US withdraws from the World Health Organization - www.reuters.com/business/hea...

This, by @sophiabesch.bsky.social, is excellent & perfectly captures the Greenland debate in D.C. and in Brussels. Sophia's warnings are right: Europe must wake up & do more. I think it will -- and that Davos has significantly altered EU thinking on the US: carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...

The director of the FBI: "I don't read." His staff (paraphrased): "he doesn’t like meetings in office settings. What he wants is social events." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I would also note: X has deleted a handful of these images. But the vast majority of them remain live on X today.

Ok! Mar-a-Lago

And it’s worth remembering that all of the fall in employment relative to pre-Covid has been driven by unemployment, not inactivity – the UK lacks jobs, not just jobseekers. See our Q4 2025 Labour Market Outlook for more: www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...

Farage's tactics show his fears. He needs to bury the Conservatives this year or all his calculations are undone. as.ft.com/r/2d29ea81-8...

We've had enough, right? If you caught @janefonda.com on @colbertlateshow.bsky.social and you're ready to get involved, check out committeeforthefirstamendment.com PS: if you loved Jane's resist t-shirt... 🧵1/2

A new report from the OPCW IIT concludes Syrian forces, particularly Assad's Tiger Forces, were responsible for the October 2016 chlorine attack on Kafr Zita www.opcw.org/sites/defaul...

Dual German-Ukrainian citizen arrested in Berlin on suspicion of spying for Russia Investigators said "Ilona W." had been in contact with a representative of Russian intelligence at the Russian Embassy in Berlin since at least November 2023.

1/2 January 15 outside the Whipple Federal Building. The photos leading up to when I was detained. Non-lethal munitions were fired and tear-gas deployed. People were shoved, tackled, and pepper sprayed. Right-wing agitators were also present, largely left untouched. 1.15.2026 📍Minneapolis

Kremlin-linked Matryoshka bot network launches campaign on Greenland dispute, claims Zelensky ready to send troops to fight against the U.S. @antibot4navalny.bsky.social notes the new disinfo masks itself as content from @thestudyofwar.bsky.social and @bellingcat.com, among others.

We knew last night that none of the people actually involved knew what Trump's "deal" is. And nobody knows now. #BBCPM

Canada has beaten us to having negative net migration. It’s likely to be the same story in the U.K. by the end of this year. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Greatest Story Ever Told

The £380,000 in extra-parliamentary earnings that Nigel Farage somehow forgot to declare is fifteen times the average salary in Claction

🇧🇪 K. Leavitt announced that Belgium joined tRump’s ‘Board of Peace’. Belgium’s foreign minister responds: #nevertrustUSA #USregimelies #Belgium

EXC - MPs and peers who backed the assisted dying bill now believe it is “near impossible” for it to pass the House of Lords in time because of procedural obstacles used by opponents. “It is our system at its absolute most dysfunctional,” one MP said. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

As JD Vance goes to Minneapolis today to cheer on Homeland Security's terror campaign, I'm re-upping this recent thread about Vance's unfitness for office. Share it with family and friends if they ever say anything positive about this sociopath.

Tory councillors nationwide have told PolHome they are being offered senior roles and parliamentary selection to defect to Reform before the May elections Seb James, a Conservative councillor in Worcestershire, said he was promised a "safe seat" if he switched, reports @matildamartin.bsky.social

BREAKING: Jack Smith: "As I testify before the Committee today, I want to be clear: I stand by my decisions as Special Counsel, including my decision to bring charges against Pres. Trump. Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that Pres. Trump engaged in criminal activity."

Farage doubling down on cutting government spending. Wait until he finds out how much his supporters love welfare spending, just not welfare spending on other people. Fantasy economics.

Thanks to climate change Catalonia is on its second day with no commuter trains but an extraordinary amount of stored water beteve.cat/medi-ambient...

The Reform Council in Worcestershire wants to ban trans people. In news that will surprise no one, it hasn't thought things through very well. So we've written to it to say, 'if you continue down this path we will sue.'

Lawyers not waiting on DWP inaction over subpostmaster convictions #PostOfficeScandal www.computerweekly.com/news/3666374...

We set out to determine how many images of women and girls Grok created during its nudifying spree. What we found was “industrial-scale abuse,” experts said. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...

Isn't this what happened with the Millenium Bug? Lots of computer scientists did lots of work to make sure the world's computers didn't shut down on 1 January 2000 and then... the world's computers didn't shut down on 1 January 2000, which everyone took as proof there had been nothing to worry about

This week the eastern coastline of Sicily has been devastated by high winds & waves up to 10m high but if you follow Italian national media & blinked you'll have missed it. Salvini said with the Messina Strait bridge help would arrive faster. Spoiler: the bridge would be closed due to high winds.

🇺🇦🇪🇺 Zelensky: Just last year, here in Davos, I ended my speech with the words, “Europe needs to know how to defend itself.” A year has passed, and nothing has changed…

🚨🚨"Our American Dream is dead": European governments have reached a difficult conclusion: The Americans are the baddies now. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/eu-l...

NATO did not "stay a little back, off the front lines." Danish, British and Estonian troops served in Helmand, and Canadian forces in Kandahar - the two most dangerous Afghan provinces. Denmark, UK, Estonia & Canada suffered amongst the highest per‑capita soldier death rates when defending the US.

🚨 NEW STUDY: As Australia prepares for another heatwave, our latest study found the early January heatwave which hit SE Australia was made 5x more likely due to climate change. What was once a relatively rare 1-in-25-year event is now expected about every 5 years. 🧵 1/6

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) remains Europe's largest data enforcer by a wide margin, having issued €4.04 billion in fines since May 2018. #GDPR #DataProtection www.rte.ie/news/2026/01...

I still think Trump and his supporters are largely a consequence of societal boredom: People with too much time on their hands and/or who have lost sight of what genuine hardship is. Like we have the luxury of entertaining this sh1t. This theory also applies to Britain/Farage/Brexit.

Trump makes concluding remarks. He says Gaza ceasefire push began because he is “a real estate person at heart, and it’s all about location, and I said, ‘look at this location, on the sea, look at this beautiful piece of property’”.

Farage has the unbelievable nerve to talk at Davos about Britain’s “moral decline”. This repulsive piece of shit IS Britain’s moral decline. He’s betrayed our country for self-interest, prejudice and greed. Shame on everyone who’s allowed that. #NeverPM www.theguardian.com/business/202...

"It is something of a paradox that, for all this govt.’s talk of closer alignment with the single market, it is doing a better job than its predecessors of delivering divergence from EU rules." @jreland.bsky.social reflects on UK-EU regulatory divergence under Labour ukandeu.ac.uk/labour-burni...

Latest post tries to catch up with the back and forth on Greenland. I argue that rather this being a rupture (as Mark Carney suggested) the European response shows a transition to a rebalanced transatlantic relationship with diminished US power. (£/free trial), open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...?

Property developer brain does not understand military alliances

With Donald Trump’s actions in Greenland, Minneapolis, and Venezuela, a foreign enemy could not invent a better chain of events to wreck the standing of the United States. www.wired.com/story/donald...

This is excellent. "The President is a writhing mass of impulses and political urges.... On Greenland, sage commentators talk of Arctic security, of critical minerals. It is all nonsense. Trump wants it because Trump wants it, and he sees no good reason why he should not have it." And...

NEW REPORT: the gov’s proposals for judge-only trials will deliver only marginal savings and distract from the real route out of this crisis: reversing recent falls in court productivity.

I think Axis of the Weasels works well for this bunch.

A meeting regarding the creation of Donald Trump's "Peace Council" has begun in Davos. Representatives from Azerbaijan, Argentina, Turkey, Hungary, Armenia, Kazakhstan, and others are also in attendance.

🚨🚨" Trump is a narcissistic, psychopathic bully. But a weak one. I started listening to Trump’s speech at Davos with anger and outrage. As he went on, I slowly felt a growing sense of relief. I realised that all his bullying, taunts and threats reflected weakness. " @alexhh.bsky.social nails it:

One court decision, two different headlines. Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?

If you live in the UK and you were shocked to see the US ICE seize a 5 year old boy, don't forget this is what Nigel Farage and the Reform Party UK want for our country.

Apps for boycotting American products surge to the top of the Danish App Store