My editorial cartoon for Tuesday's Metro

News reports this week claimed ads for porridge will be restricted by new legislation. But only ads for products classified as “less healthy” will be restricted - which might include some sweetened porridge products, but not plain oats.

A video showing soldiers abseiling from a helicopter has been shared online with claims it shows US forces landing in Venezuela. This video is actually from a US military exercise in North Carolina in June 2025.

unspeakably pathetic stuff from Trump here as he says he'd be honored to accept María Corina Machado's Nobel Prize if she wants to give it up to him

We have postal votes in the uk and have had for years. He can’t stop lying

Storm Goretti moves away but the cold lingers. Frost and ice and some wintry showers through Saturday, then fresh snow for Scotland and the north on Sunday before milder Atlantic air finally arrives, bringing a thaw.

⚠️ Yellow weather warning UPDATED ⚠️ A yellow warning for ice has been expanded to include areas of southern England Friday 12:00 – Saturday 12:00 Latest info 👉 bit.ly/WxWarning Stay #WeatherAware⚠️

I might be being a bit picky, but can you have “heavy winds”? Rain and snow, sure -but _wind_? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

As I lay me down to sleep I pray the Lord my soul to keep But please take Trump’s before I wake Coz we all need a fucking break

Brilliant.

Farage says he will now vote against scrapping the two-child limit. In case it benefits “foreign-born people”. It’s not just the racism, it’s the out-of-control personal greed, combined with the staggering meanness. He’s a repulsively inadequate man. www.thetimes.com/article/0ab2...

Taking FOM rights away from everyone to stop foreigners (which didn’t even work) Taking 2+ child benefit away in case foreign born parents benefit 🙄 He’ll shit on everyone to prove how racist he is & his stupid voters lap it up “Oooh, treat me like shit to stick it to foreigners please Nige!”

I will never cease to be amazed/amused by the ability of the headline writing bot for the Guardian to muddle cause, effect and coincidence, like this. Someone must have taught it that “as” was an all-purpose conjunction. Or has there really been a massive act of Anglo-French cooperation?? 😬

And yet it was only yesterday afternoon that I was out snapping monochrome shots along my local piece of the River Medway. Seems a lifetime (of weather) ago.

Reform UK's Tom Pickup, has been suspended by the party after posting in a far-right Whatsapp group where other members posted calls for Keir Starmer to be shot. Don't just like it, share it. national.thelead.uk/p/reform-wat...

JD Vance, in a live briefing, right now, said: “When you see someone throw a brick at an ICE agent - the question is: Who paid for that brick?” I can’t. This is too ridiculous.

If you’re a racist and have been all your life, and refuse to face up to the damage you do, then these accounts will trail around you forever like you’ve gone off. But Farage insists his voters love the stink of bigotry. So, he should be happy it just got worse. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Make this go viral. Labour MP Louise Haigh.

ICYMI — Trump shared an old video of Maduro declaring himself president and claimed it was Venezuelans celebrating his removal

Thanks to those who posted this here. That really is a rapid drop in atmospheric pressure. #stormgoretti

Posts shared hundreds of times on Facebook falsely claim that Reform UK leader Nigel Farage MP was named on Time Magazine’s list of 100 most influential people of 2025.

This Met Office video is, of course, informative, but imo it makes the case the return of the good old-fashioned pointing stick. Then we might properly see what’s being shown without the presenter keep walking in front of his screen!

Seems that Storm Goretti is going to move through England, and the east and south east particularly, rather more slowly than at first forecast. Latest Met Office chart (below) for 3pm tomorrow (Friday) shows it still crossing. I do hope it doesn’t increase in ferocity as it extends its longevity.

Ouch. Dig in, good people.

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

Which potential coalitions have the most support from Britons? LD + Lab, Davey PM: 36% support Lab + Grn, Starmer PM: 33% Lab + LD, Starmer PM: 31% Grn + Lab, Polanski PM: 30% Ref + Con, Farage PM: 29% LD + Con, Davey PM: 26% Con + Ref, Badenoch PM: 25% yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

A reminder that Kemi Badenoch wants to create a UK “Removals Force” explicitly modelled on ICE

And this is the Met Office forecast swirl of Storm Goretti for midnight tonight (Thursday). And yet, where I live, we have no weather warnings for Thursday or Friday. Well, let’s see how it goes, eh? This chart deserves a place in meteorology text books as a classic weather image. Stay safe, y’all!

Storm Goretti is certainly going to make life “interesting” in the UK for the next 48 hours. Here’s a screenshot of Thursday’s Met Office weather warnings. We’re right in the south east corner, and currently have no weather warnings covering us. I suspect we’ll be getting a bit of most of these.

A video which appears to show an MP in the House of Commons questioning why Israel’s PM cannot be captured and brought to court like Nicolás Maduro has been shared widely and had millions of views. But the footage isn’t real—it’s AI.

Happy New Fear! The new Private Eye is out now.

I used to really enjoy Michael Mosley’s tv programmes about what makes us humans tick. Mosely is not long dead, but were he still with us, I’m sure he’d be amused that UK Freeview has captioned his programe on BBC2 thisevening: “How to Sleep Well with Michael Mosley”.

Winter by the Water”. The River Medway, not far from East Farleigh, in Kent. Taken Jan 8, 2026.

If you missed this question to Nigel Farage from The Critic's Rob Hutton – and it was over an hour into the press conference – then it was a particularly good one. The answer was... vague.

Antisemites have long depicted Jews as members of an urban, elite social class. So when Farage dismisses accusations of antisemitism as the exclusive concern of a London-based “upper middle class”, he’s deliberately invoking that dog-whistle stereotype.

Caption here suggests that the snow warning came a little too late: 🥶🤔🥶

A final offering from me for Epiphany, which is today. St Dunstan’s at Cranbrook, in Kent, has some of the best #stainedglass in the county. Here is Kempe’s take on the Magi, processing across three lights. There is so much detail in this. You’ll possibly need to click on the image to see it all.

If the Government is serious about boosting growth, cutting the cost of living, and repairing the damage done by Brexit, it must not only be content with aligning with parts of the single market - it must join it.

The stupidest people in the world continue to get cheered on by those whose lives will only be made worse by their actions. While the majority of us remain hostages to it all. It's so bleak.

For Epiphany (today), here’s a nice 1859 window by William Wailes, from All Saints Church, in Maidstone. Oh, that wonderful Marian blue:

Imagine, given what is happening right now, being "afraid" of getting closer to the only power-centre that has not abandoned reason, democracy, and the rule of law. ~AA

Just a cute little picture to go with the information below…

The Daily Mail: a daily drag on the nation’s sanity, dignity and prosperity. Rocking back and forward in the corner shouting that Brexit was a win and improving on our relationship with the EU is a BeTRaYaL of all the special things it cannot name. Subverting failure. How very dare we.

I am amazed at the number of foreign policy analysts and pundits who’ve taken US action in Venezuela at face value, and in isolation.

Delusional. It’s not freedom of speech when the platform is controlled by a far right lunatic, operating a biased algorithm, populated by huge numbers of bots, all competing to suppress any liberal counter narrative. It’s just feeding a monster they’re too afraid to regulate or hold to account.

The mysterious art heist of the millennium: a tale of the Ashmolean and a £3mn Cezanne | Rowan Finch

This @privateeyenews #cartoon that merges #history and #fastfood is available here: www.chrisbeetles.com/artist/537/j... #saxon #kings #royalty #tomb #dippenandink #watercolour #originalart

What a surprise

We’re going to do this for years aren’t we? Make tentative suggestions about heading back into the EU because Brexit is an isolating, costly moronathon that the country regrets. But Tories and Reform will keep howling ‘Betrayal!’, making progress and prosperity impossible. (iPaper)