Journalists covering the January immigration protests in Minneapolis have been exposed to tear gas, pepper spray and other irritants, at times forcing them to retreat or halt reporting. Cases are documented here, updated as they come in.

Tory defections were useful to Reform at the start but are now a real risk. There is little sense in packing the party full of the very politicians the electorate overwhelmingly voted out. You can’t pitch to fix the country whilst hiring the Home Secretary and cabinet who broke it.

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

“Heartbroken but also very angry… sickening lies by the administration… reprehensible and disgusting… Alex is clearly not holding a gun… please get the truth out about our son, he was a good man…”

Nigel Farage racks up £151,000 in donor-funded flights to support Donald Trump www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

A 23-year-old US citizen was detained by ICE for two days. During the arrest, she was called a racial slur and suffered a concussion.

A coworker took this from her apartment. I haven't seen a crowd this size before. Maybe the first Women's March? But it was much much warmer that day. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA!

Farage has been touring Davos all week pledging to “fight the globalists” - all funded by a $10 billion trust run on behalf of an Iranian billionaire. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

⚡️Fewer than 20% of Kyiv's apartment buildings remain without heating amid winter crisis, mayor Klitschko says. Kyiv's utilities workers have reconnected 650 high-rise apartment buildings in the past day, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Jan. 23.

Mohamed Mansour: “What happened is a very big crime committed by the Israeli army by targeting a crew belonging to the Egyptian committee. This crew was not firing rockets nor fighting the Israeli army. The Egyptian committee’s crew was on a humanitarian mission.

GPs argue for a bigger shift: more care delivered in the community, longer and more flexible consultations, extra support in deprived areas. Our De-noiser unpacks what is driving demand and what a different model could look like

Gavin Newsom: “I mean, heck, Donald Trump tried to steal the election — the last election, tried to light democracy on fire, and then pardoned everyone that participated in that — is anyone paying attention to what the hell is going on in the United States of America?”

Where's the outrage we saw when Angela Rayner, who paid the wrong amount of tax on a property for her disabled son, & followed poor advice? She had a single breach of code for an amount ~10% of what Farage has tried to tax dodge. When is he going to be made to resign due to media pressure?

Via Joey Politano: US factory construction continues steadily declining as CHIPS & IRA projects either complete or cancel—in official data released today, overall US manufacturing construction has hit the lowest level since late 2023, down 11% from its 2024 peak #EconSky

Trump on NATO: "The problem with NATO is that we'll be there for them 100% but I'm not sure that they'd be there for us, if we gave them the call". We did get the call on 9/11. 26 NATO members sent troops to defend the US. Hundreds died doing so. It was the only time Article 5 has been activated.

Trump on NATO: "Until the last few days when I told them about Iceland, they loved me. They called me daddy." (He means Greenland.)

Trump speech Davos rambling incoherent lies. He is definitely confabulating. His minders must be in panic mode

🚨The Petition calling for by-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party now has 43,000 signatures! Let’s get the 100,000 needed! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

This isn’t immigration policy. It’s a business model. ICE keeps growing, not because it makes America safer, but because corporations are raking in billions off cages, bodies, and suffering. ICE’s existence is a massive revenue stream.

President Trump has moved to take control of Venezuela’s oil production, claiming that increasing output will lower prices for consumers. A petroleum engineer explains what it would take to extract and process the type of oil found in Venezuela.

🚨By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party - lets get this to the 100,000 signatures needed petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Anna Troup and her husband Richard, outside the Border Hotel at the iconic wall as she takes the title of winter Spine Race winner 🏆 #SpineRace

Polish PM Tusk criticizes US Trump statement that Ukrainian President Zelenskyy is an obstacle to a peace agreement. Tusk writes on X that it was not Zelenskyy, but Russia, that rejected the peace plan prepared by the US. "Russia's only response was further missile attacks on Ukrainian cities." -ntv

And there it is 🤬 Reform UK's would-be Scottish leader in row over introducing charges for NHS patients EXCLUSIVE: Lord Offord is under fire over a paper which also called for a debate on introducing user charges in the NHS. Paul Hutcheon Political Editor, Daily Record 04:30, 13 Jan 2026

NEWSMAX: If SCOTUS rules against tariffs, who would that hurt the most? REP. JIMMY PATRONIS: It ultimately hurts American jobs. The president has been leveraging tariffs in order to strengthen the manufacturing base (Manufacturing jobs have declined for 8 straight months)

In the spirit of brotherly love, could I gently enquire why the almighty **** are government departments, government ministers and Labour MPs *STILL* using X?

. Good - but in the meantime Labour, and the BBC, should make a concerted effort to get established on Blue Sky so that this threat to block X in the UK can be carried out with minimum inconvenience. #r4today #bbcbreakfast #GMB #politicslive #C4News #toriesgone557 .

There it is. Farage and Reform would end our NHS. Millions of people could not afford to be ill under a Reform government.

'Effectively all we are doing is turning criminals and perverts into X's paying customers' Dame Caroline Dinenage, chair of the Media Select Committee, speaks to #BBCBreakfast after X limited the use of its artificial intelligence chatbot Grok

Fighting the Brexit reset means scrapping Erasmus again and telling businesses that red tape, queues and cost are the price they should all pay for Farage’s petulant prejudice. What a very tiresome bore of a man shouting at us in his soiled Brexit pants. www.ft.com/content/3f97...

He does know that the Pilgrims arrived 405 years ago doesn't he...

Obama deported 3 million illegal immigrants during his time in office and I don’t remember a single scene like this.

Otherwise - presumably - Reform MPs are happy to cash in on a website that allows users to make abusive images of children.

We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.

Yesterday I posted my last ever Tweet and called on the Government to do the same. Read more below on why I think it’s time to leave the cesspit formerly known as Twitter. www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

Reform is full of Incompetent fools and crooks. Reform UK politician who boasts of skills in business ‘compliance’ has had at least ten companies struck-off for breaking company law.

Farage is lying! 🤥 * More than 30 people have spoken [..] as part of an investigation based on multiple accounts of racism, including Peter Ettedgui, 61, an Emmy- and Bafta-winning director, who recalled Farage growling repeatedly “Hitler was right” or “Gas them”! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

FYI: In 1916 the U.S. signed an agreement for control of St. Thomas, St. John & St. Croix, known as the “Danish West Indies,” in exchange for $25 million & a declaration that the U.S. would “not object to the Danish Govt extending their political & economic interests to the whole of Greenland.

If the US holds Venezuela, we will seize 17% of oil -- yesterday's technology. If China uses this precedent to take Taiwan, it will own 60% of semiconductors -- tomorrow's technology. See what happens when you elect evil & stupid at the same time? Really American FB

It’s crazy the UK has not yet rejoined the EU's roaming area. Another example of us being left behind

Ughhh

Farage apparently wants to sort out London's 'terrible' crime rate. Also: The crime rate in Farage's Clacton is 25% higher than in London. 🤔

So Boris Johnson, Prince Phillip, Andrew Bonar Law, Freddie Mercury, George I, George II, Richard E Grant, Douglas Carswell, Rudyard Kipling, Cliff Richard, Joanna Lumley and Spike Milligan weren't British? Interesting www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Zelensky says the war could end in 2026, noting that for the first time, Russia's army has stopped growing despite monthly mobilizations of 43,000. “If it continues, Putin will have to mobilize the population, and he doesn’t want that due to growing problems in Russian society,” Zelensky said.

This is a key point. Dual citizenship isn't 'half British, half something else'. It's *full* British citizenship, and *full* the other citizenship. As a dual citizen, you're every bit as much of a British citizen as someone who only has British citizenship.

US food the orange fascist wants to send here. See Stephen Fry VG on this below. #Brexit disaster. 💥Recombinant bovine growth hormone 💥Ractopamine-Tainted Meat 💥Brominated Vegetable Oil 💥Chlorinated Chicken to cover up the bugs 💥GMA Crops 💥No Country of Origin Labelling youtu.be/gAMpJ9Yr56Y?...