From the @wsj.com chief foreign correspondent

Nothing would make Putin happier than having Trump destroy the US-EU relationship and having the US ditch NATO. That's his Christmas list of idea outcomes.

This Zara Sultana from YourParty is nuts. She has no idea about anything that isn’t 1950’s pacifist tripe. Equalising the end of war in Ukraine as both sides problems and blaming all of us for supporting arms manufacturers and that’s all it’s about now? Utterly pathetic.

The US National Security Strategy reviews are coming in...

Once again, we see the UK far right importing the stategies and language wholesale from the US far right - in this case it sticks out like a sore thumb because people barely go to church in the UK, never mind do Christian extremism shouting "Christ is king". It's almost as if it's all co-ordinated.

More bad news for #NigelFarage. Yesterday, I saw a terrific show at a #london West End theatre (Operation Mincemeat) and on my way home encountered this scene in Great Queen Street. It was after dark, Nigel! The streets were packed! You would have hated it!. #truelondon

I would say this because I edited it but @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social's piece on tech bros founding their own for-profit cities really is unmissable reading www.ft.com/content/b127...

As Trump and Infantino work the red carpet, bragging about setting records for ticket prices. (video below) Lets break down what “record prices" really mean for football fans and host countries. An important thread. 1/10

Helen Whatley lies. Millions aren't on Motability. ADHD doesn't qualify. It's not an extra. It's individuals using mobility part of PIP benefit etc. Beware unintended consequences - Tory policy will collapse new car sales and destroy car industry causing unemployment. #bbclaurak

Sultana: Obviously we don't have policies yet. And she and #BBCLauraK plough through a wide policy vista. And I am not at all nostalgic about her moronic war analysis.

I know Motability and benefits for minor health issues are culture war themes because my elderly mother keeps whanging on about them with no facts to back up her assertions - Whateley is knowingly playing on that. #bbclaurak

Even Kuenseberg in her intro thinks this is BS, but lets listen to intern-level MP, Helen. #bbclaurak

Kuennsberg basic working premise is that nothing can be done by government on any issue - forever. #bbclaurak

Very well said and done Emily Thornberry! Couldn't agree more with her with what she says in this video!

Musk, Medvedev and the Long War on Europe Dmitry Medvedev joining Elon Musk in a call for the abolition of the EU captures fifteen years of Kremlin information warfare since Ukraine’s EU Maidan, and encapsulates the story of Trojan Horses pdjukes.substack.com/p/musk-medve...

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

Watch out Europe, Trump is coming for your elections next MAGA’s mission to meddle in European politics should terrify Starmer, Macron and Merz. Will any of them fight back?

Elon Musk is a global enemy to democracy.

The Trump administration acts less like a presidential administration and more like a royal family in medieval Europe — a kind of American “neoroyalism,” Joshua Keating tells Vox.“Signs of neoroyal...

It’s weird that news organizations like the BBC are covering this as if it’s a real thing with a real process behind it—and not clearly some nakedly invented “participation trophy” by a corrupt organization to curry favor with a corrupt and easily manipulated man-child. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

☠️ The Economist: Russia lost 1% of its pre-war male population in Ukraine. In total, Russian losses in dead and wounded amounted to between 1 million and 1.35 million soldiers. Over the past three years, Russia has been able to occupy an additional 1.45% of Ukrainian territory.

So Hungary blocking one option and Belgium the other.

‘Ranting in a shoebox on the internet, like the first person to die in a disaster film. It’d be tragic if it wasn’t so deeply stupid.’

We just accept it because it’s always been this way but ‘Ringo Starr’ is a bonkers thing to call yourself when the other guys are John, Paul, and George. It’s like having a band where everyone else uses their real name and then the drummer goes yes please call me Crackers Creamsworth

Remember: Trump or Russian propagandists might say otherwise, but Putin is not winning, and the Ukrainians are not losing.

This "Driving test touts" story is a challenge to government. If this government can't sort out a problem which has built up during the last "14 years", they and we are in big trouble. Maybe the first vertebra in a backbone? #R4Today

“This is, quite straightforwardly, a program for regime change in Europe, aimed at turning it into an illiberal polity.“ open.substack.com/pub/programm...

After much consideration, I've decided that the problem with Liz Truss's new YouTube venture is Liz Truss. She's got the charisma of a bin liner and speaks like a droning spin dryer on a quiet cycle. youtu.be/u5C4fHVzZu4?...

The sensible money would be on Reform UK Ltd having peaked too soon, they can’t operate local government & Fromage is clearly a massive dirty racist. But I have little doubt that millions of boneheads will ride to his rescue at the locals/regionals next year 🤪🔥

„An U.S. administration that is tip to toe corrupted by Arab money intends to lecture us Europeans on the defence of Christianity. This is the most ridiculous foreign policy document I ever read. And I read many of those.“ Prof.Dr.Gustav Gressel, 🇦🇹 defense expert www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

"Populist" may sound like an insult to arrogant anti-populists but it is a gift to the far right It was the far right itself that forced it back into common parlance. Incredible to still see it used as if it was useful in either analysis or fighting it... theconversation.com/the-word-pop...

The lack of transparency over FIFA’s dealing with Trump is staggering. @thepitchinspection.bsky.social asked FIFA repeatedly about its “peace prize” selection process - we were ignored. 🤦🏻‍♂️ We also asked repeatedly about FIFA’s new office in Trump Tower - we were ignored🤦🏻‍♂️ Plus much more in here ⤵️

Who will be the first politician with the cajones to say what is blindingly obvious: the US is now an enemy of the UK and Europe with an explicit agenda to undermine its democratic values, with Farage & co as its quislings? My money on @zackpolanski.bsky.social . www.ft.com/content/27e8...

It’s really simple… - Cap all political donations - Ban foreign donations - Strict conflict‑of‑interest & anti‑corruption laws with penalties - No titles, honours or peerages for donors - No govt contracts for donors - Publish every donation/lobby meeting …that’ll do it.

I rest my case, with added Gove. #r4today

Guto Hari sold us an authentic arsehole. #r4today

Justin's on the take from American Fascists? #r4today

We have become a profoundly ridiculous country. This makes the Nero-era look sane and normal.

Bannon Comes Clean and Reveals His Alliance with Putin’s Fake Holy Russia The cat is out of the bag. Now Bannon’s proximity to Epstein and his plans for European subversion are exposed, he doubles down on his support for Putin and Dugin open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...

The Trump regime released its 2025 National Security Strategy—which appears to have been co-authored by the PayPal Mafia and Aleksandr Dugin. It is a plan to break America away from the world, break the will of the people, and benefit Vladimir Putin. www.mind-war.com/p/national-i...

Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now. paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...

I think we all know why the BBC pulled the 1975 Christmas #totp special tonight.

I've said this before but left-of-center bullying takes the form of "we're special and you're not allowed to sit with us" while right-of-center bullying takes the form of "we're normal and you're not allowed to sit with us"

The CEO of Palantir.

The European “patriotic” parties the Trump administration seeks to encourage are exactly those far-right parties which the Kremlin has so amply funded and supported for the last decade open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...

What an obsequious, toadying, servile, brown-nosing, corrupt little cunt Gianni Infantino is. The FIFA 'peace prize' is the most cringe-worthy, pathetic thing I've ever seen in my life. Football deserves better than this travesty of a ceremony and ruling body.

This wildly tacky World Cup draw is a grimly fascinating preview of what happens if the aesthetics of fascism finally get their way.

this shit is just beyond parody, man

If Gianni can't guarantee Team Trump USA don't walk off with the real World Cup as well next summer, this happens. #worldcupdraw

Trump's weekend diary: Friday: pick up Peace Prize Saturday: Declare war on Venezuela Sunday: golf #worldcupdraw