Murder rates in Canada are low, partly because “it’s quite rude to murder someone”. www.bbc.co.uk/travel/artic...

Jersey Call to Action: Call Aresco HQ at 631 435 8100. Tell them NO to the planned ICE office in Roseland. Here's my call (i got vm and left message). If you've watched @maddow.bsky.social any recent Monday you know how much this citizen pressure has impact. Let's keep it up.

Kung Hei Fat Choi 新年好 Wishing you and yours a prosperous New Year!

Royal Mail given two weeks to respond to claims it is prioritising parcels. Alas they sent the reply by post.

Censorship doesn't work.

I should have been a doctor. I just diagnosed both illnesses in Call The Midwife.

Ordered some new hard drives for backing up my laptop. Estimated delivery date: June.

Swans get right of way in Barnes.

My old pal @mortenmorland.bsky.social celebrating my 15th anniversary in Downing Street in style

My brother Garry has dementia and is currently lost somewhere in the Chester area. If anyone should spot him please call the police on 999. We'd appreciate reposts. @shitchester.bsky.social

Perhaps a better way of saying this would be to say that in just his first year in office Donald Trump ordered the illegal detention of well over 4,000 human beings—and that that number is undoubtedly wildly low because it only considers those people who filed lawsuits to try to regain their freedom

You’ve got to hand it to Trump, he has a gift for gathering all the worst people in the world in his cabinet. It’s going to be a new Marvel movie, A***holes Assemble!

Shame Vesta Williams didn't marry Tim Curry. #TOTP

I've added EIGHT new signed books onto my website. Yes, that's right. I'll try and do a post about each of them, but in the meantime, here's a link to my "Signed Books" page on my website & a pic of the eight books. www.biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...

This is wild. Russian government using AI to generate fake YouTube videos where well known Ukrainian supporters & influencers make pro-Putin content. Expect much more of this. Especially in the run up to the midterms- youtu.be/88tYt6FOMkQ?...

He's a keeper.

She is an empty suit, of course. And an absolute nasty piece of cornbread. She is also, to my somewhat trained ear, absolutely, positively terrified here. She is either intimidated by the process or deeply anxious about her relationship with her boss. Or both. But she is terrified.

“Are you firmly in favour of rejoining the European Union?" - Robert Peston “Firmly very much in favour. Brexit has been a disaster under any criteria, under any measure" - Zack Polanski

Has it ever dawned on Ratcliffe that he emigrated to Monaco and they probably feel the same about him? www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...

If I were a stage direction, I'd be, "Enter wet, from the rain."

Matt Owen writes everything from great television and radio to wedding speeches your guests will remember for the right reasons. AI is the pits. Get Matt.

Oh dear. Does that speech you got an AI sprite to knock out look like it was written by a FUCKING LUNATIC? Take it to the Human Repair Shop.👇

I say it every time, but Randy Rainbow is pure genius.

That same acid-eating staffer who sent out the racist meme about the Obamas is at it again. Now he's saying China's going to end hockey in Canada. What a fucking whack job. They really need to fire that guy.

VAN HOLLEN: All of your children? LUTNICK: Yes, I took a headcount. Mr. Epstein asked to buy one of them, but I consider them to be a set, so I politely declined. I offered a nanny instead, but that was declined as she was in her thirties. VAN HOLLEN: Very well then. Continue....

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No one has ever given us more money/ better working conditions without a union going to bat for us. Even though I've a great agent, @writersguildgb.bsky.social has won cases for me when a company didn't pay up. If you want to join, just let me know. #HeartUnions Week

This is definitely my fave episode of @squarewindowpod.bsky.social so far....

Poo, Spew, Richer Than You, Cuntface, Dribble, Twat.

Man who doesn't turn up to do his job, tells a room full of retired people that working from home is bad.

Alexa, show me a sexist berk. And he's lucky I said berk. *applause from the audience*

Obvious point is obvious, but remind me how much time Farage has spent in the House of Commons, or indeed in his constituency?

Farage would be efficient if he just visited Clacton.

King Charles is heckled about his brother Andrew’s friendship with paedophile Epstein It’s the second time in a wk this has happened during a royal walkabout This was in Clitheroe, Lancs 👇

Let's remember no one has ever given us more money and better working conditions without a union going to bat for us. UK writers, your union is @writersguildgb.bsky.social Please join . #HeartUnionsWeek

I fucking love Alexei Sayle.

It is silly and petty and valuable and 100% necessary to always call it The Epstein Ballroom, in every context

Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.

NEW: Huge cheers earlier for the Ukrainian athletes at the Winter Olympics opening ceremony. Then huge BOOS as JD Vance comes on the big screen in the stadium. Even the commentators can’t hide it…

EXCLUSIVE: Reform UK just broke electoral law in Gorton and Denton. The party confirmed they sent out campaign materials without proper party imprint, something it insists was a mistake.

Why are we calling it Epstein Island and not the Pedoph Isle?

Trump posted highly racist image of the Obamas on social media. Is Trump a racist, senile or both? The White House defended it. America, is this what you've become? Note: I will not broker any defence of this. www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/t...

Bezos burning the Washington post to the ground is as firm a reason for the continued bbc licence as ever there was. Eventually everything that can be owned by a billionaire will be owned by a billionaire and at that point its future will be determined by the whims of a man making 166k per minute.

Help Preserve Two Collections The Film is Fabulous! team are currently in discussions with the families of two deceased former industry professionals about the acquisition of their collections, and the preservation of the rare films.

COLUMBO: Just one more thing...

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Let this count as our news for today.

A. "We were too scared to do anything else" B. "We were just following orders" C. "No one told us it was unconstitutional" D. "We were trying to stop him from the inside" E. All of the above Which will each of them resort to?