Novgorod Nigel doing what he does best: shilling for the Kremlin. #Farage #Putin #Hawhaw

The inescapable view that on both the UK and USA, Charles de Gaulle was absolutely right.

It’s just about possible that a compact of free association between a sovereign Greenland and the US after the fashion of Palau/Marshall Islands could provide a solve to the Greenland issue. In essence responsibility for defence in particular would move to the US.

Chinese innovation has reached crazy levels. This is a Yangwang U8 luxury, high performance, plug-in hybrid off-roader. I got to drive one in China and it's just out of this world. And while it 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 float, drivers are advised to take the car to a service center immediately for an automotive colonic.

Denmark being straight with the US: - we don't sell people - no Russian or Chinese activity in Greenland - the only one with designs on Greenland is the US - US has military access they're not using - they could do mining - put up the capital - Trump's dogsled story is a lie - we've spent €5bn

"We are the dominant predator force in the Western Hemisphere" is the sort of line that gets edited out of an anime villain's evil monologue for being a bit much.

"Instead of doing the job I'm paid to do by the taxpayers, I'll be earning myself some extra dosh by skiving off to do a radio show."

Why does the US care so much about this tanker? It doesnt make sense to me, particularly given how soft they are on Russia. www.ft.com/content/fce8...

I am extremely confused as to why the UK government and police are saying Grok’s mass-scale CSAM generation is an issue for Ofcom. This isn’t about X failing to moderate CSAM, which is an Online Safety Act issue. It is about the company and its technology being actively involved in its generation.

How would US bases on territory of UK and EU be viable post a seizure of Greenland?

I fear this is correct

Mark Kelly: “Pete Hegseth is gonna prosecute me under the Uniform Code of Military Justice for saying something that is in the Uniform Code of Military Justice — It’s nonsense — What I said in November is the exact same thing Pete Hegseth said in 2016. This is about stifling people’s speech”

Hello, Congress? Anyone home?

I missed that this had happened. What the absolute fuck is the BBC Newsnight doing giving this evil fool a platform. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WjE...

This appears not to be trolling

real 'bring your son to work' vibes

I wonder who might be responsible for such a complex arson attack…

Even as the world changes dramatically, UK discussion of Brexit goes round the same old loops. I wrote a piece on the @ukandeu.bsky.social site in *2016* about the 'sector-by-sector' approach Starmer's now raising. Some details no longer hold, but the basic points do: ukandeu.ac.uk/is-a-sector-...

5 years ago ANTIFA, undercover Feds and the deep state stormed the capitol, got unfairly treated by the Biden administration and then was pardoned by Trump almost a year ago… If that doesn’t make sense to you then congrats because it doesn’t make sense to most of us who live in reality

We sometimes forget the value of having a NHS that is free at the point of use. youtube.com/shorts/MlFL8...

Cuba is likely his next target….. Rubio has long had his sights on Maduro, sources say, and he was a driving force of the strategy that set the stage for the dramatic scenes that played out in the de-facto Situation Room in Florida that night. www.cnn.com/2026/01/06/p...

Interesting

That this statement has to be written is frankly insane.

QUICK: You're talking about doing business. Is this us just going to Greenland and doing deals with them, or is this us taking it over? JEFF LANDRY: The president is one of those people that says everything is on the table

I see the latest flex from the UK hard right is abolishing dual citizenship. Do we have to tap the Northern Ireland sign yet again? Have they thought about the Commonwealth Realms?

Starmer's tweet couldn't be clearer but a bit awkward when one of the main government comms platforms literally does this as a feature now

Nigel Farage's visit last month to the F1 finale was paid for by the government of Abu Dhabi, the new register of MPs' interests says. He also had "meetings" there.

Further evidence that Reform voters are the most distinct political group in the country benansell.substack.com/p/odd-ones-out

To move this stale debate on a bit: Voters would understand that free movement and cash would be worth it, given the very large losses from Brexit, *if* politicians and media outriders were honest about the benefits and costs. It's the *if* that's the problem. www.ft.com/content/0808...

Outstanding

This is a story where Slovak centrist liberals team up with whacko far-right party of the Hungarian minority in Slovakia to blow up the friendship between the Slovak and Hungarian right-wing governments who, in turn, downplay their historical grievances for Russia's benefit.

Interesting how this may cause issues between Fico and Orban

It’s not a failure by the mainstream press It’s what 80% of mainstream press wants

Perhaps I’m reading too much into this, but there is no repetition of Fredriksen’s “end of NATO” line here. They may realize this is not a deterrent for Trump when it comes to Greenland. It may even provide extra incentive

Not since the Trojans wheeled a wooden horse into the city has anyone made such a huge a mistake of letting an enemy in as the UK government. To be fair on the Trojans, they didn’t already know the enemy was inside the horse.

Less "spheres of influence", more outright mafia-style extortion using US power. Exempting powerful US companies is obviously absurd. Weaponised interdependence on steroids. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Which might be exactly why some in the Trump administration would like to do it It’s a way of ending NATO without having to say “we want to end NATO”

Be too funny if Maduro gets acquited

Meh

All going according to plan? www.ft.com/content/b3a2...

Another example of the fact that there are very few technically difficult questions of economics; "difficult questions" are just difficult because you don't like the obvious answer

I dont see why Trump, Miller etc would stop with Greenland. If you think you need Greenland then you need almost certainly Iceland too.

I think the Greenland threat is a troll. I think. But it would sure be nice for some senators and GOP house members to speak up now and make it clear that an attack on a nato ally would lead to removal from office

But Hilary’s emails

I have a hunch that if you or I were running a website doing this the "urgent contact" would involve door rams and handcuffs so I struggle to see why it can't be slightly more pugnacious than this.

And why might that be

Is this what watching Goebbels was like?

"Pete Hegseth wants to send the message to every single retired servicemember that if they say something he or Donald Trump doesn't like, they will come after them the same way. It's outrageous and it is wrong. There is nothing more un-American than that," Kelly added. www.npr.org/2026/01/05/n...

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.