PREDICTION: Just in time, Alice suddenly remembers the fancy car that zoomed past while she was talking to George, shortly before he was assaulted. Alice's evidence clinches the prosecution of the guilty party. Thus George's victim becomes his protector and redeemer. #TheArchers

I ❤️JK one of the funniest voices on X

On the positive side, at least we're no longer talking about how badly American armed forces are treating people in other countries.

I don’t think we should have ceded control quite so quickly and without so much as a fight.

I'm taking a leaf out of the book of those politicians proudly announcing they are about to stop using X, and declaring that I will no longer be watching Jim'll Fix It.

Sex Change Surgery is Unnecessary Mutilation. Listen to me debate 4 trans activists on Radio 4 in 2007. Recovered from the BBC archive, the 45-minute programme features me against Stephen Whittle, Peter Tatchell, Michelle Bridgman, & Kevan Wiley by Julie Bindel open.substack.com/pub/juliebin...

Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.

I'm beginning to suspect it's a key selection criterion in the recruitment process.

Donald Trump demonstrates that he can't even see the dots, let alone join them.

Caesar complex.

Great to see that Donald Trump’s vexatious and frivolous legal pursuit of former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele is going precisely nowhere. @privateeyenews.bsky.social

Strangely, even as the news from the USA gets ever more alarming, it also gets ever more familiar.

Trump Vs The World. www.youtube.com/watch?v=296-...

I remember when the Wild West was in the past.

Inside the women’s prison where violent male inmates have their way. ..."under the banner of progress, child rapists, serial sex-offenders, and wife-killers can now secure access to female prisoners by uttering five magic words: I identify as a woman. thehill.com/opinion/crim...

Next tuesday the Supreme Court in the USA is going to hear why trans identifying males should be allowed to compete in the women's competition. This suit is brought by the ACLU and fully backed by the Democrats. So far it's going great. 😬🫢

Here you go.

Dog-whistle and factually incorrect. Ladies, raise your hand if you were sexually assaulted by a boy at school? I’d wager this or a family member is most women’s first experience of sexual violence

Yes that’s right, cutting drink driving deaths is “a blow to the pubs industry”. That’s the key point. The world’s worst newspaper does it again. #DontBuyTheSun

How prescient is the commentary on Trump in 'The Good Fight'. And I'm catching up with episodes from seven years ago. I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Before Biden, before the second term, before January 6, here's Diane Lockhart, a heroine for the ages, watching Trump's first inauguration.

This.

What movie never bores you, no matter how many times you've seen it?

Get back to me when he starts bragging about passing his third straight terminal illness test in a row.

If we're no longer allowed to refer to biological sex by saying 'biological sex', how are we supposed to refer to biological sex? Or is this an attempt to eradicate not just the words, but the concept, and thus the underlying science? In which case, welcome to Pol Pot's Year Zero.

Old Canary's Almanack has two major predictions for the USA for 2026. Firstly, that Donald Trump will die of natural causes before the year is out. And secondly, that things thereafter will only get much, much worse.

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

I am so pleased. She was brave to bring this case. French women showed such strength last year. My admiration knows no limits for all of them.

A Jewish camp leader and a young participant were forced out of an Uber on a country road in Staffordshire at 3am, following a conversation initiated by the driver about Judaism and Israel. Similar incidents have been reported across Europe in recent months. This is unacceptable.

Arguably the best takedown of @epic-own-gamer.bsky.social to date.

😂 #TheArchers

My new year’s resolution was to give up performing stunts from cowboy movies but I’ve already fallen off the wagon.

File under, we never quite know what's coming next. One of my favourite embassy reports. The UK ambassador in East Berlin reporting in after the fall of the Wall...

If you live on BlueSky where all critical voices are silenced and censored immediately, you can bask in the illusion that the majority of people are OK with men in women's spaces, services, and sports. They obviously are not.

This post brought to you by Adrian Mole, aged 13¾.

Onwards and upwards.... :) 2026 !

Waiting for my block….

🧪A few more hours to go…

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

@kflynny369.bsky.social and I were lucky to secure our tickets for tonight. We’re sorted.

'... which I imagine is the same for everyone.' Hold the front page! Man imagines that everybody else's experiences are the same as his.

'the Harry Potter lady'

Remembering Michael Nesmith and Davy Jones on their birthdays. Here they are with Micky Dolenz performing a beautiful version of Nine Times Blue on the Johnny Cash Show in 1969 (Peter Tork had left The Monkees shortly before this recording) youtu.be/ypvUI1qqP2M?...

I feel like we haven’t fully reckoned with the with the implications of the reality that in the past generation, many have lost the ability to concentrate long enough to read a book.

To celebrate the new year A THREAD of successful female Scottish writers. Here's too us. Let's start here 👇 Hugely popular Mary Brunton's second novel, Self Discipline inspired Jane Austen's Emma. She sold TONS of books. I 💕 her /1

Suzanne Moore This must be the year Britain finally kills off trans ideology It’s taken ovaries of steel to get us here. In 2026, Labour must prioritise women’s rights over gender groupthink. archive.md/OlGVL#select...