Macron’s allies say it plainly: Brexit is why Starmer is weak with Trump. Inside the EU, you have leverage, a market of 460m and a trade bazooka. Outside it, you urge calm while others decide. Brexit left Britain weak and Trump knows it. archive.ph/2026.01.20-1...

The biggest new measures are: - A £2bn government-backed loan scheme for green home upgrades, available to all households - £5bn in government funding for low income households, with an all new scheme to replace ECO from 2027 - Higher energy efficiency standards for rented properties from 2030

He would have to be legally resident in the UK but assume that, and yes, absolutely. Commonwealth citizens can be MPs

A: Because Trump and Putin are allies. It’s not complicated.

A powerful paragraph: Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social

We can build walls or we can be more ambitious — and build something better, stronger, and more just.

I think this is my core geopolitical belief.

In an era of great power rivalry, Canada is choosing to be principled and pragmatic. To name reality, to act together, and to build what we claim to believe in.

The founding fathers got lots of stuff wrong in the constitution. But a minimum age for president, rather than a maximum, is right up there.

Mark Carney's speech really is terrific: full text is here and very much worth your time.

Trump reposts a tweet that says the real enemies to the United States are NATO, the U.N., and the "enemy within" — not China or Russia.

ICE detained Purple Heart veteran William Vermie for hours at the Whipple Federal Building. He says he’s speaking out because he’s white, he has privilege and if he doesn’t use it to stand up for others, who will? That is what solidarity looks like.

It's so exhausting to to be constantly told by American leaders that the defining policy of the 80 odd years during which the US became the most wealthy and powerful country in the history of the world was a grossly unfair failure for them.

Great work Labour! Millions in water company fines to power local-led restoration! Water companies who break environmental rules are now seeing their fines used to fund the recovery of England’s waterways. Projects have so far been given £29m. 1/3

Ukrainian mountaineer Antonina Samoilova shared tips for staying warm in extreme cold Antonina became the first Ukrainian woman to climb 2 eight-thousanders within a single day.She has summited the world’s highest peak -Everest-3 times &conquered 5of the highest mountains on the planet 📹t.samoilova

We just visibly are not a country where either the public or the political class has clocked that every couple of months a member of the defence establishment goes 'there is a war going on and we are, at present, losing'.

This is a subtweet so enormous and flaming that it's visible from space

One might as well point out the fantasy: They might speak English, but there is no anglosphere. They don't care about Britons. Canzuk is not a thing. This would be very deleterious to the quality of life in the UK. 2

Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "

NEW: This is a REAL story in The Globe and Mail today. Canadian Armed Forces are modelling responses to a US military invasion from the south. They expect Canadian forces to be overrun in a fortnight, so the plan centres on Afghanistan-style insurgencies to inflict mass casualties on US troops 👇

67% of Britons support retaliatory tariffs against the US if Trump imposes tariffs as a result of UK opposition to his attempts to take over Greenland Support: 67% Oppose: 14% Net support by 2024 vote Green +73 Lab +65 Lib Dem +64 Con +60 Reform +29 yougov.co.uk/topics/inter...

If the US seized Greenland by force, Reform UK and Tory voters tend to think Europe's response should be diplomatic only, while Labour and Lib Dems tend to favour economic retaliation Greens are split between diplomacy, economic and military reactions yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

What do Britons think Europe should do if the USA seizes Greenland? Accept it: 5% Respond diplomatically only: 33% Retaliate economically: 30% Retaliate militarily: 14% yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

And here we have the reason why the Chagos Islands situation is an open goal for the (far) right.....most people don't have a clue about it! Vacuums of knowledge are filled by disinformation, which just so happens to be a specialism of the (far) right.

Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever: “People want to join the EU. Nobody wants to join China. No neighbour of the US says, “We want to join the United States.” Nobody wants to. “They want to join the European Union just because we have respect. We have the rule of law. We do speak softly.”

Billionaire investor Ray Dalio warns Trump’s actions could lead to economic disaster for the US.

As a Canadian: he's one man who was re-elected. He's one man who remains in power because the US congress is spineless. The US congress is spineless because the US electorate accepts this. It is correct for the rest of the world to equate Trump and America.

Strong "Who left the gate open at the cunt farm?" looks from the panel here...

Well she IS renowned for her people skills

Nigel Farage doesn’t look too ill to comment on Trump at lunch yesterday. And is Liz Truss the next discredited Tory jumping ship?

It is argued that Trump is going further now because he's winning. You can also make the exact opposite argument, that he is losing, he isn't remaking the world system, and now he's completely fed up and trying increasingly desperate measures.

Trump publishing Macron's message was actually helpful because it shows what is going on mostly out of the public glare, some pushback and attempt to find the off ramps. We didn't have a trade war or a complete sellout to Russia over Ukraine because of this.

Almost everyone's Trump handling tactic is public flattery and private delay / obfuscation. Why? Because it works better than any alternative that has been tried. There is though a big weakness which is that this strategy can't actually be publicly communicated.

Plans to sign proposed Ukraine “prosperity plan” worth $800B at Davos were scrapped. Greenland dispute derailed efforts to use the week to finalize security guarantees and reconstruction talks between US, Ukraine & Europe. US officials say no signing date was set and document still needs revision.

No way should we accept this.

This is (1) disgraceful at a moment of national danger, (2) laughably unserious and (3) deeply unwise when the President is obviously becoming incapacitated and the most unpopular person in the whole UK. Utterly disqualifying.

Last year, the US described the Chagos Islands deal as a 'monumental achievement.' Now, Trump thinks it's an 'act of great stupidity.'

Trump endorsed and signed the deal himself. He's lying about it now to make up some reasons why he should annexe territory of a fellow NATO ally. Badenoch absolutely should not be saying 'he's right about that bit'. Shows how conflicted the Tories are about Trump.

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In stating that Starmer needs to "stand up to Donald Trump", Ed Davey should be forced to detail exactly what constitutes "standing up". Does it mean a trade war or something else? Whether it is the former or the latter, what are the economic and social consequences? Otherwise, it's just posturing.

Macron official after Trump threatened to impose a 200% tariff: “We have taken note of President Trump’s statements regarding wines and champagnes. As we have consistently stated, tariff threats intended to influence our foreign policy are unacceptable and ineffective.”

Traitor.

Fartrage says it is unacceptable for King Donald the Mad to apply economic pressure on a long-standing ally of more than 100 years. But only a few weeks ago he was in the US asking them to put sanctions on the "undemocratic" UK. What a complete and total shit wankstain this man is.

A lot of these political editors see Starmer/Trump and Mamdani/Trump as unexpected bromances, rather than what the rest of us see, which is someone trying to gamely manage a lunatic.

Trump on his website laying in to the UK over Diego Garcia as an act of “GREAT STUPIDITY”, cites it as a reason the US should “acquire” Greenland

Morning, everyone.

This is insane. And he’s doing it in the name of America. But where the heck is America? America is 300,000,000+ people and yet… we hear barely a peep.