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Wife's office all set for the father-in-law. #duvetknowitschristmas

Having the Father Ted Xmas Special on xmas eve on prime-time RTE (Irish state) TV channel feels ultra-meta, only broken by wondering where the kids with Father Jack in the soft play area are now...

There's just one thing missing ... #DuvetKnowItsChristmas

Unbelievably, #DuvetKnowItsChristmas generates such good will on social media that over the years we've raised somewhere approaching a quarter of a million quid for homeless charities. If you can spare a bob or two, sling some to Centrepoint, and here's the link: www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...

I’m entering The Teenager as potential winner of #Duvetknowitschristmas He’s had to move from his bedroom to the unconverted attic Cardboard floor & headboard is a nice touch which I’m sure he appreciates He think it looks like he’s living in a meth den #DuvetKnowItsChristmas

Tomorrow evening it’ll be my annual duty to vaguely shepherd the activity on the #duvetknowitschristmas hashtag and urge people to give small sums to charity. 7.30pm? Something like that?

For some bizarre reason, some in Britain still don't think Putin is a threat I have written about looking at the world through Putin's eyes to understand how much he hates us, and if we don't, we are sitting ducks Merry Christmas @thenewworldmag.bsky.social www.thenewworld.co.uk/luke-mcgee-p...

This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.

Trump's in the Epstein files over 600 times.

Ukraine 🇺🇦 Greenland 🇬🇱

FAO @gymcastic.com

Ten years of failing to find a stable model for UK-EU relations. Worst Christmas movie ever.

Am I not allowed a day off from this nonsense? Or is this penance since I have obviously failed to get the message across to Westminster that there is a place called Brussels where experience suggests they just might have some views... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

UK political elite factions negotiate with each other as the EU gets on with other stuff pt 94

Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower

It's like watching a condom full of walnuts getting battered by a truck.

The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

Labour chairwoman Anna Turley: "The Reform leader's inaction shows he's willing to turn a blind eye to racism." https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/nigel-farage-faces-fresh-anger-36426882

Hostile experienced hacks would manipulate green SpAds, so they could run excitedly to X and report "OMG gov't said THIS" knowing full well that the full exchange would not support that meaning. So, No.10 has decided to make your questions public, as well as their answer. That's all. Suck it up.

What sits behind ALL this is the inescapable fact that a huge chunk of the lobby has been out to get this gov't from Day 1, not because of anything it did (this is no defence of a gov't that is doing lots wrong and deserves criticism), but because ONLY THEIR CHAPS have a right to be in office. Ever.

I know it. You know it. Robert knows it. Lewis knows it. Everyone knows it, but it is almost never verbalised. Actively working to see what pathetic angle you can use to bring down the Chancellor, by investigating her teen Chess tournament record, is NOT journalism. It is borderline psychosis.

Entertaining as this spat is, it contains not-a-flicker of recognition as to WHY this might be happening. For 16 months, a tax-exile-oligarch-owned, mostly right-wing press, has abused the privilege of these exclusive private sessions, to misrepresent the gov't on every issue. This is the FO stage.

Ah I see what you mean. An obvious mistake when one sees so called political correspondents behaving like influencers on a daily basis.

This is the next step to revoking citizenship from anyone they please.

Because our politics is in such a terrible place, I think we downplay quite how awful Kemi Badenoch has been. In any other era the leader of the Conservatives saying 'only migrants commit sex crimes - mass deportations now' would have not just been career ending but would've sunk the whole party

🚨🚨This is excellent praise for European leaders and they should be proud of their achievements in this regard: www.politico.eu/article/russ...

Britain could have joined Erasmus five years ago; an agreement on funding was completed between negotiators but vetoed “at the very last minute” by Boris Johnson. From Stefaan de Rynck’s book

Trump is sueing the BBC for defamation. ‘Defamation’ (legally) needs to show that an ordinary person would think worse of the claimant as a result of the statement. ‘Think worse’ Consider this …

”Can the BBC countersue Trump?” A number of people are understandably asking this question. And there are two answers. >

NOW OUTSIDE PAYWALL A guided tour of President Trump's 33-page, $5 billion lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Corporation How some parts are strong, some parts are weak - and why a strict legalistic analysis will not tell the whole story. emptycity.substack.com/p/a-guided-t... By me

NEW: President Trump is expanding the previous 19-country travel ban to a whopping 39 countries (plus the Palestinian Authority), and appears to expand a block on legal immigration to now include spouses, children, and parents of U.S. citizens, who were previously exempted.

Way to kill your entire fucking brand, wow

A huge huge THANK YOU to the nearly 400 @quietriotpod.bsky.social listeners who helped buy gifts for children who will otherwise go without. You’re all gorgeous and amazing 🤩

I mean, did anyone genuinely believe this "deal" in the first place?!

The US has suspended the technology deal with the UK that was signed during Donald Trump's state visit www.ft.com/content/afd4...

Laura Ingraham has a peak time show on Fox News and over 5 million followers on X. Those things are not a sign of being bright enough to do some common sense research before tweeting

These are the guys who keep waving the English flag and claiming to be patriots. Yet they’d side with their country’s enemy, Russia, in a war

This thread is wild. Harry Cole is editor-at-large at The Sun. He is platforming extremism here, and leaving outright racism almost entirely unchallenged. Cole remains a member of parliament's Press Gallery (despite now being based in the US)

No, the PM cannot respond to every batshit racist comment going. Yes, the PM can, should and must, respond to batshit racist comments made mainstream, reinforced by national media, and from, in these terms, fairly high profile individuals.

⚡️Update: Ukrainian immigrant, Holocaust survivor killed in Australia terror attack. Alexander Kleytman, a Holocaust survivor who immigrated to Australia from Ukraine with his wife Larisa, was one of 16 killed in a mass shooting targeting the Jewish community in Sydney on Dec. 14.

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

Not easy to get to sleep tonight - have burnt the bridge of whatever career I had left and really don’t feel that my opinions are so extreme that that should have been necessary

Is the tide turning? New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog. Renewed talk of a customs union may well come to nothing, but rapidly changing geo-politics mean the UK needs urgently to face up to the failure of the entire Brexit ‘strategy’: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/12/is-t...

that drunk raccoon being behind multiple break-ins makes him my Time person of the year www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#GVerse Um. WTF??? Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy: "Pilots need to stop depending on air traffic controllers. They need to suck it up and go with their gut feelings." This is the stupidest and most dangerous administration in history.

What is going on at the BBC?