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...

Your Saturday read 🔫 unherd.com/2025/11/the-...

“U know I’ve killed about 9 people and made about 4 die bro it’s fucked up init. First person was in 1st year in school bro kmt bro, after I do the ones on the list I think I’m gonna go into retirement.” I wrote about Britain’s inept hitmen unherd.com/2025/11/the-...

Downside of electric cars is loads of different companies running the charging points, each with their own annoying system (a bit like parking charges). Should all be nationalised.

If I was a Ukrainian my response to Trump’s peace plan would be to bomb the White House. See how he likes it.

Israeli teams, like Russian ones, should have already been banned from Europe. That’s the error.

To create a massive new ‘bullshit factory’ www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

Interesting bit of spin 😀 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Young people in Spain getting misty eyed about Franco era 🤦🏻‍♂️ www.reuters.com/world/far-ri...

'An alleged Palestine Action member attacked a police officer with a sledgehammer, fracturing her back during an organised break-in at an Israeli defence firm' Guess this is why Palestine Action were deemed a terrorist group www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Leave Jude Bellingham alone, all the best footballers are annoyed when they get taken off. That’s life.

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Policy as PR, politics of cowardice and opinion polls

Maybe Benn and Eubank already agreed it would be one each so they could do a third.

Would it be journalistically ‘ethical’ for the BBC to use the license fee to pay for a hitman to take out Trump?

Turns out the accusations against the BBC were mostly a stitch up, trumpeted by a biased newspaper. What gained traction was the Trump Panorama edit, which someone should have got fired for, that they didn't made the initial mistake worse. theconversation.com/bbc-bias-the...

Good news. Time to remove the Tory saboteurs from the BBC. Now the government needs to repair the damage caused to the BBC by the Tories - increase funding, hire top journalists to re-organise, hire more journalists to boost investigations.

Good pub-based-mafia-fugitive-in-London tale

“Providing tech services to supercharge ICE operations while blocking tools that support accountability of ICE officers is entirely backwards." - @kateruane.bsky.social www.404media.co/google-has-c...

Zadie Smith via @billyreevesok.bsky.social

Robbie Gibb is the Tory poison at the heart of the BBC. It needs extracting.

Well via great reporting from @robineveleigh.bsky.social, Vice did tell you about the UK’s illegal shop gangs all over the BBC now…back in January 2022 www.vice.com/en/article/c...

Dubai's a gangster's paradise, but it's rare for gangland hits to be carried out there www.ladbible.com/news/world-n...

Journalists need to investigate the shit out of this story. The BBC cannot be surrendered to the political right, they just want to kill it off. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

it is very strange that BBC chair Samir Shah is hiding this morning. He should by rights be on the Today programme presenting himself as in charge and hands on the tiller. I wonder if he is frightened for his position

Let’s hope the Telegraph gets bought out by someone who just shuts it down.

Truly sickening. Aided by right wing British traitors

Great piece here on the BBC. Seems like the dossier criticising the BBC was a right-wing stitch up, and odd how the corporation capitulated so easily. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Amazing the boss of the BBC is forced to resign over a small editing issue, while lying and propaganda on an industrial scale by Donald Trump and friends, right wing media just carries on regardless. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

Great piece on how US weed legalisation snatched the business from the cartels. But the cartels simply pivoted to other drugs and crime. open.substack.com/pub/ioangril...

☃️ Europe is being smothered in cocaine

Gangsters bribing dodgy Interpol officials to put out international arrest warrants for rival crooks. nordicmonitor.com/2025/11/turk...

I thought it was Britain which was going to have the civil war?

When the arse falls out of the high street and people can’t afford stuff, enter the criminals www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

New York’s new mayor Zohran Mamdani, never knew his mum is filmmaker Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding). No wonder his promo videos were good. Great victory speech. Left wing politicians the world over need to watch and learn: www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...