Israel bans white Western journalists from Gaza (I have volunteered to go there) so it can murder brown Arab journalists with impunity - mind you, I'd say they'd have no qualms about killing us too, if they had the chance. And the West's response? Silence and complicity.

The European city battling to keep its speed limit

Why do Japanese men think housework won’t be automated, but Japanese women think it will be? Why is female but not male income associated with owning a dishwasher in Japan? & why has OpenAI suddenly got all feminist on us about unpaid care work? newsletter.carolinecriadoperez.com/p/whats-that...

If European expanded defence budgets are spent disproportionately on the defence of Greenland to appease Trump, that is in fact a victory for Russia, whose threats to the West are not targeted at Greenland but in other parts of the Arctic, as well as in the Baltic Sea and in Ukraine.

It is incredibly rare that the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal actually acts against a UK lawyer. So it was a very rare win when they acted against the outrageous conduct of Zahawi’s lawyer. The High Court has now overturned that action. Good news for lawyers trying to silence journalism!

I could break your arm to make you give me your wallet but I won’t because you’re just going to give it to me nicely. - Phew What? - Thanks for clarifying that you’re not going to break my arm. What?

Inadvertently.

Such arrogance.

🚨The Petition calling for by-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party is now closing on 77,000 signatures! Let’s get it to the 100,000 needed! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

I agree. And it's so strange it wasn't something they announced at the beginning when they were playing around with winter fuel and benefit caps.

Hurrah for the Blackshirts

Let's not blow this out of proportion. It was just an admin error. Two admin errors. A few admin errors. Seventeen admin errors worth £380,000.

Man of the people this fella

It's time for closer ties with Europe. "If Greenland marks the end of the world looking to the US for leadership, it has also become the moment for Europe (...) to lift their heads out of the sand." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/20/donald-trump-greenland-world-plan-leadership

🚨The Petition calling for by-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party now has 43,000 signatures! Let’s get the 100,000 needed! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Gmail allows you downvote the AI summary of your email. But of course it does not allow you to state that this is an utterly pointless, intrusive, redundant, dimwitted addition to their services.

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It’s a real shame that Nigel Farage is too unwell to do interviews the morning after Donald Trump threatens us with sanctions. Here he is with “the bravest man he ever met”. He campaigned to make Trump President, and has spent the last year enjoying all the chaos he has caused.

Oh dear, this did make me laugh

The problem is not that we can’t impeach the president. Although we can and should. The real problem is that we can’t impeach Stephen Miller because we never elected or confirmed him.

Copenhagen town hall square, Denmark right now. Massive solidarity with Greenland demonstrations. Source: dr.dk

Why Trump still isn’t a Nobel Peace Prize winner despite being gifted Machado’s medal

As Robert Jenrick jumps ship, Reform’s “new politics” looks more like a spin cycle for the same people behind 14 years of decline.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

Just the Deputy Prime Minister of Poland having to correct Tucker Carlson on world war II history. Utterly shameful.

if the BBC wants to help deal with global misinformation then its only participation in X should be fact checking

And yet still the government refuses to act to end the injustice and ensure the safety of those on hunger strike. Plainly, this is wrong.

It’s important to note the UK has multiple, strong laws against creating both CSAM and generating sexualised images of women, especially for the purposes of harassment. And it has the Online Safety Act, too. This isn’t about needing new laws. It’s simply about enforcing existing ones.

"The event in St Petersburg was addressed by Mark Collett, a longstanding far-right activist and founder of Patriotic Alternative, which attempted to exploit the summer of unrest outside asylum hotels in Britain." Just in case anyone wonders about the 'patriotism' and what 'alternative' it favours.

80% of Mumsnet users do not intend to vote Reform. But @lbc.co.uk is dedicating an entire hour on how "mumsnet users are turning to Reform"

When people argue that renewable energy sources are too expensive, remember that we don’t invade countries to seize wind farms and there are no solar cartels. Fossil fuels have enormous geopolitical, public health, and climate externalities.

People wondering whether the US is going to be able to "run the country" of Venezuela at "no cost" might like to remind themselves it's a place one-third *larger* than Afghanistan, the running of which cost the US $2,260,000,000,000. (That's $2.26 trillion).

Comparison to Panama 1989: in that case US courts had indicted Noriega for drug trafficking, and Panama had declared a state of war with the US and had killed a US Marine. No comparison really

Been watching the BBC coverage for 15 mins and there's no mention yet of the illegality of US intervention under US law [let alone international law]. Can't help think that Trump's lawsuit is causing them to feel unable to report what is happening properly.

The US attack on Venezuela is an illegal act of aggression against a sovereign country (with lots of oil). Venezuela has become a more deeply repressive dictatorship & urgently needs democratic solution but this is unjustified & unjustifiable. Look forward to seeing swift UK Government condemnation.

Kidnapping the leader of a foreign state without any declaration of war and announcing it via social media is full-on rogue state stuff. From the world’s number one superpower.

🔥 This is huge 🔥 NEW YouGov poll: British are now MORE pro-EU than France or Italy. 👉 50% would vote to be in the EU 👉 Only 31% want to stay out 👉 Strip away don’t knows 👉62–38 in favour of EU membership. 🔥 Brexit is no more and Parliament must catch up! www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

🚨 “Can I tell you how many times in the last 45 years the European Court of Human Rights has ruled against the UK when it comes to deporting people from this country - only 13 times - in 45 years” Please remember this in 2026 when Nigel Farage tells you we must leave the ECHR to control our borders

Excellent. I fully expect to see an increase in the solution of baffling murder cases.

Files on Andrew’s activities as trade envoy withheld by the government. Once again even disgraced royals are protected by the state. What’s there to hide? It’s more important than ever that transparency reigns with the Royal Family. And it never does. www.thetimes.com/article/c695...

With all this talk of how to end Russias war against Ukraine, and a cease fire, keep this in mind: If Ukraine ceases firing, Ukraine will cease to exist. If Russia ceases firing. the war will cease to exist. Pretty clear

Christmas attack on civilians in Kyiv. Sure, the Russians want peace

Horrifying.

Despicable, from Liz Truss. This is a Conservative view????!!??

“None of us can guess how the Trump assault on the BBC will play out, because he wields unprecedented power, unchecked by personal dignity or decency.” No. We can’t. But we can condemn forever the repulsive British politicians and media gobshites who would side with him instead of us.

This is literally what the Telegraph campaigned for.

Once again, it’s going great when the leaders of the 🇪🇺 & its most powerful member-states feel the need to express unwavering support for the sovereignty & territorial integrity of our NATO allies. It is shamefully embarrassing that this hasn’t ended Trump’s presidency. We are not a serious country.