So we have full 2025 immigration stats - Total net down by 2/3rds in 2025 (3/4 from peak) - Small boat arrivals in 2026 down 40%. Asylum backlog down 48%; returns up 9% - Asylum seekers in hotels down 35% (down 48% from peak) YET PUBLIC PERCEPTION 49% think 2025 saw increase; only 16% know it fell

Claims that the Baltic States allow Ukraine to use their airspace are utter nonsense - and Russia knows it. Moscow’s threats against the Baltic States are not a sign of strength, but of weakness. (1/2)

The Arsenal. Your Premier League champions.

Why do people hate Arsenal? www.theguardian.com/football/202...

@rejectednytwords.bsky.social Today (13.05.26) BRILL (a type of fish) rejected

@rejectednytwords.bsky.social Today (01.05.26) DECILE rejected

"We are seeing a Crusader mentality play out at the absolute highest levels of government" - @swordsjew.bsky.social

@rejectednytwords.bsky.social Today (30.04.26) MUON (subatomic particle) rejected

@rejectednytwords.bsky.social today (29.04.26) both ALVEOLA and ALVEOLAE rejected

@rejectednytwords.bsky.social Today (31.03.26) LUDIC rejected

@rejectednytwords.bsky.social today (31.03.26) - LOLLY rejected

Chickpea pancakes with paneer and lime pickle, and chicken biryani

Where will you be tomorrow? #NoKings Find your event for this Saturday, March 28th. www.nokings.org

@rejectednytwords.bsky.social Today (26.03.26) MAMMALIA - the taxonomic class for mammals - rejected

@rejectednytwords.bsky.social today (18.3.26) ROTA rejected

Wild garlic chicken curry (recipe from meerasodha.com)

@rejectednytwords.bsky.social today (15.03.26) LAIRD (Scottish lord) rejected

@rejectednytwords.bsky.social today (12.03.26) DECILE rejected

@rejectednytwords.bsky.social Today (06.02.26) PUPILLED rejected

@rejectednytwords.bsky.social today (March 4th 2026) GENET rejected (small carnivorous mammal)

@rejectednytwords.bsky.social Today (27.02.26) both PLAICE and ACAPELLA rejected

@rejectednytwords.bsky.social Today (20.02.26) CATAMITE rejected

@rejectednytwords.bsky.social For today’s (18.02.26) CARDOON rejected

I hope people understand what happened here. Yesterday in the late afternoon, Trump said that Putin had promised not to attack Ukraine in such a way that it would damage their heating. Then a few hours later, that is exactly what the Russians did in a massive attack.

Lighting a candle instead of cursing the darkness— I have given money to this wonderful charity which educates Afghan women inside and outside Afghanistan and I hope that some of you will do the same! sola-Afghanistan.org

No this is not an Onion headline. www.thedailybeast.com/ice-dhs-depa...

A teenage boy was walking home in Minneapolis yesterday when four masked men jumped out of a van & questioned him - with no parent or guardian present. He was bundled into the van & taken away. Bystanders heard the boy say: “Can I just go home?” I don’t know how America comes back from all this.

NEW Economist/YouGov Net approval for Trump [at the start of his second term | when last asked] for his handling of... His job +6 | -14 Crime +12 | -1 Immigration +11 | -7 Foreign policy +3 | -11 The economy +12 | -22 Inflation +6 | -28 today.yougov.com/politics/art...

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Bukayo Saka agrees new + improved 5yr contract at Arsenal. 24yo England int’l currently at #AFC until June 2027; fresh terms to summer 2031 in process of being finalised. Deal to recognise winger’s standing among Europe’s best 🚨 @theathleticfc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/625...

ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries. Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves. "Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks. "No, guess he should've complied," agent says. Yakima, Washington

🇺🇸 Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk says the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved its popular GLP-1 anti-obesity drug Wegovy to be administered in pill form for weight loss. ➡️ u.afp.com/S8xH

incredible stuff over at r/ididnthaveeggs It’s a eggnog recipe

Russia destroyed 100% of Odesa’s energy infrastructure. All substations were destroyed by missiles and drones. The city has been completely left without electricity, hot water, and heating for over one million people, including all critical infrastructure.

In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites. He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him. www.wsj.com/world/china/...

Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918

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US national security strategy. Something sure is unrecognisable here, but it’s not Europe. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

"It was tough to beat Apple, but the Swiss did it." said one administration official. How the Swiss convinced Trump to drop tariffs with gifts of a Rolex desk clock and a 1 kg gold bar. www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...

Manhattan District Attorney, Alvin Bragg, who charged Donald Trump for 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to conceal hush money payments during the 2016 campaign, has won his reelection. Bragg exclaimed: “I love democracy!”

Er, Chuck, take notes.

@djrothkopf.bsky.social this ad got to me. His media use and content is just brilliant. ⬇️

Politicians should probably get on Bluesky to get better in touch with the American electorate.

BREAKING: Donald Trump has pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, whose crypto exchange has been boosting the Trump family’s own crypto venture, WSJ reports. The most corrupt president in history.

Minneapolis is showing up and showing out. #NoKings

Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley. Perfection.

This conversation. Thank you, #BBCWest / #BBCBristol - it's good to see you can still do it.

Any questions for Handbrake Off pod? The mailbag is open. Just reply here. Arsenal stuff, plus feel free to throw in any old albums or films you’d like to listen to/see again.

Confit complete. Before serving, I will crisp in a hot oven.