Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…

@halcruttenden.bsky.social we were at The Comedy Store last night and I thought you were absolutely hilarious. My wife and I can’t wait to see you on tour in November. Keep up the class act.

In case anyone's confused, yes, slavery was bad.

Bruno Fernandes stamping on Ezri Konsa's ankle resulted in a Manchester United penalty #OnThisDay in 2020 🤯 #AVFC

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It is extraordinary, but grimly inevitable, that the people most responsible for hobbling the UK have become the loudest & whiniest critics of the consequences of their own actions. A big part of the process lies in people like ‘Lord’ Hannan actually being *rewarded* for their ignorant delinquency.

Badenoch, Jenrick, Philp, and the Tory rat pack are lining up to steal credit for Starmer’s grooming gangs national inquiry announcement. Just a reminder for the Tories: Johnson declared money spent on historic child abuse investigations as “spaffed up a wall. #ukpolitics

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Heseltine DESTROYS Rees-Mogg On Brexit, Immigration, ECHR | GBeebies MELTDOWN youtu.be/TGnp86-73-E

Rubbish final won by a rubbish goal, but probably the right result for #AVFC. Hopefully Man U finally implode on Sunday.

Quick Explainer: What's in the deal agreed at the UK-EU Summit? by @bestforbritain.bsky.social www.bestforbritain.org/quick_explai...

‘Data rights are human rights’. May I suggest you take 20 minutes to listen to this TED talk: Carole Cadwalladr: This is what a digital coup looks like www.ted.com/talks/carole...

It’s all a matter of angles. And from this angle, it makes total sense. 🇨🇦🇬🇱🇮🇸🇬🇧🇳🇴—-> 🇪🇺 🙌

Hey #AVFC fans good reason for you to play this today www.nytimes.com/games/wordle...

For #avfc, on this showing, we can beat both Brighton and Forest in the league. Just hope we also have the opportunity to meet the eventual winner in the semi-finals too…

‘Experts say consultations on 20mph zones tend to be dominated by dissent, with supporters silent as they assume they are in the minority.’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Brexit a key factor in worst UK medicine shortages in four years, report says

Thousands of people are ditching Tesla. Here’s one of them with a message you can see from space. Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK Led By Donkeys is 100% funded by small donations.

This is hideous. And close to inexplicable unless Trump is doing what Putin tells him to.

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Leaders of the free world stand united in London The United States is not among them

It is moments like this that really bring home how unutterably awful it was to allow events* to create a national mood in which Boris Johnson & Liz Truss could become Prime Minister. Imagine they were in the post right now… *Brexit

PRE-ASSIST OLSEN!!! #avfc

Over *6,000* people are now backing the call for Marks & Spencer to pull their ads from GB News & #StopFundingHate 💥💥💥 actionstorm.org/petitions/ma... Hatred is being normalised - but we're pushing back

Lie after lie has been told this week about how the Ukraine war started, from the Kremlin and the White House. Here's our News Agents video essay which explains the truth, and spells out why Trump clings so close to Putin and lives in his warped reality. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cufM...

Time for Britain to increase defence spending to 2.5% as quickly as possible. Politicians should get around the table to look at going to 3% of GDP. The question is not whether we do this - it's what happens if we do not.

Trump is on the brink of betraying Ukraine and the UK. Britain must lead in Europe by increasing defence spending immediately and all political parties should get round the table to make that happen. I fear what happens if we don't take this step.

Liz Cheney just wiped the floor with JD Vance 🔥 "Rarely has so much ignorance and ahistorical BS been crammed into a single tweet."

There's a rumour that Nigel Farage is keeping his head down because he's off to a Trump cheerleading conference over the weekend. I’m afraid I’m being proved right- Farage is far more interested in Trump's success than British security. He is a bootlicker and a plastic patriot.

So Nigel Farage has chosen to explain away Trump’s outrageous remarks about President Zelensky instead of doing the right thing and condemning them. Deeply disappointing but not at all surprising. He sounds like a spokesman for Trump. He certainly doesn’t speak for Britain.

Westminster Voting Intention: RFM: 26% (+1) LAB: 25% (-1) CON: 22% (=) LDM: 12% (=) GRN: 7% (-1) SNP: 3% (+1) Via Techne UK, 19-20 Feb. Changes w/ 12-13 Feb.

“…now we are reaping the harvest of decades of complacency. Our only hope is deterrence: showing the Russians that the cost to them of harming our subsea infrastructure would be too painful for them." www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

It’s a coup. It’s a strategic alliance with Putin. It’s the end of the post-war international order. It’s the triumph of lies over truth and in Putin’s case, evil over good. We are through the looking glass & we all now have to decide who we are & what we stand for

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Dark Pence is back.

This is real. Unbelievable but real.

The British people will support Ukraine Trump and Putin are despised

May I urge everyone - yes everyone - to read this thread

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

Donald Trump again mimics Putin and calls for an election in Ukraine - falsely claiming Zelensky’s approval rating was “at 4%” Recent polling in fact shows that Zelensky’s approval rating is better than Trumps Lets make sure everyone knows the truth youtu.be/QDagM0WWEP4?...

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Trump just alleged without evidence Ukraine should hold elections because Zelensky holds a "4% approval rating” Recent polling from Kyiv International Institute of Sociology shows as of December 2024, 52% of Ukrainians trust Zelensky I’m sure UK News shows will be all over this in the morning

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🧵/ Reform UK voters are much more likely to have a positive view of Donald Trump than other voters, slightly more likely to have a positive view of Vladimir Putin, and less likely to have a positive view of Volodymyr Zelenskyy yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

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People say the Royal family are good for tourism but it turns out being members of the EU was. We need to rejoin the EU and get prosperity back! www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-...

They tried to cancel John Crace from covering the right-wing jamboree at ExCel but no one can stop him filing copy this good www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

For the first time, Nigel Farage is ahead of Keir Starmer by more than the margin of error in our favourability polling Nigel Farage Favourable: 30% (+1 from 16-17 Jan) Unfavourable: 60% (=) Keir Starmer Favourable: 26% (-2) Unfavourable: 66% (+3) yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

NEW: Last week’s newsletter had ‘IT’S A COUP’ in big red letters on front page of NYT. Well, guess what? It still is. We have to stop framing what’s happening as in any way normal. It’s a coup & a collapse in the international order & none of this is ‘normal’ broligarchy.substack.com/p/us-coup-ga...

If you're wondering what the government - restricted by its own red lines - can do about the handbrake Brexit has put on our economy, our latest research suggests one answer. Deep alignment with the EU could give UK GDP a boost of up to 2.2%. Full report 👇 12/12 www.bestforbritain.org/growth_report