One lesson of the last week is it's a bad idea to tell the FT politics team to fuck off.

Ship of Feeshus

What contractor is going to waste time submitting business plans and costings and planning permissions to Burnham now? He should just resign

"return"! Jesus Andy "continue" was right there

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Bloody immigrunts coming ere paying for our ant-globalisation amti-immigrant politicians to go to the world's biggest globalisation conference

He's more scared of Burnham than we thought. (sorry!)

"You can say yes and we will be very appreciative or you can say no and we will remember."

Which areas is Russia demanding as its price for peace in Ukraine? – visual explainer

"iceberg sir, dead ahead." "How long till we hit it?" "About 12 hours sir". "Can we turn around in 12 hours?" "I should bleedin coco sir"

Slightly disappointed they couldn't find a garden centre for that board of peace announcement. Oh Rudy where art thou

Trump causes market turmoil as FTSE heads for levels not seen since (checks notes) last Thursday lunchtime

Jenrick looks like he's draining the life force from Farridge with some Sith magic

Second amendment in action

Disappointed that el pais is parrotting this rubbish when the plan is clearly: destabilise, loot, walk away.

2% man, 47% steel, 51% charm

I'm old enough to remember when Ukraine had to deny attacking Putin's residence last week

He’s been. I’d give it ten minutes if I were you.

BREAKING TRAVEL NEWS: Anyone going to the Feast of Stephen this evening should be aware that the Snowlay Roundabout has been closed.

Mate

'So this is Christmas. And what have we done? The Ashes is over. With two Tests still to come.' By @barneyronay.bsky.social

Ikr

Just seen Ickle Tommy Ten Names referred to as "Ewok Powell" Tremendous

He's emerging from the wings and entering his pulpit phase amidoingitrite

Dick van Dyke is thinking about following suit

From Berkshire. Verb sap.

Two (2!) massive legends for the price of one. Happy birthday to centenarian ledge and honorary cockney Dick van Dyke, courtesy of my very distinguished old mucker Xan Brooks. Fill yer boots ! www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...

From your establishment centrist antipopulist perspective you're blinded to the commonality of them both being massive know-nothing blowhard bellends

You will be visited by three spirits

I have a joke about Prometheus but its tough to deliver

I have a joke about Icarus, but I don't think it will fly

Maybe underestimates the potential for Rosdef to be a big player when it has access to Ukraine's resources and western Europe's subject populations

He's making a list He's checking it twice He's going to decide who's naughty or nice Great idea to separate out the naughty and nice would you like me to format the two lists as a CSV with a column for naughty and nice or would it be more helpful to have two separate files? Just let me know!

“And then they made him a fake trophy because he kept whining and moaning and wouldn’t STFU.”

Is it ... a little bit ... goatse?

Geography is important. In _West_ Virginia this wouldn't be news www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

In praise of midweek league games open.substack.com/pub/prwoods/...

He wasn't actually due to resign until an hour later

Unpopular view locally, but ... Cmon north London team

Can thoroughly recommend The Lion King 1 1/5 for Stoppard fans. RIP

I know this one! Is it "the Russians going home"?

I'd better keep this packing note in case I need to return this after Christmas. The best bit is there was only one CjbrhuuijN pl b!F yqsf t t etc

I'm proposing a new tax on the word "raid" in tax-related news stories. I think it could raise several billion a year

Praise where praise is due: scrapping the two-child benefit cap is an excellent move. And the most consequential of any of the measures announced today.

And yet there's no Ukraine Action. Maybe the Palestine Action people weren't keeping up. Or maybe they had other motivations

It feels suddenly like only one person can save Ukraine and that is ... the mayor of New York