Novax Djocovid does it again! 😲

To anyone with a smidgeon of interest in global geopolitics, the USA today will look like a vastly greater and more immediate threat than China. This is Dump's own doing. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

I'm shocked and surprised to hear that the USA needs to "obliterate' Iran's nuclear weapons programme. For the second time in a year! www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

This'll have the "culture warriors" wetting themselves. Remember when the Kabbalah was trendy? Now apparently it is the Chinese zodiac. www.independent.co.uk/life-style/y...

Now, here is a real plague-rat invasion. The Mayor of Milan doesn't want them. Will the Italian government roll over? www.independent.co.uk/sport/winter...

The Department of Homeland Security said the episode began after a man approached Border Patrol agents with a handgun and they tried to disarm him. But footage from the scene shows the man was holding a phone in his hand, not a gun, when federal agents took him to the ground and shot him.

Nice piece by John Burn Murdoch tying the rise of the far right and geo-political conflict to structural limits of capital. We're in an era of zero (to negative) sum games. I don't believe Mark "Thucydides" Carney discussed that. www.ft.com/content/b4d2...

For those who take an interest in such things, the flupocalypse seems not to have occurred. www.gov.uk/government/s...

Good grief. Will he bring his chainsaw? #Milei, #Erdogan invited to join #Gaza ‘ “Board of Peace”. #boredofpeas

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a nasally delivered, antibiotic-inactivated Bordetella pertussis (AIBP) vaccine that NOT ONLY prevents SEVERE disease BUT also CURBS bacterial TRANSMISSION. This NEEDLE-FREE AIBP platform could open the door to new vaccines against other respiratory bacteria.

Jenrick proclaims its defecation to the far right.

Leavitt is a fantastically threatening name for the press secretary to a wannabe despot. Leavitt, or else!

'A recent report by the University of Bristol found that schools had become the biggest provider of foodbanks across England, with 4,000 across the country.'

Anyone having an Epiphany this morning?

Anyone leaving decorations up until Imbolc/Candlemas? Not this household! #TwelfthNight

"What has taken place in the last two years is a full genocide" Watch my exclusive interview with the wonderful Javier Bardem and Cherien Dabis about genocide, AIPAC, and their Oscar-nominated new film on Palestine. Preview below. Full interview: zeteo.com/p/javier-bar...

How is the US going to maintain control over Venezuela? Is this going to be a war requiring full US military occupation, a straightforward quasi-annexation sustained by local client militias or something in-between?

Well, they say every (supposed) Trot argument is correct at least once in history. How about now? #Iran #Venezuela #Trump #USA

Solidarity with everyone in the United States taking a stand against Trump‘s war machine. This is a struggle against unfettered tyranny. What will @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social do?

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Solidarity with all Venezuelan and Iranian fighters resisting the USA and its primary Middle Eastern client state.

GOOD NEWS! A group of patients with an otherwise incurable form of T‑cell leukemia have seen their cancer driven into REMISSION by an innovative immune therapy known as BE-CAR7. 82% of patients reached deep remission and 64% of patients have now been disease-free and OFF therapy for THREE years.

Where would the world be if the parasitic class was unable to keep rewarding itself for failure?

Seems Keir Starmer is no less of a wanker after Christmas than he was before. 🤷🏻‍♂️ #darts #AllyPally

This reference to 'cultures that don't respect women' betrays gross ignorance of British (including) English women's history whether medieval, early modern, modern or contemporary. 1/3 #Skystorians

There is a lot of cheap talk about fighting Russia and having a proper war with it. In my view, that is insane. The talk should be of how to prevent such a war, not how to fight it. There is no outcome that would not be utterly devastating.

Immigration into the UK is now far too low and still plunging. We'll all suffer for it because of the hatred and fear spread online. Seems that's how life works now.

BREAKING: At least 373 Palestinians have been killed and 970 wounded since the start of the ceasefire in October, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ro90fr

Makes a lot of sense.

Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88

Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...

Day 3 Sheffield Uni UCU strike against threat of extensive redundancies. 400 academic staff gone. Nearly 100 more now confirmed. They want another £10m staff saving this year, despite being in a strong position financially. #SheffieldUCU @sheffielducu.bsky.social www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423...

I know the blimps want us to get ready for war. But is anyone seriously weighing the true extent of any threat based on structural factors? E.g., the Russian economy has around 20% of the purchasing power of the EU. How is Russia going to steamroller Europe?

One for the anti vaxers, covidiots and great barrington “libertarians”. Lethally dangerous morons with corrupt, seedy, Trumpish Johnson atop the pile.

“People died who could have been saved. These deaths are facts that cannot be denied. And I will never forget what I saw.” The COVID enquiry shines a light on the abject failure of the UK’s public health response - too little, too late.

“Have they given up? Are they just deciding to build up herd immunity by watching us die? The government has given up, hasn’t it? They are throwing us into the slaughterhouse.” It’s not hindsight - we knew this at the time @drrachelclarke.com writes: observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

I created a £31 billion surplus without even increasing the basic rate of income tax. The rich won’t be happy. 😁 www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

New: Dialogues in Urban Research exploring what it means to think about crisis as urban & how locating crisis in the urban reconfigures relations between eventful & everyday crisis politics, materiality, discourse & movement. Part of a great set of interventions. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

'Once again, the lack of regulation in the university sector has thrown up the risk of creating disciplinary “cold spots”; if the proposals are adopted, students in the East Midlands will no longer have a local opportunity to develop an integrated knowledge of languages and cultures.' 3/3

'After vigorous and partially successful attempts to save modern languages degrees at Cardiff...and the University of Aberdeen in the past two years, linguists are now called upon to point out the equally obvious folly of cutting modern languages at the universities of Nottingham and Leicester.' 1/3

You get a pass. You’re wealthy, we get the money back, plus a lot more, by taxing the arse off you. Simples! #universalism

Thank heavens for the OBR and its fiscal forecast! www.ft.com/content/abfe...

We are under a severe weather warning for rain from 12:00, and advised to make preparations and take action. Can anyone advise me of what these preparations and actions should consist? So far, I've pulled the curtains and retreated to bed. Anything else?

Professor Turi King, who led the research, said: “If he was to look at his own genetic results, he’d almost certainly have sent himself to the gas chambers.” www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/adol...

I wrote for the Big Issue about Sudan and how the UK's foreign policy choices cause forced displacement while the UK then denies responsibility for refugees and refuses safe routes to seek asylum. www.bigissue.com/opinion/suda...

In an interview about Palantir's creeping involvement in the British state and the NHS, I told @prospectmagazine.co.uk: “Its business is death and destruction. This is not an organisation you want running the democratic jewel of the postwar period.” www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/dem...

Thanks to all who have already signed the petition about the closure of Geography at the Uni. If you haven’t, please do so to help stop this ill-thought out action that threatens the future of staff, students & the discipline at Leicester www.change.org/p/save-geogr...