Trump is fundamentally a coward, he is happy to use military force but only if it's a mugging from behind and not a straight up fight

Kind of insane that diplomacy with Trump basically functions the same way it did under Kaiser Wilhelm, but without even the vague guardrails of the Junkers and the Prussian Civil Service

This in particular is quite intriguing, and more broadly this poll (see also the sections on education and income) suggest a pretty complex picture of socio-economic class political alignment in the UK that I'm not sure many analysts really have the vocabulary or framework to properly comprehend.

We are inches aways from a full-throated "The Green Party is Hamas" moment.

I think we can say this question - does Britain want a flag-fucking crackdowns authoritarian Labour Party that insults its own support base and panders to retired racists - has been very thoroughly put to the test in possibly the most optimal circumstances it could’ve been, and we have the results.

“I will not yield on our position of writing a stiffly worded note on Greenland. We shall write to them on the beaches, we shall write to them in the fields & in the streets; we shall never surrender the option of issuing a mild protest after all other options have been exhausted.”

Farage failed to declare over £380,000 in outside earnings on top of his MP's salary. He's lining his pockets when he should be standing up for Britain. www.parliament.uk/globalassets...

It's weird seeing all the Carney stans going "take THAT, loony lefties, doomer naysayers!" and, like, no, we LIKE him saying "death to liberalism". YOU hated it when WE said it and now you love it all of a sudden.

Haha what a whiny headline - these babies are so weak and pathetic - as bullies so often are “Back in the old days , if you couldn’t afford healthcare , your child died. And we just had to find another 6 year old to climb up our chimney. An inconvenience, but we had to put up with it”

When Putin joins maybe Donny could ask him to bring along Hitler's skull from the Kremlin Black Museum, may as well make it a full house...

Couldn't have been more than just a 'minor electrical fault', could it? FFS...

Ain’t I been telling you

Lammy, Streeting and Reed lol. Don't let any of these chancers ever pretend they give a fuck about you or your communities when this is the company they keep

Sir Keir is no more likely to stand up and tell the public that Britain is a craven accomplice to criminals than he was to say his own party was a craven accomplice to the Tories. You’re asking the Cookie Monster if he wants a green salad. He does not want salad: he only ever wants cookies.

So far the "Board of Peace" is Trump, Orban, Lukaschenko and Netanyahu. Which if you wrote in a satire would be considered too outlandish and sent back.

One little petty thing that turns me against Cat Stevens from his autobiography -- he spent decades insisting that people not call him "Cat Stevens" (he's now OK with it or I wouldn't) yet he casually deadnames Wendy Carlos when talking about records he liked in the late sixties.

I think the moment I fully lost it with American elite culture was when there was a no-shit bipartisan panic attack over Colorado throwing Trump off the 2024 ballot because of this stipulation

Felon47 made more money last year, (2025), than he's made his entire miserable life... Tell me again how he's not taking a paycheck... He's robbing Americans.

I was present for the birth of the web, the explosion of personal sites, and the blogging revolution, and you know what we never had to do? Beg people to use our shit.

If they made a sequel to the film Air Force One would it be Air Force Two, or Air Force One 2?

This is why we need an entirely new government. They are all complicit in the corruption.

Trade threats have escalated from 'prod' to 'bazooka'. We are not yet at the 'banana bomb' phase. Heaven forbid we enter 'concrete sheep' discussions or enact the 'holy hand grenade' contingency

She said *what*...?!?

All because they went to a Halloween party and she dressed as a couch.

Canada is still in Trump's sights. I firmly believe if the US invaded, they would be bogged down in an insurgent war that would make Vietnam look like a boy scout jamboree. US generals know this too. I suspect if Trump orders Canada invaded, they will depose him. theconversation.com/why-annexing...

Mark Carney gave a remarkable speech in Davos today about the need for international law led by middle powers that applies to everyone. The test will be whether he accepts Trump's invite to the "Gaza Peace Council," the most lawless disaster capitalism ever attempted and an attack on the UN.

A happy vassal, eh. It really is wild how Trump is so exceptionally dumb, that he is forcing everyone to say things that previously couldn’t have been coerced out of them in a dungeon via the medium of a red-hot poker.

Doesn’t count as a prophecy if it’s your fault.

Yeah, peep the date on this one.

🇮🇷At least 5,000 murdered during Iran's nationwide protests, official says. #Wrlfpoli🌐 f24.my/BgCI

Here comes Kemi with her considered and nuanced view on the situation.

NEWS! David and Victoria Beckham awaiting PR agency's decision on whether they still love Brooklyn newsthump.com/2026/01/20/d...

It's afraid

Latest figures out today show Scotland’s unemployment rate fell to 3.7%, and is below the UK rate of 5.1%. If Scotland can do this with limited economic powers, imagine what more we could do if we had the full powers of independence.

If you’re wondering what this is about: it’s both Labour’s total anti politics view where the only bits of the machine that move are the ones that do crackdowns and accept bribes, but it’s also because Tony Blair’s billionaire friends want things like this, and are working to inflict it on us all.

Please be Dignitas, please be Dignitas…

From the "No Shit Sherlock" news desk...

Brian Yuzna in pure body horror mode 💀 "Society" (1989) 🎬 An underrated classic! 📽️ youtu.be/BFC7R059N2c?si=djkzbcTU6OLWxgJP #Society #16mmInferno #Horror

For a party so determined to suck up to corporate businesses they sure don't know much about the basics of running a business.

So, AI is fine if you are trying to create an authoritarian, total surveillance society, but it's a sacking offence if it's used to try and keep people safe from genocide-supporting, rape obsessed football hooligans? RIGHTO!

UK home secretary here. If you were reading this without prior knowledge of the UK political system, you'd have no idea which of the three principal parties vying for power she belonged to.

Shame WM politicians don’t have the backbone for this.

It seems that a few US military leaders are resigning or threatening to resign because of Trump, and they will be replaced by incompetent sycophants, which will make the situation worse. We need military leaders who will defend the constitution, not the president.

What a time to be alive... theconversation.com/why-annexing...

A cover up, eh Kiran? Can we be more specific

Walking back from a mildly terrifying Institute for Govt panel on Trump & WW3-or-not, to find a massive billboard at Piccadilly Circus promoting the Melania documentary/puff piece, was a slightly out of body experience. Who on earth wants to see this?

“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)

You're the fucking police, stop it then...