One can never underestimate the uselessness of the Democratic party. Folded again. Just, wow. Even for them, just wow.

a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers

I will restate my modest proposal to save the BBC: ban the BBC from covering itself. Every BBC scandal goes huge, because every BBC News show wants to assert its independence by covering it prominently, even if several other shows already did. So it gets blanket headlines.

Of course, because this is precisely why they were put up and what they’re for.

Oh wow! A London Underground station being officially Listed is always great news - this one especially so. Southwark station, 1999 by MacCormac Jamieson Prichard, has just been Listed at Grade 2. Now for the other JLE stations. @c20society.bsky.social historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-...

A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule

In the past year, The Heritage Foundation — the conservative think tank behind Project 2025 —  has held seven meetings with MEPs. For European politicians, it's a way to get access to Trump’s people. For Heritage, it's a way to extend influence. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/the-...

Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004. Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.

How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy. Trump is *unilaterally* giving massive tax cuts to private equity, crypto, and foreign real estate investors, in other words, to his closest cronies and sycophants.

Angriest I've seen Jon Stewart...

Up coming film win Goering and the trial of other Nazi war criminals sounds riveting. Evil people, but Goering loved his kids; suffering was a tool to be used on others. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...

Fascinating to break this down and understand what stage of brainworms the Spectatorati are at now.

If I were an American I would save money by simply buying lottery tickets with winning numbers and not those with losing numbers.

i literally went for a drink at the french house literally this afternoon what are we even doing here

At this rate, by the end of his term Donald Trump will be suing four billion people around the world for insufficient fealty.

The CURRENT sitting MP for Clacton earns £511,000 as a presenter for GB News and took £281,000 as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion. So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.

To the 8 senators who voted to give up the only leverage they had and trust the GOP:

For reference. I might print this out and hang it in my house:

“I’m going to sue you for saying that I ordered the insurrection that I ordered”

A single shared source of truth is essential for a functioning democracy. Without it you’re left with fragmentation, polarisation and a perpetual culture war where the discourse focuses on what divides us rather than what we have in common. My column from last week: www.ft.com/content/5060...

And now we know why the shutdown is ending.

😮 Russian soldier buried in a pit for refusing to go to die at the front…

all my core arguments in one case: 1. the modern far right has international ambitions 2. concessions don't pacify the far right, they embolden it 3. you can't be neutral (as the bbc tried to be) 4. they attack where resistance is weakest 5. right now, that's the uk

The far right’s really taking the piss. Literally.

It would be funny, if it wasn't tragic, reading this from four years ago about the 'independent' expert who wrote the report into purported leftwing bias at the BBC. It's just embarrassingly amateur - but it works because the Government is awol. www.theguardian.com/media/2021/n...

When someone snores, even their cat complains … www.instagram.com/reel/DQu7F6y...

Extraordinary to hear a BBC journalist actually *pressing* a Reform politician about anything, let alone to the point (not very distant) of hanging themselves. I’d pretty much forgotten what that was even like. Like A Robin Reliant; takes about 5 mins to fall apart completely

I fear that if Johnson were asked this today, there would be lot of umming & erring, some guff about "the custard of conciliation" & "the tiramisu of time", but he would refuse to answer. That a US President tried to overthrow an election is now unsayable on the British Right & in much of the media

I suspect there's also a strong element here of far too many journalists and BBC managers spending too much time on X and getting a wholly misleading impression of how big a story the Trump edits were. They're excessively influenced by right-wing activist opinion, and particularly US opinion.

"Good to see your mum and dad putting their messy divorce to one side and not spoil your graduation..."

Robbie Gibb getting a lot of scrutiny at mo. Not sure when his term on the board is up. Maybe one way for the govt to get him to 'move on' is to give him another job somewhere else.

Start taking bets on which celebs will either run towards being a competitor, or run away from it. Which agents phones are already buzzing. bsky.app/profile/theg...

The idea of a road and rail tunnel to the IoW makes perfect sense, opening up masses of housing opportunity and jobs, properly joining it to that city sprawl along the coast. But suspect that the NIMBYs on the island would object like mad, even if they allowed it built. bsky.app/profile/jame...

Whatever happened to Britain’s Most Dangerous Prisoner, Charles Bronson?

"Friends of Robbie Gibb" told Nick Robinson that, while he thought there was a problem, he hdidn't see why Tim Davie had to resign. Which raises the amusing possibility that Davie literally just couldn't be fucked doing a job that required him to Robbie fucking Gibb all the time.

A new student society for students who hate universities, and everyone in them, and still went to one for some reason.

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

Two stories I've seen so far today on space based geo-engineering. this one is to block out the sun. Another is to use space based mirrors to bring sunlight to the dark side of the earth - powering solar plants for more hours, cutting electricity use for lighting. bsky.app/profile/pros...

Have to wonder about some folk on here. Someone just added me to a transphobe blocking list - and that couldnt be further from the truth. Dont think I've tweeted about that in days either. Seems like a leftie splurge of hands over their ears blocking anyone remotely 'not them'. 🙃

You can pick many aspects of UK govt fragmented transport policy as being totemic of the whole thing, but two of the smaller schemes that really stand out do the job pretty well: the two missing rail links to Heathrow. (The one from Reading and the west, and the one from the Southwest). ...

Last night, Dick Tice launched Students4Reform (See what they did there, the scamps? They replaced "for" WITH THE NUMBER). It will be led by Matt Goodwin, a man in his mid-forties, and it looked exactly like you imagine. ~AA

It's only on the 9th floor, but this free publicly accessible viewing gallery makes up for it by location - just south of the British Museum, and not surrounded or blocked by taller buildings. Looks well worth a trip. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/a-n...

Comma's can be expensive. But so can translations. What to do, as in this case in a coming appeal, the English version (used in trial so far) is different to the French. bsky.app/profile/ianv...

Something I’ve not seen any decent explanation for, bar perhaps ‘cockup’. You didn’t need to splice the two statements together without a pause or similar break to capture what Trump said and did, which was to explicitly support the riot. So why did someone ? bsky.app/profile/matt...

Exactly, so the BBC didn't need to shoot themselves in the reputation by editing it that way. But they did, and here we are

I agree with @arusbridger.bsky.social about BBC governance. Although v hesitant about another rearrangement, the single corporate-style board is massively flawed, not least because there needs to be some distance for the governors/board members from editorial decisions

Robbie Gibb who cancelled a BBC investigation into Farage's Leave dot EU campaign shortly before the EU Ref Arron Banks thanked him for it "Robbie Gibb is being quite helpful and says he’s trying to hose it down." - @channel4news.bsky.social in 2019

So the 'adviser' that went on to leak a report on that BBC 6 Jan edit claimed it could have misled. Now two have resigned based on that. But how many complaints were the BBC deluged with over the clip when broadcast? Zero. Nil. Nadda. Right wing coup?

All of this