Into the void: how Trump killed international law | @patrickwintour.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/law/ng-inter...

This is brilliant: a current affairs programme trying to explain Aussie rules football in 1963. Highlights: - the remarkable number of female supporters (a longstanding phenomenon) - outline of the game’s economics (basically: huge crowds = 🥜 for the players) 1/3

Zuckerberg settles $8 billion lawsuit over Cambridge Analytica scandal, avoids testifying www.france24.com/en/americas/... @carolecadwalla.bsky.social

🏴 ‘The Epstein Files Should Not Have Been Released This Way’ By @mollyjongfast.bsky.social But nothing short of this was ever expected from this deranged, unhinged, lawless criminal club of thugs, with #ConvictedFelon47 and the helm, spiraling us into the abyss. Bypass 🔗 archive.md/2025.12.24-2...

can't they even give this woke nonsense a rest at Christmas? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

NEW: The Guardian says a 2023 DOJ dump included an MCC-guard email confirming “It appeared [Epstein] mailed [a note] out [to Nassar] and it was returned back to him. I am not sure if I should open it or should we hand it over to anyone?” DOJ hasn’t explained how this was “faked.”

I thought this was one of those redacted Epstein files.

This is my only Xmas poem, a carol inspired by sitting up all night to watch the rescue of the 33 Chilean miners in the 2010 Copiapó accident after 69 days in what seemed like a miracle to me as slowly the darkness gave way to dawn.

This is the first time Macron has retaliated so angrily against the provocations of his alleged "friend" Donald Trump. The policy of appeasement and flattery is breaking down.

DOJ busy over the holiday period redacting mentions of Trump…

Surprise!

Wondering whether the British media is being too credulous.

We’ve today formally written to multiple public bodies about BBC reporting on transgender people. Here’s who we’ve contacted and why. 1/6

This year’s Presidential Christmas card.

Hilarious BBC News report on the Andrew Epstein emails, using the phrase 'the emails do not indicate any wrongdoing' multiple times. Of course they indicate wrongdoing. They don't prove it, but they indicate it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3...

US media has decided to pretend that the Epstein-Nassar Letter Epstein sent just before he died merely had a "crude reference" to Trump. NO. It was a clear, unambiguous allegation by Epstein that Trump *regularly sexually assaulted* "young, nubile girls." Our media is BROKEN.

lol lmao this government will stop at nothing to fold for people who are never going to vote for them

Now, extreme rightwing nutjob Justin Webb talks to another rightwing nut job about how great their rightwing nutjob President has been. #r4today

Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.

It’s all so easy: wilfully walk into a protest, threaten legal action (knowing her cause has wealthy backers), then get invited onto #r4today, sounding extremely reasonable and seizing the opportunity to promote her arguments.

Also screw the BBC for its naked agenda. It refused to carry a hugely expensive first ever YouGov survey we commissioned showing how awful trans lives in the UK have become because it was "not strong enough" but there's no piece of anti-trans hatred too petty for it to platform.

So, just to confirm, the BBC can’t keep Robin Ince on the air because his trans allyship brings the organisation into disrepute, but they can keep David Walliams, who performed Nazi salutes at the recording of this very show, on the air despite him being predatory towards women. Cool. Very normal.

This is the second story in three days The Times has carried arguing against misogyny lessons in schools, which it describes as "some weird feminist attack on male children".

The main thing to conclude from this Labour strategy to compare the Greens to Reform is that they don’t understand the threat that Reform pose. They’re not bothered by fascism.

Good news!

And now we can all get some sleep. 😌 www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...

And may every day be another wonderful secret.

Vought is one of the top three or four enemies of the Constitution & American democracy. His removal from power is one of the highest priorities for any project of checking the dictatorship's lawless wielding of the vast powers of the state

A quite demented Leader column published today by The Times. First, this in which it says that the Supreme Court decision mandated that single sex spaces be divided on the basis of "biology" not gender.

The British press publishes ten transphobic articles a day because it is deeply concerned about violence against women and girls, apparently.

lmao this is the worst possible way they could have done it, you gotta leave him in some non-terrible stuff so you can argue that's all there is "he wasn't mentioned once" is not gonna fly

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This is incredibly obviously going to be the rolling problem with a “tougher” immigration stance. We still need people to do things. And, ultimately, either we hire/retain them or the things don’t get done. Everything else is hollow rhetoric.

Full responsibility for this calamitous decision rests with Bridget Phillipson who was told by two committees of MPs that Mary-Ann Stephenson was out of her depth - and it was clear she was transphobic - but chose to appoint her anyway.

"Sex Matters" is a "gender critical human rights organization" in the same way that the "Ku Klux Klan" is a "caucasian human rights organization"

John Clare, the "peasant poet", is excited about his broadband speed

Not all cultures are equally valid

A privilege to record this film in Mustang, Nepal and hear from people there about their migration and adaptation lives.

If we can't even identify our enemies then how can we fight them? Trump's National Security Strategy is the longest suicide note in American history www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

On International Migrants Day, let’s celebrate the generations of migrants who’ve helped make London what it is today - the greatest city in the world.

'Tell me, what was it that first convinced you the only black player on either team was somehow not to be trusted?' Top stuff from Ronay on a player I'll never got bored of watching run in. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/d...

All rather unfamiliar this, judicial reasoning that is just logical, not contorted around a broader societal agenda of delegitimising trans existence, so, props to the New Zealand High Court. goodlaw.social/pj1m

Really feels like UK is about to find out why first past the post really is a terrible system

The end of this term saw several colleagues in my School leave under the voluntary redundancy scheme More colleagues from English Literature are slated to leave at the end of the academic year It feels so very sad

A social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education 🧵

A short (and contentious) thread about the social media ban for kids. One thing people might not understand is why ‘socially conservative’ people and groups are very much behind it. The thing is, the dislike of social media is in part just a dislike of modern things, and modern kids. 1/4

No idea what telly Lord Sewell is watching, because I can't think of a single show with this plotline let alone it being something that is inescapable for young white men who subsequently now face a crisis of masculinity drawing them to the far right?? 🙃

Pleased to be interviewed for this much needed piece on the rising transphobia in higher education. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/trans-s... (Archive link: archive.is/oYqXS)

Grotesque performance by Tony Abbott, politicising the Bondi attack. And unconscionable for #r4today to platform him as just another former Australian PM.

So, Laura Kuenssberg's introduction to her interview with Mary-Ann Stephenson is just hideous. Let me count the ways. 🧵