It is genuinely one of the funniest bits of memory-holing the extent to which, other than a handful of dyed-in-the-wool Jenrickites, everyone to the right of Nick Clegg in British politics has forgotten that Badenoch inherited a party on the up in both the polls and local elections.

DHS tweeted this yesterday. Little more than 24 hours later, ICE agents just shot and killed a legal observer in Minneapolis.

Ukrainian media, citing Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service, report that Russia is unable to properly maintain its strategic ports in the Arctic. szru.gov.ua/news-media/n...

On your Nobel Peace Prize application, under Weaknesses, you've put 'Refused to allow the previous winner to take power in Venezuela'?

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

Trump on María Corina Machado: "I think it'd be very tough for her to be the leader. She doesn't have the support or the respect within the country. She's a very nice woman but she doesn't have the respect."

Americans believe that Trump's operations in Venezuela are unlawful

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Interested in how you square the circle of “British people who post ‘burn down a migrant hotel’ during race riots shouldn’t be arrested” with “someone who posted pretty objectionable and racist things 8 years before they became a British citizen should be deported” and am sure someone will ask Nigel

Did you know that Mar a Lago is Ruritanian for Home of Lies?

Having had a day to think through everything about El-Fattah, here's where I stand. Yes, it's possible to believe all of these things at once! In fact, it really shouldn't be that hard.

Toby Morton, a 'South Park' alum, bought www.trumpkennedycenter.org months ago on a hunch that the ridiculously vain Donald Trump would rename the Center. Donald’s stupidity is only exceeded by his predictability.

Happy 14th anniversary to this youtube video

Happy second anniversary of the Tory government’s announcement that pints of wine could be stocked on Britain’s shelves for the first time ever thanks to Brexit.

Unbelievable! Russian “cavalry” once again attempted to attack the positions of Ukraine’s 92nd Assault Brigade. This is how the Kremlin treats its soldiers’ lives — as expendable cannon fodder.

Putin claimed to have conquered Kupyansk

A bit more on the outlook of the Russian economy and what 'Made in Russia' actually means, from #TheGlobalJigsaw: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

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The EPSTEIN Files are a much quicker read than I expected.

I often refer to James C Scott’s account of what he calls weapons of the weak: Sabotage, foot-dragging, evasion, false compliance, pilfering, feigned ignorance, arson, dissimulation, and slander. What I didn’t expect is that it would become a pitch perfect description of the US Administration.

Garry Trudeau was mocking Trump's deeply pathetic & narcissistic need to name things after himself 38 yrs ago. 11.2088 - Trump renames himself after himself. And the Kennedy Center will retain its rightful, legal name long after the GOP pretends they never really supported him all that much.

Morning.

This sums it up rather well.

LOLOLOLOL hahahahahahaha

"Today, the Trump meme coin has lost 88% of its value... "First Lady Melania Trump’s meme coin suffered even steeper losses. Today it’s worth just 11 cents, which means anyone who bought at the top and held on has lost 99% of their investment..." www.cnn.com/2025/12/15/b...

this is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted

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A reminder that this is the same man who has just spent the past week calling all the Jewish victims of his own horrific anti-semitic abuse liars

Ain't This The Truth,Chumpster..... 👇

posted about my Apple ID woes, please share widely? hey.paris/posts/appleid/

An overlooked alternate reason for rising claims in UK as fall in Europe is that data-sharing + finger-printing is now a barrier to making a second claim to a second EU country (but not to UK) Being outside that system can make UK a court of appeal for failed claims in the EU, says Alan Manning

UK gets 5th most claims, falling to 17th/29 per capita. We got 1/10 of claims just below share (13%) of the UK/EU aggregate population. If UK claims continue to rise, the "take our fair share" or "more than" may become true UK govt want to compete for lowest - Denmark is 22nd - but says we are top

All travelers from ESTA countries (yes the ones on visa waiver programs) will have to disclose 5 years of social media + huge amounts of personal data to enter the US now. All US academic associations should now meet outside the US if we want to meet our international colleagues.

Trump rages that Henry Cuellar didn’t pay him back for a pardon by switching parties, blasting Cuellar for a “lack of LOYALTY.” In other words, Trump admits he was trying to use his pardon power to buy Republicans a House seat.

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The White House surrenders at 138 million views. Sabrina wins.

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

This should be the main story on all TV news programmes. The University of Essex is closing its Southend campus because of the fall in the number of foreign students and the loss of income they provided for the University. www.echo-news.co.uk/news/2566689...

Jonathan Gullis defects to Reform saying his former party has "lost touch with the people it was meant to serve". He should know. When he was in Government he took a five-figure donation from JCB, then stayed silent when it axed hundreds of his constituents' jobs just two weeks later

Pretty striking to see these two pieces, side-by-side, in the Telegraph and Times last week. ~AA #BrexitDisaster

In a grim world, this story is a necessary source of joy and laughter. news.sky.com/story/jeremy...

Pediatricians say vaccines do not cause autism. A bear-eating heroin addict who fantasizes about sucking his own semen out of his lovers' orifices says they do. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Sometimes wonder if what the UK needs is a thinktank that doesn't do any new research, it just repeats obviously true statements that people try to ignore because they're inconvenient. International students cross-subsidise home students. Your pension is paid for out of general taxation.

NEW: This is one hell of an opening paragraph from Jim Comey's attorneys in his motion to get the grand jury materials in the case against him.

“A society which reverences the attainment of riches as the supreme felicity will naturally be disposed to regard the poor as damned in the next world, if only to justify itself for making their life a hell in this.” R.H. Tawney

BREAKING: The UK’s response to Covid was “too little, too late”, a damning official report on the handling of the pandemic has concluded, saying the introduction of a lockdown even a week earlier than happened could have saved more than 20,000 lives.

Everyone is having fun calling Donald Piggy, but more and more he’s going to be acting like a cornered rat.

There is no reason why this should have made me laugh so hard a bit of gas escaped.