Noteworthy that Kemi Badenoch yesterday seemed to commit the Conservatives to allowing Chagossians to return to the Chagos Islands. thecritic.co.uk/ice-cold-in-...

He loves the drama and the attention. The drama is the point.

The problem with this narrative, which is everywhere, is that it presupposes that if Trump had simply asked to be able to station more troops in Greenland, the Danes would have said No.

Ice Cold In The Far North: my SKETCH of PMQs and Donald Trump. thecritic.co.uk/ice-...

Ice Cold In The Far North: my SKETCH of PMQs and Donald Trump. thecritic.co.uk/ice-...

please refer to your Davos phrasebook www.ft.com/content/ab4f...

"I don't want to repeat the speech."

"A submarine is not a fishing boat. You don't fish."

Say what you will about Hitler, at least he knew which countries he was invading.

"I think that the second number is three."

Eric Portman and Glynis Johns in 71st Parallel.

"Now what I'm asking for is a piece of ice. Cold and poorly located."

"They love me! They call me Daddy."

"Igloos to the south-west. Thousands of them."

"Sir, everything you've done has been perfectly executed."

BBC viewers can access Mark Rutte's inner monologue by pressing the red button.

Saving Frozen Ryan

A Fridge Too Far

Ice Cold In Nuuk.

The Shortest Day At least at this time of year

Very much up for a WW2 film about America's defence of Greenland.

Without America, "right now, you'd all be speaking German" Trump tells an audience in Switzerland.

This is an extraordinary story

To be serious, I wouldn’t mind so much about celebrities getting children’s book deals if it worked both ways, and more authors got mainstream TV coverage.

Kemi Badenoch's decision to insist that the Chagos islanders should have the right of self-determination has considerable merit, but ignores the fact that 50 years of Conservative party policy has been very happy to see the inhabitants of Diego Garcia exiled in perpetuity.

It’s a race now. Can he die before he’s lowered the bar of behaviour expected while in office so low that he can keep doing it while dead?

US Speaker Mike Johnson has been sent to win Britain over. But can he hear the words coming out of his own mouth? My SKETCH. thecritic.co.uk/calm...

Having read @roberthutton.co.uk sketch about Mike Johnson, Trump lackey, being allowed to address parl I no longer feel so annoyed He didn’t address the house as did-say Zelensky-met with standing ovations He was relegated to committee room 14 & even that wasn’t full thecritic.co.uk/calm-waters/

NEW: This is a REAL story in The Globe and Mail today. Canadian Armed Forces are modelling responses to a US military invasion from the south. They expect Canadian forces to be overrun in a fortnight, so the plan centres on Afghanistan-style insurgencies to inflict mass casualties on US troops 👇

Magnificent.

US Speaker Mike Johnson has been sent to win Britain over. But can he hear the words coming out of his own mouth? My SKETCH. thecritic.co.uk/calm...

Kemi Badenoch tells the BBC's Matt Chorley that if she were prime minister, Donald Trump would simply not be like this.

Why is Donald Trump changing his mind every five minutes and saying completely mad stuff an embarrassment for Keir Starmer? It feels like it should chiefly be seen as an embarrassment for the United States.

Can Keir Starmer bore enough to stop a trade war - or an actual war? My SKETCH of Today In Saving Greenland. thecritic.co.uk/on-b...

If only there had been some clue that he was like this.

I've just found out from an early episode of the excellent @warmovietheatre.bsky.social that The Vicar of Dibley was filmed in the same village (Turville) as the 1942 home front invasion classic Went The Day Well. This feels like a missed opportunity for an incredible remake.

"l no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"

Can Keir Starmer bore enough to stop a trade war - or an actual war? My SKETCH of Today In Saving Greenland. thecritic.co.uk/on-b...

Do we, though?

My "I found this antisemitic quote when I was browsing the web and it seemed very plausible to me" source quote is answering a large number of questions I really didn't intend to answer. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-poli...

Former Prime Minister Liz Truss tweets that Robert Jenrick is a "trojan horse" who is "getting his orders" from some unidentified shadowy force of global conspirators

Happily, this is a battle that both sides really can lose.

Weird that Reform is announcing the Andrew Rosindell defection without the usual press conference where we get to ask him questions for an hour.

Me, an idiot: I'm worried about these parties that seem really hostile to darker-skinned people. James Orr, an actual associate professor at actual Cambridge University: It is impossible for populists to be undemocratic, because of the Greek origins of the word "democracy".

Nigel, if you're following, I can help you out here for a reasonable consideration

We regret to announce that the emergency mission to retrieve Farage from Trump's colon has failed.

This is brilliantly fun and also a great insight into a certain archetype of person who gets inexplicably far in today's (well, yesterday's) Tory Party.