US chicken is chlorinated because America has no animal welfare laws where poultry is concerned. It has to be chlorinated because Salmonella and e. coli run rife The EU banned that practice in 1997 and as such the UK has among the highest welfare and standards in the world. 1/2

#bbcLauraK and Chris Mason observing the situation in Venezuela will be like a chimp looking at the wiring diagram for a 1989 Ford Sierra.

BBC News - Swiss open criminal case against owners of ski resort bar after deadly fire - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... An appalling tragedy by any standards. However, I remember Israel using Napalm on a tent city full of women & children. I guess I missed that wall to wall coverage.

BBC News - Starmer won't be drawn on whether US strikes on Venezuela broke international law www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I can help here. "Yes he did." Hope that helps the former human rights lawyer.

BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5... Venezuela latest: Trump says US will 'run' Venezuela until 'safe transition can take place' - BBC News

Murica is really set on self-destruction

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Israeli cranes opened fire on a school sheltering displaced families south of Khan Younis this morning and killed Palestinian youth Ahmed Hussam Zidan Naeem. Several others were injure. This is the latest breach of the ceasefire agreement.

I have to say that @deadder.bsky.social is one of my favorite political cartoonists. ❤️

I'm sure this will work out great for everyone concerned. Especially since Reform and the Tories are 100% going to band together to dismantle democracy in the space of a single term.

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meme via Susan Atwell

How the press treats an SNP MP and Labour MP differently. Daily_Record DailyMail One is condemned for working with NHS Scotland & The other is portrayed as a hero for working with NHS Scotland

This takes us back to the reductio ad absurdum of ‘everyone’s opinion is as good as anyone else’s about everything.’ No. Experts can be wrong even about the thing they’re expert in. But: On aggregate, you’re better off spending your finite term listening to an expert on a subject than not.

We're told comparing Israeli Gaza policy to Nazi ghettos & concentration camps is antisemitic Meanwhile "Israel is banning 25 major aid groups from Gaza starting January 1st, including Doctors Without Borders, which serves nearly 500K Palestinians with critical medical care & water" via Mondoweiss

Theresa May was a terrible Prime Minister but she was FDR compared to the those who followed her as Tory leader. #r4today

An interesting demographic, and a predictable one, I'd say.

"Based on Musk’s own standard of intelligence, he is a grade A moron." #TeslaTakedown electrek.co/2025/12/30/e...

‘I was raped by Mountbatten in Kincora at age 11; he wasn’t a lord… to me he was king of the paedophiles’ www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/politic...

Let’s not take anything for granted.

IWM closes exhibit (which personally I always found tedious beyond belief) after 15 years, exactly on schedule and as promised. Ashcroft spits his dummy out and claims The Woke are destroying everything by pointing to completely unrelated exhibit. Telegraph happily acts as stenographer.

David Attenborough [whispering]: “Like a grain of sand in a vast desert, the predator blends seamlessly into its environment, nearly imperceptible to the naked eye.”

"It’s a pretty bleak state of affairs... if, even at the 'best' job available, you can’t get stable hours & your bosses can crush you when you dare ask for better." A bargaining delegate for @sbworkersunited.org, explains why almost 4K baristas are on strike.

Italian immigrant communities into America in the early 1900s were subjected to the most appalling degrees of racism and bigotry and it led to the USA actively moving to stop migration from Italy in a series of acts including the Emergency Quota Act (1921) and the restrictive Immigration Act (1924)

Oh.

The perfect metaphor doesn't exist...

Sinn Féin's position is that three quarters of the people of Ireland are wrong, but these people are right

Miniature musical instrument makers admit defeat as violin size requirement for story is declared "too small to build."

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This statement is a sick joke. US foreign policy is a sick joke, being implemented by enemies of truth, freedom & democracy - people driven by personal greed & the opportunity to exploit the suffering of others by trading US power and prestige for death & business opportunities.

Fox hunting is a revolting sport. It's only survived in any form because it's done by ghastly, entitled, influential and aristocratic people who feel it's the God given right to charge about the place in silly costumes tearing animals apart for no good reason.

If they don’t die in prison, which many do, Palestinian prisoners could be sentenced to death anyway. How much further to the right are Israel going to go?

“The ongoing genocide is robbing Palestinians of their futures, and these strikers have responded by putting themselves on the line.” ~Naoise Dolan The Sunday Independent

Why doesn't he, and im sure I speak for many, just fuck off!

Evidence of more than 1,000 troops given a radiation dose was intentionally removed from an official government study into their causes of death.

And may every day be another wonderful secret.

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

This is getting interesting. This statement was posted directly by a senior member of former President Bill Clinton’s post-presidency staff.

Post a book quote that you love. #booksky #bookchallenge #writers #authors #readers #booklovers

The Welsh Government has been accused of trying to disguise the fact that a new £120m diagnostic centre branded as a ‘health park’ will be operated by a private sector company ✍️Martin Shipton

The same people who are raging against Erasmus are the same ones who want cuts and restrictions to Higher Education. These people fear well-rounded, adventurous, educated, confident young people, relaxed about the rest of Europe.

A prominent far right Welsh activist who dislikes being described as far right has stated that “all forms of Islam” should be expelled from Britain and has defended the right of a Reform Mayoral candidate to tell Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy to “go back to the Caribbean” ✍️Martin Shipton

‘Harrowing’ levels of distress have become the norm for unpaid carers in Wales, a committee has heard, with charities warning of a support system ‘set up to fail’

Nigel Farage will never apologise for the racist things he said to 28 contemporaries. And our media think that’s just fine.

To be clear.

Post Mortem, by Private Eye’s Richard Brooks, chronicling how the Post Office scandal and cover-up developed and later unravelled, is on sale now at all good bookshops. ➡️ Available at: private-eye.co.uk/books