It’s not just that he’s a dictator. It’s that he’s a dictator who would look out of his depth running a small, banana-based economy.

The invite to Mike Johnson to address Parliament needs to be withdrawn

How's that going Nigel?

Today would be a great day for CNAS, CSIS, Brookings, Atlantic Council, RAND, IDA, CNA, & every veterans’ advocacy group to say an attack on NATO over Greenland would be a crime under US and international law and it would shatter American military capacity for generations. They won’t say a word.

"Trying to understand the news feels like a humiliation ritual." In this, as in all other things, Britain is following the US down a very dark path.

The British far-right aren't making any secret of what they want for the UK. They're literally printing it in headlines.

It exists for this moment.

Emmanuel Macron will request the activation of the EU's anti-coercion instrument in the event of new US tariffs, his entourage says, according to Le Monde.

Joint statement of the 8 European countries tariffed yesterday by Trump. Neither backing down nor escalating themselves (yet). Good to see the UK there with its EU partners:

The joint statement just published by European leaders reads like something they would say to Russia about Ukraine: "we stand ready to engage in a dialogue based on the principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity that we stand firmly behind." www.government.se/statements/2...

It’s funny how many of those politicians who couldn’t shut up about “sovereignty” during the Brexit referendum have now spun on a dime because Daddy wants an island. #Greenland

Around 1,500 soldiers on standby for deployment to Minneapolis, officials say www.bbc.com/news/article...

Carole Cadwalladr, "But trying to suck up to Trump.. Totally disastrous deals with Silicon Valley companies in which we're bringing their software into the critical functions of how the UK state operates" "We have put ourselves in a vassal of complete surrender"

I doubt I will ever see a more inspired bit of upcycling.

Ganesh is absolutely right here. And also why there is no guarantee *at all* that a federal Europe would be some paragon of liberal values — progressive EU fans should be careful what they wish for.

Posts shared on Facebook incorrectly claim former Prime Minister Liz Truss is entitled to a £125,000 per year “ex PM pension for life”. Former prime ministers can claim up to £115,000 a year for certain expenses, but this isn’t a pension.

Everything Trump touches dies.

RIP Nobel Peace Prize, 1901-2025. It was a brave ideal but was always a bit shaky and now has sunk into the Trumpian mire of vainglory and confusion.

Someone living in New York said to me a few months ago that Europeans don’t really understand how violent America is. I think we’re beginning to catch on now.

This is pretty exciting for The New World. 👀

“Trump may have given the finger to one man, but that ‘f**k you’ followed by a middle finger is what he’s been saying every day since he returned to the White House.” www.americaamerica.news/p/donald-tru...

Could somebody please inform Lord Frost that literally nobody abroad could give a (too much of a Lady to use the expression on my mind) about Tory (or other party political) infighting but they care very much how the UK positions itself in this time of geopolitical upheaval and democratic crisis.

Reposting this again for new followers. I promise it's not shit.

I want to say some not nice things

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I don't think people realise just what a mess these absolute clowns would make. Of the economy, the Budget, diplomacy, industrial relations, trade, the Union, the media - everything. So wildly out of step with mainstream thinking and the median voter they may as well be from Mars.

Of course it is! Pathetic weakness and naivete to just accept X's word for it - still less that all their other challenges to UK law can be given a bye. Just laughing at the British. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Leaving aside the fact I quite enjoyed ep1 of Academy, these people are genuinely thick. Since when was Trek not a liberal show with a bridge crew full of TV firsts like Uhura? More historical amnesia for the file. deadline.com/2026/01/step...

Circling the drain of the Tory/Reform/Brexit soap opera is so much more important than the international events that are sweeping us along in their wake.

Let’s have one anyway and see what happens.

'Raw politics' Wut?

"Donald Trump, threatening, at least economically, to take Greenland and possibly militarily as well.” “It creates a licence for other more autocratic states in the world to do the same.” @CalumMillerLD.bsky.social

This has been the plan all along. - Foment violence and chaos in the streets of MN - Implement the Insurrection Act - Declare Martial Law - Suspend elections

A few years ago analysts were writing that AI would devastate the workplace by replacing drivers with self driving cars. Today the drivers still have their jobs, but the analysts have been replaced.

And it didn't take long for us to get to the first time this year that Reform has had to suspend a councillor: buff.ly/euUoTPp Full list of Reform departures: buff.ly/a76Y8o2

Northern Powerhouse Rail - that NPR.

When the interior ministry declares its militia to be above the law in terms that equate dissent with treason there really isn’t any question of whether or not we are looking at an authoritarian regime.