good to see this Switch Party? Stand Again! petition has doubled in the past 24 hours petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

A reminder that Rosindell claimed more than £125,000 in second home expenses for a flat in London, while designating his childhood home 17 miles away - where his mother lived - as his main address. https://news.sky.com/story/conservative-mp-andrew-rosindell-defects-to-reform-uk-13496013

The Norwegian government is staying fairly quiet for now, but as a sign of the shifting vibe here the former head of Norway’s armed forces has come out and called the US a “neo-fascist banana republic” and a “hostile great power without norms”. www.dn.no/politikk/tid...

ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.

Because... Please sign and remember to confirm your email address. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Rishan from my now cancelled Journeys project. She escaped religious persecution in Eritrea and travelled across the Sahara and through Libya aged only 15, eventually making it to Kent. She has now qualified as an NHS nurse to give something back to the country which gave her sanctuary.

A small number of senior barristers are enabling large-scale tax fraud. They issue opinions saying tax schemes will work. They know they won't. The point of the opinion isn't to be right. It's to protect the shadowy individuals running the schemes from prosecution. 🧵

Reform: the home for failed Tories. In this case failed in the sense of failed to pay HMRC loads of tax he owed

@wulfhelm.bsky.social This should make whatever you are having to eat appear much more appealing 🤮

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

Some pretty ice on the neck today ALT Text. 2 pics showing ice formations as interconnected shards coming from rocks on a stream

feels like the met should raid x: the everything app’s office, shut them down, confiscate their hard drives and, if they find any csam, prosecute the ceo and put them on the sex offenders’ register this is what i like to call “the moderate position”

Europe doesn’t need to “ban” the far right it needs to stop indulging it. Follow the money, expose the networks, enforce existing laws, and stop pretending that parties hostile to democracy should be treated as normal participants in it.

🎶O Christmas Cheese O Christmas Cheese Please come and coat my arteries🎶

Chef's kiss.

You lot need Dick Van Dyke singing Let's Go Fly a Kite on his 100th birthday more than you know.

A truth for the ages. It does not matter what your child is, loves or who they choose to be with. Are they happy? Are they a good person? Are they with someone who treats them well? Are they happy? If yes, you should be ecstatically happy. What more is there?

@matoxley.bsky.social Santa has come early! Very grateful that the print size is appropriate for (ahem) mature readers. Sadly, I now have to give it to my wife so she can wrap it and give it back to me on Christmas Day.

Instant Christmas classic. Enjoy

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 9 ‘Evening Snow’ Artist: SR Badmin

This is a wonderful thread.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74... @tomgordonld.bsky.social Please act on this First Brexit, which has been brushed under the carpet, and now Reform and Farage. There are many questions to be asked about Putins money and where it’s gone. I am a Harrogate constituent.

Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement. Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph Because this does NOT add up! No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies… 🧵1/9

🚨BOOM! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 80,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000 this weekend. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Any chance you can support my pertinent petition, Otto? petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Today seems an apposite moment to share this from another time and another place. Short🧵

News of the @originstorypodcast.bsky.social latest season has reached Jingdezhen 景德镇, China Perhaps @dorianlynskey.bsky.social or @iandunt.bsky.social would care for one (or all) to sit under their watchful gaze whilst they work I’m sure they would be all very gracious about the latest episodes.

The reform party nativity scene. No unmarried mothers. No Middle Eastern people. No refugees. No people seeking emergency accommodation. And not a wise fvcking man in sight…

lol.

Poor take by Curtice. This is a disaster for Farage. Polls had RefUK closely winning. Losing by 11% signposts Plaid to all of Wales as THE tactical choice for Senedd Elex and drains RefUK momentum. "Something is happening out there", alright. People are uniting to tell Farage to feck right off.

Nelson's Victory crew included a Brazilian and a Russian, 2 Indians, 2 Swiss, 2 Portuguese, 3 Danes and 3 Norwegian sailors. There were 3 Germans, 4 Italians, 6 Swedes, 7 Dutchmen, 9 West Indians and an African, as well as 21 Americans, 63 Irish, 64 Scots, 441 English.... oh, and 3 French men, too.

I have half an hour before my next interview so I'm going to sketch out what I find an important problem with the fashionable division of immigrants into "net contributors" and "net recipients" of government spending. 1/10

@wulfhelm.bsky.social Inspired by the wonder that is #shitbirdphotographs I endeavoured to capture some larger fauna. Oh deer

I wonder if someone has brought this to your attention @iandunt.bsky.social

One for you @wulfhelm.bsky.social

Are you writing under a pseudonym @wulfhelm.bsky.social ?

Javier Milei had to beg a bail-out and already needs another. Argentina's economy is in a tailspin. Gov't bonds and peso in freefall. People starving, throwing rocks at him. Farage last year: "He's amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing expenditure. That's leadership." SHARE!

There seems to be some *confusion* among Reform supporters over Nathan Gill being one of them “But, but, Reform didn’t exist when he took his Russian bribes” “But, but he was in UKIP” “But, but it has nothing to do with Farage, he barely knew the guy” So here’s a little history lesson 👍🏼🧵 1/14

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

"Take a look, Frank, we're testing out my latest invention. It's an escalator that freezes when it detects a sex pest, giving their prey a chance to escape. I call it the Escape-a-rape-alator."

🤣

If reincarnation exists, I'm fairly sure I'll be this crow.

The events of the last week In both the UK and US have filled me with a sense of dread. Why? The tyrannical zeal of the US far right? The madness of Musk? The menace of Farage? Yes. But mainly because Keir Starmer makes me feel as if we're all vulnerable. THREAD

Images and footage of US President Donald Trump with Jeffrey Epstein were projected onto Windsor Castle as a three-day state visit to the UK got underway. Campaign group Led by Donkeys shared footage of the projection on Instagram with the message, “Hey Donald, welcome to Windsor Castle.”