Today's column is on the relentless march of blithering idiocy, which includes denying climate science while your house is - literally in this case - burning down. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Hey Peter Jackson, this is what conservation of New Zealand's native birds looks like. Throw some money at eradicating invasive predators instead of your stupid moa de-extinction vanity project. www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2025...

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Precisely. 'The awarding of the prize came merely a week after activists aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla, attempting to penetrate Israel’s maritime blockade and deliver essential aid to Gaza, were illegally kidnapped in international waters by Israeli forces.' sussexbylines.co.uk/politics/hum...

Speaking of con artists, one party focused its last general election campaign on the single word 'change'. It still looks like austerity and financial/environmental deregulation to me. Solidarity, merry Christmas and happy holidays to everyone (except for lowlife IDF reservists).

Jon has deluded himself into the denial of the humanitarian atrocity just across the Channel, because we (white Europeans) are always the good guys, and have never wilfully caused anyone any harm. Perhaps Jon also believes in Santa Claus.

Yes. We're spending £476m on the militarisation of Calais - where babies are being tear gassed. The fact people are hearing this for the first time is exactly why I made it the subject of the Christmas Day message. We could be spending that money instead on a fair and managed migration system.

The climate crisis and other environmental issues are primarily a problem of economic inequality and concentrated power. A few people use more carbon for a jaunt on their private yachts than some countries in use in a year. theconversation.com/the-politics...

The government has flatly refused to engage with public pressure to end its complicity in genocide in Gaza or Sudan, and refused to consider wealth taxes. But some millionaire landowners drive some tractors around Westminster and they fold like a cheap deckchair. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Right wingers are always banging on about 'putting Christ back into Christmas'. But then if anyone starts talking about loving the strangers amongst us as we love ourselves, creating a more peaceful world or casting the money changers out of the temple, apparently that's doing Christmas all wrong.

Incidentally, there are parts of the countryside where dog walking should be banned too, but that's a separate conversation.

Apparently, Polanski is divisive because he champions the 99% against the 1%. These empty suits are clueless about basic political economy.* *Well, I say clueless, but they're often very well educated in the subject. They pretend to be clueless to disguise the fact that they side with the 1%.

It's about time. Labour are finally moving on their manifesto commitment to ban trail hunting. Now do driven grouse shooting.

To those in the US reflecting on Brown University – or however many shootings have happened since – here's what is meant to happen in response. Common sense tightening of regulations which, despite the whining of the gun lobby, are fairly uncontroversial. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

She is now openly supporting regime change as the US has begun an illegal naval blockade of Venezuela. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

This MP should check his party membership card, which clearly states that the *Labour* Party is a democratic socialist party. You're literally supposed to be the 'lefties'! But now Labour is captured by closeted Tories desperate to earn a pat on the head from the right-wing media by red-baiting.

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Mixed messages from the Nobel Peace Prize Was María Corina Machado really the most deserving candidate? @rossmcnally.bsky.social @sussexbylines.co.uk

Just how much blood does David Lammy want on his hands?

The UK needs far more of these.

If you're dreading seeing the family over Christmas, I suppose this puts things in perspective.

This guy is a shameless shill for a genocidal foreign state, in which capacity he is deliberately conflating Jews and Judaism with Israel. As such, he is actively contributing to inflaming antisemitism and making British Jews less safe. He must resign.

This bloodthirsty genocidal maniac is trying to use the despicable terror attack at Bondi Beach to castigate the Australian government for recognising Palestine. One of the most disgustingly evil people in modern history. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Amid this devastation, efforts to expand forest clearance for goldmining must be halted immediately. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

María Corina Machado is the face of Trump's regime change agenda for Venezuela. The Norwegian Nobel Committee recently gave her international legitimacy.

The British government continues to sell arms to the UAE, which is the main military backer of the RSF in Sudan. It's therefore possible that the UK is complicit in this atrocity.

The BBC trips over itself to appease the far-right, but creates a culture of censorship for anyone who might be inclined to support minorities and criticise those same far-right forces. It is likely beyond rescue as an organisation.

As the government has refused to properly fund the NHS or restore pre-austerity pay for resident doctors, Keir Starmer's message to them is 'simple – take it'. What's 'beyond belief' is that a Labour government is blaming industrial action for its own failures. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

If Chuck Schumer (who voted for the Iraq invasion) cannot now say that as a bare minimum, he opposes Trump's regime change war against Venezuela, he should resign immediately.

The Guardian has got the State Department memo and is now going into full propaganda mode to manufacture consent for regime change, and for the new puppet leader. Just like they did before Iraq.

Well, you probably would think that if you were trying to bang all of them. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

In 3 months, Zack Polanski has reignited the hope of representation for a disenfranchised left and led the charge against the rise of Reform | Rudi Banfield

The US continues to act as a rogue state in the Caribbean, making a mockery of international law. This is another textbook violation.

Iceland becomes fifth country to boycott Eurovison 2026 over Israel

The US puppet lined up to become the face of regime change in Venezuela has yet to arrive in Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize. I have an article on this issue coming out at the weekend, so perhaps she will surface before then.

Fuck this Hong Kong based multinational conglomerate and their horseshit PR spin. Jardine Matheson is about to precipitate the extinction of an evolutionarily distinct species of great ape, so it can hoover up Indonesia's natural resources for enormous profit. It must be delisted from the LSE.

It's brilliant that there are still boar near the Hamps/West Sussex border. Sadly, the woman quoted calling on authorities to 'capture the animals and relocate them' exemplifies how disconnected many people are from wildlife. They're not a fucking art installation. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This drunken oaf has an appointment at The Hague.

Unless Israel is banned from Eurovision, the UK should join Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands and Slovenia and withdraw. There is no excuse for participating in the whitewashing of genocide. c.org/WQpqhgQ8K4

Despite the attempted spin of The Metals Company, this experimental mining has proven highly damaging to deep sea biodiversity. This scouring of Earth's last frontier must be stopped. www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/environ...

Why is it unacceptable to dump asylum seekers in military barracks? – They're often shitholes unfit for long-term habitation. – They tend to cost more than hotels. – They lead to the ghettoisation of asylum seekers, isolating them from communities and services. theconversation.com/housing-asyl...

Great – leave it alone. We now have wild beavers in many parts of the country, in spite of the anally retentive bureaucracy involved in licence applications. We need to stop treating wildlife like escaped exhibits from Jurassic Park.

Nobody should ever watch this amoral, genocide-washing circus again.

This is a cataclysmic collapse of a marine food web, caused in large part by commercial fishing. This needs to stop, and sardine populations around South Africa need a chance to recover.

I wrote about the race to stop octopus farming before it starts. This issue has been covered a fair amount, so I wanted to look at one under-covered aspect of it -- why do so many people who study octopuses, and are fascinated by them, support farming them?

There are several examples from around the world of non-native species being introduced to fix anthropogenic problems, even to control other invasive species (small Indian mongoose as rat control in Hawaii). It doesn't usually go well.

Capitalism is truly evil. Trump has probably just thrown this man off of his Medicaid, on top of everything else.

This shambolic outfit is dead on arrival. Unfortunately the past couple of days have only confirmed that. Just join @greenparty.org.uk.

If there was ever an organisation that was crying out for leadership, it's this one.