Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask: "If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"

Appeasement of a deranged dictator, history tells us, is not a good policy news.sky.com/story/trumps...

Taking over Greenland is not a joke. Trump is sending messages to foreign leaders and making threats that will destroy the most important alliance we have. Are Republicans in Congress and Marco Rubio really ready to throw NATO away because they’re too afraid to stand up to Trump?

And there it is. A museum piece of toddler-king illiterate petulance… for eternity.

I'm honestly less mad at the President, who is clearly not well, that I am at his outriders and enablers. They see messages like this and then, with straight faces, go on television or write op-eds retroactively constructing grand strategy justifications. Pathetic.

Ballet Shoes at the National Theatre is a triumph: beautifully staged, well paced, extraordinary acting, and makes you laugh and cry. For kids and grown ups. Go see

This new nuclear tax is to pay for the multi decade construction of Sizewell C - we won’t get any energy from it in this time - we’ll just pay to ensure the developers make a return while they build it. That’s a scandal worthy of their attention (the right wing commentators).

Right wing media and politicians have a blind spot, they love to talk about the added costs of green energy - but simply don’t see the added costs of nuclear.

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Last year a doctor was found guilty of “serious sexual misconduct” with a schoolgirl who was a former patient but instead of being struck off he was just suspended for 12 months. My piece for @theobserveruk.bsky.social about the failure of medical tribunals observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

A lovely obituary of Sir James Munby, one of this country’s greatest judges observer.co.uk/profile/obit...

A canny move by Kemi Badenoch would be to get the high profile and experienced people chucked out of the Tory Party by Boris to come back. Bring back Rory Stewart, David Gauke, Dominic Grieve, Oliver Letwin et al to reinvigorate a centre-right party.

You might have seen some reporting about changes to the Freedom pass in London. As always it's important to get the details- which is that there will be no change to the freedom pass in London (thanks to the work of Labour councils in blocking the move) www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...

An excellent piece that acknowledges that the West Midlands Police made mistakes, that there was antisemitic violence in Amsterdam, and that despite both of these facts, the case for banning Maccabi Tel Aviv fans was - to use a footballing term - very clear and very obvious.

The backlog was not just a matter of public record, but regular discussion amongst lawyers, of whom many are Labour MPs, and a regular rant of a high profile legal social media rabbit.

A canny move by Kemi Badenoch would be to get the high profile and experienced people chucked out of the Tory Party by Boris to come back. Bring back Rory Stewart, David Gauke, Dominic Grieve, Oliver Letwin et al to reinvigorate a centre-right party.

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An Israeli man in a press helmet was seen laughing and smashing eggs on the ground during an Israeli raid in occupied East Jerusalem, during which 13,000 eggs were reportedly destroyed and several Palestinians detained.

So half as many as the number of children living in poverty, then - but maybe they're not the Express's key demographic.

26 years ago, there were no food banks. Now, because of rising food, rent and bills, and our poor social security system there are over 1,400.

Fucking brilliant

Plaid Cymru and the Greens are surging in Wales, according to this latest poll. Where’s the media narrative around this? Where are the stories saying Farage is failing? When will Labour try to regain ground by appealing to Plaid & Green voters, not just copy Reform? www.itv.com/news/wales/2...

The Home Office’s new TikTok account wants you to see migration through a negative lens. We refuse this toxic narrative. Migration is a positive force in this country.

Ukip have submitted a new logo and slogan to the Electoral Commission, swapping the £ pound sterling symbol for a cross, that looks very much like it is modelled on the Iron Cross used by Prussia & Germany 1871-1918 and Hitler's Nazi regime from 1933-45

Under Sadiq's leadership we've seen extra funding for the Violence Reduction Unit which sets up early interventions, we've seen funding for youth organisations to get young people off the streets & we've seen more money put into the Met.

People have been trying to talk London down, but the evidence tells a different story. Last year saw: The lowest murder rate per capita since records began The fewest murders of those aged under 25 this century One of the lowest numbers of homicides for almost three decades

More than 40 civil society groups say an amendment in the crime and policing bill requiring police to consider the “cumulative impact” of repeated protests in the same area represents a “draconian crackdown on our rights to freedom of expression and assembly” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Properly funding the court system would clear the backlog even more quickly. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Trapped in for-profit ICE camps for nearly a year. Arrived healthy. "By 7 July, Gamboa had been diagnosed with at least 10 conditions [...] sepsis, rhabdomyolysis, a condition in which damaged muscle tissue breaks down rapidly, [...] protein malnutrition and toxic encephalopathy."

A prison officer took money from this rag for this nasty story. They should be sacked. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Bullsh!t

Sad to see. He did have great moral clarity and I never discussed a subject with him where I didn't come away with a great deal of food for thought. His recent work demonstrating the High Court could not be involved in assisted dying was a service to the nation! www.lawgazette.co.uk/practice/mor...

At the very least we should impeach her hat. #PuppyKiller

Busy session at the food bank today. 289 people provided with food, of whom 80 were children. Remember there are 9 food banks in Barnet. I hope the change in benefits for children will alleviate poverty. It is national disgrace

AOC: “I understand that VP Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, & I do not — That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance & I — I do not believe the American people should be assassinated in the street”

"The maximum time a prisoner can spend on remand is 182 days (six months). Yet Muraisi and Ahmed were arrested in November 2024, and are not due to be tried until June at the earliest, which means they will be remanded for 20 months." Shameful. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Anyway if you want to read more about Tony Blair building tech to sell to authoritarian governments full story is here democracyforsale.substack.com/p/blair-bids...

The many political podcasts all talk about the same things. What’s needed is an informed podcast that looks across local government. Thanks to Will Hayward on Wales, but who is looking at English local government?

Very sorry to hear that Sir James Munby has died. He presided over the Howard League’s successful judicial review against the government on child protection in custody, one of the most important child protection judgments ever made

ICE agent's video shows Renee Good was turning to drive around him when he shot her three times and said "Fuckin' bitch". www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Very sorry to hear that Sir James Munby has died. He presided over the Howard League’s successful judicial review against the government on child protection in custody, one of the most important child protection judgments ever made

The Lords agreed to allocate extra time to debate the amendments to the Assisted Dying Bill. But with more than 1,000 to work through, progress remains glacially slow. Time is running out — both for the Bill itself, and for the terminally ill people. #AssistedDyingBill humanists.uk/2026/01/09/o...

Labour is tackling the far too high cost of living wherever we can. Capping bus fares at £2 would make a big difference to people in Swansea who rely on buses every day and builds on measures in the Budget to cut £150 from energy bills and freeze rail fares. swanseabaynews.com/2-bus-fare-c...

So Elon Musk is only peddling child pornography to people who pay him?

It is very odd for British MPs to be the ‘friend’ of any foreign nation. francescrook.substack.com/p/mps-and-lo...

Green Lane Masjid, which has previously been issued regulatory "advice and guidance" after it promoted misogyny has since streamed a sermon saying men can "physically discipline" wives. Giving misogynistic charities 'advice and guidance' isn't working. www.secularism.org.uk/news/2026/01...

This confirms our worst fears. Labour want to divert taxpayers money from our public services to pay for their mandatory Digital ID scheme. The Lib Dems fought against Labour’s ID plans before and won, and we can do it again.

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Another eight pupils at Nigel Farage's school accuse him of racism. One says he was called a "Paki" and told to "go back home" by Farage, who was three years older than him. New names say they spoke up after being angered by Farage's denials www.theguardian.com/politics/202...