Superb.

The pervading idea that someone is morally better merely by the fact of them claiming to follow the same religion as you or even just believing in god, irrespective or *in spite* of their words and deeds, is what makes moderate religions complicit in giving their respective extremists cover.

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This message hits hard.

Trade is great for demagogues because depending on whether your team is in charge the same marginal increase can be either: "Beef Boost for Brits as Cheap Aussie Steak Sends Shoppers Smiling" or "Farmer's anger grows as Australian beef floods into Britain" Someone should write a book...

Forget the fact it's gluten-free, I am just genuinely impressed at the loaf-cutting skills on display!

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

President Trump announces details of his new Ukraine peace plan. Watch ‘An Evening with Private Eye 2025’ in full, on Private Eye’s YouTube channel now.

Jordan Peterson watches Muppet Christmas Carol

Merry Christmas to all. defector.com/what-did-we-...

'Twas the night before Christmas when all thro' the house, people were looking for the bastard scissors and calling the sellotape a sticky faced twat.

happy christmas everyone

He isn't "losing" this money. This is called "paying tax like a responsible citizen and not hiding your money offshore" and we need to start recognising and applauding it.

Raynor Winn’s new book: The Garden Path

Ouch, that #SpinelessSpeaker Johnson quote. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Donald Trump, or as he’s known these days, ██████ █████

Something tells us that we're going to be correcting a lot of people today... maryrose.org/discover/his...

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Good piece on the “AI Data Centres drink all your water” myth www.piratewires.com/p/andy-masle...

Tory MP Matt Vickers' car crash encounter with @lewisgoodall.com on #Brexit. LG: Do you accept you damaged the economy? MV: No. LG: Are you saying Brexit has been good for business? MV: It's created opportunities. LG: What about all the evidence? MV: You need to come up north. Huh? 😵‍💫 ~AA

Always amazed that some Telegraph writers spend their time educating us on damaging antisemitic tropes, while some (occasionally, even the same writers) obsessively accuse anyone who disagrees with them on anything of doing so because a secret global cabal headed by George Soros paid us. Like, WTAF?

Spare a thought this festive season for those who will be spending the Yuletide period all on their own, with no family to visit them. People like ‘A’, who will spend this Christmas without any of his titles. From the new Private Eye, out now.

If the Trump administration really wanted to put the Epstein Files somewhere absolutely no one could ever find them, they'd save them to OneDrive.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social, Tate is absolutely the fault of an immigrant because he himself is an immigrant, albeit an emigrant from the UK.

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Yep! I believe this is 100% true.

I don't think the MoD has a Bluesky account, so resharing its X post here about Lance Corporal George Hooley. "Before his passing, Lance Corporal Hooley wrote a letter to his family and friends to be opened in the event of his death. At their request, we now share his words with you."

For a while, I collected the worst jokes UK political correspondents ascribed to MPs, especially those sent via WhatsApp. Because I despise you, I'm migrating the thread here, starting with this absolute *shiter* from 2022, so we can share in the horror together. Please send me the worst you have.

The Trump administration hiring illegal Kenyan migrants in South Africa to process US refugee claims by Afrikaner farmers…the most on-brand move imaginable by Washington. t.co/bmBfRFQab8

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It's the last narrative episode before our big wrap-up finale on Monday. Gorbachev, Yeltsin, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the "end of history", as the epoch that began in 1917 comes to a crashing halt. How did it all come about and was a reformed USSR ever really possible?

It's Christmas jumper day today. I'm walking my little ones (dressed in festive attire) to school. We've just passed a Muslim woman in a headscarf taking her son to school and he was wearing a Santa hat. This is the country I know and love.

We are failing our kids

One of the biggest moments of my career: USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!

good morning holy shit www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...

Ha ha ha

Sound on!

"They've made the school nativity play WOKE 😡😡" Colin from Portsmouth.

Sounds about right.

Excellent summary. However, the bit about Noah Smith only applies up until we get to the relevant verse of the Niemöller poem.

Self-declared Free Speech Capital of the World Deeply Concerned about European Censorship proposes pre-screening tweets for wrongthink as part of the ESTA application process. Cool. Cool cool cool.

Yet more “give them what they want so they don’t get what they want!” How in the world are people not seeing what’s happening here? Jenrick, Farage, Lowe and every other right winger is absolutely going to be celebrating this.

Australian Values #auspol #Australia

Can't remember who said it, but the way to understand this is to realise that he thinks his orders are legal, regardless what any jurists have to say on the matter. The Trump view is that he was elected President and therefore it follows that anything he does is legal.

Hello, friends! I'm preparing a warning document about gen AI for my students next semester. If you have any SPECIFIC examples here of AI lying, making up sources, etc, drop them so I can include them as evidence of why students shouldn't use AI. Bonus if they come from Claude.

Reminds me of a teacher colleague who absolutely hated the font. One day, While searching for something on the school network, I find a copy of the behaviour policy that was pinned up next to his head in the break room. I converted the whole A3 document into Comic Sans and replaced his original...