Dry January? In this global security situation?

Fascist scum getting uppity. Time to smash them down again, make them hide beneath the rocks they crawled out from.

"Jon Burnett studied a sample of court cases related to the riots. He found that the Conservative PM Rishi Sunak’s “stop the boats” slogan & the policy framework around it..“was repeatedly echoed (either by defendants or by broader mobilisations they were among)”" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

What ICE is doing on US streets looks terrifying, but don’t forget: it could happen anywhere | Nesrine Malik

Listening to a discussion about AI in university education with Amol Rajan & Prof Duncan Iveston on Radio 4 Today. Too short to get into the nuance of course, but an observation that copilot can do a literate review for you very quickly perfectly illustrates one of my main concerns with AI…1/1

#birdoftheday #winterlight

Morning!

Such judgement

Tax the Rich!! Give us back our public services.

“The first duty of a government is to keep its people safe… in today’s unpredictable world, that won’t be achieved by clinging to outdated ideas about security, or cowering at Trump’s feet in the hopes that he will protect us. Instead it means getting real about the threats facing us.” #dumpUSdebt

Palantir is working with ICE. Why the hell are we giving Palantir our NHS information. Palantir need to be banned from UK Goverment, just like the Swiss banned them from theirs.

Found this website this morning, useful as a starting point if you’re trying to boycott American goods and services, which we absolutely all should! https://www.goeuropean.org

It’s a BOGOF at the moment. Have a pop at Farage and get a go at Trump for free.

Morning! #birdoftheday #twoofakind

A real shame if this photo went viral again today.

Seeds were sown by stupid failure to reply in time to UEFA’s memo. Led to paralysis re transfers. Ebs & Guehi leaving, more games, injuries all foreseeable. We’d be fine if we’d bought 4 decent players in the summer. Board failure. Team of the 80s & Venables vibes. But… he won us the Cup 🦅 #cpfc

Week by week - Laura Kuenssberg is interviewing the party leaders. When I agreed to come on the show, I was told Nigel Farage was also doing it. He's now pulled out - and they've sent the deputy instead. The same Nigel Farage who's refusing to debate me. A pattern emerging...

Tariffs are a tax on the American people on imported goods. For example if Trump goes ahead with this then a Range Rover Evoque will cost an American 25% more. This will obviously affect sales in the US and impact JLR directly and likewise the UK economy. In other words tariffs are bad for everyone.

I doubt I will ever see a more inspired bit of upcycling.

Palantir was a warning sign. Keir Starmer choosing to hand our data and security to US tech companies is an outrageous failure of judgment. All in the name of "investment." What about national security?

Weekend timeline cleanse! A #Greek rhyton in the shape of a #dog's head. 🐕🐶 Vessels such as this were used in drinking parties. Since they didn't have a base, their contents had to be consumed before the vessel could be put down Dating ca. 475 BC. 📷 Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia 🏺

I don’t understand Glasner’s reaction tonight. He didn’t kick up a fuss about Guehi yesterday and seemed to accept the club has to do what’s best. Tonight he’s spat his dummy out. Smacks of wanting to go soon. Unedifying spectacle. Parish needs to speak 🦅 #cpfc

And we’re 12th 🦅 #cpfc

Something beautiful for the weekend! ✨ A rare rock crystal tool made by Neanderthals between 200,000 - 40,000 years ago. From a Mousterian level at the Merveilles rockshelter, Sergeac, Dordogne, France. 6 x 3.3 x 1.5 cm. Musée d’Archéologie Nationale, Saint-Germain-en-Laye 📷 by me #Archaeology

#birdoftheday #perfectperch

Morning! #caturday

Green Party calls for free bus passes for under-22s www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Books returned to the shelves upside down and back to front. Entire rows pushed to the back. Spines broken by casual browsers. Wet dogs leaning against paperbacks... All these moments will be lost in time like tears of a bookseller."

Robert Phillips, my dad, died OTD 1928-2020. He oversaw drilling at Stonehenge in 1958 to keep one of the stones upright and was given the core to keep. Everyone forgot about it – until he returned it in 2018 allowing Professor David Nash to discover the stones' original home and to date them. RIP

It is simply a lie to claim that the Conservative government (or any other UK government in recent history) oversaw 'an open borders experiment". No excuse for the PM or Reed repeating this lie or for media not describing it as such.

Imagine if OG went public a month ago. Given our form since then, people would have blamed it on lack of motivation from him and the players. Which wouldn’t have been true given fixture congestion and injuries. I think they waited to line someone else up. Penny for Johnson’s thoughts 🦅 #cpfc

Glasner gave us our best season ever. Forever grateful. The Board couldn’t or wouldn’t match his ambition. Will we fade away rest of the season or make it another glorious year? Palace til I die 🦅 #cpfc

"And we now have María on the line who would like to swap a Nobel Peace Prize for the presidency of Venezuela..."

Starmer keeps using this line, & it's bonkers. Most importantly, it's untrue: the party that ended Free Movement, ran the "hostile environment" & made Suella Braverman Home Sec did not run "an experiment in open borders". It's also politically mad. Voters who believe this will not vote for Starmer

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#birdoftheday Standing on the backs of giants

Morning!

Do not be surprised if in the first days of an incoming populist radical government there is an entire raft of statutory instruments and other measures prepared and ready to go, exploiting every gap in our constitutional arrangements.

Jenrick on Farage: "I don't think Nigel is the bloke you want to have running your kids' schools or running your local hospital or... trust your savings, your pension, your small business to." (Sept 2025) "I don't think he's a serious politician. I don't think he's got the answers." (Oct 2024)

Well fuck me backwards what a sight. I can't believe that was only an hour and fifteen. It felt like seven years. I hope you all enjoyed watching Robert Jenrick's soul leave his decaying fetid fucking human body.

The Reform pitch is increasingly “the last government was terrible, so we’ve hired everyone who was in it”.

It’ll be like the round table in Traitors 💚

Why A Vote For Reform UK Is A Vote For Russia | Carole Cadwalladr | Zack Polanski youtu.be/43m0LKNDz6M

Tonight's turret meeting will be pretty awkward

Jenrick to Farage

The state we are in. 16,600 people a year – 320 a week – in England die as a direct result of delays in accessing A&E care or a bed on a ward. Tory legacy but handing NHS services to corporations and private equity doesn't help. Money buys less. Fiscal rules, appeasing the rich costs lives.