One of the first things a Farage government will do will be to make sure "the young are taught correctly about our history," and if that doesn't set off all manner of alarm bells then it should. (MAIL)

Happy New Year you lovely people. A reminder that 2026 should be the year you leave X (if you haven’t already!)

"Based on Musk’s own standard of intelligence, he is a grade A moron." #TeslaTakedown electrek.co/2025/12/30/e...

I don’t know what the hold up is - it’s obvious that the Trump interview violated broadcasting standards. It should be a pretty quick investigation. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...

BREAKING NEWS: Actual facts appear for the first time on "Truth" Social.

Daily consumers of bottled water ingest over 90,000 more microplastic particles than people who drink tap water. There are no warnings on bottles. Either companies do not test their products, or conceal the harms to boost profits and exec pay. What do regulators do?

The outrageous sanctioning of EU lawmakers and citizens in order to pressure democratically-elected European governments to change their laws shows just how intent the US government is on controlling Europeans' lives. We must go into 2026 with eyes open.

#PlasticPollution - concerns about #PublicHealth impacts just keep growing scitechdaily.com/microplastic...

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

The surge of AI slop, deceptive synthetic videos & images flooding our feeds, is driven in large part by Agentic AI Accounts (AAAs). aiforensics.org/work/agentic... Key findings: -Over 43,000 mostly AI-made posts generated 4.5 billion views -More than 65% of accounts were created in early 2025 1/

I don’t know if ‘myatprotocol’ is a server used by genuine accounts or not (apologies if it is), but I’ll be blocking all followers with .myatprotocol handles due to the huge number of spam bots coming from there.

Articles like this make me want to scream. The tone is one of surprise when it was always obvious that Brexit would destroy UK trade. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Behind door number 20 of the Scarred For Life advent calendar... a montage to prove that public information film reaction shots are the best reaction shots of all. Emote! Emote!

England water company CEO says long-term water security is under threat. Customers already paid, companies didn't build reservoirs, dumped sewage in rivers, neglected investment, paid dividends Now want to charge customers again, not raising capital from shareholders. End the scam. Nationalise.

🎶I need a hero I'm holding out for a hero 'til the end of the night He's gotta be strong, and he's gotta be fast And he's gotta have access to files

Being followed by a lot of newly created bot accounts today with AI generated account pictures. You’d think they would randomise the posts they liked rather than having an identical list.🙄

Fascinating article about how Israel is paying to influence Gen Z on social media and also manipulate AI to be more pro-Israel. It also has details about how this us tied to the Trump family and why Netanyahu is pleased about who has just bought TikTok. responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-chatg...

Donald Trump has made it his explicit policy to interfere in European politics and ‘cultivate resistance’ in the UK and elsewhere. The government should include the US administration in the scope of its investigation.

This is ridiculous. There clearly has not been a 660% increase in terrorism in the UK over the past year. How much is it costing the criminal justice system to arrest and prosecute all these people for the crime of wearing a t-shirt or holding a placard? news.sky.com/story/terror...

Labour are launching an investigation into historical foreign interference in UK politics. But they are explicitly excluding the Brexit referendum from the investigation. That's like pledging to investigate instances of arson while ignoring the wall of flames spanning the horizon.

The US voted with Russia, China and N. Korea against most of the civilized world. This is where we are at.

Home Office Ministers state publicly, on the record, that they are deliberately making life worse for older people and people with disabilities who depend on care services, but it's worth it because it reduces net migration.

Is it too late to relocate the World Cup to a country with less ridiculous entry requirements?

“Two-thirds of 2024 Labour voters would rather Sir Keir Starmer abandon his Brexit red lines and join a customs union with the European Union than raise taxes on working people, new polling has revealed.” #Brexit disaster. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Meiselas: The official Trump U.S. National Security Strategy document has been released. The document says a top priority of the U.S. is "cultivating resistance to Europe's current trajectory." In other words, to destroy the European Union.

The tech oligarchs are the most organised, determined anti democratic force we’ve seen this side of World War II For way too long this has been ignored, elided and under estimated What someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time

Felt #earthquake: 3.4 #quake Lancashire, 43 km northeast of Blackpool, Blackpool, England, United Kingdom, 33 minutes ago - 728 reports so far. Did you feel it? Send a report!

‘GDP reduced by 8%’ – Nine-year study reveals how Brexit decimated UK economy www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/bre...

Went out to play on a school night - going to regret that in the morning 😀 The Levellers were as great as always though.

This perfectly encapsulates why we need the BBC

I guess Trump will be taking his own AI to court soon!

It would be funny, if it wasn't tragic, reading this from four years ago about the 'independent' expert who wrote the report into purported leftwing bias at the BBC. It's just embarrassingly amateur - but it works because the Government is awol. www.theguardian.com/media/2021/n...

EU officials are ready to sacrifice some of their most prized privacy rules for the sake of AI, as they seek to turbocharge business in Europe by slashing red tape.

The Heritage Foundation, the intellectual engine behind the 922-page blueprint that has become the key policy manual for Donald Trump’s second term, is partnering with a constellation of European nationalist far-right movements to export its playbook.

Jonathan Marcus ex BBC defence+diplomatic corr: “The answer does not lie in equalising bias ie appointing people with overt right-wing sympathies. The answer is to establish proper editorial standards that are enforced so that irrespective of personal views journalists cover the news properly.”

Got these new trainers today but I can't get it out of my head that they look like fuckin DC Tosh Lines from The Bill

It must be very confusing for Elon Musk, being worth $1 trillion yet still being an utterly worthless human being.

That’s a very illuminating article. We all felt that Twitter had gained a right wing bias under Musk, but it’s visualised very well here and backed by solid research.

Politico: "Reform's Richard Tice insisted on Times Radio that the upstart movement never promised to cut council taxes — despite presenter Stig Abell reading out Reform election leaflets pledging just that." These people are very happy to lie. It is the Trump playbook: sowing confusion at any cost.

I am vaguely curious about how Labour have got themselves into a position where one of their landmark pieces of legislation, the Renter's Rights Bill, is finally law, and they have very little interest in promoting it to the point everyone's still talking about Reform!

"For the government it’s quite mad to keep using X. It’s active participation in its own destruction and against its own interests. I cannot fathom the logic of doing it. It would be like a Reform government communicating entirely through the Guardian comments section." 👏 @samfr.bsky.social

Russia still considers the UK one of its prime enemies. And what’s the best way to bring ‘Britain to its knees’ again as the former Russian Ambassador to London once boasted? Repeat the talking points of Farage and Far right activists - key collaborators in Putin’s mission

Such a relief that Russia lost in Caerphilly.

Not much better than a lie, this from Starmer. He can't pledge what a Reform Government, following a Trumpist or Russian agenda, will do with digital ID. They certainly won't be bound by his promise! Please email him to scrap his dangerous scheme. action.goodlawproject.org/tell-keir-st....

📍 NEW 📍Did you know that major meat and dairy producers emit more greenhouse gases than the nation of Saudi Arabia? They also rival emissions of the world’s biggest fossil fuel companies. Read DeSmog's latest from Joe Fassler. buff.ly/G4ZMlV5

Remember this, whenever someone says "alternative proteins - yuck!" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Conservative Party cannot be considered a responsible party of government again until and unless Ms Lam is forced to drop her Idi Amin migration proposal and apologise to those it threatens, or has the whip removed. It is as simple as that.