Jim Ratcliffe who (checks notes) is a resident of Monaco for tax purposes news.sky.com/story/the-uk...

I was just saying to one of my neighbours that I was hoping Morgan McSweeney would be sacked, when I see he’s been allowed to resign.

Won’t someone think about the children?

Has Mandelson breached the Official Secrets Act or is that only for common people?

In the corporate world though I was in a technical role I had mandatory annual training on topics that were potentially share price affecting and could have result in prison sentences or huge fines: Anti-competition law Anti-bribery law Handling confidential information news.sky.com/story/politi...

I’m sure there’s a reason people don’t want to go to the USA right now, but I just can’t put my finger on it

Are all the people complaining about Mandelson still having a peerage as upset about Michelle Mone?

What is it that drives women like Suella Braverman, Priti Patel and Shabana Mahmood to hate immigrants? news.sky.com/video/suella...

Listening to the rambling old fool Trump speaking at Davos, and it’s clearly time for an intervention. If this was a family member I’d be looking to find a secure and comfortable place for them to stay.

This illustrates perfectly why it’s not possible to negotiate with Trump. There is no consistency and he never acts in good faith. Handing over Greenland would not be the end of his demands. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...

Frying pan/fire scenario

Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.

So what happens if Europe hands over Greenland to the bully? Anyone can see that he’ll be back demanding something else. It’s not possible to reach any kind of agreement with a person like this. www.ft.com/content/6055...

BBC News reporting Shabana Mahmood’s post on X related to the AI misinformed West Midlands Chief Constable resignation is pretty much a perfect circle of everything wrong with UK politics and media

Katie Razzall presenting Julian Barnes with an AI generated paragraph that was supposedly in his style was cringeworthy and disrespectful clickbait journalism. Please BBC, be better than this.

Man of the people Nadim Zahawi (who claimed expenses for heating his horse stables) will fit right in to the Reform millionaires club news.sky.com/story/politi...

I’m not going to mention the 10 year anniversary of the passing of David Bowie at home today, because I never saw him live but Mrs W did and will talk about it interminably at the drop of a hat.

This sums up our supine government. Too scared of Trump/Musk to do anything and delegating responsibility. Time to start LEADING rather than hand wringing

Well the penny has dropped for some Labour MPs. I wonder when Starmer will stop pretending X is not an issue because he’s terrified of Trump

You’ve got to wonder if there is any strategic thought going into this from UK Government or if it’s just another attempt to curry favour with the megalomaniac Trump news.sky.com/story/greenl...

Waking up to discover that Trump thinks “Team America: World Police” wasn’t a spoof

There were a lot of tweeters tweeting on my sunny early dog walk this morning

After decades of beanies in the winter and baseball caps in the summer I’m embracing the joys of a flat cap like my great grandfather used to wear and it’s really rather glorious

Coming to London in 2026….

I see that Priti Patel thinks that the UK rejoining the Erasmus scheme would “betray Brexit”. No surprise that she hates to see young people given an opportunity to grow outside of the insular and withering UK

We went to see Othello yesterday, superb production with outstanding acting as you would expect with this stellar cast

Well I guess that just underlines that I won’t be visiting the USA again any time soon. I used to be a regular visitor for work and pleasure and lived in Chicago for a while, but those days are long gone

A FIFA investigation into Infantino is like a Republican investigation into Trump

I’ve been to several Teenage Cancer Trust gigs at the Royal Albert Hall over the years and the shows have been great as well as being a fantastic charity fundraiser. The line up for 2026 though is outrageously good, and I’m not sure my credit card can stand it

Just back from my first experience delivering flyers for the Green Party. Overall, very positive reception with just one rather rude chap who didn’t seem like the sort I’d want to go to the pub with anyway

I’m not dull enough to share my whole 2025 listening habits, but my most listened to song of the year was also by the band that provided one of my favourite live gigs of the year: Mclusky

Let’s see if Ofcom finally start acting more like a regulator and less like a doormat

I’ve used a Senior Railcard for discounts for a while, but just discovered that the Veterans Railcard (at the same price) offers discounts on more trains and I can bring a friend too. www.veterans-railcard.co.uk

Contrast the number of arrests already made by the Hong Kong authorities compared to the outcome of the Grenfell tragedy news.sky.com/story/hong-k...

Without the EU AI Act to regulate behaviour, many Chinese companies could send our data to servers in China rather than in the EU (UK also benefits from the overspill of the EU AI Act)

Boris Johnson: “muddled” and “hopelessly incoherent” sounds about right

I was looking for a decent film to watch tonight, and I saw Spike Lee and Denzel Washington so I guessed “Highest 2 Lowest” was going to be epic. How wrong I was

Well it’s not all bad news today… news.sky.com/story/telegr...

All the fuss about Trump attacking the BBC is just his latest smokescreen for this. As usual the media and chattering commentariat are falling for it

So the government appear to have forced the DG of the BBC to resign to please Trump, and are still spending taxpayers cash posting on X to please Musk. Spineless. I had such high hopes and look at what we have ended up with.

There’s left over onion gravy so I’ve slopped it over a slice of bread and devoured it just like my great grandad would have done. Mrs W is not impressed

Well that’s one Tory less in the BBC senior management www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...

After about a month of noisy fireworks pretty much every night, some arsehole is setting them off here again tonight. Is it to commemorate Remembrance Sunday for all the people who have PTSD?

Mike Joyce talking about The Smiths on BBC 6 Music this morning. When asked about people who said they were boring, he retorted that those people had obviously never been to a Smiths gig. For the record, I saw The Smiths live on their three UK tours and they were honestly one of the best live bands

Tell me you’re a racist without telling me you’re a racist… “Trump limits refugee admissions to 7,500 and gives priority to white South Africans”https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy40jj71243o

With the hysteria that’s been whipped up by the media and far right recently I’m really concerned how this will play out news.sky.com/story/kebatu...

Nick Grimshaw playing Grace by IDLES this morning. Is this related to the “big” news story about the king and the pope praying together yesterday or just a coincidence?

Let’s hope it’s Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage and Richard Tice news.sky.com/story/three-...

All four members of my family are now Green Party members and I met someone else this morning who told me he joined last week having never been a member of a political party before

A while back things like this would have been blamed on the EU, but turns out this is caused by climate change news.sky.com/story/money-...