The viral success of the Harris Reel number one prompted me to have another go. Dark atmosphere seems to keep happening, even with cheerful tunes www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilwp...

Pipe Major Donald Trump (right), a member of the American Expedition to Greenland in Antarctica plays for an indifferent penguin (left)

Dept for Homeland Security plumb the depths of ignorance with their latest film splicing one of the best moments from Herzog's Antarctica documentary with film of Trump and the US armed forces, foolishly failing to understand the penguin is 'deranged' and headed for certain death

I never realised 1984 was also a comedy

The WEF audience gave Trump a standing ovation. That is probably the most depressing thing I've ever seen.

The Nazis got Leni Riefenstahl and 'Triumph of the Will', we get .... Melania the Movie ... ughhhh

People keep saying oh no, America has abandoned 'its longstanding championing of the rule of law, human rights, democracy and the territorial integrity of nation states'. Surely they abandoned all that back in 2003, if not before? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"

On top of everything else, this is the good news everyone was hoping for .... Or not

Every single thing the Right spewed on Trump should be rammed back down their throats forever. news.sky.com/story/boris-...

@davidallengreen.bsky.social I'm unable to reply to your earlier post. I wasn't taking anything out on you, merely expressing how those AI music videos annoy me. It wasn't a criticism aimed personally. I only have a tiny following so I'm sure anything I say vanishes into the ether. I love your posts

The most petty and deeply ignorant letter in the history of international diplomacy has been delivered. No one has ever seen anything like it. Everyone says so, they are all saying it. www.lbc.co.uk/article/trum...

Nazi Jake Lang went to Minnesota to incite violence by burning a Koran. Nearly got himself murdered but was saved firstly by a black man and then later by a transwoman in a car. You couldn't make it up

The aliens will save us www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Is this peak MAGA ignorance, or is it possible to reach even higher?

Look at this. I can only hope Europe stands firm. It's more clear than ever that the UK should never ever have left the EU

David Lynch's last recorded words. How has is it that the US produced creative visionaries like this man and yet elevated people like Trump, Vance and Hegseth to high office

Ken Howery (below) is Trump’s ambassador to Denmark. He: Co-founded PayPal & The Founders Fund w/ Peter Thiel & attended the Jan 2025 inauguration party at Thiel’s mansion. Thiel’s Oct 2024 Hereticon event included a talk titled: “Manifest Destiny: Greenland, Cuba, & the New American Colony” 1/

America is in the grip of a fascist coup www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Nadim Zahawi arrived in the UK from Iraq as a child refugee. His family claimed asylum once they were here. Today he has joined Reform who will stop all in country asylum applications. Under his new party, his own family fleeing persecution would be immediately deported.

Please read this. The UK political & media establishment is asleep at the wheel. We have made ourselves wholly dependent on a Trump ally for our national security at the exact moment Trump is threatening to invade a NATO ally open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

A truly blood-curdling interview with Kristi Noem. The only emotion she lets slip is anger edition.cnn.com/2026/01/11/p...

Hahaha, it took them long enough! Film of the decade in my book

An excellent read

‘Cancel your tickets’: Calls grow to boycott US-hosted FIFA World Cup over Trump admin www.rawstory.com/world-cup-26...

Mandelson says on the one hand that he had no idea Epstein was a serial abuser, even after he was convicted of an offence and on the other says Trump is gracious, no fool, and is working for the greater good. Right,

This scary. The rise of Trumpism in the UK is a huge worry

On the gamble underpinning Trump's lunatic trajectory in Venezuela: 'moving to exploit Venezuela’s oil reserves would be a risky economic gambit – and a bet that the emerging global electric vehicle revolution will stall'. www.chathamhouse.org/2026/01/pres...

The end of the American century? Will the next era be Chinese? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This is very good and says what I imagine most people who will see this already think. It's good to see it written down though, it really is.

The entire country should get behind the BBC. Trump isn't suing a corporation, he's suing us. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

If I beat a man with a stick it will stop the man with the stick beating him

Ten years with Price of My Pig, www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxa8...

2 in 3 of Nigel Farage’s current and former partners do not speak English as their first language.

Excellent article www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Clougha cloudage

"Many people arrested after January 6 said the only reason they rioted was because of what Trump said," says Lewis Goodall. “Yet, if you listen to all of this, the conclusion is that the sin of that day is a 10 second edit on a BBC programme" www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/insi...

What would it sound like if you combined dub step with arabic trip hop, irish fiddle and balkan folk music in 15/8 time? www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCqn...

Tried to do justice to Charlie Lennon's tune, but instead created a travesty soundcloud.com/paulfergz-1/...

Once again, Zack says what everyone is thinking but no other politician dare even whisper

Some of the best places in the UK are off limits. Open them up

📣CHAOS IS COMING FOR SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING 📣 Watch out, there are radical publishing models about! @theblochian.bsky.social's latest article on "working together to move to a non-profit, community-governed publishing system" is a vital read, especially in these uncertain times.

This book had perhaps the biggest effect any book ever has had on me. After reading it I began driving everywhere at no more than 60mph. I defy anyone to read it and to not do the same. If the environmental argument doesn't get you, though why it wouldn't is beyond me, the economics surely will.

Listen to this ayanaelizabeth.substack.com/p/my-time-ea...