Newcastle Airport has outlined new measures that aim to reduce problem parking in surrounding communities

"Do they really want the BBC brought down by a rich foreign billionaire who doesn't need the money?" Public support for the BBC has been waning, but could Donald Trump’s $10bn lawsuit now turn the tide?

🔴 Exclusive: Nigel Farage’s £9m Donor Profits From Putin Propaganda Platform While Holding MoD Stake Reform UK’s biggest donor is profiting from ties to a pro-Kremlin platform that hosts a Russian intelligence-backed influence operation. @nafeez.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/12/16/n...

From Mickey 17 and M3gan 2.0 to a musical about the end of the world, this was an eclectic year for science-fiction films. Film columnist Simon Ings shares his two breakout hits

Got something for the newsletter? The *only* way to get something in The Edinburgh Minute is via this form: forms.gle/nn8TZzDCRcWi...

3). Walk 91 of the year out on Portgate to Heavenfield section of Hadrian's Wall Path National Trail, today (16/12/2025). Today I have mostly been raking flat mole hills, brushing down stiles, sorting out wind blown Gorse and litter picking. #hadrianswall #followtheacorn

It is merely a vexatious claim. The kind of cynical ploy used by rich and powerful people the world over to shut down any media that dares to expose them and hold them to account.

LEFT: Heartfelt condolences on Rob Reiner's death from a kind, stable person who should have been president. RIGHT: Obscene gloating over Rob Reiner's death from a delusional sociopath who never should have been president.

Worse

At least 6000, judging by the number of likes the monster's post received... 🙄

'In the UK, a tiny fraction of EV owners want to return to petrol, with recent surveys from late 2024 and 2025 consistently showing figures around 3% or less of EV drivers would switch back to an ICE car.' But the BBC manages to find one... #politicslive www.evaengland.org.uk/2025/06/20/e...

I’m not often lost for words but…

Will Farage's Trumpian strategy work against him? He has good reason to believe it won't | Samuel Earle

UK arms imported by Israel have doubled in 2025. The UK is complicit in Israel’s genocide and apartheid of the Palestinian people. Keep reading for 4⃣ more things you need to know.🧵

I asked Gemini to count the lies in this Donald Trump post. Enjoy g.co/gemini/share...

Kingfisher yesterday #WaterofLeith

When oh when will Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage and their UKIP promoters apologise for being directly responsible for the surge in asylum seeker boats ... meme via Oxford For Europe

Well worth a few moments of your day... Take a look! #photography

Photos from the 2025 Miss Universe competition in Thailand, a volcanic eruption in Indonesia, ice sculptures in Edinburgh, the lingering damage from Hurricane Melissa in Cuba, and much more:

Here is the whole Trump, Brexit, Russia story neatly summed up for you The battle started about Ukraine, now it’s about big tech monopoly power

"Britain was not included in the study" - that's a pity. I'd like to know if PFAs are in my breakfast! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Russia's only launch site capable of sending humans to orbit has suffered serious damage that may take two years to fix. Will NASA keep supporting the ISS without Russian involvement, or is this the end for the space station?

Crypto investor gives £9m to Reform UK as donations exceed those to Tories. Super rich don't donate, they invest to shape party policies to secure advantages for their class. Normal people can't match them. Direct donations to political parties must be criminalized.

This article is absolutely a riot from start to finish. Imagine being a journalist taking a punt on investigating a weird business rates dodge and ending up writing this!

Very much looking forward to a @danneidle.bsky.social commentary on this one.

Most of the quote tweets of Reform UK's tweet are too fluent in Glasgow's other favourite language (🤬) to share, but this one from the Education correspondent at The Scotsman newspaper is a favourite...

Feeling proud of the intelligent multi-lingual children in our city! This tweet and the Farage video in it about "the cultural smashing of Glasgow" is getting rightly roasted by the good people of Glasgow on the other place...

Good morning from Haarlem. #GoodMorningFromHaarlem

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

Does this wee guy not understand it's supposed to be winter now? I thought ladybirds grouped together to hibernate! #ladybird #Northumberland

The Daily Mailification of the BBC. For all the focus on its supposed “left wing bias”, the BBC’s heavy coverage of Conservative allegations of dishonesty against Rachel Reeves shows how its political coverage is still largely led by the right-wing press bylinetimes.com/2025/12/01/r...

US-Russia talks may press Kyiv for concessions, says EU foreign policy chief

Prime Minister Mark Carney: “We know that this decades-long process of our ever-closer economic relationship between Canada and the United States has ended.”🇺🇸🇨🇦

We have a cabinet level Secretary of State, a diplomatic corps, Special Envoys, and Defense team to do this work. “Son-in-law” is not a government job. Kushner does not represent us.

A bird of prey has been shot dead illegally in Aberdeenshire, prompting a police investigation

"The change promised by Labour at the last general election doesn’t seem to be materialising, with the gaps between rich and poor and North and South as wide as ever. An opinion poll from Find out Now published on 19 November contained sobering news for Kier Starmer’s Labour Party..."

Full story online and in the latest issue: www.private-eye.co.uk/columnists For the rest, including cartoons, Pseuds, Dumb Britain and all the other regulars, you’ll have to buy the magazine. 🧵3/3

Having sought views from across the farming industry, her 50,000-word document proposes a farm policy “reset” that will focus on encouraging farmers to increase food production. But will the government pay any attention? 🧵2/3

NEW: I just wrote up an explainer for the BBC about Airbus's recall of 6,000 aircraft late last week - after a malfunction caused by space radiation. Includes some detail on why this extraordinary phenomenon can happen and why we need to prepare for it more. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

I think it's important to say that NHS Scotland has NOT agreed to use Palantir. English people may not realise (as I didn't) that SCOTLAND, so often demeaningly portrayed in Unionist media, provides an alternative, centre/left government (often working with the Greens) on your very doorstep.

A reminder that one of Wes Streeting's junior ministers is talking enthusiastically about 'cashing in' on NHS data (www.ft.com/content/0531...).

I'm at a Kemi Badenoch event where *yet again* the Guardian has not got a question. Aside from broadcasters it was Mail, Sun and FT (the latter presumably only because we're at an accountancy body in the City). I've probably been to seven or eight such events with no question.

Chris Mason should have a read of this thread by his BBC Verify colleague Ben Chu

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