My timeline can’t decide if it’s a civil breakdown or a parish noticeboard. Americans shooting their own citizens… then “any whispers on Gorton?” Like bathing in magma then hopping straight into liquid nitrogen.

CBC contrast what Mark Carney said at Davos With what Donald Trump said at Davos Two very different world views The sooner the UK realigns with Canada and the EU The better

The anti-Irish onslaught continues. @europeanmovement.co.uk - your continued silence is deafening.

@europeanmovement.co.uk - this is a post by one of your council members. Care to comment?

Straight from Goebbels playbook. Absolutely vile.

‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’ Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever, "Nobody wants to join the USA" "But they do want to join the EU" "Because we have rule of law"

Left: Mark Carney, "Canada is a pluralist society that works" Right: Keir Starmer, "We risk becoming an island of strangers" Carney is a leader Starmer is a coward appeasing the far right Carney inspires Starmer divides

Satire died a long time ago. This seems to be the day when they flush it's ashes down the toilet.

SME knowledge on display. The European Movement is in safe hands. @markpurch.bsky.social

When the mask slips: “…when the UK ended mutual Freedom of Movement it should not have changed ANYTHING at all for Brits with regard to visiting EU countries.” @nialloconghaile.bsky.social

Great discussion, lots of insights, from two leaders in their respective fields - economics & military science. Highly recommended.

interesting parallel between Brexit and Maga: both fundamentally underestimate their country's dependence on the goodwill of its allies, because the very realization of that dependency contradicts their fantasies of omnipotence.

Marlborough College, the alma mater of the Princess of Wales, has been forced to turn off the heating during the holidays to save money. Pray for them. Please, God, pray for them.

Letter to the FT that stingingly sums up Brexit and the shit creek we now find ourselves in. A terrible idea (naive, prejudiced and uninformed) that has deeply divided us and left us poorer and less secure… but unwilling to face up to the damage we’ve done to ourselves. While the EU moves on.

The debate now isn’t whether Brexit matters, it’s how Britain’s own decisions have deepened economic weaknesses and eroded strengths once taken for granted. 👉 www.economist.com/britain/2025...

Trump’s fixation on Clooney’s French citizenship isn’t about patriotism; it’s about status anxiety. When politics collapses into cultural grievance, it seems even personal residence becomes a loyalty test. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...

When a government keeps using a platform that corrodes public discourse, it stops being a victim of circumstance and becomes an enabler. UKG still has to grasp that distinction. observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

Brexit didn’t fail because Europe was hostile, but because Britain mistook autonomy for power and nostalgia for strategy. The damage is self-inflicted and the nation is still in denial. www.economist.com/britain/2025...

encompass-europe.com/comment/ever... David Henig’s observation cuts through the noise: the UK barely features in Brussels’ thinking anymore. Not punished, not feared, just deprioritised.

Canada: Our Prime Minster studied at Oxford and Harvard, was the Governor of both the Banks of England and Canada, and is recognized as one of the sharpest financial minds around. America: oh yeah? Our guy has to take dementia tests every week.

Most English ‘closer ties’ campaigners just want: *less painful Brexit *privileges without commitment or accountability *avoid the hard binary decisions *entry to whole show without paying at the box office.

Good interview in the paper, this. I think Sadiq is right: London 'needs' to be less successful than it is for a bunch of political arguments here in the UK to work, hence the fictions being invented about it:

While Reform's millionaire Islamophobic leaders are just interested in getting even richer, here's someone they won't be praising ... meme via The Horse School

“The UK wasn’t a pain in the arse in the EU” is what you say if you’ve never looked at the record and confuse British self-mythology with reality. The evidence is overwhelming. 🧵 1/14>

Single handedly just put the ‘Great’ back into Britain 😂🫡

There's a powerful illustration here regarding "influencers" vs. "experts".

In which Tim Stanley experiences the "find out" phase of his arrant fuck wittering.

I remember in 2015 Leavers were sure that being the 5th biggest economy would ensure great trade deals for the UK. They wouldn't listen to anyone (esp me): the top 3 economies were so big the UK would be like a chihuahua trying to mount a great dane, st Bernard and a Irish wolfhound.

Remind me how many general elections the Sainted Compo won Oliver? If you’re brave enough to ever reply, given you post this shite with replies disabled almost daily.

The Donbas isn’t Putin’s end game. If he gets it, he will demand more. We know this from history and we should learn from history. Extract of my doorstep ahead of today’s Foreign Affairs Council ↓

”They are, as Daniel Sugarman argued on these pages, selective in their condemnation of antisemitism: unequivocal when it comes from the left, hesitant when it comes from the right And it leaves them in the unprincipled and undignified position of a crouch: head down, waiting for the storm to pass”

Tommy Robinson's Christmas Carol service featured two arrests - one for assault and another of a man suspected of homophobic abuse. And loads of union flags and massive crosses... because that's traditional at the events where we celebrate Christ's BIRTH, isn't it. Crosses and flags.

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.

It doesn't bear much further scrutiny after you've looked at when these arrangements were agreed... No one gets special treatment, positively or negatively.

@kresten2.bsky.social you’re right to point out the UK is an existential threat to the EU when it was a member. For decades it worked to undermine, destabilise, and sabotage the project from the inside. >>>

This from @robertshrimsley.bsky.social made me laugh “ In his robust defence of Brexit freedoms, Starmer resembles Alec Guinness’s half-mad colonel in The Bridge on the River Kwai, protecting an edifice he has forgotten was built for the benefit of the other side.” www.ft.com/content/2d00...

A Dutch commentator perceptively observed: ‘The British are the only people who look back on WWII with pride and pleasure (‘our finest hour’). Everyone else was either occupier or occupied, and they look back with grief and with a steely determination never to let that happen in Europe again.’

& so it starts..... Why does Europe even bother? EU demands no cap on youth mobility scheme with UK - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

www.independent.co.uk/news/canada-... Talks on the U.K. joining the SAFE fund ended without agreement last week. Negotiations foundered over money, with Europe demanding more for Britain’s participation than the U.K. was willing to pay. When the Govt talks about security...they mean if it's cheap.

“A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.” — Bertrand Russell

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

The UK does do a very good job of serving as a warning example. I live in Sweden and have never experienced such pro-EU sentiment amongst the population in my life.

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

A clear pattern @UKHomeOffice: instead of tackling complex issues intelligently, the HS of Asian origin will pivot to appeasing the far right. Why? Maybe the a heady yet toxic mix of ambition, vanity, and the need for acceptance, bought at the cost of principle and morals proves too intoxicating..

This 👇 is an exceptionally good analysis, opening the debates to the points that matter. Recommend to read it all!

Minority representation on TV causes outrage From the new Private Eye, in shops now.