I hate to disrespect the Slow Horses but Reform UK is basically becoming Slough House for failed Tories.

Incredible how he can make even the passing of Jesse Jackson about himself.

The best ever president l miss both of them, 👏🏽💙

Chris Riddell @chrisriddell50 on #Starmer #KeirStarmer #WinterOlympics @observer – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

I just saw this posted (elsewhere) with the heading 'The Slug and Lettuce' and I genuinely guffawed.

Up next, Thelma Ritter, Grace Kelly & James Stewart, star in Hitchcock's (1954) masterpiece, Rear Window.

Mock The Week is on TLC in 5 mins. But where is TLC? Here’s the easy guide… p.s. Hugh is back this week!

8yrs ago, if someone said “black lives matter” to me, I would’ve instantly pounced with “ALL lives matter.” Today, when someone says “black lives matter,” I respond with “you’re right, black lives DO matter.” What changed? Me. I listened. And learned.👇 open.substack.com/pub/socialco...

Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press

This is the guy Trump named as Secretary of Health and Human Services. Great going, America.

You know what helps make the streets safer? Paying your taxes

FT looks at the US plan to use US taxpayer money to aggressively promote fascism in Europe. Meddling in domestic politics on an unprecedented scale, and again, demonstration of Trump's perfect alignment with the Kremlin. www.ft.com/content/7a48...

@andertoon.bsky.social By Nick Anderson.

Just ordered a book from my local Waterstones. Click and collect so I’ll get it on way home tonight. As cheap as Amazon. Also bought an instant camera earlier this week from Argos, cheaper than on Amazon. It’s proving very easy not to use the evil billionaire’s website. More of you should try it.

The Half-Pipe competition is being adversely affected by, err, the snow.

The stark contrast is set to raise a simple but incendiary question: who is truly paying for Britain? Racist POS Ratcliffe, or people coming here from all over the world helping to build Britain? #UKNews

1. Internal documents reveal that Freedom 250, which purports to celebrate the nation's 250th anniversary, is a vehicle to promote Trump and "America First" propaganda, including election conspiracies Major corporations like Mastercard and Deloitte and spending million to bankroll this effort

Wanted: Regional Director to work for an organisation opposed to home working. The successful applicant will be expected to work from home.

Getting really tired of "this is all a media concoction"... Starmer has the lowest approval rating of any PM in history bar Truss. Senior ministers are openly and unsubtly positioning. His Chief of Staff, Director of Comms and Cab Sec have all resigned on the same day. I mean come on...

Not a moment. Not a trend. A constant. Evergreen.

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

Spain's Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda Díaz: “I have left X. That network is a place of hate. “We are not vassals of Elon Musk or Trump.”

Der Spiegel got it right:

My dear friends Barack and Michelle Obama have earned our respect through a lifetime of service and leadership. Racist attacks from a small man who desperately wants even a fraction of that respect won’t change it.

Even the dog doesn't want to be in this pic

Last night, Trump posted a video to his social media platform that contained a racist clip showing Barack and Michelle Obama as monkeys. It's still up:

Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...

Pro tip to House reporters: Print this out and have with you BEFORE you interview Mike Johnson later today.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Stockley Park - the VAR period drama coming to ITV 1

“Mr. President, what would you say to sex abuse survivors of Epstein who haven’t seen justice” - Kaitlan Collins (Journalist) “You know, I’ve never seen you smile” - Donald Trump (President) EVERY survivor heard this.

[LOL/Spits coffee across the room.]

Can’t believe they released the Epstein files to cover up for the Melania movie.

“Right, I’m off to the council meeting” “Have you remembered your pigeon head?” “Yes, I have remembered my pigeon head” www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/2580299...

#5debutalbums50s60s The Beatles Please Please Me (1963) Showing influences as diverse as Chuck Berry, Everly Brothers and girl groups, this debut also portrayed the nascent Lennon & McCartney songwriting genius. Basically, recorded in one day. Best track - Please Please Me #NowPlaying ##MusicSky

He treats it like a family photo www.thetimes.com/article/e9fd...

Happy 60th birthday to Sha-La-La-La-Lee by Small Faces, released as a single on this day in 1966. Here's a thrilling live performance from back then. What a band! youtu.be/JsuKmqQyYR4

Do you ever feel you’re being excluded? From the new Private Eye, out now.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

From Viz, three years ago: The Brexit Opportunity Detector. Still looking.

Reform UK foreign class: he describes Farage and friends (7,9)