Point: “I can’t pay no doctor bills but whitey’s on the moon” Counterpoint:

extraordinary FT scoop via @lucyfisher.ft.com captain of a UK nuclear-armed submarine has stepped back from his role this week after being investigated over his relationship with Joani Reid, the Labour MP whose husband has been arrested on suspicion of spying for China www.ft.com/content/93be...

America lets itself be shafted on a daily basis by these clowns 🤷🏻‍♂️

@embits.bsky.social Hi Emily, cab I grab an email for you please?

UP THE IRISH

This could have a big impact on Russia’s drug trade, which is reliant on Telegram for sales and recruitment.

Maybe it was always, just getting stoned. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

This is insane

One sentence to sum up our upside down times in the Guardian today: "A grouping of largely oppressive and authoritarian world leaders and their envoys are flying to Washington for the inaugural meeting of Donald Trump’s newly established Board of Peace."

I’d be gutted if my son was murdered and the killer boasted about how he did it in a gangster rap video (which happens often), but that couldn’t be used as evidence in court. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...

Yes Pep www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

'Pink cocaine', called 'tusi' in the real world, is popping up in the UK more often www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Virginia’s final words 💔

WW2 and Holocaust dead spinning in their graves at what Israel and US has been getting away with in Gaza.

The US radical right, eg serial liars like Musk and Trump, say Britain is a dangerous, crime infested no-go zone. Homicides in US last year: 11,721 Homicides in Britain last year: 499

‘resilience’ - had enough of that word

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is very funny, good TV.

Says the kidnapping, Gestapo cosplay freak

The only domestic terrorists in America are the government

Sinners getting loads of Oscar nominations, because it was popular?

Kash Patel going to a big meeting of the intelligence chiefs in England and asking if they can go jet skiing instead of having a normal meeting is really doing a number on my ability to focus

In the same way Christianity was used in the crusades, to those in power, drugs have become the perfect cover story to commit bad deeds and to persecute. open.substack.com/pub/maxdaly/...

Posh people who pretend they’re not posh by saying their Scottish 😀

Gordon Ramsay is 59

Drugs are used to get high, to make money, but they are also used by those in power to persecute and strengthen. My new, belated substack.. open.substack.com/pub/maxdaly/...

Surely Europe has some James Bond type who can take out Trump, Vance, Musk without getting caught? Europe, and the world, does not need these pigs.

“My grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers in Gaza” If only we still had MPs like Jewish MP Gerald Kaufman to speak sense on Israel. The endless cow-towing of the UK to Israel is shameful. His 2009 speech: youtu.be/Osr_1ySuF6A?...

This dimwit cop really messed this up. There was enough evidence out there about Maccabi Tel Aviv fans (and the reception they would get in Aston) to advise for a ban, which was the right decision. Btw, all this crap would have been avoided if UEFA had banned all Israeli teams, like Russian teams

"All of us, citizens and immigrants alike, are being ruled by people who think life is a privilege bestowed by authority, and death is a fair penalty for disobedience." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/o...

The kind of reality Elon Musk, Donald Trump cannot face. Ps. “Roughly 50% of homicides are linked to drugs” — this is a dud govt statistic which should not be repeated by journalists www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

If the US army had any self respect they'd get on the streets and punish these small town bullies

ICE officer fired the first of three shots “as the car moved past him” Yet Trump and his sidekicks say he shot mother in “self defence”, and the Dept of Homeland Security says she weaponized her vehicle in an act of “domestic terrorism.” America is a fascist regime. Europe must disengage from it.

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

Stranger Things finale was fantastic, and a homage to the best game in the world, D&D

I wrote a few lines on festive season cocaine for @newstatesman1913.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Footballers’ family Christmas shots, hmm, someone should do a compilation

Good thread on Epstein release/non-release

Good piece ‘Marijuana is not harmless. I still think it’s safer than alcohol’ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...

Had a chat with Nick Cave and some other interesting characters at the @unherd.com Christmas party last night

Either Trump goes to war with the Mexican cartels or he doesn’t. This is just dicking about www.npr.org/2025/12/15/n...

Bluesky: 10 of the same people on repeat 😴

With the insights of an experienced youth expert, I wrote about continued child deaths on London's streets. These killings are just the surface of harm. Many, particularly the most vulnerable kids, are forever damaged by a hidden zone of fear, crime and petty retribution. unherd.com/2025/12/gang...

Leave the guy alone, write some grown-up stories www.thesun.co.uk/sport/375550...

Keir Starmer, lame. All he’s got is to pretend the @greenparty.org.uk will allow drug selling outside schools, which is totally made up.

World Cup preamble: FIFA is corrupt

The ‘U.S.A U.S.A’ chant. The dumbest noise the universe has ever had to hear

Wonder if he only started after retiring?

Was at the memorial for legendary journalist Duncan Campbell at Conway Hall last night. What a man he was, a journalistic hero really. One of the first crime reporters to not be a mouthpiece for the cops, and to speak to the robbers too (he once arranged a notorious cat burglar’s funeral)

Great news for journalism pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/new...

Trump is a spiv who will always back the bad guys open.substack.com/pub/ioangril...