This year I got my gf what every woman wants. Merry Christmas everyone

Having a normal Christmas morning

Getting that 'east midlands' look

RIP Keith Haring you'd have loved your artwork about the aids crisis appearing on socks in tk maxx for £4.50

Resisting the 'neoliberalism of the mind' by refusing to check my bank account balance

I want the IMF to restructure my soul

Ohhh my god have you written a state of the nation play? Shall we tell everyone? Shall we throw a party? Shall we invite Mike Leigh?

Desperate to make the 'midlands diet' into the latest high protein diet trend. Loads of red leicester and stilton, pork pies, pork crackling, balti

Agree with all of this, other than "the right will go 'pro-natalist" - I think what will happen is that much of the right will shift from 'blaming our ills on immigration' to 'blaming our ills on ethnic diversity', which is already happening to an extent.

Geniunely shocked by Noam Chomsky being so exposed to Epstein... Why?

The more moralistic you were over the past 5 years about boycotting things, the more likely it is that you are still posting on X daily.

Was talking to someone at a party the other night who refused to define their political views as either left wing or right wing. Absolutely compelling!

Why do I keep accidentally buying 'mum approved' foodstuffs

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

Absolutely baffling scenes on Temu

A new PNAS paper finds that polarization increased immediately after the invention of smartphones and the advent of social media, which both appeared around the same year, 2008. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

There were 2 Labour Cabinet Ministers last week on TalkTV Harry Cole slot which plans to invite back an overt racist who'd ban the Home Secretary, Lord Chancellor, Leader of the Opposition & Deputy Speaker from parliament & all blacks, Asians, Jews, Hindus, Muslims & Sikhs from the civil service!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Opposition party seeks regulatory alignment with EU.

Just read an opinion piece describing an ideology that cannot neatly be described as left wing or right wing but contains elements of both. I'm stunned that this is possible and eager to learn more, possibly via another opinion piece.

Starmer putting his eggs in ‘reform ECHR’ basket has shades of Cameron’s ‘renegotiate EU membership’, and may end the same way

Bombs on train tracks. Arson attacks on malls. Poisoned water supplies. These are just some of the recently foiled plots in Russia’s growing campaign of aggression across Europe. What was once a mere nuisance has escalated into a serious threat. An #FTEdit 🧵 on the new era of Russian sabotage 👇

Welcome to Britain, a country so short of dentists that an MP's 87-year-old mum pulled her teeth out with pliers. Also a country with thousands of foreign-qualified dentists who can’t work until they pass an exam so oversubscribed it’s like trying to book Glasto tickets. www.ft.com/content/f4e5...

British universities’ reliance on Chinese fees fuelling self-censorship, say academics on.ft.com/48YhMxh

Prompted by @morganj0nes.bsky.social I have carried out a quick review of Your Party's membership portal. Lets start with this option on the application form. Totally crazy to ask ppl to have to confirm their own payment interval (monthly or yearly) but also claiming you will collect back payments!

This will always and forever be the most on point and prescient thing that Fukuyama ever wrote.

that's cool, man, but have you tried the taste of a refreshing matcha latte

Trump's national security strategy is out and some of the Europe sections are shocking. "...the growing influence of patriotic European parties indeed gives cause for great optimism." www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

Real "only Nixon could go to china" moment this

Man, the Bluesky Wrapped 2025 is pretty brutal

Besides redundancies, Southend's town centre will now have several large buildings that are empty with no other viable tenants, its short term rental market will collapse and lots of businesses will miss the purchasing power of all those students! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Heat (1995) is a Christmas Movie

I think this is a mistake and it sums up what's wrong with accountability in the British state. Why does he take 'full responsibility'? Surely the person who actually *manages the OBR's website* should take some responsibility:

One easy pro-growth (pro-young people?) cost of living policy would be getting on and legalising private e-scooters to use on the roads.

God I hate how much Zach Goldsmith is living for doing a bit of acting in that PPB

YOU WANTED NET IMMIGRATION TO COME DOWN! THIS IS WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE!

If you want some good news this morning, I showed my three boys the PM doing the six/seven thing and now they have all stopped doing it.

Yep - the government is consistently failing to make the case as to why it is investing more in defence and how the changing geopolitical system plus that whole war going on means it is increasingly needed

Decay

EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg

'Ahead of the autumn budget on 26 November, Universities UK (UUK) has calculated that funding per student for teaching in 2025-26 is at 64 per cent of the level it was in 2015-16.' 1/3

When my wife left me it cured me of any fantasy that being "Left" was desirable

www.instagram.com/reel/DRRTZid... absolutely obsessed with the german foreign ministers incredible tiktok production values

Maybe this is one problem that can be traced back to Starmer - as a 60something relative poltiical novice he is not well equipped to understand this problem, and he surrounds himself with Blair era people who also built their mental models of politics in an earlier era. In which case, hard to fix.

I long for the sweet release of death

Another avoidable mess the Starmer government has ended up in. Incapable of showing solidarity with trans people, they've now ended up in Crazy Town with the transphobes with no easy way out.

Imagine getting blackmailed into being an informant as the result of a LinkedIn DM. I'd die from cringe www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

www.standard.co.uk/news/politic... Rare W

Imagine if we’d spent the year leading up to the budget talking about the NHS…