BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.

Much-needed advice for some. "A little festive advice to those in Reform UK." "If mysterious men from the east appear bearing gifts, this time, report it to the police."

OMG we only went and bloody won!! 🎉🎉 In barely two years Democracy for Sale has gone from nothing to winning a British journalism award Am absolutely blown away!! Thanks to everyone who reads D4S and supports us. Couldn’t do it without you all 😊

🚨 “Can I tell you how many times in the last 45 years the European Court of Human Rights has ruled against the UK when it comes to deporting people from this country - only 13 times - in 45 years” Hugely important point made by @vicderbyshire.bsky.social 👏

"As far as Donald Trump is concerned, global security is a protection racket and everyone is going to have to pay more." Stunning interview with Europe security expert, formerly at the State Dept and NATO, Dr Terra. Clearest explanation of Trump's (very confused) new global manifesto.

The 2025 National Security Strategy document makes it official: the Trump administration believes that European liberal democracy is a threat to U.S. national interest.

There will come a point where Farage realises he needs non-dregs defectors to look vaguely respectable and Tory frontbenchers realise a pact is the only way they get to carry on being MPs. Then there will be deal.

Go on. It’s the biggest geopolitical pivot of the past 100+ years. It’s an existential moment of crisis for a set of political values that we hold to be the foundation of decent society. Would it kill you to show that you have noticed; to say, I dunno, *something*?

I can’t help thinking that when, in future, people ask what UK political leaders said as it became undeniable that US saw European liberal democracy as its no1 strategic foe, Starmer and others will regret that the answer is “not much, shuffled awkwardly, looked at their feet”.

Today is #HumanRightsDay. What better day to remind everyone that either we all have human rights, or none of us really do.

'The ECHR is a vital foundation of our freedoms, and it is essential that any changes do not open the door to the slow erosion of our rights, now or in the future.'

How many times do we need to point this out? By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it. While weakening your own position. There's a vast amount of academic research showing this. But Labour will not listen. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...

Powell: "Inflation for goods has picked up, reflecting the effects of tariffs."

Video of the session - which features some excellent questions - is here nihrc.org/news/detail/...

Yesterday, we launched the Annual Human Rights Statement 2025. Read the statement from our Chief Commissioner, Alyson Kilpatrick, here: nihrc.org/news/detail/... #AS2025

Sign our petition to keep the UK in the ECHR here:

Today MPs voted in favour of the 10 minute rule bill on a new UK-EU Customs Union. A new arrangement would help reduce economic burdens and create a more reliable system for exporters. With the economic pressure increasing, Parliament needs to act.

NEW Extremism, conformity, and the problem of law How the law can (attempt to) regulate extremism, but it can really do nothing about conformism. By me emptycity.substack.com/p/extremism-...

That's right! We should destroy human rights so that Keir Starmer can win* the next general election! *Make it even more likely he'll lose by mainstreaming the far right politics he pretends to oppose

NB: 'The impetus for the inquiry..was the Committee’s well-founded concern about domestic and global threats to the rule of law — including the ‘tyranny’, referred to in the report’s title, that the rule of law potentially guards against in the face of the forces of populism and authoritarianism.'🧐

New post: Tyranny, anarchy and the rule of law: Reflections on a major report by the Constitution Committee publiclawforeveryone.com/2025/11/20/t...

Jeez. All tourists - including those from Britain - will have to undergo a social media screening before being allowed entry into the US under new plans being considered by the country's border force news.sky.com/story/us-pla...

Also worth noting, the Tribunal found that Sandie Peggie had harassed Dr Beth Upton in a "hate incident".

Oooft. Sandie Peggie shared highly offensive messages and was then "untruthful" in giving evidence to the Tribunal. This is the 'hero' Gender Critical campaigners have chosen.

This is a real disaster for those - pretty much the entirety of the British media - advancing a maximalist reading of the For (Some) Women Scotland decision.

This is the key paragraph in the Sandie Peggie decision.

Some robust criticism is made of the way in which Naomi Cunningham conducted herself. Query whether this is going to come before her professional regulator.

This is the second decision - both first instance - since the appalling For (Some) Women Scotland decision to find that there is no trans bathroom ban. www.gov.uk/employment-t...

Decision in the Sandie Peggie case. She was not directly or indirectly discriminated against, her claim of victimisation fails entirely, her claim of harassment fails largely and her claim against Beth Upton fails entirely. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sa...

Good but SO long overdue! Actually makes me mad! Foreign Affairs Ctte report e.g. 'Moscow's Gold' made these recommendations nearly a decade ago! @billbrowder.bsky.social @oliverbullough.bsky.social @spotlightcorruption.org @anticorruption.bsky.social @bestforbritain.org @philbrickellmp.bsky.social

🚨 It is "crystal clear" now!! Trump's US National Security Strategy ("welcomed with glee by the Kremlin") "intends to torpedo the 80 year transatlantic alliance." ⚠️

This week, the Trump administration released the public-facing version of the long-awaited National Security Strategy document. The document is a far-right fever dream - and every bit as radical as Zeteo reported it would be. Our political team explains the NSS: zeteo.com/p/trump-nati...

Mine for @theipaper. And I'll be chatting to @mrjamesob.bsky.social about this issue after the 11:30 headlines on @lbc.co.uk inews.co.uk/news/world/r...

For those asking: if you would like to read the full, new U.S. National Security Strategy published by Trump on Friday, you can find it here… A reminder: this is all now official government policy. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

Definitely paying ATTENTION @mrjamesob.bsky.social! I keep relistening to @lbc.co.uk Washington correspondent Simon Marks (11.49) reporting on the alarming US National Security Strategy welcomed with glee by the Kremlin! Crystal clear American govt intends to torpedo the 80yr transatlantic alliance!

Here’s the link to watch History Reclaimed’s right wing moral, logical and historical arguments being scrutinised. It’s uncomfortable viewing in places as Biggar’s put on the spot. The truth about the British Empire: Mehdi Hasan & Nigel Bi... youtu.be/SZvkTmNQSy4?... via @YouTube

The “Labour” Party finds itself arguing ordinary workers, carers and others are “takers”.

Elon Musk shares far right advocate and former holocaust denier Peter Sweden to explain that remigration isn't far right

The Times should correct this. The commentator & subeditors could have checked the reporting. Since the "tiny details" comfirm, and are plausible, it makes this doubt highly implausible.

For someone who is “no apologist” for Farage’s racism, Trevor Phillips sure produces a lot of apologies. Two of them are far more pernicious than just the usual Whataboutery though: www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

MUST WATCH brilliant @mrjamesob.bsky.social takedown of Farage on @lbc.co.uk. Did it trigger yesterday's shameful #Fauxrage spectacle? youtu.be/x_UXJQmdbIY?...

Funding/support from American oligarchs is a FAR more significant threat to British democracy than that from the Kremlin, which has a. a fraction of their cash and b. approximately zero popularity.

Unpopular opinion: the obsession with whether Nigel Farage is taking Russian money is obscuring us from the far more troubling reality of where he's actually taking money from. Yes, Russians have used Tether to launder money. So does everyone.

The allegations are clearly credible+ number of witnesses mean they ring true. Farage did not deny them in 2013 and 2021. His colleagues claims they are made-up clash with his own tacit acknowledgement, emphasising his age and the different context. He will have to drop his BBC "boycott" next year

My view is that he should apologise, and that he should primarily be judged on his words, policies and standards in 2025, not 1981. He is not doing as well as he might hope on the 2025 test in the eyes of most ethnic minority people, nor a plurality of the majority group bsky.app/profile/sund...

Nigel Farage declines to endorse Richsrd Tice's claim that the recollections of 20+ of Farage's school contemporaries of his teenage racial slurs are "made up twaddle" and instead suggests he may boycott the BBC until it apologises for Alf Garnett! www.bbc.com/news/article...

A "thin-skinned" Nigel Farage demanded an apology from the BBC for what it broadcast in the 70s, as he faces allegations of antisemitism in the same era. "I was watching those programmes. They never made jokes about gassing Jews," says Jon Sopel www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/fara...

🔴Reform UK Builds Towards £40 Million Election War Chest as ‘Billionaires Wait in the Wings’ to Back Nigel Farage for PM The self-proclaimed ‘anti-establishment’ party took almost four times more from big money donors last quarter than any of their rivals bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/r...

Despair for UK democracy! My Q (1.01 min) about foreign donations & interference. @philbrickellmp.bsky.social agreed reform of political financing & electoral laws was "long overdue" but what's @teamlabouruk.bsky.social done? Farage has £9m from crypto donor in Thailand @transparencyuk.bsky.social

Is this a joke? It's insane - didn't tyrannical Trump destroy it?