This is how Chris Mason, like a child filled with wonder, described "the choreography and theatre that surrounds a Budget" in Feb 2024, when a male Tory Chancellor was in post. "Plans, or even just options, can be floated... Reaction to them can be tested. Opponents can be teased or wrongfooted." 👀

This amazing photo from Julia Demaree Nikhinson from @apnews.com proves that it really did say Pete Hegseth SSecretary of War on his name card as he sat next to Dozy Don newsroom.ap.org/editorial-ph...

And the Overton Window moves again!

Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.

🔴The Reform-Backed Far-Right Street Patrols Coming to British School Gates EXCLUSIVE: Nationalist vigilante groups, with links to Neo-Nazis and support of Reform figures, have been falsely claiming police backing while attempting to infiltrate local school networks bylinetimes.com/2025/12/02/t...

“We literally have a whites only refugee policy and we are proud of it - was that 14 words?”

Stewart Lee on Nigel Farage 👏👏

I was today years old when I found out that Elvis has never sung ‘Lonely This Christmas’ It always and has ever has been sung by Mud. #TOTP

Not sure which algorithms I’ve veered into, but is anyone else’s Facebook feed full of posts moaning about the ‘mansion tax’?. ‘Yeah, lets take the money off the disabled instead!’ FFS

“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan

Re: EV charge/mile. Questions about if you are driving across Europe you’re not using UK roads “its not fair”. Same thing happens at the moment with petrol cars - you fill up at Dover & pay UK roads charge, then drive some way across France on EU roads. #SwingsAndRoundabouts Stop moaning #r4today

🚨ICYMI🚨 @iandunt.bsky.social & @dorianlynskey.bsky.social discuss Zohran Mamdani, Zack Polanski, Curtis Yarvin and James Orr & more in this special edited version of Origin Story Live at the Tabernacle in London on Thursday 13 November. Listen now 👉 linktr.ee/originstoryp... #politics #originstory

Bob Carolgees and Charlie The Monkey told you about the Green Cross Code in 1980

Just now.

The OBR right now “We pressed SEND by mistake.” #Budget2025 #OBR #RachelFromAccounts

Quality👇

“Take their money, not mine” is what most people think

#Radiohead #O2

If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch. We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Someone really needs to explain the Striesand Effect to the BBC. And also tell them to stop being so pathetic.

Is it Budget Day yet? No, of course not. But it is Radiohead Day in our house. Day trip to London from the South Coast!!!

Just full-on classic 15th-20th century white Christian nationalist colonialism on full display. Your children must die overseas to boost oil company profits.

“Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils in School?” Nigel Farage “No. Not with intent.” At last, journalists are testing Farage and HE IS RATTLED! All you have yo do is say his own words back to him!

In 2013, Farage told Michael Crick he was a "troublemaker" who "wound people up". "“I did say things that would offend deeply ... I made arguments against [English teachers], that I didn’t necessarily believe in". He says this was just support for Enoch Powell - in 1981 - not for further right views

X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand. The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.

Oooo this is so simple and darn right clever!

And again…. Wordle 1,618 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Look at this graph of membership of the Green Party over time 👀👇

Running my first ever 10k race today by the sea. The forecast is wet and windy. Bring on the hot chocolate!

Analysis of the language used in Trump’s Ukraine “peace plan” shows it was drafted in Russian and translated into English. I’ll try to dig up a link.

Wordle 1,616 4/6 ⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Two days in a row!

Wordle 1,615 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Bloody hell. The Royal Family are getting completely out of hand. How did the 13 year old next-in-line to the throne get hold of an explosive anyway? 👇

Next in my occasional thread of people taking photos of mirrors, or in this case an oven to give away. Trying hard to not get their reflection in the photo but failing miserably and posting it anyway! @sellingamirror.bsky.social

"Have you guys ever been in so much trouble you had to win the presidency?" 😂 ... great line!

Good Morning Scotland! #SCODEN #WorldCupFinals

Scotland are going to the World Cup Finals! #SCODEN

Magic magic magic magic!

Magic!

Going to leave you with a Home Office chart from their most recent asylum stats so you can decide whether the UK is a magnet for asylum seekers with a uniquely generous asylum system www.gov.uk/government/s...

A Government of cowards. Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution. They can't get away with this. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Great pick me up this morning. The way the blue guy celebrates the ‘knock out’ 😂🤣😂

These certainly aren’t the headlines I voted for. Well done Labour for keeping immigration in the headlines for 67 straight weeks. Doing Reform’s work for them 😡!

Even if this policy miraculously deters some from coming, think of all the extra £££ this policy will cost for those already here!

"China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels. This trend will continue simply because renewables are cheap." @theeconomistnews.bsky.social

Sleepy Joe Trump

“Someone released some files, son.”

NEW The letter the BBC could send back to Trump A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim By me. Enjoy. emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...