Reform UK councillor Andrew Harrison's business was fined £40,000 for hiring an "illegal immigrant." Almost like these people are shameless, two faced hypocrites isn't it www.bbc.com/news/article...

They can’t accept that in an 81% majority white country, that crimes of all stripes are committed by said majority. In their world, vile crimes are the preserve of the other. Inconveniently, >40% of the doughty defenders of our ‘wimmin a gels’ arrested after Southport riots had DA/DV convictions.

Day 7. Here’s a song for all the lovers out there (watch to the end)

Three more British MEPs in Nigel Farage’s bloc now alleged to have “followed the script” given to Nathan Gill by an alleged Russian asset, according to prosecutors. At least eight UKIP and Brexit Party MPs were focus of efforts by Nathan Gill www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Then we have this - I call it The Delirium Desk - where Ms Truss does her opening and closing monologues, 90% of which are devoted to raving against the "bourgeoisie establishment". Against a backdrop which, if it were on a dropdown menu, would be called "Bourgeoisie Establishment Basic". 2/

She looks like she is announcing a military coup in a model village. Or a head teacher in a school classified by Ofsted as 'How the fuck are you still open?' telling the headgirl she is disappointed in her, when in fact she is talking to a Japanese Peace Lily called Kevin.

Every right-wing oligarch, podcaster, hack, Russian apologist, paid influencer, and bot has been activated in a coordinated manner to attack Europe after the EU fined Musk.

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

James Madison warned us about Trump:

Just a little reminder: Elon Musk is lying to you. He bends when asked to, and the fine X received from the EU has nothing to do with censorship. Musk simply refuses to follow laws and be transparent, and he gets a tiny fine for it

I see your Tim Tam Slam and I'll raise you by dropping a whole stroopwafle in a cup of coffee, fishing it out and eating it whole...just working on an apparatus

Shamina Begum must be held accountable for her actions when she was 15. Whereas I should not, because I was a mere child.

Pro move: put yourself at an advantage in conversation by saying: "Oh yes, we've met before!" every time you're introduced to a stranger, without explanation.

part of it is that they hate women, part of it is that they hate her specifically because they think she should want to fuck them, part of it is that all this shit is for the benefit of like 10K people on twitter who've all been legally prohibited from having unsupervised time with their children

Starting to suspect FIFA might not be an entirely reputable organisation.

Quote for today's negotiations: "The aggressor is always peace-loving; he would prefer to take over our country unopposed." Carl von Clausewitz in "On War," 1816-1830

Bonfire of the Dignities…

In a statement Mr Flashman said that if he had roasted small boys in front of an open fire it was never in a malicious or unkind way.

Marvelling at the range of involuntary noises “one” finds “oneself” emitting in middle age: *Standing up - dying manatee winched from mineshaft *Sitting down - air escaping from punctured pouffe *Bending over - concussed bison wrestled into sack *Sneezing - final roar of once-proud warrior race

Farage is currently "boycotting the BBC". Perhaps the BBC and every other reputable broadcaster should instead be boycotting Mr Farage

All food groups covered

Yay!

Incidentally, Trump putting the medal on himself was inadvertently one of the most honest things he's ever done.

🇵🇱 The Polish government announces to the US that it no longer gives a damn about them. And we admire their panache.

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Here is the whole Trump, Brexit, Russia story neatly summed up for you The battle started about Ukraine, now it’s about big tech monopoly power

"A Chinese hospital ship quietly docked in hurricane-hit Jamaica this week, projecting soft power into the heart of the Caribbean where a US armada is conducting a controversial anti-narcotics mission targeted at Venezuela."

Person who actually deserves a trophy is the artist who made the FIFA peace prize trophy look like everyone in the entire world holding their head in their hands out of secondhand embarrassment

Team Newsom social media game remains sharp

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD USE HYPHENS

I want to be the very best but I am very tired xox

Dear @iandunt.bsky.social. I took note of your comment in your latest email from your substack that Bluesky has "far too little silliness and far too few gags". This made me sad. So to cheer you up a bit, here is the kangaroo from the Kangol logo sucking its own knob.

Add a Christmas Angel to the top of the rotate reciprocate mechanism to make a charming festive project 🎅🪽🎄 www.robives.com/project/reci... #mechanism #christmas #angel #papercraft #paperengineering

And lastly (as I do have work to do), here's the greatest live music performance ever on British TV. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH3a...

The White House has launched a webpage to report "media bias" tips. It would be a pity if it were flooded with tips about every show on Fox News. www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

Finally someone says it.

Daisy Cooper, "In 2017 there was not a single asylum seeker that arrived on a boat" "Today we have 46,000 a year" "And do you know why?" "Brexit" "Pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage" *audience erupts in applause" #BBCQT

Occasionally, I read something and fall deeply in love, all over again, with the German language. Today's unbearably cute discovery is the colloquialism for toddler: "dreikäsehoch". Literally, "three-cheeses tall".

Reform UK Ltd. The People’s Party. The party that speaks to the ‘regular man in the street’. Here’s September’s image from the new CWS/John Heartfield calendar, featuring those ‘regular man in the street’ billionaire Reform donors. See link in pinned post.

So tell me again how Nigel Farage, who just took the largest ever political donation, from a Tory mega-donor, and another donation from the Viscountess wife of the non-dom owner of the Daily Mail, is planning to "take on the establishment"

Because, you see, buying influence is only a worry if a Labour peer donates a couple of "freebie" outfits to close friends. When a man, whose business is literally DARK MONEY, single-handedly rescues a near-bankrupt far-right party, leading in the polls, he's doing it because he believes in Nige.

Congrats everyone, we are officially at “circle back in the new year” o clock, we have survived the year, good work team

Tice on #r4today says that those reporting Farage’s schoolboy racism are talking “twaddle” and that “no one has done more for the Jewish community” than him and Nigel. Because they wanted the pro Palestine protests banned. Not so much pro-Jewish as anti-Muslim then. Just peddlers of hate.

At one level, yes its pretty galling seeing centrists & right-wingers mocking Polanski's lack of economic knowledge in those podcast clips, given that the ultimate legacy of their own economic traditions is a likely terminal climate catastrophe. But the point remains that he needs to do much better.

"It gives more power to a smaller number of people - 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘢 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘺." Is scrapping jury trials for crimes that carry a likely sentence of under 3 years the right move? @maitlis.bsky.social | @jonsopel1.bsky.social | @lewisgoodall.com

I spat out my tea hearing Nick Robinson on the #BBC’s #Today Programme accuse the leader of the #doctor’s union of political bias. Remind me again who was once president of the Oxford University Conservative Association. Another case of irony overload.

Glorious, from a pal on FB