One has to scroll a lot to find a mention of the Epstein Files on the @nytimes.com and then we get this. Are we sure that’s all they reveal?

That £240m contract Palantir won after Peter Mandelson took Keir Starmer to visit them? Government asserts "there were robust processes in place to ensure that government contracts are awarded fairly and transparently" but the award notice says it was a "directed award", ie without any competition.

That tweet Trump sent would rightly get anyone fired from any job. But because the GOP is a cult and the Trump Administration a white supremacist project, everything will continue as normal.

Ah yes, the typical case of spreading one of the most common and vile racist tropes by mistake. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If he does go, could we please, please replace him with someone better? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

‘Trump calls for Americans to ‘move on’ from Epstein files.’ I’m sure this will do. Lee Harvey Oswald would like a chat. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

Last time I posted on here I was concerned for the mid-term elections, I got a ton of abuse. We'll see how this plays out.

The Sánchez 🇪🇸 government has - built Europe's boom economy - hiked minimum wage from €736 to €1221 - cut insecure work from c.30% to c.13% - regularised, not demonised, migrants - stood up for human rights - refused to humiliate itself before Trump No wonder Musk hates it.

Think I’ve lost count of all the reasons why the President and most people around him should be impeached.

At this point, I find myself cheering for our alien overlords. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is corruption on a breathtaking level. Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, an Abu Dhabi royal nicknamed the "spy sheikh", pumped $187mn into Trump family businesses. A WSJ team has the whole story, reported here for the first time. Remember: Jimmy Carter had to sell his peanut farm.

What’s your Sunday looking like? Going for my breakfast before a shift at @oxfamcastlestreet.bsky.social for @oxfamcymru.bsky.social. If you are having a relaxing start, maybe with a coffee, have a listen to this very good show from Monocle with @andrewmueller.bsky.social. monocle.com/player/

Thank you @andrewmueller.bsky.social for having me on the show.

The local market is always detrimental to my finances (and to the quiet living of the neighbourhood).

Mmm…that’s what we are going for, is it?! ‘Regarded by colleagues as ambitious to a fault., www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Starmer to be kidnapped by special forces. UK Marmite reserves to be stashed away in a Qatari account. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

‘The criteria for these distinctions—between putative immigrant and indelible alien—are not complicated; for above all, The Homeland is a racist project.’ www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

Colonialism is back, baby. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

This. The quickness and efficiency of the operation does not change its illegality.

Extremely privileged white male, former academic, current fascist pet confirms that in a very tough field, he remains one of the worst. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

No doubt, the Spanish government will face major political repercussions. And yet, it’s the morally and economically right thing to do. Too bad the UK government is still hunting for Reform votes. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/w...

'The lies being told about him by America’s most powerful people are flagrantly incongruous to anyone who watches the videos.'

On this week's show: 'Trump Briefed on Intelligence Saying Iran’s Government Is Weaker.' www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...

Trump captured Maduro, skipping even perfunctory legal justification. SOPHIE DUROY and LUCA TRENTA on why even hypocritical arguments better sustain international law's norms. verfassungsblog.de/even-hypocri...

Haven't made much of my recent Orwell obsession, yet. But at least, it helped give a catchy title to this. Brilliant work mostly by @sophieduroy.bsky.social on this.

Paging the NRA. I’m sure they’ll chip in any moment now. I’m sure they had genuine libertarian concerns and were not driven by racism.

Torture John would like you to know that international law is too much of a hindrance to the United States and its crimes. And @theatlantic.com publishes it. You want to know how we got here? Impunity. That’s how. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

As Orwell said, even hypocrisy requires a moral code.

Thank God there were people filming. This administration would have said Alex Pretti pulled a handgun, a package of fentanyl, and a signed copy of the Communist Manifesto if they could.

tfw when the imperialism is boomeranging

‘A regime based on terror, on the other hand, deploys violence precisely to reinforce the message that anyone can be subjected to it.’ www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...

I see all your references on here to Orwell's 1984, but I raise them with this, from Animal Farm. He is not a 3-D chess playing genius. He is just an authoritarian thug with many doing work for him.

Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power

The BBC News summary of Minnesota is *worse* than both-siding. It says there are 'conflicting accounts'. But only states *one* of them - that ICE agents fired 'defensive shots'. Nothing about the *other* account - that ICE agents murdered him.

I wish Democrats would start just speaking the truth: “ICE is killing American citizens in public for exercising their freedom of speech because Donald Trump wants to be a king. This isn’t about immigration—Trump wants to make it illegal to oppose him, and to stay in power until he dies.”

Plenty of scholars have raised the point of the blowback. How (historically) US violence abroad has reverberated at home. From COIN and surveilance, to assassinations in broad daylight. Schrader's Badges without borders and McCoy on the Philippines and domestic counterinsurgency are good starts.

Man, I bet the NRA is going to be furious when they hear that jack-booted thugs from the federal government executed a law-abiding citizen for exercising his Second Amendment right to carry a handgun. Any second now, I'm sure. He was a white guy, if that helps? Hello? NRA?

Is it Fascism yet?

Walter here dropping truth bombs on Starmer’s @teamlabouruk.bsky.social government.

Special Counsel Jack Smith in his Opening Remarks:

‘The core danger we identified is now emerging: a violent confrontation between state and federal military forces in a major American city.’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Provocative questions: does Trump know how small Greenland really is? Does he know that Alaska is very close to Russia and not an island (in a box)?

Again, I'm all for making my teaching relevant, but regime change in Cuba!? Come on! A bit much? www.wsj.com/world/americ...

I have to give it to Elon Musk. It wasn't easy, some thought it was impossible, but he managed. He was able to make the insufferable owner of Ryan Air into a popular hero. Kudos.

Trump confused Greenland & Iceland. He thinks there’s a country called “Aberbaijan”. He called the President of Switzerland “Prime Minister” & couldn’t remember her name. All in 30 minutes. We’re watching dementia rapidly advance in the most important office in the world & no-one’s intervening.

Satire is dead

Just to state the obvious, if y’all had voted Harris (or Clinton, just saying) we would not be here.

Parody of his stupid self. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u...

Paul's back and he nails it here