not complicit.’ We are. Starmer talking loudly about airdrops to a country he won’t say exists… The shame is off the scale. If I can feel it, then I expect those who carry the blame for this to do the same.

What is it with the BBC & their woefull lack of judgement when hiring presenters? Who would have thought that both Wallace & Torode were sleazy old gits? www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio... They’ll be telling us John Inverdale’s a wrong-un, next… & what exactly does Andrew Castle have on the BBC…?

Does the BBC not appreciate that there is literally zero appetite for the involvement of Andrew Castle in anything?

Self-defence really is a chimera, isn’t it…? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

“This would never have happened if I’d been President…” www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...

BadEnoch gets a pass, as she’s just Leader of The Opp., but are we missing the maybe that she’s actually continuing the Cameron>May>Johnson>Truss>Sunak tail-spin…? Few would have thought she had it in her. (And, yes, she could well soon be holding Jenrick’s beer…) www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

How is it with me that, while I’m coming to really hate this Labour government, I can still understand that Reform would be a whole lot worse…? www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

Bleak. Why can Labour not learn? Chasing after the most disgusting votes in the country, in the week those self same votes demonstrated they’re going to vote Reform whatever, isn’t just gross, it’s idiotic in the language of pure electoral numbers. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Two words: Jai Opetaia. View on Boxing Showtimes: Is Jake Paul one win away from title bout? boxingshowtimes.com/posts/9eba22...

…and everyone in their right mind, or with the ability to spell ‘Commonwealth Fund’ in Google, knows this.

Not really a good look, is it…? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Just WTF…?

Let’s spare a thought for the lackie of a nasty, fascist fifth-columnist.🕊️ No Brexit shill should be subjected to a continuing, arduous, and deleterious ordeal, solely as a result of the militant politics of others. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Victoria Spartz has always been the Russian plant’s Russian plant. Even Trump himself has been known to hold her vodka on occasion.

Carlo Ancelotti has always been a man in search of a monocle to spill, ‘Ding-Dong!’ stylee. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Heinous political figure backed by execrable supporters. No doubt the ‘own research’ folk, who’d renounce their own tax rebate if someone told them it was ‘politically motivated,’ will see the latest fascist crime conviction as yet more strangled democracy. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

DJT HATES this realistic picture of himself. You know what to do: start with running it through AI , using the 4 recordings of him saying Elon rigged the tabulation machines.

…which is weird, because that’s exactly what she needs to do. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

More of this. I can’t get enough…

Totally. Starmer’s diplomatic coup of yesterday is suddenly become retrospective disgrace. It’s simple pragmatism to observe we can’t work with the Trump administration. Further exertion to do so is both craven and morally disgusting.

This is thuggery from Trump and Vance, plain and simple. They are bullying the brave true patriot Zelensky into accepting a deal which effectively hands victory to Russia. Unless the UK and Europe step up, we are facing a betrayal of Ukraine.

Starmer…

I can in no way see how this is going to go… www.theguardian.com/news/2025/fe...

I look forward to all the clever folks telling us to take this seriously, but not literally. bsky.app/profile/euan...

I see the Ayn Rand institute are giving away copies of Atlas Shrugged. Next month: Mein Kampf May: The Art of The Deal June: The Bible - Constitutional Documents Grift Edition aynrand.org/atlas-shrugg...

Guy who doesn’t even respond to the mothers of his children: reply to my email or you’re fired

I don’t know whether it’s more ridiculous that these people are surprised that Trump’s overtures actually amount to a lazy exploitative indifference, or more disgusting that self-professed ‘Christians’ want any connection at all to this piece of orange shit. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-enrage...

If there was even a hint he was wrong, Farage’s brand would be damaged beyond recovery.

youtu.be/VpI8i-iTI6U?... Some hard numbers on a soft lad.

Pls promote. UK citizens stand with Ukraine. 🇺🇦 👇

I’d like to think this was clipped-up to make it look worse, but each individual particle is independently abysmal.

Now…male>female violence is a serious issue, as is the Tory Party. But the vanishingly scant regard I have for the brand means that were, say Sir Michael Hestletine, feel inclined to ‘take his belt off’ to the Badenoch/Truss/Braverman axis of tomfuckery, I’d hear the ‘values from another time’ plea…

This is like the classic sci-fi problem of launching a generational colony spaceship to a distant star only to find the planet already colonised by quicker ships that were designed after you left.

Meanwhile, IRL… youtu.be/0LN65qFUDDo?...

Andreessen, par for the current grubby course, opines how the idea of paying taxes, compounded by the outrage of not being able to dictate the private lives of others, ‘drove him into the arms’ of the cruelly maligned patriot GOP - “knuckle-dragging racists,” indeed… www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/o...