As their burgers get larger, Americans are coevolving larger mouths to consume them.

You may have missed this gem yesterday. From which we learn that: 1. Betting shops are really good for the mental health of isolated people. 2. Most drug-takers are not a problem. 3. Kids put tuppence in slot machines in the hope of getting rich. 4. Farage probably has a gambling industry donor.

Honestly, I did NOT have "punching the air and going HELL YES to Chris Patten" on my bingo card today. But what he says is SO rarely said and needed saying SO badly! "How shall we treat Mr Farage's concerns? Shall we hail Brexit a tremendous success? Something that has cost the country billions?"

UK politics is SO dull at the moment. 1. Labour mess up 2. Labour cultists attack anyone who points that out 3. Labour's poll numbers drop 4. Labour cultists attack anyone who points that out 5. Labour remains utterly stuck on Brexit 6. Labour cultists attack anyone who points that out 7. Go to 1

~ mainly macro: Labour’s Brexit stance is as untenable as their tax pledge ~ https://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/11/labours-brexit-stance-is-as-untenable.html

Yes, fine patriots these Tories are. Now let's make the world see us grovel everyone, for king and country! Which king? Both, of course!

Of course it wouldn't. The UK government would need a spine for that.

We're 16 months into Labour's 5-year term and they haven't materially improved our relationship with the EU yet. They agreed a few minor things but almost none of those have come to pass yet, and they're still haggling over process and details. Plus none of it moves the needle on Brexit's damage.

Hm. So both Trump and Putin have got weird things happening to their hands. Do you think it is possible they passed something on to the other giving hand jobs?

"Brexit was the most cowardly thing our country has ever done." - Veteran Stuart Thomson #armisticeday

📌 Thank you , Jon Stewart ‼️ For articulating , what most are feeling right now 💯 🎯🎯 👇🏾 🐥 👇🏻 🎯🎯

Online violence against women, for want of a better word, is being perpetrated by fascists, Nazis, religious fundamentalists and incels. It will destroy the quality of our government and democracy., which depends on getting pluralist voices into decision-making. 1

Dear god, where was this picture taken? Please tell me, so I can make sure never to go there!!!

“A sustained campaign of anti-migrant rhetoric is fuelling a growing cesspool of racism, including against international and ethnic minority nursing staff, without whom our health and care system would simply cease to function.” How disgraceful. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Jacob-Rees Mogg supports President Trump's right to sue the BBC He then repeatedly asks Gillian Tett questions but doesn't let her reply, so Victoria Derbyshire has to step in and tell him off

Ok, forgetting Erika definitely isn't Princess Leia, this.

When did standards change that this got replaced by this

"You are not well & need mental care, so we are going to put you in horrible violent prisons for your own protection!" This country is even more crazy than I currently already thought it is.

For those wondering here is the post from Joyce Carol Oates that got under Musk's skin big time

A tech billionaire mocked Pope Leo XIV’s call for ethical AI. The post was deleted — but not before exposing Silicon Valley’s deeper discomfort: a pope they can’t buy or bully. It also revealed something older: the Valley’s original sin — the desire to be God.

Every poll, survey, opinion piece, research and documentary confirms the disaster that is Brexit. Immeasurable damage, economically, socially, scientifically, security, politically. It is utter madness not to start reversing Brexit. @labourlewis.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l0G...

Israel’s Knesset has approved the execution for Palestinian detainees bill in its first reading, it needs two more to become law. After the vote, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir handed out baklava to celebrate.

⚖️🗽 It just keeps coming. Evidence for future me. #riosways #emj

SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten. "I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA

The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think. New piece from me. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

The BBC should meet Trump's demands in advance by announcing - soon - a programme in the Panorama slot, and advertising it across BBC networks. The programme would play Trump's 6 January 2021 speech in full, unedited and without comment. news.sky.com/story/bbc-re... #R4Today

TfL contractors who remove unauthorised flags from lampposts and other infrastructure face threats and abuse, TfL boss says: www.onlondon.co.uk/transport-fo... #london @hinabokharild.bsky.social @londonassembly.bsky.social @hopenothate.org.uk

Thank you Pres Joe!

Exactly how MANY emerging-market strongmen are we going to rescue? 🤡 @politico.com 🇭🇺 www.politico.eu/article/hung...

So we make a deal that allows several Republican senators in key states to vote for ACA subsidies next month and get political cover back home, but not enough to pass it. Sounds great.

Hm.

Look, no money nor effort is too much to recreate the circumstances from back home for these people to make them feel at home here and help them settle in the UK. THAT is how generous and welcoming we are! <warning: sarcasm>

I wish I could write this fast.

"I wouldn't expect someone like Adil Ray to understand...I'd love to have grabbed Adil Ray by the scruff of the neck & thrown him back to 1944... on the beaches of Normandy... and also for him to look to his left and his right and realise they look nothing like him." www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkng...

The Populist Right could borrow from an old IRA statement: "Today we were right, but remember we only have to be right once – you have to be right always."

Give an inch and they will take 100 years.....

If you've ever needed a reason to rally behind the BBC then this is it.

Grok will make sure only the right prisoners will get released. The very right!

WTF! Senator Koffeman zegde zijn lidmaatschap van PvdD op en bracht anti-reclame vlak voor verkiezingen. Senator Nicolai werd geroyeerd ivm ondermijning vd partij. Maar op grond vh reglement besloot presidium dat déze twee zich nu PvdD mogen noemen, en de enige echte PvdD’er moet zich afsplitsen.🤬

The covfefe seems to be increasing in the orangetan.

I support Marcus Decker. I will never support Labour again for as long as Keir Starmer or one of the current front benchers is its leader, and likely longer than that based on the last decade. Go do one, Starmer. And feel free to kick this queue jumper out too.

Left: BBC News, "President Trump threatening to sue the BBC" Right: That time Keir Starmer said, "There's so much to celebrate in that special relationship between our two countries"

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

After the huge success of the recent Brexit referendum, Farage promises the sovereign Brexit Brits to have many more referenda on policies if Reform gets to power.

A baker in Amsterdam, 1979

Incidentally, I don't think I notice a black person at that event, other than Aurora. And this is the second time recently she gets booed at one of their pressers.

This is extremely worrying, as normally the UK is so good at standing up to the USA and / or Trump. Cough.

We've got Australian style points based immigration system and now we're getting a Danish style asylum system We have thought of nothing and we're already out of ideas