This is a truly horrifying account of increasingly likely collapse of essential natural systems which would bring mass food shortages, price rises & global disorder. Commissioned from UK intelligence chiefs but scandalously suppressed by Govt, & sneaked out now while attention is elsewhere 👇

Carney speech is important for the specific people in that room because most of them are definitely still flirting with “we just have to knuckle this out until a normal president is in“ and he is trying to communicate that that is insufficient

The S&P 500 has been falling ever since he started talking

bsky.app/profile/dunc... (Maybe a bit UK specific, that one)

How can anyone with any sense of what constitutes even basic functionality as far as a political leader goes listen to this dismal, unintelligible drivel and think this constitutes political genius? How can you lower yourself to follow this inanity?

Appeasement hasn’t worked. It's time to stand firm with our European allies.

Without provocation or justification, the President of the United States is attacking our economy, our livelihoods and our national security. 

He has put British businesses and jobs on the frontline in his unprovoked war.

 The Prime Minister must stand up to him like he would any other bully.

This speech is excruciating. Watching how chronically the mental health of Trump has declined, a sadness is that he simply won't understand what's happening when history and justice finally catches up with him.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com One year ago, President Trump took an oath to serve the American people. Instead, he used the presidency to enrich himself, the @nytimes editorial board writes. This is how Trump has pocketed at least $1.4 billion.

Btw, a lesson Canada should draw from Ukraine's experience is that the ability of the aggressor to create a "separatist movement" out of thin air by promoting and arming completely marginal losers should never be underestimated. When Ru jump started protests in Ukraine's east in spring 2014, ....

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“A source in US intelligence said the Trump’s actions were “alliance-breaking moves which could thoroughly alter the global order for decades to come”.

A UK intelligence source called the degradation of ties between the White House and its allies “unprecedented” and warned that the “individual political turmoil” caused by Trump would affect intelligence relationships. apple.news/AlHU-m2vLQfa...

Robert Jenrick repeatedly and deliberately mispronounces Kemi Badenoch's family name, and when questioned says "If you think this is important, you need your head checking". Migrants and ethnic minorities have heard this for years - it is a coded message we don't fit in. Coded xenophobia and racism.

Neither America nor the rest of the world is prepared for how the dismantling of Pax Americana by Trump will eventually impact American soft power in culture and entertainment. A lot of things will change.

It’s really too bad that Trump’s cabinet are all spineless worms or equally crazy because “the President has gone insane and is going to destroy the transatlantic alliance because they didn’t give him a Nobel Peace Prize” is kind of exactly the thing we have a 25th Amendment for

The big mistake of that statement is that it was targeted at morons: at the 'never here Keir' people and the 'why not do a Love Actually?' people. Did absolutely nothing to prepare ground for 'this is what defending the High North *actually means*' or 'why we should all get password managers'.

I occasionally think of the completely unhinged response to David Cameron's comments during the EU referendum about how the prevailing European security architecture shouldn't be taken for granted.

I trust Paul to have sourced this (but not of course Russia to tell the truth). If so… this is devilish. And Tony Blair should pull out and say why.

Stanley exemplifies everything that is wrong with British media and public life.

With only 121 Conservative MPs elected in July 2024, 3 Kruger (Sept 2025), Jenrick + Rosindell (Jan 2026) leaving for Reform are 2.5% of the parliamentary Conservative Party. Another MP (Patrick Spencer) is currently suspended from Tory whip after sexual assault charges: he has pleaded not guilty.

Gosh, appeasing a politician who has spent his business career creating and exploiting leverage and reneging on deals on a whim did not work. Who would have thought?

I’m genuinely quite taken aback. It’s a prime Reform seat of the kind you’d think they would be keen to give to, you know, a close ally of the leadership.

Even before Rosindell's move there already grumblings among some in Reform over the defection of "damaged goods" Zahawi... observer.co.uk/news/politic...

All aboard the Tory lifeboat!

Being pushed Restore Britain videos. Social media algorithms are designed to promote radicalisation and social fragmentation And we wonder why politics is so divided now Increasingly feels very Occam’s Razor. What super divisive for-profit tools didn’t exist before this populist turn? 🤔

Andrew Rosindell MP has announced tonight that he is leaving the Conservatives for Reform, taking Reform to 7 MPs (3 of the 5 elected as Reform in 2024 + 3 elected as Conservatives + 1 Reform by-election winner) with the Conservatives on 117.

As someone just said to me via WhatsApp, there’s mounting curiosity across Westminster as to just who Reform *wouldn’t* accept as a defector, at this stage.

Increasingly torn between thinking all this is good for Reform because it's cementing their position as the dominant right bloc party vs thinking it's good for the Tories because all the worst people are leaving.

Lol, lmao etc etc...

Mark Francois next? 🧐

BBC News - Andrew Rosindell quits Tories and defects to Reform UK www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This definitely won’t be at all awkward tomorrow. Though it’s possible that he might simply not have heard about anything that’s recently happened in the news.

'Traitors'; 'globalists'. We see you and we know what Reform UK are.

A lot of Reform supporters don't believe that their own policy is to expel pensioners, if the comments on my TikTok video are to be believed. 49,000 views so far....

It’s a real shame that Nigel Farage is too unwell to do interviews the morning after Donald Trump threatens us with sanctions. Here he is with “the bravest man he ever met”. He campaigned to make Trump President, and has spent the last year enjoying all the chaos he has caused.

Nearly 700k views, 4.2k likes! I just hope we are getting a good price for selling Canada to the Chinese!

How it started ... How it's going

every provocateur who wangs on all the time about Britain being “broken” should be sent to an actual failed state or autocracy for a month as a learning experience, there’s no shortage of them

Britain is one of the best places in recorded history to be born, live, work and grow old. Lots of room for improvement obviously but combat the pessimism, it’s the forerunner of fascism.

After having his defection ambushed, Robert Jenrick could have got onto front-foot by calling a by-election. He could dramatise his claims about a democratic shift in the right. He would have a more credible case about risk > personal ambition (I also think he would have won it pretty comfortably)

Of course it does www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The incoming Democratic governor of Virginia, Abigail Spanberger, has asked at least five members of the board overseeing the University of Virginia who were appointed by her Republican predecessor to resign, according to people briefed on the matter.

I’ve never understood why anti-vaxers distrust vaccines but were willing to let their immune systems fight what they believed to be a Chinese bio weapon.

Explain to me how this would happen. The fucking mechanics of it. Explain them to me. Russia or China, storming the beaches of an EU and NATO member state terrotiry which includes a fucking US military base on it in a take and hold maneuver a bazillion miles from their nearest supply lines?

What a ridiculous person Kemi Badenoch is. Her substantial critique of Reform is “then I wouldn’t be in charge”. How can someone be so egoistical that they don’t understand that this is not persuasive?

This reform councillor is just out to whip up racism and division - it disgusts me. I'm a Muslim AND a proud Londoner. A proper Londoner doesn’t tell people what they can or cannot wear! Who does she think she is? www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

Nice bit of LibDem trolling using this ad #wato

Any new platform being dominated by the far-right that could produce CSAM and other explicit material of women and children would not get anywhere near mainstream usage. Why does the government have to be dragged kicking and screaming into action on this?

Holy shit. Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.” www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...