Apparently Howard Lutnick is often misspelled as Nutlick.

When did Christians start celebrating Christmas? Constantine may have settled on 25th December himself. It's the sort of thing he did, and he wasn't someone you made a habit of disagreeing with.

Trump says that America is powerful enough to game international markets. Conway says that it isn't. I'm with Conway on this one. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtLX...

What would Trump do if Venezuela declares a 100-mile exclusion zone for its territorial waters, and starts deploying drones from an unspecified source?

Trump's piracy is bringing America to the brink of war with China. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vit...

China produces 1.5 million engineers per year. The US produces 7.5 million MAGA voters per year.

Nigeria has ditched the dollar, and is now trading oil using the BRICS trading mechanism. Trump just found out and threatened them with war, but they just told him to fuck off.

Patrick van der Vorst is an immigrant, like me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEeo...

When Trump is buried, there won't be a tombstone, just a urinal.

A gun transforms a harmless individual into a dangerous one. In almost every case, the law favours the owner. So get yourself one with a hair trigger and chamber a round. Then you're good to go. You might not get back in one piece, but at least nobody's going to call you harmless. Who'd want that?

Donald Trump showed Americans how to hate people, and they were so grateful that they made him president. It was a wise choice. If they need someone to hate, they just listen to him. Yesterday it was Somalis, tomorrow who knows? He may be crap at everything else, but he sure knows how to hate.

Trump is turning America into a nation of pirates. news.sky.com/story/us-for...

Agricultural land in Northern Ireland is the most expensive in the UK, because we pay the owners huge subsidies. www.irishnews.com/opinion/bria...

Recently I've taken to running my Chromebook in split screen mode. A browser window and an Android app fit together quite nicely.

Chaim Herzog, the former Israeli president was raised in Dublin, and there is a park named after him. Moves to rename it are being strenuously resisted by Israel, much to the amusement of locals. Because nobody calls it Herzog Park, it's always Hedgehog Park.

Trump is completely out of control. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

In Mahayana Buddhism, a bodhisattva is a person who is able to reach nirvana but delays doing so through compassion for suffering beings. Does the same concept exist in Theravada Buddhism? Sort of. He is a monk who meddles in politics, in order to harm others. i.guim.co.uk/img/media/74...

Interesting article about Buddhist nationalism in Sri Lanka though it does not mention the Great Chronicle of Ceylon, which is where it all began. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...

Now we have an education minister who teachers refuse to work with, and a health minister that nobody trusts. Unfortunately, neither of them can be dismissed. Unionists are undermining the Assembly with their own incompetence. www.itv.com/news/utv/202...

This illustrates one of the many absurdities of the Northern Ireland assembly: he cannot do his job, but only the DUP can get rid of him. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Keir Starmer always looks as if he's attending a funeral, or a memorial service.

Loyalists in Belfast are celebrating the fact that a road has been renamed. For them, everything to do with the Boyne is sacred. www.irishnews.com/news/norther...

New IRA are a pain, they really are. www.irishnews.com/news/norther...

Formerly known as Prince. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

For Israel, a ceasefire just means that they kill hundreds of Palestinians a day, rather than thousands.

Only the DUP can dismiss Givan. but teachers refuse to work with him. www.irishnews.com/news/politic...

FIFA has prepared a consolation prize for Donald Trump www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

It's not a ceasefire if you keep breaking it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c8...

Wearing a poppy can be a political statement. www.irishnews.com/news/norther...

I was taught that yawning was caused by a high level of carbon dioxide in the blood, but that was 50 years ago. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... How the fuck does a kid called Mohammed end up at a Catholic School?

It's not often that I agree with a member of the DUP, but the appointment of Edwin Poots as speaker of the Northern Irish Assembly was inspired. www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/norther...

England has a lot of talented young chess players, all of them Asian. indianexpress.com/article/spor...

This is unnecessary. Reform voters don't read The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Let's get this right. Israel broke off the truce with Gaza, carried on bombing the crap out of it, and then resumed the ceasefire. Or is it just breaking off the war again?

The fact that Trump and his cronies have a bee in their bonnet about Antifa is a tacit acknowledgement that they are indeed fascists.

southwarknews.co.uk/area/waterlo... Miscarriages drive some women crazy.

Interesting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1ml...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... When I was an A&E consultant, I always treated sepsis as a priority.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... "...was suspended for criticising patients' English skills and asking a woman to remove her veil was active in late 2022". I feel sorry for this guy, but patients will always complain and the GMC tends to take their side.

www.wandsworthguardian.co.uk/news/nationa... I live in Wandsworth before I retired. Now I work part time on Google's Med-Gemini project.

Pine Martens are making a comeback in Northern Ireland. Their favourite food is grey squirrels, giving the native red squirrels a leg up too. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Police in the UK are recording more attacks by out-of-control dogs.

The Conservative party and Reform UK both want to punish Northern Ireland. They forget that our country was only forced into existence by hardline Protestants.

Americans have spent most of my life telling us how a country should be run. Now they're showing us.

Great. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Two people have died following an attack on a synagogue in Manchester. Today is Yom Kippur, the most holy day in the Jewish calendar. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx...

Telling the truth in America is an act of disloyalty.

So Andy Burnham wants to see the UK rejoin the EU in his lifetime. Well I can tell him that if Reform UK wins the next General Election, Northern Ireland will rejoin the EU very quickly indeed. Most Unionists would agree that Irish unification is preferable to the hard border proposed by Reform UK.