But it was Trump's plan! Who could possibly have foreseen this happening?

Here are six ways that Trump is weakening America’s defenses against actual no-kidding terrorists while fixating on faux threats like antifa and Venezuela. wapo.st/4qrV8U5

The willingness of so many to discuss Trump's diplomacy as if it is a strategic successor to the linear tradition of Roosevelt, Eisenhower and Reagan rather than the violently incompetent chaos bomb it is in reality will forever baffle me

The good news : The days are getting longer again from now. #wintersolstice

It should

Famously, US citizens never shoot anyone

How pleasingly ironic it would be for the British Broadcasting Corporation to remind Americans what the First Amendment is all about. The BBC may be about to lose a director general, but it still has a spine. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

Back by popular demand, it’s @annettedittert.bsky.social 🎉

Had another lovely afternoon recording this great little podcast. Enjoy! 🥳👇

It’s exactly this kind of dismal, prejudiced bollox from the Daily Mail that’s got us into the ruinous Brexit mess we’re in. What a moronic response to us rejoining Erasmus and all the benefits that brings. If they’re really worried about cost, they should push to cancel Brexit altogether.

Wie Europa aus der Polarisierung finden kann und muss, wenn es um Israel geht. Wichtige Analyse. @richardcschneider.bsky.social

Another excellent @jamellebouie.net column: We do not have a president, we have a junta (my word), unelected extremists empowered by the Supreme Court and the so-called unitary executive. Gift link. The Man Who Rules the Country Presides Over Nothing www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/o...

Wow - hard to see how that wouldn't be a career ending result for Starmer.

Sehr nötiger Text zu dem immer abstruseren Opportunismus der sogenannten bürgerlichen Mitte in Dland. Oder besser dem eines ihrer Vertreter. @schieritz.bsky.social

The BBC is not just any other institution. It's a core part of this country's identity. It's ours to criticise, ours to get cross with, ours to love and ours to the end. By attacking it Trump may actually be doing us all a favour as we are obliged to remember that. www.politico.eu/article/brit...

Gute, klare Zusammenfassung of where we are now. Und warum Merz auf dieser Bühne nach wie vor auf der richtigen Seite steht. @joerglau.bsky.social

Trump sues the BBC is the stupidest story ever Of course, cover it but please, please point out - early - how stupid it is. And don’t put it at the top of the news. Because it’s really, really stupid.

Just sent out this free piece. Its being said that what Trump is doing with Putin is similar to what FDR did with Stalin at Yalta. Nothing could be further from the truth. Trump could easily weaken a dictatorship and strengthen a democracy if he wanted. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Hardly a surprise. Any ‘agreement’ with Trump is just the start of attempts to extort more, as his various tariffs on Canada & Mexico have shown. In that respect, his approach to negotiations is similar to Putin’s. Deals are essentially worthless.

EU leaders statement from Berlin. www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...

Honestly impressed at Starmer and Nandy's commitment to not doing their job. This guy is literally talking about his wife, his children, her, and her children, and they do nothing!

Wer Lust und Zeit hat… das war ein schönes Gespräch über Gott und die Welt im UK und natürlich auch darüber was ich demnächst so mache ..👇👇 Happy Sunday everyone !

Wer Lust und Zeit hat… das war ein schönes Gespräch über Gott und die Welt im UK und natürlich auch darüber was ich demnächst so mache ..👇👇 Happy Sunday everyone !

The far-right activist insisted his carol service in central London was not political. Church leaders fear ‘populist forces’ seeking to exploit religion

🇩🇪🇺🇦 Merz: This is a Russian war of aggression against Ukraine — and against Europe. And if Ukraine falls, it will not stop. Just as in 1938, the Sudetenland was not enough. Putin will not stop.

Just when I thought I couldn't admire the man more... 🎯 🎯 🎯 💯 💯 💯 👍 👍 👍

WHY ARE YOU ANNOYED THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED TO HAPPEN

The UK far right is increasingly infiltrating the Anglican church so this is bang on trend.

Das geht gerade alles in die richtige Richtung beim AfD #Verbotsverfahren, die Länder machen sich auf den Weg. Und das ist gut so. #AfDVerbot www.butenunbinnen.de/nachrichten/...

It’s stupefying to see the debunked “change through trade” - agenda (that blinded Germany towards the totalitarian turn of 🇷🇺 & 🇨🇳) make a comeback in Witkoff/Trump‘s Russia dipomacy (make money, not war). Putin doesn’t care for 💵, he wants his empire back. Germans learned it the hard way.

Hat Spaß gemacht wie immer mit @holgi.bsky.social Thanks for having me !

This is where sycophancy gets you

"She's got a wonderful boy. And she's very proud of her boy" is a pretty weird way for a dad to talk about his own son. They're all such bizarrely monstrous people.

And all without painting any roundabouts…

To lighten up those dark days for a change: - Happy December everyone !

Rightly so, did not understand why Tusk wasn't in London e.g. this week. Yes, the format was E3. But still.

Interesting that the BBC will call National Rally "Far Right" (in an article about Bardella meeting Farage) - when they would never use that term for Reform. Their policies are very similar. If anything Reform's are more authoritarian.

A very well made and hugely informative series. 👇

British understatement can sometimes be brutal. Here is the @theguardian.com take: "The vote will have no practical impact, and so for Davey to call it “historic” is a bit of a stretch. But that does not mean it is not interesting."

"Triumph and Trauma": The General Election of 2024. Join our fabulous panel on Wednesday, 6pm, to explore one of the most extraordinary elections of the last hundred years - how it was won, how it was lost and what has changed since that record-breaking election night www.qmul.ac.uk/mei/events/m...

„Lorenz Beckhardt und Anetta Kahane sind keine Randerscheinungen in der liberalen Mitte, sie sind emblematisch für einen Teil liberaler Medienschaffender und des NGO-Sektors, der sich schon vor dem 7. Oktober langsam selbst radikalisiert hat und um sich eine alternative Realität geschaffen hat.“

Given Trump’s ties to Larry Ellison, and the involvement of middle eastern sovereign wealth funds in the Paramout bid, and the Trump family’s utter disregard for obviously disqualifying conflicts of interest, this is…not surprising.

"Das ist eine hysterische Debatte"; "wir sollten die Kirche im Dorf lassen"; "das sind einige bedenkenswerte Kritikpunkte drin"; "die USA bleiben unser wichtigster Partner"; "nichts wird so heiß gegessen, wie es gekocht wird"... So wird man nicht ernstgenommen, sondern immer weiter erpresst.

The calls from America this weekend to "abolish the EU" are for one simple reason: the EU is the only thing that can keep European nation-states from becoming Russian or American vassals.

In his book Remaking One Nation, Timothy tried to argue that existing immigrants were full Brits but new ones weren’t. When I reviewed it, I said this position was implausible. He’s resolved the contradiction in the wrong way.

🚨 BREAKING: Farage facing police reports for falsifying election expenses. A whistleblower from inside his campaign says he overspent by £9,000 incl • Undeclared campaign HQ • Armoured Land Rover counted as national spending • Missing receipts/misreported costs www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Three more British MEPs in Nigel Farage’s bloc now alleged to have “followed the script” given to Nathan Gill by an alleged Russian asset, according to prosecutors. At least eight UKIP and Brexit Party MPs were focus of efforts by Nathan Gill www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Unsurprising mask-off racism from Nick Timothy here. Upset at the abolition of the two-child limit - because some of (British) kids who will benefit have (British) parents who are the wrong colour (were born in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Somalia, etc). archive.ph/rycVD

🇺🇸 attempts to force 🇺🇦 surrender are currently 0 from 3. Europe is winning, even if it doesn't realise. Trump's national security strategy exposes weakness. Its attitude to Europe is like the obsessive ex stalking the former partner, wondering who that new guy is. open.substack.com/pub/arthursn...

The baroque corruption schemes playing out in America and Russia completely outclass the kickback scandal in Ukraine. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...