If you see this, quote with a robot that isn’t from “Star Wars”, “Star Trek”, “Dr. Who”, or “Transformers.”

I'm far from being a fan of his. But Sir Keir Starmer was fooled by the lies of a polished, professional, experienced liar. No-one who ever believed anything that these three said has any right to complain about gullibility on *his* part...

September, October, December 2025 plus January 2026. That’s how many times the Dutch defence minister appears to have repeated this logically incoherent warning. Russia can’t defeat Ukraine, so will attack all of Europe instead. Yeah, right.

This feels like massive hyperbole. Was it deeply stupid and a huge failure of judgment to appoint Mandelson to, well, anything? Yes, thrice yes. Was it up there with the expenses scandal, or partygate, or Windrush, Owen Paterson, or Tulip Siddique's still murky source of money? I don't think so.

I know the orange atrocity is doing what he can to sound authoritative, but he’s really pushing out a massive Count Arthur Strong vibe here. Without the humour, of course.

Only in the UK can we have documentary evidence of documents being leaked, no denial of the leak, but journalists still have to put "alleged" in the headline. Libel law is broken.

Zack Polanski's mad plan to ditch a >70 year military alliance for a defence pact with Brazil, whose army is full of fash and whose current president has Putin on speed dial ... htsf.substack.com/p/leave-nato...

The astounding Church of our Lady of the Admiral. Palermo, Sicily. #MosaicMonday

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

Maybe the BBC could start employing journalists to counter this sort of thing.

Student loans: a blight on the future.

Politics shouldn’t be like Game of Thrones.

The EU’s economic rapid reaction policy in full swing n

The testimonies of witnesses to a murder (that we all saw on fucking video) versus the denials of the murderers is only a ‘battle over the truth’ to those who are craven, irredeemably dishonest and ultimately prepared to side with the killers. We see you, Politico.

I didn’t expect this from the FT.

Exactly, and those who are most alarmed/angry/worried today are long-time transatlanticists, NATOniks or whatever you want to call them, not those who have always preferred European independence.

Am beyond furious at the BBC bothsiding the latest murder on American streets. There isn't a "war of words" or "finger pointing". Watch the fxxxing videos. One side is fxxxing lying. This is shameful

Four-time Grammy Award nominee Jesse Welles performs his song "Join Ice." Bob Dylan once said a single folk singer could defeat an entire army. Ladies and gentlemen, I think we have our man.

Mateus Asato - Hendrix

Meanwhile in Russia… “The streets of Irkutsk cities are littered with the corpses of rats frozen to death.” I don’t know what the appropriate response is. Congratulations? Condolences? www.mk.ru/social/2026/...

Happy birthday to ya!

He’s one of the best of us.

Minnesotans having fun in the snow. Fuck ICE!

One hundred percent. You’d have to be fucking insane to visit the USA now.

Trump can’t even control his own sphincter. It’s the goons who are his handlers we should worry about. Not that some dimwit who writes bilge for a RW comic could work that one out.

Seen two good threads this morning on how to respond to Trump. One points out the strengths of the European position and the complete unreliability of Trump’s America. The other arguing that it’s best not to get into a retaliatory spiral. Because Trump is unpredictable there is not much point…

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😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 First class response, Mr Mayor!

BREAKING: Denmark has deployed an advance force and military equipment to Greenland, tasked with preparing to receive reinforcements from the rest of the Danish Armed Forces and allied nations. Follow the story on DR, Denmark’s public-service news outlet. www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

Auschwitz Großmutter mit Enkeln auf dem Weg zur Gaskammer Kein Vergessen! Nie wieder Faschismus!

Reform: the home for failed Tories. In this case failed in the sense of failed to pay HMRC loads of tax he owed

Giggled at this more than I aloud have.

“Greenland is not a product, it is a people.”

Perhaps we should come to view the RS (along with a plethora of other institutions with the ‘Royal’ prefix) as akin to a very old, fine looking clock in a dusty corner of an antique shop: nice to look at, excellent in its day but now incapable of telling the time with any accuracy at all.

Small correction, Starmer is pushing for a Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) agreement with Brussels. To get this, the UK must keep its food standards identical to the EU's. He isn't pushing to lower food standards.

I had no idea that the leading adjective could also mean: petty, small-minded, shallow, weak. As they say in Germany, Kemi Badenoch shits currants.

It’s good to be muted by racists.

Another obsessive ‘Euro Gatekeeper’, basically posting nothing new whatsoever.

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Everything about this production is the BBC at its finest. Smiley’s People was also excellent. If only they’d had the resources to make The Honourable Schoolboy.

Two things in this world are incontrovertibly true: the NYT is a terrible newspaper, the name Marjorie Taylor Green and the word ‘intellectual’ cannot be used in the same sentence.

We have a once-in-a-lifetime chance to destroy the armed forces of our greatest adversary for pennies on the dollar while aiding the victims of Putin’s perfidy, and this idiot is about to fuck it up, badly.

Morning Bluesky.

Hugs and love to those struggling this holiday season 🫶🏽🎁

Biggest hit was the Road to Hell (apparently about the M25).

Such a delicate flower…

Entertaining as this spat is, it contains not-a-flicker of recognition as to WHY this might be happening. For 16 months, a tax-exile-oligarch-owned, mostly right-wing press, has abused the privilege of these exclusive private sessions, to misrepresent the gov't on every issue. This is the FO stage.

Whenever my Samsung washing machine finishes a cycle, I always race to turn it off before the tune ends and I don't know why.

It doesn't feel like christmas until I get to listen to Bach's christmas oratorio. Here's a cool version recorded in a shared apartment in Leipzig. youtu.be/Wi0ekhf6_J0?...