2026 about to become the most absurd year in human history. "..Moscow is willing to contribute $1 billion to President Trump’s “Board of Peace” for Gaza, but that would require unfreezing Russian assets held in the United States, President Vladimir V. Putin said on Thursday.

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All the decent people are horrified. All the racists are delighted. Farage has modelled his own brutalising and ruinous immigration policy on Trump’s fascism. “Operation Restoring Justice. Detect. Detain. Deport” FGS UK. Do not submit to this horror. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

This is what Brexit did to us & this is *exactly* how we will feel should Farage ever - god forbid - get in power.

“This is not sovereignty. It’s the performance of sovereignty while accepting subordination” When small powers don’t work together, they negotiate from weakness, competing to be the most accommodating. Carney is right. Brexit is the paradigm. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"The takeaway for Europe is that standing up to him can work." Trump only backed down because European leaders stood up to him, and more importantly stood together. The lesson for the UK; we must unite with our fellow democracies in Europe! www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

So many of us still feel like this & it gets no easier. Time doesn’t heal because Brexit continues to destroy us in small ways & in big: from our own personal frustrations of travel & opportunity right through to our current geopolitical disaster, thanks to Brexit - isolated, powerless, divided.

They say time heals yet, every day, I become even angrier with the fools and liars who promoted Brexit. And not a word of contrition from them. And I’m even more angry with those who say we can make Brexit work. Either they are fools or they think I am

Farage - if it wasn’t for America, the Europeans would all be speaking German. Farage is so far up Trump’s ass that he’s coming out of his mouth. From Brexit to Ukraine to Greenland these ppl see huge personal gain from the democratic chaos they cause.

Farage in 1939 Poland would be better placed if Germany took it over.

Brexit, Ukraine, Greenland - Farage doesn’t believe in the right to self determination. Like Trump, he believes the rich & powerful have the right to exploit & extort. And while he rejects net zero, he acknowledges that global warming leaves Greenland vulnerable. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Farage would sell this country out in a heartbeat

"What Trump revealed in Davos was not just his appetite to remake the world - by force if necessary - but something even more alarming: that democracy in America is fast receding into the distance Britain could follow unless it acts fast" New by me: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/trump-is-w...

👏😂 People want to join the EU. Nobody wants to join China or US. Well played Belgian PM Bart De Wever.

Trump can't even remember which country he wants to steal.

In Trump's telling, the US are the equivalent of the Nazis

We’re giving the biggest stage to this most consummate liar. Vomiting untruths that would make the worst autocrat blush. #davos

They claim they’re putting personal ambition aside and defecting to Reform to help fix the country. To stop that pisstaking farce, they should be made to hold by-elections in their constituencies and let the voters decide if that’s ok with them. Please sign. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

What utter fools we were to leave the EU, to destroy our trade, our security, our solidarity & trust & to lose jobs & investment, on the basis of a Special Relationship which didn’t exist. 10 wasted years. The case to rejoin is being made stronger for us every single day.

At least this is good. This Board of ‘Peace’ will infest anyone close to it with corruption. Also note the Chagos rift: Trump smearing UK with something nobody else cares about, just because the UK tries to be an ally.

The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:

None of the authors of this Policy Exchange Document are the right people to be writing it. Most critics and defenders (see below, or Sumption's foreword) of the ECHR are making precisely the same mistake about it. Its justification is nothing to do with UK domestic law. /1

accurate headline: "Greenlanders in tears, Ukrainians die, Kremlin in joy" euromaidanpress.com/2026/01/19/g...

Very clever post by Trump. Not only undermines Starmer, but throws an irresistible bone to the UK hard right in politics and the media who will leap on an excuse to side with an aggressive foreign authoritarian, as they did in the 1930s…

"Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Pure hatred, plain & simple. Thanks to Brexit & the far-right, the UK has lost its way. I want my old country of tolerance, compassion & harmony back. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

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.

BREAKING: Germany now on board with readying the anti-coercion instrument against 🇺🇸 “There is a legally established European toolbox for responding to economic blackmail...we should now consider using these measures,” 🇩🇪finance minister and vice chancellor Lars Klingbeil just said in Berlin.

Being prepared to go to war with your closest allies because you were not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize does seem like the clearest possible vindication of the decision that you didn’t deserve it.

I'm honestly less mad at the President, who is clearly not well, that I am at his outriders and enablers. They see messages like this and then, with straight faces, go on television or write op-eds retroactively constructing grand strategy justifications. Pathetic.

The news about last night's train crash in Spain is heartbreaking. Our thoughts are with the victims of this tragedy and their families. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Unhinged

The very stable geniuses of British politics should not be allowed to forget their sycophancy towards Trump.

Rosindell is upset about the Chagos islands & has defected to Reform. How does he feel about Nigel’s friend Trump ignoring the wishes of the ppl of Greenland, demanding ownership & trashing the nato alliance? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is a very good point. The November 2025 US National Security Strategy never mentions the Arctic at all. The idea that it's a genuine security priority for the Trump administration is not credible.

Reminder of the spectacularly poor judgement of these people

Agree with @gideonrachman.bsky.social excellent column. European appeasement hasn't worked. It's time to try a different approach.

“In a radically altered geopolitical environment, both the British public and the European Commission might decide that it is time to set aside old disputes and pull together fast.” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Europe must not appease Trump on Greenland

Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.

Found this website this morning, useful as a starting point if you’re trying to boycott American goods and services, which we absolutely all should! https://www.goeuropean.org

Donald Trump threatens 10% tariffs on UK and Nigel Farage who has positioned himself as the president's best mate in Britain drops out of a much promoted interview on the BBC. Strange. Almost like the two things are connected.

The President of Poland: Call the EU a “fading star” if you want — but Russia isn’t fading. It’s an imperial power built on territorial theft, mass killings, and attacks on civilians. - A strong Poland needs a healthy EU, not illusions about Moscow. www.obozrevatel.com/ukr/politics...

This is pretty much the only post anyone should need to understand that Farage is a traitor, a conman and a populist simpleton who must *never* be given power.

James Orr is one of Nigel Farage and Robert Jenrick’s closest advisers. He admires authoritarianism, JD Vance, far-right philosophy and fundamentalist religion playing its part in politics. And yet nowhere in this Times article is he identified. Anywhere. Why?

Let's be really clear about what they're saying here. These same Brexiteers who were screaming about a loss of "sovereignty" through equal participation in a European confederation think it's perfectly OK for 🇺🇸 to dictate that a country can't send troops to *its own territory*.

Trump’s tariffs and threats mean it’s make your mind up time. If we can’t rely on America and we don’t want to cozy up to China, the answer is to get serious about our strategic future with Europe. NATO needs this too - the reset must be real, and it must happen quickly for all our sakes.

A president who threatens allies is not a partner, he is a risk. Tariffs batter supply chains, wages and investment, and Trump will aim them at any democracy that resists. Britain should deepen European cooperation, not bet on Washington’s mood swings.

The problem with Starmer refusing to choose between the US and the EU, is that, predictably, that choice will be made for him. And us. Farage et al took as down the path of isolation & weakness. Our past, present and future lie in Europe. Always have. Always will. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...

In an extremely crowded field, I reckon Robert Jenrick is one of the worst, most dislikable politicians in modern Britain. Here’s why 👇🏻

🚨BREAKING: Parliament is going to debate the petition Calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy on 9 February. This is why it’s so important👇 youtu.be/Cnl8MNhwEY0?...