“Authoritarian regimes never trust people to love their country spontaneously” Reform insist on patriotism, flags and their version of our history and society because they can’t persuade. They goosestep into authoritarian fascism to crush diversity and challenge. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Dear Diary, Had a lovely trip to The Maldives. Lots of sun bathing, drinking, sight-seeing, lounging on the beach and a few minutes pretending to be outraged that I couldn't go to the Chagos Islands"

Judge Cannon ruled in Trump's favor & against releasing the Special Counsel report today. Some tortured, but important procedural history here. As with Epstein, Trump is so insistent that this report not see the light of day you have to wonder what’s in there? joycevance.substack.com/p/if-doj-is-...

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Uncle Jeffy Tiedrich says today in his newsletter: "Here’s one sure way you can tell you’re living in a shithole country: when the following two headlines appear one after another."

My substack newsletter on Marco Rubio's 'cunning, malignant' speech in Munich. open.substack.com/pub/mattcarr...

The US system at the moment can be imagined with the executive branch as a toddler on a chainsaw rampage, congressional parents watching the rampage in silent fond approval, and the judiciary reluctantly stepping in once a year to make him stop destroying one specific thing in one very specific way.

Farage is in the Maldives. 200 miles away from the Chagos Islands which are not a tourist destination. Hasn't got the paperwork and wasn't on the 'aid boat' he's pointing at which is trying to establish a settlement for four people on the islands. How is this serving Clacton? Who paid?

Healthcare in Greenland is publicly funded, free at the point of use, and despite geographical challenges considered very good. Healthcare costs in the USA are extortionate and responsible for 60% of all US bankruptcies. So maybe Denmark should be sending hospital ships the other way.

In the light of another couple of days of US tariff madness a reminder that survival is the only real aim when a kleptocratic psychopath is given ridiculous amounts of power by the richest and most armed country in the world.

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

In case you missed it:

Disappointing www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Surely the case that never have so many colluded in the enrichment of one man at their own personal cost, a part of the nation that has been collectively brainwashed into believing that record-breaking corruption is the way a rich nation must be run.

Mr Trump’s inaugural meeting of his Bored of Peace looked great fun! Held to a background of Elvis tunes it was lovely to see Gianni Infantile President of the Nation of FIFA present. Not only that President Bernardo Manning of Argentina proved he was a hunk of burning love.🥳

This is a crime. If you read the Board of Peace charter, you understand it has nothing to do with the American government; it's a private entity Trump created for his own enrichment. This is an impeachable offense, and if this country were not broken he would be gone by tomorrow.

Problem is, Jenrick, you can go on #r4today and bemoan the state of the economy and the cost of living, you can claim to be oh so concerned… but we all know you’re full of shit. We know you don’t care. You spent years failing us as a Tory. You’ve swapped rosettes, not had a personality transplant.

"When Lewandowski was told Noem's personal items had been left behind, including a heated blanket, he yelled at Coast Guard staff The pilot came out of cockpit to see what was happening & Lewandowski insisted plane return to collect Noem's items When he refused, Lewandowski announced he was fired"

Staggering that 24% of voters in this advanced country continue to believe in a bunch of entitled bigots with unworkable policies, whose very ideas put us in the abject chaos we are in. Truly God awful idiots, and I make no apology for saying that.

He has no idea who she is and she probably paid him for the photo opportunity. It’s a moment that’s devoid of any dignity. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Fighting age man flees his homeland to seek asylum on overcrowded island.

Trump claims that wind turbines "endanger airliners"

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... "Administration officials are stressing that overturning the regulation will save more than $1tn and will help cut the price of energy and transport" That'll be a comfort when half the world is underwater. Fucking idiot.

Can someone explain to me how a ten year old advisory referendum continues to be 'the will of the British people' and is sacrosanct, but a general election landslide less than two years ago is not 'the will of the British people' and we need to have another one?

The problem with trusting a black box AI owned by a Nazi billionaire

The man who sues anyone who hurts his feelings shows he's a racist piece of shit... again

Ok UK media - oh so scandalised by Mandelson - when are you going to be scandalised by US interference in our democracy? Epstein, Farage, Bannon, Vance, Thiel, Musk, Trump, Brexit, Heritage Foundation, the funding of far right populism to collapse our govts….?? After you’ve helped their collapse?

“The Blob is infiltrating Reform” Liz Truss has a good new nickname for Jenrick… God these people are all dismal. Disloyal, nasty, whining, idiotic, self-serving, undignified, corrupt, MAGA-funded menaces. They need to be booted out of our political and public life forever. (iPaper)

I was a White House ethics lawyer. I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules. I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.

Hilarious this pile of shit reportedly cost Bezos some $70m www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...

Yes, whatever happened to my fantasy Brexit where the all powerful UK simply swept away the superpowers, the global companies, anyone else's rules, geography, history, domestic politics, demographics, deindustrialisation, Trump, and things I don't like? Oh yes, reality. And bad Brexiter governments

The Express… and Farage… want Brexit to be even worse than this… Even more cost. More losses. More red tape. More queues. More businesses failing. Less tax revenue. Less investment. Less protection. Fewer rights. Less security. But more white. Their racism ruins us. bsky.app/profile/euro...

iambossiofficial (IG) has a #CupOfJoe for every conversation where someone starts bending themselves into a pretzel to justify the unjustifiable. Bring your rage. Bring your clarity.

We know that famous American ideal, where the government has a right to shoot you dead because of “rhetoric.”

It is amazing how fast the Second Amendment NRA 'we need our guns to overthrow a tyrannical government' lot have pivoted to 'why was he carrying a gun?' I can only imagine how sane Americans must be feeling right now.

Reform MP Andrew Rosindell tells the BBC that he "would not object" to scrapping the NHS and replacing it with private insurance

Farage pays for nothing himself. He rakes it in from media, crypto, gold bullion, X… Clacton isn’t worth his time. He’s a rep for the US christofascist far right and is being paid to bring that shit over here. It’s all a grift. A pisstake. A very sinister betrayal. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

In other words he kicked a hornet's nest and has, as always, fucking chickened out. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If you've watched the actual video... Farage falls over himself to say how respectful and polite he's being to Trump while pointing it out. It's absolutely pathetic

They say the perfect meme doesn't exi-----

You know who”stayed a little back” in VIetnam? DJT.

In what batshit timeline do we exist in when one NATO country saying they won't invade another NATO country's territory is headline news?

Satire died a long time ago. This seems to be the day when they flush it's ashes down the toilet.

If social media had been around in 1939 I wonder if it would have felt like it does right now.

Mark Carney gave the best speech at Davos by far. He understands the situation with clarity while others prevaricate, appease, and send late-night “Dear Donald” texts or call him “daddy.”

The UK was better off in the EU and Europe was better off with the UK in it. All of this Trump driven chaos underlines that and you can practically hear Putin rubbing his hands in Moscow. WE have deliberately weakened ourselves, our security and our region for absolutely no good purpose at all.

I've harped on congressional war powers for a long time and we do need to fix all that, but threatening to invade Greenland while ranting at Norway about the Nobel Peace Prize and imposing trade sanctions on NATO is more the kind of thing you can only fix by not having a literally insane president.

I stand with those badass Denmark Viking cats.