🚨 NEW | Labour drop to 10% in Senedd poll: 🟢 PLAID: 33% (+3) ➡️ REF: 30% (+1) 🔴 LAB: 10% (-4) 🔵 CON: 10% (-1) 🟢 GRN: 9% (+3) 🟠 LD: 6% (=) Via @YouGov, 28 Nov-10 Dec (+/- vs 4-10 Sep)

Not many things in life will have you pumping your fist in the air, but watching little Tommy Robinson’s (Stephen Yaxley-Lennon’s) face and bravado drop when he gets called out for his racism and hypocrisy by boxer Ty Mitchell is one of them. This is glorious. 🔥

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.

The ability to have a market pause between Friday and Monday was a key means through which governments could contain financial market crises before things got out of control

Obvs, Nick Robinson didn't bother to challenge the idea that British workers should be forced to make ends meet on £5.42/hr (£200/wk or £10,428/yr). Sounds mad, but that's the direction corporations & billionaires want us to head towards. It's where Reform & the Tories would take us. #r4today

People should use whatever platform works for them, but as a deaf person I am really grateful that a lot of cool people have stuck with text-based posting. I don't want to be pushed onto a platform that is 80% incomprehensible.

WATCH: Bystander disarms active shooter at Bondi Beach in Sydney

60,000 is the *low end* estimate.

Well, there's a photo I never expected to see in my life. Noam Chomsky palling around with Steve Bannon.

Apparently it can always get worse. The full version of the new U.S. National Security Strategy, aptly named “NSC-1488” by the wags, calls for actively pulling Poland, Austria, Hungary and Italy from the #EU. And supporting far right. US sides with Putin. notesfrompoland.com/2025/12/10/f...

This is INSANE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t... and these are our closest allies!

TRUMP ON EUROPE: “WON’T BE ALLIES ANYMORE? WELL, IT DEPENDS”

Number 483736 of how the USA ruins everything. We don't need or want ad breaks during playtime of a football match.

I'm literally so sick of people thinking that supporting labour will bring them left or form a leftist coalition. They're literally a right wing party "Im going to support hitler lite because he will bring about leftist change" thats what you all sound like

Starmers attacking Polanski over NATO doesn't work when NATO is effectively dead.

First, leave X. Leave X. Now.

With the new U.S. national security strategy (“NSC-88”), I think it is high time to ban Twitter in the EU altogether. At the very least, what the ever loving hell are our politicians doing there anymore? They provide material for a system that will be used to attack us.

From the @wsj.com chief foreign correspondent

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

Shocked to read in @willhaycardiff.bsky.social 's newsletter that Jo Stevens, the Sec of State for Wales, refused to attend the First Minister's investment summit. So much for benefiting from having Labour governments at both ends of the M4! Has anything really changed under Labour?

This is so disgusting.

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

This is a good piece and I agree with all of it. But I'd add that a lot of Americans on encountering Actually Existing England come down with a version of "Paris Syndrome" - a widely recognised phenomenon described as....

I was told everyone was leaving. @fortune.com #NYC @wutangforchildren.bsky.social fortune.com/2025/12/04/m...

Scottish Labour are hilarious.

Sometimes I wonder if Scottish Labour was infiltrated by deep undercover SNP agents in the late 2000s and they've just been running the party ever since

Second - that said, it's been made clear once again that Ireland's de facto refusal to have a defence policy and capability has gone from simply being an issue of freeriding off of European collective security to actively undermining it. /2

Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:

This graph is just so depressing.

Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.

Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.

damn

Senior MPs including Kemi Badenoch, Robert Jenrick and Darren Jones are claiming tens of thousands of pounds a year in taxpayer-funded rent expenses while either calling for or implementing benefit cuts on the poorest By me, for the Big Issue www.bigissue.com/news/politic...

So... this just happened. archive.ph/2025.11.29-1...

President Trump says no aircraft should fly over or near Venezuela, the airspace is closed in its entirety.

You're not seeing the defense and international conflict experts disagreeing because if the facts are true, it's one of the most basic things in the law of armed conflict: You cannot kill people who are "hors de combat," taken out of the game by injury or attack. This is Geneva 101 stuff.

She is a dangerous idiot.

There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?

No, welfare spending is not 'out of control'. (There is an underlying rise in health-related benfits, but this needs sensible reform - not knee jerk cuts.)

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.

Sorry, no, Motability was not about 'helping the most vulnerable' - it was about providing people who need modified vehicles modified vehicles!

lol here’s the full OBR book someone pressed publish early here’s the budget obr.uk/docs/dlm_upl...

DEFEND OUR JURIES David Lammy is proposing to massively restrict the ancient right to a jury trial by only guaranteeing it for defendants facing cases passing a public interest test. We saw this coming. It is the reason Defend Our Juries exists. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

what the fuck

Terry Gilliam talks about how FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS used Hunter S. Thompson's made up definition of adrenochrome, and how QAnon ran with it.

1. EXCLUSIVE Musk’s xAI has secretly built its AI supercomputer, Collusus, using Chinese-made transformers, a security risk that leaves it vulnerable to espionage or sabotage The use of Chinese components was previously unreported Collusus performs sensitive work for the U.S. military

Don’t want to be too moralistic about this, but it is an active disgrace what people are doing to a profoundly liberational scheme that costs relatively piddling amounts on the basis of a couple of right wing shitposters misrepresenting it on Twitter.

This is exactly what the recent Trump-BBC 'scandal' was designed to achieve. The BBC is now self-censoring criticisms of Trump in the name of "impartiality"

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1