Brexit’s natural home is the Museum of Failure.

God bless us everyone ❤️ from Tiny Tim.

⚰️ Of course a great many of them won’t be able to do that on account of now being long dead.

🔴‘The Trump Administration Must Abandon Its Delusions About Destroying the EU’ The European Union is far stronger and more united than those inside the Trumpian echo chamber have fooled themselves into believing, argues @alexhh.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/12/12/t...

Politics abhors a vacuum.

🎈 Well, the replies to this show a lead balloon would go down better than Trevor Phillips as chair of the BBC…

Fair comment.

Trevor Phillips expected to be next chair of the BBC. subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/81/m...

The right move. Young people's dreams shouldn't be limited by borders or bureaucracy.

These were rather wonderful awards. I went to the judging session for New Journalist ready to dig my heels in if Malak A Tantesh - reporting so bravely from Gaza - didn’t get it. In the event, I found fellow judges felt equally strongly about it and it was a very swift unanimous decision.

A privilege to present the New Journalist of the Year award to Malak A Tantesh, whose courage reporting on the reality of Gaza shames so many ‘journalists’ who put out the official Israeli version from the comfort of their offices in London. A unanimous decision by the judges. @pressgazette.co.uk

Brexit.

🔴Elon Musk Has Made X a Threat to Democracy and His War on the EU Proves It Caroline Orr Bueno reports on how the billionaire X owner has turned Twitter into a tool for foreign interference which monetises and weaponises a global network of disinformation bylinetimes.com/2025/12/08/e...

Ever wondered what a Russian asset would sound like?

Reform said they were ready to lead. Then their own flagship council collapsed under them. The story only gets worse… ⤵️ @eastangliabylines.co.uk @stephenmcnair.bsky.social

The Express is furious about this because the moment you show those who repeat anti-immigration rhetoric the real human stories their narrative collapses. The “immigrants” are people. Our friends, colleagues and family. And it’s this nation of neighbours that is what makes Britain great.

After so unctuously praising Trump for his ‘peace deal,’ it’s time Starmer plucked up the courage to talk about what has ensued.

An interesting paragraph in the FT tomorrow and tomorrow’s Daily Farage…

The broader point is do Farage’s racist supporters care he’s been shown to be a racist?

Congratulations to Sir Derek Jacobi for being shortlisted today for Best Actor in the 2026 BBC Audio Drama Awards for his unforgettable performance as Laurence Olivier in When Maggie Met Larry. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

A day to reflect on the wit and wisdom of Sir Tom Stoppard, not least in the line: ‘I’m with you on the free press, it’s the newspapers I can’t stand…’

Starmer’s tragedy is that he is drawn to failure and humiliation, embracing and nurturing the political mistakes of others in addition of course to making a great many of his own.

After praising Trump so publicly and unctuously for his ‘peace deal’ - and seeking to associate himself with it - Starmer should now feel morally obligated to talk about this.

Might the Telegraph now consider an apology to ‘the Brexit mutineers’ and consider what it is that constitutes patriotism?

🔥 The mood in Brexit-world is changing...

From this maelstrom of national self-harm, incompetence, tax dodging self interest, hypocrisy, corruption, treachery and unctuousness to dodgy foreign powers - to the extent of aiding and abetting genocide - something better has to emerge. Our last best hope is @greenparty.org.uk.

Take your choice. This is either ongoing misogyny or ongoing incompetence.

🚨The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy is now within touching distance of 80,000 signatures! LET’S KEEP GOING! If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Imagine this question being asked of any other president.

The most self-indulgent man on the planet. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Reform’s Nathan Gill should have got a lot longer than ten years. We are talking here about treason. William Joyce, ‘Lord Haw-Haw,’ was executed for it in 1946. It was only after the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 that it was no longer punishable by death.

This is a significant story and it’s sinister it isn’t getting more significant coverage elsewhere.

‘Trump must immediately delete these unhinged social media posts and recant his violent rhetoric before he gets someone killed.’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Johnson should be behind bars for mass murder.

X is so incensed about the state of the world it has rendered itself speechless today. A mercy.

Just heard someone shout “fuck off you fucking paki” on Tottenham Court Road. I was surprised at how frightened it made me feel. Can’t imagine how it felt to the person being shouted at. Well done, Labour. And a particularly special shout out to Mahmood. You’ve made shit a thousand times worse.

A Labour government saying this. A Labour government. Soon they’ll be checking to see if they have any gold fillings in their teeth.

There used to be a convention that presidents — and prime ministers, for that matter — didn’t sue, but the money-grasping Trump has no class. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

Succession much more interesting at the Daily Mail than the Murdoch empire… subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/80/m...

The budget has become a symbol of a government without a clue. What the Chancellor says later this month has to be more than a series of discussion points hoisted up and down the media flag pole on the basis of who, if anyone, salutes them. FT tomorrow.

Seldom if ever known a government so weak and rudderless that every dot and comma of the upcoming budget has had to be shaped and finalised by media reactions to endless Treasury leaks.

First Brexit .. now the BBC .. to be replaced by Farage and GB News .. what a grotesque shit show it all is 😩

Well, fine, let’s get rid of the BBC… but what, if anything, then replaces it? Murdoch? The same siren voices said ‘let’s get the EU out of our lives’ and now want nothing to do with international organisations and law. Easy to deploy the wrecking ball. So much harder to rebuild.

This is no time to attack the BBC. It’s a time to defend it.

The specifics don’t matter here. The point is it should not be a matter for Trump who runs the BBC. If Starmer had anything about him at all, he’d say something.

‘Gove described Agnew as a “hero” for the work he did. Agnew said the government did its best in the circumstances and said it was “bollocks” to suggest the VIP lane was a “heinous plan to enrich a few of our mates…”’ Why is it always Gove? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

🔴We Need to Talk About Michael Gove and Crony Covid Contracts Gove claims he had no “active role” in the procurement of Covid PPE during the pandemic, yet evidence suggests he was involved in multiple VIP deals worth over £1billion, reports Russell Scott www.bylinesupplement.com/p/we-need-to...

The Sociopath-In-Chief couldn't be bothered to even turn his head in the direction of a man in the midst of a medical emergency who collapsed in his office. Completely incapable of empathy, the EPSTEIN Files can't be released soon enough. 25/47

This is flagrant interference in our domestic affairs by a foreign power. We have the good grace not to talk about Fox News. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...