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I re-read the 2017 Trump I National Security Strategy and the differences to the 2025 strategy are really striking. This reads like a document from different times trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/u...

Statement from the Office of the Bretwalda. Your Bretwalda is pleased to announce that The Attack Womble of Death is to receive the inaugural Wülferhampton Peace Prize.

You'd think us violating Irish neutrality in an apparent attempt to assassinate Zelensky by forcing his plane to crash would be bigger news. For the Irish for a start.

🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history 75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men Is this what democracy looks like? New on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...

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So today #CrossChannelRail is BACK! 🎉 This afternoon I am finally going to one of the places I missed originally: Pont de Rungis / Orly, to see whether building a Channel Tunnel terminal as part of ongoing works makes sense The #CrossChannelRail Report is here: report.crosschannelrail.eu

These are the people being given our NHS/Health data. They should be banned from the country.

This is great. (Tho’ not sure if Sgt Dixon ever introduced TOTP; it may be a segment some other Xmas variety show)

Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with

Good clear thread

This is Alexander Lebedev, former KGB officer, the close friend of Boris Johnson, father of Lord Lebedev, running a conference in Crimea in 2017 with Sergey Aksyonov - the mafia leader known as the ‘Goblin’ who Putin installed as leader after the invasion

I was on the Bakerloo line this week. It looked tired but it didn’t look like that. There was zero graffiti

Unaccountably, as always with these pieces, the sub-editors seem to have cut off the conclusion, which was surely “and my judgment has thus been proven so bad no one should ever listen to me on anything again”.

This is a direct consequence of Jenrick's attacks. He needs to be held responsible.

Sharon here seems to miss the fact that 1. Canadian men 18-34 work 2. Women work! 3. Canadian men 55 - 65+ work Maybe it’s boomers & zoomers vs ‘some sad middle-aged men disappointed in their lives and looking for scapegoats’ ?

Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.

'We have historically high welfare spending.' No we don't. 'We have a historically high proportion of working-age people not actually working.' No we don't. 'The number of Britons emigrating is skyrocketing.' No it isn't.

5 Cars: Ford Cortina IV […company cars…] Honda CRV Mercedes C Estate Nissan Qashqai Toyota Auris Estate

I'm in the FT! Fun fact that didn't make the cut. Scrooge lived somewhere near Cornhill so we reckon will, post mansion tax, pay 0.2% of the value of his property from that and CT combined. Tiny Tim rents in Camden in a band D property so will pay 0.4%.

Just caught 20 minutes of Notting Hill on Film4. (seen it before) In the scene where Hugh Grant challenges Sanjeev Baskar & mates they CUT THE BIT WHERE JULIA ROBERTS SAYS THEY MUST HAVE DICKS THE SIZE OF PEANUTS. What? This is Film4 not Disney Kids.

Populist Right: 'We're not racist, we just want immigrants to integrate & contribute.' Immigrant gains BA, MA, works for charities, marries a 'Brit', becomes Brexit-supporting, lockdown-sceptic Tory MP, then Deputy Speaker of HoC. Populist Right: 'People born abroad shouldn't be allowed to do this.'

Germans don't like shoddy cars. "Tesla Model Y ranked last for reliability among nearly new cars in Germany's TÜV 2026 report. 17.3% of Model Ys failed serious safety inspections; common issues included brakes and suspension." #TeslaTakedown www.autoblog.com/news/tesla-m...

The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen: Rory Gallagher Horslips Thin Lizzy AC/DC Sensational Alex Harvey Band

My analysis of the recent Supreme Court judgment on Religious Education in Northern Ireland. #EdChatIE #TeamRE #EduSkyUK #EducationUK #edpolicy #schoolsuk #UKTeaching #NetworkEdChat #EducateTogether #EthicalEducation #IntegratedEducation #InclusiveEducation sluggerotoole.com/2025/11/28/t...

Must-read thread. Really, all of it. Then write to your MP & copy the local newspaper (tho good luck if it’s a DMGT title)

Simple answer - equity release! I know that people need to choose their company carefully but if the woman is 'elderly' and has a house worth over £2 million, then she can free up plenty of money and stay in her house for the rest of her life.

OH has just reminded me that on this day I always used to Give Thanks that I didn’t have to deal with any of my American colleagues and the receipt of ‘Reply All’ emails fell dramatically.

Plus sides to today: Two-child benefit scrapped. Largely progressive tax implications. Good market reaction. No big spending cuts. Nightmare prospect of cutting funding to net zero etc avoided. It's a left-wing budget. Those who say there's no difference between Labour and Tories are bananas.

Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.

Labour aren't "refusing to tax the rich", Zack. The top 10% of UK earners pay 60% of the total income tax burden, & 39% of the total UK tax burden. They are now going to be paying extra charges on their houses if worth over £2million as well. 25% of UK taxes are paid by the top 1% (ie millionaires)

Very interesting read. Blackwell ‘tulips’ that will kill the stock market and the planet in one giant Ponzi scheme.

I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities. Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...

Dear 60+ Reform (fossil fuels) Ltd supporters. This is the system Farage (and our local Reform Councillors) want to adopt for the UK. 👇 Are you so unhappy with your life you want to end it sooner?

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Our Labour government ARE taxing wealth. They ARE making the wealthiest in society pay more. They did it in the last Budget & I expect more tomorrow. Anyone who says it's not happening is lying to you. Anyone who promotes phrases like 'tax billionaires' with no details is selling false hope.

Michael Prescott, who refused to answer all media questions until his DCMS appearance, spent 90 minutes in front of the committee – and wasn't asked *once* about his own report misquoting Donald Trump. What a farce. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...

People scratching their heads about Thiel and Greenland but that is because stuck in an old model of international politics. This is neoroyalism rather than westphalia. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

There’s some very bad news hidden in the Ofgem price cap for January announced yesterday: the electricity to gas price ratio has jumped to 4.67, its highest level since before the energy crisis. This is a big barrier to households adopting heat pumps in Britain, and threatens our climate goals

Dear UK: You don’t pay enough taxes to have an NHS that doesn’t run on immigration and immigrant labour. Sorry to be brutally honest but it’s how it is

Finland uses “Russia-gauge” rails. They are going to move to European compatible rail gauge for their own resilience. This is what we should be thinking about for moving to open social away from American platforms: it should come with significant spending commitments & is absolutely necessary.

Quite the quote on #COP30, by Professor Michael Jacobs of the think tank ODI Global and the University of Sheffield. Source: ‚Backchannel‘

I have a limitless appetite for Beatles alt takes and outtakes anyway, but in era of AI-generated music I’m finding the new Anthology release especially poignant as reminder of how humans create things, collaboratively, iteratively, being silly, making mistakes …

Post a movie where you are from. (hard to choose; they all look a bit samey…)

what a surprise, majority of fash "Ireland is full" posts on shitter are from outside Ireland

If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand” Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.

Just saw the list of gritter names for this year and they have outdone themselves These always make me smile

This focuses on politics. But we should also care about *outcomes*. In the UK, migrants (both from EU and elsewhere) are more likely to have a job than the UK born. In Denmark, there's a gap of 15-20%. Similarly for education outcomes. Why would we want to copy that?

1/ Some of the loudest 'patriotic' British accounts on X are Putin tools. 'God Save Great Britain' posts Russian anti-Ukraine propaganda while peddling the anti-woke, 'defend our culture', islamophobic, migrant hysteria messages that are at the core of Russia's current hybrid war propaganda.