Brilliant article, debunking the first of (apparently 🤔) 75 Brexit "Benefits". If only Starmer's Labour government could be forced to read this, the fog in their collective stupidity may begin to clear 🙄

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 11 ‘Mam Tor’ Artist: SR Badmin

This evening’s Advent pick.

BREAKING: European Sleeper to launch Brussels/Amsterdam-Bern-Brig-Milan sleeper train from June 2026 (after launching Paris-Berlin in March). Press release: mcusercontent.com/5ffbd133c9ab...

Advent soundtrack for this evening.

“#SizewellC has got DCO approval to be built, but it doesn’t include these additional sea defences,” said @sayno2sizewellc.bsky.social. “That means they’ve never been assessed as to their environmental impact inc on RSPB #Minsmere or Sizewell hamlet.” #StopSizewellC hellorayo.co.uk/greatest-hit...

Asked repeatedly about Donald Trump calling Sadiq Khan "disgusting" and suggesting that he was only elected because of immigrants, Keir Starmer's spokesman says only that the PM has a "strong relationship" with the President which has "yielded positive results for this country"

Keir Starmer’s spokesman refuses to criticise Trump for calling Europe a group of “decaying” nations led by “weak” leaders Asked about Trump saying European countries will no longer be “viable" thanks to migration, Keir Starmer’s spokesman says the UK is “returning control to our asylum system”

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 9 ‘Evening Snow’ Artist: SR Badmin

🔴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...

'Research shows the UK has just 53% of its biodiversity intact, placing us in the bottom 10% of countries worldwide – and the lowest in the G7. This means that one in six species across Great Britain is now at risk of extinction.'- Sienna Somers, Friends of the Earth www.bigissue.com/opinion/uk-w...

The trial of six peace activists is proving just how determined the UK state is to hollow out the public’s civil, political and legal rights to justify its continuing support for Israel’s slaughter of Gaza’s children. Matthew Alford reads my latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-has...

via Occupy London

Brighten up your dark damp morning with these loveable mop tops. Happy heavenly Neil Innes. youtu.be/SEYEVOiV2G0

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 8 ‘Winter Farmyard’ Artist: Ronald Lampitt

A fine Christmas compilation, tonight’s Advent choice.

A few words on Anarchism, From David Graeber's 'Are You An Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You!' davidgraeber.org/articles/are...

Time for Chilly to take the Advent stage.

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar Window 7 ‘Frost’ Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

Preparing to make apple crumble and custard for lunch. Whaddya mean Starmer and Mahmood banned the making of it.🤣

Hunger strike in British jails and no one bats an eyelid. Please let’s get the word out. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/brit...

This evening’s Advent listen. Looks like someone has taken a nutcracker to the cd case 😂

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 5 ‘Snowstorm in a Pennine Valley’ Artist: SR Badmin

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 4 ‘Winter Village’ Artist: Ronald Lampitt

Would anyone like my ticket to tonight's Daphne Oram night at the Barbican from 7.30pm? Sadly I can't go; any reasonable offer fine, DM for details, thanks

David Bowie – Queen Bitch (The Old Grey Whistle Test, 1972) Hunky Dory (1971) Video of the Day

Tonight’s Advent choice had to be this one.RIP Steve Cropper.

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

Why juries matter Jury trials should not be deleted without properly funding other parts of the criminal justice system By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

A Thailand-based crypto investor has handed a record-breaking £9 million to Reform UK, shortly before Nigel Farage used media interviews to plug his crypto firm and promise lower taxes and deregulation on the industry bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...

RIP Steve Cropper 🙁 youtu.be/nbBcXvKvB08

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 3 ‘Baubles,’ 1964 Artist: Frank Hampson

Advent evening choice #3 a good compilation from a couple of years ago.

Even people who have concerns about sport or refuge spaces would do well to justify why trans women should be excluded from the Women’s Institute or Guides. Just cruelty and spite. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

You would think the alleged indiscretions of the schoolboy Nigel Farage would have drawn outrage from a just, impartial British media. Strangely, it seems they have not. This week’s column by Stewart Lee www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

‘No Nazis in Bradford’ 1972 by Don McCullin.

Close encounter of the Tuesday night fox kind

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 2 No one does bleak-but-beautiful-winter like artist Rowland Hilder

🔴 Boris Johnson and Alexander Lebedev Must Be Investigated in a New Public Inquiry into Russian Influence If you think the Gill conviction is bad, wait till you hear about another Leave campaigner and his connections to Putin’s inner circle… bylinetimes.com/2025/12/02/b...

This evening’s Advent listening.

NEW BLOGPOST Abolishing trial by jury: why is the government overlooking the obvious? thesecretbarrister.com/2025/12/02/a...

Our government tried to let racist, genocidal Israeli football hooligans rampage on Birmingham's streets. They smeared those opposed to this as being driven by hatred of Jewish people. Now listen to what the West Midlands Chief Constable told MPs. What a scandal.

Tufted puffins Erika-chan and Erio-kun a Lee mascots from Japan’s Northern Territories.

Remember: Juries are important not so much for the powers they have, but for the powers they prevent others from having.

Listening to David Lammy on @BBCr4today attempting to justify abolishing trial by jury, it is increasingly and terrifyingly clear that he simply does not understand the issues.

Really interesting study, looks like the water needs of carbon capture projects has been overlooked - in fact there’s no big picture in water at all, domestic supply is licensed and controlled, biz supply is a free for all. An analogue system in a digital world as Dieter Helm says. buff.ly/9izn6Pw

An Origami Samurai Made from a Single Sheet of Rice Paper, Without Any Cutting

'This is no longer a risk, it is an emergency,' explain climate experts to more than a thousand British MPs and civil society leaders. theecologist.org/2025/dec/01/...

A perfect soundtrack for those long December nights.