Epstein is casting new light on the elite. Richard Brooks does this every week in Private Eye. Join us to discuss with Richard on 17 Feb.

The city of Minneapolis and its people have been nominated for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize. The Nation Magazine can formally do so because it's had many peace laureates on its editorial board. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Former Texas Lege reporter here. A Dem hasn't held this seat since 1990. Tarrant is the safest of red suburban counties. There is no way the TX and national GOP aren't in panic mode right now.

Join us on 17 February to have Richard Brooks enlighten us as to how the Post Office, the British government and a global IT company ruined the lives of thousands of innocent people

oh my god

This race was such a massive swing blowout that Democrat Taylor Rehmet literally won a city called White Settlement

Congratulations to Philip Collins on becoming editor of this excellent magazine! Delighted to see great pieces in this edition by some of our recent guests: @isabelh.bsky.social and @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social

Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning

Seen in Los Angeles (Credit: Zurita Carpio)

Sky News: Danish PM Mette Freideriksen’s note in the visitors book when she visited UK today

I love how they haven’t even settled on a number. Eight or ten wars. Something along those lines.

Well, it’s certainly an innovative approach to handling bondholders.

Many thanks to @isabelh.bsky.social for an amazing journey last night through time (from 1970s China to today) and space (a geopolitical tour de horizon)

Mark Carney is a fantastic demonstration of why having a coherent political and economic worldview is so important for a politician. When you encounter something out of the scope of what you’ve previously experienced, you can derive your approach from first principles. Labour: take notes.

TONIGHT with @isabelh.bsky.social How can we make sense of our wild start to 2026? What can we learn by looking to China? Last minute tickets available.

The president -Is occupying a major city with armed paramilitiaries -Is blackmailing treaty allies to hand over their sovereign territory -Is trying to set himself up as chairman for life of a UN rival with $1B fees for permanent membership -Is talking about canceling elections

Ok, Europe. Your move. Are you just going to sit there and take this nonsense on the chin? And as for the UK's equidistance, it's in shreds. New times. Breaking news indeed. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...

When people talk about reasons to leave X, the fact that the owner is a mass murderer doesn't get mentioned enough. The Grok porn stuff is foul. The naked white nationalism is foul. This is worse.

Brilliant podcast on the gang of four from @ppfideas.bsky.social that is helping us get into gear for our China special with @isabelh.bsky.social on Tuesday

We are marking the likely go ahead of China’s London super-embassy with @isabelh.bsky.social and an evening of reflection on the country and geopolitics. A week today (Tuesday)!

Doesn’t game theory suggest that in a stable, cooperative system where powerful agents play by a set of established rules, someone who “defects” & stops playing by the rules wins big for awhile, but then the system gets destabilized, chaos rules, & eventually a new system gets rebuilt on the ruins?

What does China's green energy revolution mean for the UK? We discuss with @isabelh.bsky.social on 20 January. Get your tickets on our website!

FOX: Where’s the protest against the regime that's killing people in the street right now? Trent: They are doing those today. It’s called the ICE protests FOX: Are they talking about Iran at the ICE protests? Trent: No, I think they are talking about the regime that is shooting people in the face

"The Russian economy is under enormous strain, and is running out of resources.... The policy implication is that sanctions are highly effective, despite their imperfect implementation and enforcement." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... By @martinsandbu.ft.com

"When it comes to a better technology future, “open a crack” is the most exciting proposition I’ve heard in decades."

Impossible to disagree but it's very difficult for ministers to have a public discussion about this given the UK's reliance on the US for defence and its strategy towards Ukraine, let alone its almost total reliance on AI and Big Tech as the tool for public sector reform and boosting growth.

Just under the wire

Venezuela. Greenland. Iran. An extraordinary start to the year. What's going on? How does it look from Beijing? @isabelh.bsky.social joins us on 20 January to discuss.

We had a totally calm and normal start to 2026. We reflect on it with China and geopolitics expert @isabelh.bsky.social on 20 January. Time to please get your tickets!

The worst civil conflict in western Europe since WW2, which ran for thirty years *in the actual UK*, reduced to a 'something like' analogy for race war fantasies by a London academic. No words. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Beautiful obit for Sir Patrick Duffy, former Labour defence minister, who has died aged 105. Remembered the General strike (grandmother in Ireland during the famine) WW2 hero and published his last book in 2024 (!) labour-uncut.co.uk/2026/01/03/s...

"If you have got a history book at home, take it out and throw it in the bin. It is worthless." #Venezuela m.youtube.com/watch?v=IOi7...

The Telegraph's big book of woke things reaches Zulu (1964)

This is hardly surprising since the relentless promotion of far right views on social media, large parts of the traditional media and GB News www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Can someone please respond to Stephen Miller with this message from Frank Sinatra?

In 1932, FDR was elected with 57.4% of the vote. He brought us the New Deal. In 1964, LBJ was elected with 61.1% of the vote. He brough us the Great Society. In 2025, Trump was elected with 49.8% of the vote. He's attempting to destroy everything FDR & LBJ built. The rest is commentary.

In which I learned that the BBC, apparently, never tell the truth about who committed a crime.

I preferred it when history had ended, quite frankly.

On Putin, the strategy of exporting chaos, how it works, why it ultimately (hopefully) fails www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Great to reflect last night on our political year with @philtinline.bsky.social and @jamesrball.com. Lots to worry about this year but we heard reasons for hope in young people and green technology.

Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.

We reflected, over the summer, on the first year of our Labour government with three Labour MPs: @preetkgillmp.bsky.social @johnslingermp.bsky.social @alexballingermp.bsky.social Our end of year event on Tuesday takes the temperature on the politics of 2025.

WHY ARE YOU ANNOYED THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED TO HAPPEN

Will the Conservative Party ever again be home to politicians like Dominic Grieve, one of our guests earlier in the year? We reflect on the political year this Tuesday.

Amazing, the @dailymail.co.uk manages to publish an entire lengthy feature bewailing (!!!!) the exodus of Poles from Britain without once mentioning Brexit. Apparently this outcome (which is surely exactly what they campaigned for in 2016) is all the fault of Keir Starmer. mol.im/a/15379789

We asked Gabriel Gatehouse: What happens when conspiracy theorists become the US government? The latest thinking on this year's big questions with @philtinline.bsky.social and @jamesrball.com on Tuesday.

One week till we look back on our political year!

There's a fundamental failure of imagination among political leaders about the realities of governing in the 21st Century (this is true for the UK as well as the EU). Toxic information environments, malevolent state actors - these are the threats of today.

From Claire Short to @pollymackenzie.bsky.social, Gabriel Gatehouse to @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social, Dominic Grieve to @preetkgillmp.bsky.social, we have had a great year of Political Therapy. @philtinline.bsky.social and @jamesrball.com join us to reflect on it on 16 December.

I just can’t believe Doctor Who would do something like that.