When you could actually have a real fire, but your puppy likes to sleep on the cold hearth, so you end up putting a fire on your TV screen instead.

So true.

Seeing that Andrew Tate has been beaten by a guy in pink boxing gloves has immeasurably improved my build up to Christmas. Tbf though the pink gloves are a nice touch, but I would enjoy seeing anyone hit him.

What a great book this was!

Pamela Jo Bondi, doing her part to help an administration that calls itself, with a seemingly straight face, "The Most Transparent in American History."

I didn’t know he was doing that as well!

I have had a succession of those stupid scam ‘Mum, I’ve lost my phone’ messages recently, so to honour the season, I have updated my standard curse reply 👇

Christian Nationalists and Right-Wing Nasties can get f**ked. They have stolen my respect for the poppy, destroyed my love of my flag and now they want to come for my faith. I am so bloody pissed off.

Dubai is Benidorm for people with cash.

Gobsmacked.

When you find yet another reason to love the breed your silly, goofy and adorable puppy comes from. “A Dandie who wreaked havoc in The Spectator magazine offices after a disagreement with the then editor and future Prime Minister Boris Johnson.” What a good, DISCERNING, boy!

The very same commentators that spent years condemning anti-semitism in UK politics as a major national scandal, have suddenly lost interest now that it implicates one of their own www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-farage...

New pic: Bannon & Epstein 🔴 Steve Bannon Offered Trump’s MAGA as Shield for Jeffrey Epstein @nafeez.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/11/14/s... 🔴 Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon’s European Revolution – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein @peterjukes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...

Anyone else having to commando crawl under the tree to top-up the water because their dogs keeping it all? No? Just me then.

C of E to challenge Tommy Robinson ‘put Christ back into Christmas’ message

I dunno , I think that should be ‘British traitor’? I am not too sure, but acting on behalf of a foreign actor makes you a traitor to your own nation surely? 🤷‍♀️ I am not sure how it works. Regardless, ‘anti-Semitic monster’ seems to have been left out.

Nigel Farage, leader of the party who claim to care deeply about women’s equality, yesterday described bbc broadcaster Emma Barnett as a ‘lower grade’ presenter for asking questions about his alleged historic H*tler fanboying.

We are such angels: it's our first Christmas and Dougal has only stolen one bauble (and drunk the Christmas tree water); Suki has only nibbled the tree a few times (apparently trees indoors need this sort of pruning, while trees outside don't). We are definitely on Santa's nice list.

Do Reform groupies hear about Brexity millionaires living it up in Europe and think, “fair play”? And not…. “Christ lads, I think they’ve been taking the piss out of us all this time.”

Please sign and share "Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy" petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Tucker Carlson is a rightwing conspiracy theorist and Putin apologist who was sacked by FOX.... yes FOX BUT The Spectator is happy to pay him to talk down our capital city... despite it thriving and crime falling. Whose side are you on Mr Gove?

On the sixth anniversary of the Fishmongers’ Hall terror attack, we remember Saskia Jones & Jack Merritt who tragically lost their lives. They will remain in our thoughts, as will our emergency services & the Londoners who bravely put themselves in danger that day to help others.

Good work from Ben Jennings of the Guardian.

Terrifying watching Reform types trying to excuse Farage from claims made by his school contemporaries. They really are really willing to overlook anything and everything. The Cult of Farage.

Watching Reform voters tie themselves up in knots attempting to refute the claims that Farage was racist & anti-Semitic at school: ‘No-one can remember that far back’ (Yes, they can, especially if they were a victim.) ‘Just child banter. Everyone has done it’ (No. I didn’t. None of my friends did.)

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

Next thing they'll tell us that Boris Johnson was a lazy dilettante with no ability to concentrate on anything for more than a few minutes and no ability to make tough decisions.

PREVIEW: the Epstein files after Trump agrees to release but with a few Trump reductions.

Women are watching abusive dynamics play out on the national stage and for many it feels very, very familiar to what they’ve experienced regularly— I hope midterms are a referendum

I know it is the least of things given how repulsive he is inside and how gross and unforgivable his actions are, but DAMN, this man is so UGLY.

Ho hum. Another day dawns without me waking up to the news someone on my Arya Stark style list of fascists, misogynists and general bad-uns meeting their comeuppance. It is pretty sad, but I will keep hoping. One day. I will keep the champagne on ice.

Most people huh? I am 60; 50 yrs ago, I was mainly playing & reading books, so yes I suppose it was better for me in that regard. How mainly people are there who were actually around & working adults then, though? How many polled? Right wing Telegraph nonsense AGAIN. Nostalgia is a curse.

I needed to see this today. I was rather hoping Sweep would do something especially naughty though; he was always my favourite.

Refreshing. We need more of this.

Since JD Vance says Grok is the best, least woke chatbot, I asked Grok why he has low approval ratings.

Late to the party here, having only just watched the John Lewis Xmas advert. Apparently, its ‘whiteness’ has been celebrated by the usual (awful) suspects. It strikes me that those people were amongst those critics of lack of men last year. Got it: adverts have to be all about white males. Figures.

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A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Here in the U.K. I was woken up in the early hours by fireworks. I was a bit mystified (Guy Fawkes being this evening and very much too early); I realise now that it was probably people staying up here to wait for results and then celebrating! 🎉 🎆🎇

If your government thinks the Pope “doesn’t know what he’s talking about” when he defends migrants’ dignity, the world should see the warning sign. The US is no longer leading on human rights. It’s suppressing them.

Nigel Farage says he wants to 'raise aspiration' by cutting the minimum wage for young people (currently £10), but reducing tax for young people earning over £100k. Presumably he wants them to just ask their stockbroker fathers to fix them up with a job in The City, like he did.

Why are Reform on the bloody BBC Laura K AGAIN?! I am totally sick of the BBC platforming them.

Genuinely, migraine-inducing. You can’t buy taste.

Andrew Tate has been charged with rape, human trafficking, controlling prostitution and actual bodily harm. Nigel Farage described him as "an important voice for young men". That tells you all you need to know about Farage's moral compass.

A woman is killed by a man every 3 days in the UK... 78% are murdered by a partner/ex Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety In fact, they voted against them...

I am so tired of 24 hour news about small boats. I simply don’t care how many migrants arrive in the UK any more. No matter how many, they’ll never be as big a threat to British values, our way of life, or indeed women‘s safety, as the bigots who make yelling about migrants their entire personality.

The Caerphilly result is what we need to see everywhere at the next election: people coordinating to vote tactically for parties which seek a fairer, kinder, greener country. Pushing out both those who have betrayed our trust AND those who seek to exploit that betrayal.

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AI has clearly got many horrors to come, but as a sixty-year old, I can already say that it has ruined videos for me forever - I have no clue what is real anymore. Depressing.