Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

New Epstein emails show Peter Mandelson secretly advising JPMorgan’s CEO on how to fight Labour’s 2009 bankers’ bonus tax - even suggesting he “mildly threaten” the Chancellor. Mandelson was Business Secretary at the time. A year later, he was seeking work with JPM.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social A graph that helps explain all those ‘London is a demonic hellhole’ from the right-wing loons. Yet again much of it is all about the moolah. 👇 bsky.app/profile/heta...

Wowsers look at what happened to posts on Twitter/X about London crime after monetisation of posts was introduced… economist.com/britain/2026...

This is so unhinged

Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal agents today in Minneapolis, appears to have been a registered nurse, an athlete, a son and a brother, with ties to Colorado and Wisconsin. Here is a photo he used for several accounts.

Trump's Davos speech was the act of a madman and that is the only sensible manner in which it should have been covered iandunt.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

Here you go @mrjamesob.bsky.social Just another addition to the catalog of disgust and disgrace that man is filed with. These comments sum him up in more ways than one. But hey, Trump Derangement Syndrome right? people.com/politics/tru...

Trump on Truth Social is now approvingly reposting a claim that "the enemy is within. China and Russia are boogeymen [sic] when the real threat is the U.N., NATO" and Muslims.

Putin-world egging Trump on: "If Trump annexes Greenland by July 4 2026, when America celebrates the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, he will go down in history as a figure who asserted the greatness of the United States" writes Rossiyskaya Gazeta…1/ www.bbc.com/news/article...

So Donald Trump is extra pissed off with Denmark because an independent organisation based in Norway wouldn’t give him a prize invented by a Swede? Make it make sense.

Norwegian PM Støre says Trump repeatedly raises—complains about, pleads for, and demands—the Nobel Peace Prize every time they meet. Støre gives same answer each time: decision is made independently by Norwegian Nobel Committee, with no role for Norwegian gov—a concept Trump appears unable to grasp.

Flying to Minneapolis tomorrow to cover the ICE raids for News Agents, what is unfolding and the politics which flows from it. If you’re there or know the city and know people/organisations we should be speaking to, please get in touch. DMs open.

Renee Good tells ICE, "That's fine dude, I'm not mad at you" - then ICE agent shoots her and says "f*cking b*tch" America, how can you be ok with this?

The amount of shit I got for this segment at the time was astronomical, and it was all from people who now stalk CVS employees to get them fired for insufficient online sadness. Cheering on political violence is both evil and not new, an outgrowth of an internet intentionally dismantled years ago.

I’ve never been a fan of calling things ‘Orwellian’ but if it doesn’t apply to this (👇) then I don’t know when it will. "Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” www.whitehouse.gov/j6/

Don't need to imagine, Sinatra had something to say about multicultural liberal democracies 🧵

It’s the happiest time of the year - Defector’s 2025 list of things Americans got stuck up their arses (and willies) (and also foofs) defector.com/what-did-we-...

After sharing these surprisingly candid views of the Trump team, I wonder how much longer White House chief of staff Susie Wiles will have a job. 👀 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...

I don't really post anymore, but I would like to carry on writing books at some point in the future. Hate to be annoying, but any chance you could retweet so old twitter followers can find me if they want to? Going to delete my twitter, or at least abandon it on lock and let it die a slow death.

Nigel Farage used an LBC appearance in September to accuse the Bank of England of being “dinosaurs” for seeking to place restrictions on the use of Stablecoins by crypto firms like Tether. He did not declare that Reform had just received a £9 million donation from one of its biggest investors

Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement. Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph Because this does NOT add up! No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies… 🧵1/9

Russia killed second-grader Ameliia Hzhesko and her mother, Oksana Dokhtor, by a strike on #Ternopil on the night of 19 November. The mother and daughter died embracing each other, according to the school Ameliia attended. Deepest condolences…

Incredible scenes on BBC Look North.

Analysis of the language used in Trump’s Ukraine “peace plan” shows it was drafted in Russian and translated into English. I’ll try to dig up a link.

1/ What a Russian breaking of the ceasefire will look like, step by step. There are far better experts on this, but I was an Australian diplomat in Ukraine in 2014 so I've seen this play out up close. So join me, brothers and sisters, as we count down to a fullscale re-invasion.

Trump and his cronies have the BBC in their sights. Leaders can’t stay silent while one of our great institutions is attacked. We must defend its independence, end political appointments, and remove Robbie Gibb from the Board.

(3 of 3) ...we even have the video of the moment they realized they'd been betrayed. They fled the scene immediately to an overwatch position. Trump, Alexander and Jones knew their plot to trespass on federal grounds on such a critical day to democracy would lead to violence. The BBC had it right.

It blows my mind that there are real people who see a post like this and actually believe the whole “Christmas is being cancelled by Muslims” BS 🙄 Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆 1/15 🧵

Does the American electoral system favor Democrats or Republicans?

The Great Contortionist. In which Nigel Farage explains that Sarah Pochin is an accidental racist, not a real racist. and also right that there are too many black people on TV.

How the free speech debate stops us from stating the bleeding obvious | Zoe Williams

Farage: epic grifter

Donald Trump (Still) Hates His Biggest Supporters

Retired Army Sgt. Brian Wofford spoke to me this morning at the Oklahoma City #NoKings protest. Didn’t expect him to be carrying his DD214 so I asked some warmup questions like when he got out and whether his injury was service-related. He paused while describing the car bomb in Iraq to say this:

How bout all them wild text messages from the Young Republicans?!

On Trump Deploying Troops to More Cities to Protect ICE from Antifa (Or Whatever)

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

"If something's not working..." my SKETCH of the unassailably, frankly unreasonably confident Kemi Badenoch.

Why is Keir Starmer obsessed with Nigel Farage?

"He has swallowed the dictator's playbook!" @benkentish.bsky.social is not happy with Donald Trump's legal pursuit of ardent critic James Comey.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

On Trump claiming Tylenol is linked to autism:

As someone with autism, I’m tired of hearing the same false “causes” over and over Tylenol, vaccines, you name it. #Autism isn’t a conspiracy or a mystery to scare people about. If you want to understand, start by listening to us.

Aspirin can be lethal to babies and young children. There’s a reason they’re giving them Tylenol. I worry that the more Trump says “don’t give your babies Tylenol!” The more we’re going to see babies succumbing to Reye’s Syndrome & other aspirin related complications.

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