Didn't get what they wanted.

🔴I Met Migrant Women in Calais Hoping to Reach the UK and This Is What I Learnt It is time to move away from a politics in which cruelty is always portrayed as “toughness” and moral abdication as “realism”, argues Green Party Deputy Leader @rachelmillward.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/12/18/i...

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Even by my low expectations for Kemi Badenoch ‘violence against women and girls is something done by immigrants and nobody else’ has shocked me.

Western right-wing movements are gaining traction in Africa to undermine sexual and reproductive health rights and LGBTQIA+ rights. Africa does not need "an irresponsible espousing of harmful, patriarchal values."

President Trump has shown, again and again, he can’t be trusted as a reliable ally. The Prime Minister needs to stop hoping for the best and start dealing with reality.

So Hard To Lie, When We Always Bring In The Receipts...

Badenoch had called this dangerously wrong. Using our children as a soapbox for some very racist sounding ideas. I’ve been a primary school governor. I’ve overseen safeguarding. Primary school is exactly where this kind of education needs to start. Show children a better way to live.

"Not all cultures are equally valid" Open racism from the leader of the Conservative party.

Keir Starmer, the UK's subservient awarder of accolades to Donald Trump, has quietly agreed to shell out billions of scarce NHS money to pay US pharmaceutical companies more money www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Three years ago this terrified dog arrived at our home. Since then we’ve been on a long and often difficult journey to make her feel safe with us and there’s more to do but we’re so glad that #sophiefromromania came into our lives

The prof and #sophiefromromania were out before dawn this morning

Incredible case. Hard not to think officials acted deliberately here to try and cover up an earlier mistake freemovement.org.uk/home-secreta...

This is obscene. Why can't other politicians say that? The 25 richest families are collectively $358.7 billion richer than a year ago, with a combined fortune totaling $2.9 trillion.

Visiting US, prime minister calls for urgent move to second phase as winter storms worsen humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

We are witnessing the horror of years of the slaughter of innocents in Palestine. And now the U.K. Government require us to witness - equally helpless - their decision to allow the deaths of protesters on remand who are innocent until proven guilty in our judicial system.

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/35802362... One more chance to get the #sophiefromromania calendar - I’m auctioning one on eBay for Cure Parkinson’s and will sign it for the winner. Auction closes Friday evening

A foggy day in London town, but #SophieFromRomania is in cheerful mood and wondering how the bidding is going for her calendar, signed by me www.ebay.co.uk/itm/35802362...

Hundreds of underage girls married off and hundreds more children kidnapped as U.S. foreign aid cuts contribute to surge in violations against persecuted Rohingya children.

UN warns of delay of humanitarian assistance in Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/un-warns-delay-humanitarian-assistance-gaza

This is Europe's secret weapon against Trump: it could burst his AI bubble | Johnny Ryan

NEW: The number of homes lying empty in Scotland for over a year has risen to more than 32,000, the latest figures have shown Map 👉 www.thenational.scot/news/2...

“Why brief out a story when you can’t talk about it?” How to ask a follow up

Hard to believe just how big Stormzy is now. Just look at him go!

How we feel about this is how the whole rest of the world feels about Americans.

The blockade of Venezuela is a disgusting echo of U.S. imperialism in Latin America. We were lied to about Iraq and WMDs, and an entire generation paid the price. Here we are again. We cannot let a wannabe dictator drag us into another forever war. www.axios.com/2025/12/17/t...

Traitorous man.

Despicable Mogg

I kind of wish this wasn’t still so relevant…

This is appalling. He brags about stopping wars and saving lives while condemning hundreds of thousands of people, mainly women and children, to death by withdrawing aid and appropriate health care for women.

Once again on a day I’ve an important appointment in town the Lizzie Line has let me down - chaos and cancellations due to a points failure. And the one train running is uncomfortably packed and keeps stopping at red signals

This morning #sophiefromromania was (mostly) very brave when we took her with her big pal Juno to a park we hadn’t visited for 18 months where the scary noise of children playing could be heard

open.substack.com/pub/jonty/p/... My old colleague Jonty Bloom makes the point well - live your life so that Trump celebrates your death

First walk this year with #sophiefromromania to begin and end in the dark. But it was a cheerful outing as we ran into one of Sophie’s biggest fans who gave her a treat

Hardly a surprise. Any ‘agreement’ with Trump is just the start of attempts to extort more, as his various tariffs on Canada & Mexico have shown. In that respect, his approach to negotiations is similar to Putin’s. Deals are essentially worthless.

Hep B - 0 cases Chicken pox - a few adult cases, plus seen in my own children and grandchildren- before vax routine) Diphtheria- 0 cases. I didn't treat children. I was a respiratory physician but did many years of acute general takes. Vaccines deprived me of clinical experience!

Retired physician here. In 38 Yr career 1984-2022 my experience: Measles - 0 cases Mumps - 0 Rubella - 0 Polio - 0 active. Few post polio paralysis in Nepal, 0 in UK Whooping Cough - 0 Tetanus - 2 or 3 cases in Nepal, 0 in UK Meningococcal- several cases in 1980s (before vaccine available. 0 since)

⭕️ BREAKING: Turkey has been excluded from a major US Central Command–organized summit in Doha tomorrow on postwar Gaza security, a move widely attributed to an Israeli veto, Haaretz reports. Representatives from more than 45 countries are set to meet to discuss a proposed international...

According to a list obtained by Haaretz, the following countries were invited to the U.S.-organized Doha meeting on postwar Gaza security: Middle East / region ▪️ Egypt ▪️ Jordan ▪️ United Arab Emirates ▪️ Kuwait ▪️ Yemen Europe ▪️ Italy ▪️ Belgium ▪️ Finland ▪️ Estonia ▪️ Poland ▪️ Hungary ▪️ Bulgaria...

After reducing many of Lebanon’s southern border towns to rubble, Israeli attacks are now making it more difficult for thousands of residents to rebuild their homes. These attacks violate the laws of war and are apparent war crimes. Learn more: https://bit.ly/44vbq5Z

“It is all lunacy. Absolutely, it’s 100% nonsense...” www.propublica.org/article/ron-...

Sweden’s Navy has confirmed the presence of armed personnel in military uniforms aboard oil tankers belonging to russia’s so-called “shadow fleet” in the Baltic Sea, SVT Nyheter reported on December 15. united24media.com/latest-news/...

Ego-fluffing despotic narcissists does not work. You just become a whipping boy, a target for their next outburst. You cannot contain this. Or appease it. It’s just deferring your losses. It’s never actually winning. What a cowed and isolated country we are now, if we have to beg not to be punished.

🔴The World Upside Down: How a Top Official at Trump’s FBI Laundered Far-Right Disinformation The United States’ entire security apparatus is now being used to spread far-right propaganda rather than tackle genuine threats, reports @rvawonk.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/12/15/t...

Day off, thought I’d watch A Few Good Men. I love the algorithm’s timing. “We see there’s been a new Observer story about these dreadful people, and there’s a documentary tonight. Would you like to watch this film based on their lies?” Hahaha no

My local bookshop made a little video of themselves moving the two copies of her books they have into the fiction section. I was in last week and the same copies remain there, under fiction, unbought

I think this statement sums up the horror Bondi and the horror of the world succinctly

It’s impressive to combine a complete misunderstanding of NHS funding, workforce dynamics and productivity economics with a casually misogynistic aside about women “not working”. That’s a full bingo card of not knowing what you’re talking about.