Reform UK's director for Wales has been removed from Cwmbran Community Council for failing to attend meetings. David Thomas is also goes by the names "DJ Dowster" and "Dr Squeegees" (I am not joking). Find out more about Dr Squeegees here: willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/special-re...

Fucking good job.

Dont wish to worry any of my co authors @robfordmancs.bsky.social @timbale.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social but the asparagus has spoken

My day so far

The quicker our reliance on oil is over, the better.

The last time you could see white storks in London was in the fifteenth century. These beautiful birds — native to England, but driven to extinction here — are coming back ⬇️ www.standard.co.uk/comment/sadi...

These instances of MTG talking sense are becoming too frequent not to be unsettling. ~AA

Democrats need to grow a f*cking spine. No more strongly worded letters. It’s time to draft articles of impeachment. Impeach. Convict. Remove.

The long-awaited autobiography from Laurence Fox.

This is absolutely amazing. Hurray for science! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If you get the post-Christmas blues, I find it helps to think about wassailing (to wake up the apple trees) and Plough Monday which celebrates the start of the new agricultural year Maybe even take part if you’re lucky enough to live in area that marks these traditions

PROVE IT

I am NOT looking forward to Joanna Page in the next series of Taskmaster

My friends in Austria sent this and I can't stop watching...wait for the end. 🤗💜

“That’s the bleakest thing I’ve ever heard and I’ve got the early Cure albums” is a great line

Oh my GOD

John McClane’s gone back in his box

Woke up with extreme Monday Fear although it’s undeniable that my days could do with some shape

"In the tearooms and bars of Westminster, in voting lobbies and on WhatsApp groups, Europe is becoming the defining topic of the year ahead." For @theobserveruk.bsky.social, I look at how Labour backbenchers are planning to press govt on the UK-EU relationship observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

So, in stark contrast to everything else that’s going on today, I’m delighted to announce I’ll be with this joyous bunch of people in the next #Taskmaster. Let Counting-Backwards-From-Fifty-While-Miming -Your-Least-Favourite -Farm-Animal Commence! youtu.be/1OP6DuihCnk?...

Bernard Sumner being 70 today has blown my mind

So Huey’s gone to Virgin then

I can feel that I’m deliberately staying up too late because I’ve got work on Monday

NYT: At least 40 people were killed in the US attack on Venezuela, including military personnel and civilians.

I can tell The Iris Affair is from the same people as Luther because of the excessive imaginative violence

babe wake up, they're doing insider trading on war crimes

Who’s going to lead him to the afterlife?

Asked about the possibility of impeachment, Schumer says "we hope that we can have support from our Republican colleagues to put a brake on this long before it gets that far"

We had a good run

Have FIFA made a statement about their man yet?

I’m going to have Shirley Valentine dinner tonight in memory of Pauline Collins

I’d suggest that NO UK leader has the heft to stand up to the sharks these days. We are a middling sized country with a stagnant economy on the outs with our local trading partners. You want to be heard, you need to be part of something big enough to have a voice. For us it’s the EU or US vassal.

Just a few more facts needed. Any minute now we’ll have enough facts.

Moulton: "When we had briefings on Venezuela, we asked, 'Are you going to invade the country?' We were told no. 'Do you plan to put troops on the ground?' We were told no. 'Do you intend regime change in VZ?' We were told no. So in a sense, we have been briefed, we've just been completely lied to"

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

There’s going to be a motion of censure at the UN and Starmer is going to have a decision to make.

I have annexed The country Whose resources I wanted And which you Were probably Hoping I could identify a giraffe It was the best clock Anybody drew I like McDonald's Hey look, a bird

I don’t agree. I don’t think he is a coward. The types of criminals he pursued in his pre-political life are testament to that… But i do think he is inflexible and is far too cowed by precedent and how things have been. He may not know how to meet a very weird and dangerously volatile moment.

In the same way the invasion of Ukraine motivated Finland & Sweden to immediately request full membership of NATO, both for their safety & as statement, Starmer should consider making an emergency request for the UK to rejoin the EU. The post WW2 peace is over. We live in a time of sharks & food.

Now that they’ve started a war I’ve completely forgotten that they’re pedophiles.

I didn’t listen to my instinct and started to watch the Chevy Chase documentary Man, I wish I had his self belief

I just want to live at a time without unprecedented events.

Amazing record for the FIFA

Temperatures have dropped. For anyone sleeping rough, this can be fatal. Alert Streetlink now👉 orlo.uk/AboiG if you see anyone sleeping rough who might be in need of support, and Streetlink will help get them out of the cold.

Can't help but feel like this is one of the reasons why the Constitution says If a dude in office does an insurrection, don't let that motherfucker hold office again Bc clearly they cannot be trusted with power & control over the levers of government, & they do not care about democratic constraints

In nice news, I got a bird feeder for Christmas