NEW Stewart Lee column on Farage being a bad loser. "Maybe it’s time for Laura Kuenssberg and Nick Ferrari, and the phalanxes of Farage’s other supine news media enablers, to start calling him out" 🔗☟☟

CILIP highlights the importance of trained librarians who possess "the skills, knowledge and experience to ensure stock is appropriate for the communities they serve." And cautions "the need for critical judgement when using AI": https://ow.ly/L0HM50YBjZc

Every nation should treat billionaires like a natural resource and mine them of their riches until exhausted, just like a nice thick seam of coal or a reservoir of oil, then make the spoils available to the nation's citizens. If they crop up again, mine them again.

The company you keep, Nigel.

I'm a mature middle aged man with a family, serious job, responsibilities, atheist, but when I finish a boiled egg I still put my spoon through the bottom of the shell so the evil witches can't use it to sail across the river and attack the fairy kingdom.

It’s a pretty basic question. Does this guy own a chunk of our oldest Sunday newspaper @theobserveruk.bsky.social. And why won’t you tell us @theguardian.com? 11/

New in - The Toast Rack. The Hollings Building is a Manchester brutalist icon and now you can have it on your wall. Available as a print and a greeting card. www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/brutalist-co...

Hannah Spencer being sworn in as a Green Party MP this afternoon, after winning the Gorton & Denton by-election last week. Photo: House of Commons

SATURDAY CLEAROUT! Here are 3 shelves of my books in A-Z order by author. You can have any 2 for £10 (free P+P). Please share (and buy). UK only.

February 2026: Maldives #AnywhereButClacton

You reap what you sow.

Reform-led Worcestershire set to issue England’s largest council tax rise

Glasgow Turkish barber hits back at Nigel Farage comments with hilarious hairstyle snaps

Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters

Have a read of this. Great scoop, obviously, but it’s also an absolute masterclass in how to report on these jokers. Plenty of London-based hacks could learn a lot from Martin Shipton here. If they actually wanted to… nation.cymru/news/the-new...

Welsh clubs are not underfunded merely due to ‘historic neglect’, but because the WRU remains committed to a system that does not serve Wales. The organisation prioritises the stability of the URC over the sustainability of Welsh rugby ✍️Evan Wall wp.me/p8Mk4U-1e5H

I’ve just read in the David Walsh article in the Times that 5 out of 12 WRU directors were not at the AGM in November, apparently because they were ‘unwell’. That’s completely unacceptable. Either they should have dialled in or the AGM should have been rearranged. All very convenient.

I’m not huge fan of Scott Galloway most of the time but here’s some ways to resist and make a difference. Getting your money is the most important thing to them. So take it away and use it elsewhere. www.resistandunsubscribe.com

Just hours after Renee Good was shot, one member of Customs and Border Patrol’s elite tactical team on an adjacent street fired a less-lethal weapon five times in less than five minutes, with four shots aimed at the faces of protestors. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/01...

"The WRU proposes to eliminate a professional region as a consequence of its own systemic failure...We failed to provide, therefore you must disappear". Nathaniel Hale for Gwladrugby Who Guards the Guards? 2025 in Review gwladrugby.wordpress.com/2025/12/28/w...

I've already heard of one major publisher – mentioning no names, but they share their name with a chocolate biscuit – who are refusing to pay proofreaders what were previously going rates because they can get the work done cheaper elsewhere. 'Elsewhere'.

A Christmas cartoon from my new book of science cartoons PHYSICS FOR CATS. In good bookshops and online now: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2

The Mab - a modern take on the Mabinogion with a foreword by Michael Sheen, has been given a new lease of life after being rescued from destruction

Nadolig Llawen i fi! Merry Christmas to me!

I love Nick Sharratt books and this is absolutely brilliant!

Busy week. First, Kneecap in Manchester, and then last night I was mostly watching this:

#OnThisDay in 2003 🏉 Scarlets began their European campaign with a hard-fought 14-9 victory over Northampton. Man of the match Scott Quinnell scored the only try, with Stephen Jones adding nine points with the boot. 🗓️ 05/12/2003 🏆 Heineken Cup 🏟️ Stradey Park #ScarletsOTD

Reform UK Ltd. The People’s Party. The party that speaks to the ‘regular man in the street’. Here’s September’s image from the new CWS/John Heartfield calendar, featuring those ‘regular man in the street’ billionaire Reform donors. See link in pinned post.

Haha this is a fucking shambles www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/rugby/...

Given the marvellous job the directors are doing, who could begrudge them a 35% increase in benefits in one year!

Ahahahahaha, local business that recorded themselves sticking a load of Union Jacks to lampposts all about town are currently pissing and moaning about finally Finding Out.

"No, don't leave the pyramid scheme, won't someone think of the billionaires!"

You must read @carolecadwalla.bsky.social on the latest “too big to fail” stock market shattering statements of the Tech Bros. Alex Karp and Sam Altman in full head wagging denial mode should tell you all you need to know about the reckoning to come broligarchy.substack.com/p/peter-thie...

Dermatologists criticise ‘dystopian’ skincare products aimed at children

Hi. Could at least 40 people buy a Life of Sharks 2026 Calendar? For a project I’m working on* thelifeofsharks.com *my overdraft

The actual Department of US Homeland Security. Incredible.

Israelis attacked Palestinian water sources over 250 times in five years, data reveals

The Carnegies are introducing an age-inclusive longlist shadowing offer, so reading groups of all ages can join in. This will run alongside our regular shortlist shadowing, giving even more ways to take part — full details coming soon!

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

A NEW CHRISTMAS THING! The Big Green Books Advent Calendar! Choose from 4, 6 or 12 books. Your chance to unwrap a new surprise book every few days in the run up to Christmas. The books will be chosen based on what you enjoy reading. More info HERE www.biggreenbookshop.com/simon-likes-...

Map of Wales according to the WRU.

Poster can be downloaded from my website www.spellingmistakescostlives.com/single-post/...

@joelakerry1981.bsky.social Hi, are you still a CILIP Chartership mentor?

US prosecutors keep charging women with ‘pregnancy-related crimes’ | Arwa Mahdawi

🔴NEW🔴 Thread 🧵 @bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

🔴How Western Media Whitewashed Israel’s Mass-Abduction of Activists Over 450 members of the aid flotilla to Gaza are now being held by Israel in an “anti-terror” prison in the Negev desert, reports @mathildamall.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/10/04/h...

Mae rhanbarth rygbi y Scarlets werth £17.3m i'r economi leol medd Cyngor Sir Gâr

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