I think Elisabeth McNair summed up the origin of Boxing Day perfectly 😻

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Did medieval people buy each other Christmas gifts? New Year's Day was the main gifting day, but little is known about everyday people's present giving. Our project on London's customs records has uncovered a wealth of affordable items imported around this time: gloves and hats to toys and rattles🧵

This has always been a Bluesky-first campaign. But as of today, we will no longer be using Twitter. At all. And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.

wow, GIS specialists, genAI is coming for your jobs

A little stocking filler for the they're-all-the-same crowd.

I’m currently outside of the Kennedy Center:

Jeffrey Epstein & David Walliams leading all the bulletins but Kemi Badenoch knows that only men from ‘different cultures’ pose a threat to women.

It’s the feelgood Christmas story we all needed

Didn't get what they wanted.

Just a tiny reminder: it was the little pigs who won, not the Big Bad Wolf

Great lines from Starmer at PMQs today, including: “A little festive advice to those in Reform UK… If mysterious men from the east appear bearing gifts, this time, report it to the police." And:

I can't get Alexa to play recent episodes of #Uncanny It repeatedly played the Series 1 prequel. Today it offered me Series 1, Episode 4! #UncannyCommunity , anyone else experiencing these issues? It's driving me crazy!

Labour ain't done nuffin

BREAKING on MS NOW: Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."

NOT ONE HEADLINE Not one has a single mention of Labour’s outstanding achievements on workers rights, BBC Charter, Planning Rules, Investigation of Russian interference in our politics. Why?

➡️ Banning exploitative zero hours contracts ➡️ Sick pay for all from day one ➡️ Expanding paternity, parental & bereavement leave ➡️ Strengthening protections for pregnant women, whistle-blowers and victims of sexual harassment ➡️ Making flexible working the default ➡️ Repealing Tory anti-union laws

YouTube channels spreading fake, anti-Labour videos viewed 1.2bn times in 2025 Oddly I don’t recall ever reading the same happening to Tories during 14 years of Govt The combo of MSM biased reporting & Social Media fake news to bring Labour down is an unprecedented Right Wing attack on democracy❗️🤦🏼‍♂️

Don't call it a 'super flu' - but the NHS is right to be worried this winter | Devi Sridhar

Highlights the importance of public engagement and communication in public health and champions co-production. Yes, yes and yes!

The Arc de Triomphe was commissioned to honor Napoleon in 1806. By the time construction had really begun in earnest, Napoleon had suffered a disastrous military defeat and had been forced into exile.

Hey Nottinghamshire. This is how your Reform council is spending your money. Funded by your 4.84% council tax rise.

New: Alleged traffickers killed by the US military in a strike on September 2 were not heading toward the US, Adm Bradley told lawmakers yesterday, per people briefed. Instead they were heading to link up with another vessel that was bound for Suriname. www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/p...

The most interesting part of this story isn’t that the pipe bomber is MAGA. That was blatantly obvious. What should interest folks is that the FBI and DoJ hid that fact from you, and still haven’t made a statement. This info is coming from sources on the condition of anonymity.

Updated child poverty forecasts reflecting latest forecast and child poverty strategy. Poverty set to fall through the Parliament - we estimate by a chunky 300k but by a less chunky 1%. That's because the number of kids in the population is also falling.

Next up at @GreenwichSitP: Ian Ridpath, "The Rendlesham Forest UFO Case – Deconstructing a myth" at 7:30pm on 8/12/25 at the Plume of Feathers pub, 19 Park Vista, Greenwich, London SE10 9LZ (plus a free mince pie!). Free, open to all, no need to book. greenwichskeptics.org

Bannon Comes Clean and Reveals His Alliance with Putin’s Fake Holy Russia The cat is out of the bag. Now Bannon’s proximity to Epstein and his plans for European subversion are exposed, he doubles down on his support for Putin and Dugin open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...

Good. Let’s not let it go away. This man wants to be Britain’s next PM. His denials and obfuscations around his long history of repulsive behaviour show that he is utterly unfit.

I realise now that my view on mental health overdiagnosis was divisive. We all need better evidence | Wes Streeting www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Always amused (not amused) at how regularly the idea that there is a 'right' amount of mental ill-health in British society and that we must somehow return there. Declaring the correct amount of mental ill-health based on what you are prepared to pay to mitigate its effects isn't how reduction works

Brian Allen 😎 Rachel Maddow didn’t sugarcoat it: “It’s a catastrophe. I don’t see how Pete Hegseth survives this. He has to resign and I think Republicans will ultimately demand it. This is a disaster for this entire generation of U.S. service members.” A brutal assessment and likely

Thank you SO much for posting this important message. My husband (with #T1D) and me with #asthma both had to pay £95each to get #CovidVaccine. We've both had #Covid once. It wiped me out for 2/52 & I think my exhaustion is #LongCovid #DHSC should vaccinate ALL who request it.

Last year Sky News was rending its garments over Starmer's free eyeglasses: WHAT INFLUENCE DID LORD ALLI BUY? Now, RefUK get £9m from a crypto bro, they have not one word about the donor's interests; just BRAVO NIGEL, barely concealed glee, and "what a huge boost... money goes where momentum is". 🤡

It's all bad but hadn't seen the bit where Farage says: "The European Union is the prototype for the New World Order." That is a seriously, deeply problematic term that taps into Illuminati and antisemitic conspiracy theories. How the fuck did this man direct the course of our politics?

Good time to repost this, after he’s been caught out lying about Reeves, too.

@sevenworldscollide.bsky.social 😢😁

Oh dear Chris. And BBC. Think we’ll all go with the OBR official, rather than you and your unprofessional biased nonsense. Feel free to issue an apology and have a bit of a think. Maybe about the years of barely scrutinised *Tory* policies that got us into this mess. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hot off the keyboard and gifted: Hegseth has to go. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Vigilante far-right 'street patrols' with links to Neo-Nazis and the support of senior Reform UK figures, are falsely claiming police backing, while attempting to infiltrate school networks in order to "protect" local children. bylinetimes.com/2025/12/02/t...

OBR board member says Reeves did not mislead public on Budget on.ft.com/3Ka0h3H

The OBR is run independently from Government. It literally was somebody else's fault. You'd think Kemi Badenoch would know that given her own party created it in Government, but apparently not

the only thing Rachel Reeves needs to do for more favourable coverage on BBC News is threaten to sue them for £1 billion

Even at the time, Johnson’s wild weekend in Umbria felt somewhat suspicious. With this new information, you can understand why some are now calling it outright treasonous

👏🏽"We must all now confront the reality that the Brexit deal significantly hurt our economy. We have to keep reducing frictions. We have to keep moving towards a closer relationship with the EU. And we have to be grown up about it. To accept that it will require trade-offs."👏🏽 Music to my ears. ~AA

Hard-hitting truth-telling from UCL Prof Anthony Costello…. “The Covid Public Inquiry is a devastating critique of medical advisers, civil servants and politicians who led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century. More than 230,000 deaths.” www.bylinesupplement.com/p/230000-dea...

I've done a deep dive into the Trump family's global moneymaking campaign. The White House says there's no conflict of interest. But from Serbia to Vietnam to crypto it's being called "pay to play" on a vast scale. If you have info, get in touch @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...