This is Richard Smith of the South Durham Hunt and he thinks it’s ok to hit a horse over the head. Make this ‘man’ famous.

BREAKING: Statement by the European Commission on the U.S. decision to impose travel restrictions on certain EU individuals ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Abolish the House of Lords, RT if you want it gone. Tear it down.

Just watching Carols from Kings, bloody woke BBC. They’ve completely edited out our saviour Tommy Robinson, makes a mockery of Christmas. I’m off down to my nearest spoons in protest.

Labour has good idea shock From the new Private Eye, out now.

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas with my favourite Robin photo. (Taken one frosty morning in South Luffenham, Rutland)

This is a very simple coordination problem. No one Labour MP can solve it. But No. 10/the government could, tomorrow, with one letter from the Cabinet Secretary. Both in their own self-interest and for the sake of our democracy, they should.

😂 Did make me laugh

‘Jesus was a refugee. As a child he had to go to Egypt for safety. So please: think what the message of Christmas really means’ The head of the Church of Scotland tells me Christmas is about welcoming the outsider as she speaks out against the hate growing in society In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

You know what, Robinson? Jesus would have stood on a beach handing out hot tea and warm blankets to refugees The far-right in Britain is trying to hijack Christianity as Christmas approaches. It should offend every person of faith. Jesus spread love, not hate My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column

“The legacy media’s refusal to recognize Trump’s mental and emotional unraveling cannot conceal a stark reality: Trump has lost it,” writes Jen Rubin in her latest.

I have finally ditched twitter and feel better already. What a sordid, nasty, racist platform Musk has made it. I know it’s been like this for some time but I can’t and won’t take it anymore. 🚿👌🥳

‘Labour are still utterly shit scared of provoking the Hard Right and their Little Englander followers by addressing this’, analysis by Mark on his Sofa this morning suggests…

Reform UK in Leicestershire Council are paying consultants Newton £1.4m to do the job they claimed DOGE would do. Thats £4.72 per Council Tax paying household. It could rise to £30m they are paying Newton. Thats £101 per household in Leicestershire.

It’s St Cecilia day today. Who remembers Corby band, St Cecilia’s hit from 1971, Leap up and Down (Wave your Knickers in the Air)?

Who the f%*k is Chris Mason? Just watched his dreadful interview with Starmer. Who the hell does this weaselly third rate journalist think he is, presuming to grotesquely insult and trivialize the British PM? Starmer may have some challenges, but he shd not have to put up with this uninformed crap!

Quite the correction indeed.

"An inspired piece of genius." Los Angeles

Right wing fascists would have us believe that hatred of Netanyahu and his government is antisemitic. It isn't, any more than hatred of Trump and his catch-farts is hatred of all Americans. Evil should be called out wherever it appears.

They didn't want my blood, but they probably want yours! I went to give blood today, but due to a v minor medical issue they couldn't take it. Yet they told me they do need donors. As I couldn't help by giving, instead, I thought i'd publicise this... www.blood.co.uk

If you read one Guardian comment piece today, obviously read Aditya's www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Panorama edit was clumsy. But the facts remain. It was a violent insurrection to upend a democratic vote. Looking at the wild outrage here, we’d be forgiven for thinking Jan 6th never happened. In terms of bias, this is off the scale worse. With Farage delighting in the damage. (Extracts iPaper)

Fagman Farage didn't save Kent. (From Private Eye)

A photo for Halloween, barbers shop in Cromer from the archives. Oddly reminiscent of last nights ‘Traitors’.

The path from abusing foreigners to abusing the disabled is well-trodden. I I hope this nugget is bright enough to reflect on who else has walked it.

Love it! 🤣

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

Last nights rain certainly hastened the leaf drop. They look fantastic though at some point I’m going to have to collect them to make leaf mould.

👀 The #EpsteinBallroom

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A Maccabi club source told the UK Jewish News that the intervention of far right political activist Tommy Robinson pledging to attend the game as a Maccabi fan was the "final straw" for their decision about the risks of accepting tickets amid this row www.jewishnews.co.uk/exclusive-ma...

Everywhere is looking wonderful this autumn, luckily for me I can look out onto this in my garden.

The UK Football Policing Unit (UKFPU) has some choice words… …for a PM who aggressively inserted racially-charged accusations into a local safety issue, seeking, seemingly on personal whim, to override well-informed local law & democracy mechanisms, and risking public safety.

Nathan Gill, Farage’s political crony from UKIP/Brexit Party/Reform, pled guilty to 8 counts of bribery. Briber? Oleg Voloshyn. And here’s Farage posing with Voloshyn’s wife. Pure coincidence, right? Farage stays mute. How much filth did he wallow in - and who else got paid off? #ukpolitics

Richard Gere, "President Trump is not only crazy, he's a dark presence. It happened so quickly. In six months he's almost destroyed our country"

Dug up in the garden, part of a Smith &Co ginger beer bottle.

I mean this seems like a legitimate question from @annaturley.bsky.social

And all Trump really wants is the nobel peace prize. What a total moron. BBC News - Trump to rebrand Pentagon as Department of War www.bbc.com/news/article...

Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on £400,000 GB News earnings. Poor attendance record in parliament, collects £94,000 salary+expenses. Has used a trust fund in an offshore tax haven. Previously described people who try to avoid tax as the “common enemy”.

“Farage claimed last year to have “bought a house” in his constituency but the property is actually owned in the name of his partner, meaning he legally avoided higher-rate stamp duty on the purchase of an additional home – given he already owns other properties” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Why, you might ask, do the BBC and Sky News, casting their editorial guidelines to the wind, keep giving massive airtime to the far right, while shutting out leftwing voices? Don't their bosses understand the likely consequences? Only one explanation now remains. They do. And it is what they want.

It’s been a good year for the roses. No idea what this variety is, we inherited it with the house but it just keeps flowering. Blooming lovely.

"The already daunting task facing officers this weekend is made infinitely more challenging by the grotesque hypocrisy of populist politicians who, until they were voted out at the last general election, had been arguing for – and swiftly advancing – the very thing they are now denouncing."

This is all so dangerous. Starmer needs to step up - urgently - and make the alternative case; the case for immigration, the case for respect and dignity, the case for not become a cruel, shrivelled-up nation of threatening, flag-waving, prejudiced wankers.