Welcome to 2026. Where the world order as we knew it seems to be over. What next? Taiwan? Greenland? Balkans? The U.K. must double down on its relationship with the EU. For it is Europe alone that is now leader of the free world.

The calls from America this weekend to "abolish the EU" are for one simple reason: the EU is the only thing that can keep European nation-states from becoming Russian or American vassals.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD USE HYPHENS

Shot/chaser.

It’s gone so quickly from ‘boat people’ to all immigrants. So quickly from ‘I don’t mind if they come here legally and pay taxes’ to ‘actually it’s anyone foreign’. We are living in the ‘first they came for’ poem. All to give the population a scapegoat so the super rich can hoard yet more wealth.

Kimmel is up on YouTube

Give it to Big Sam for the rest of the season

What's the oddest thing to see in UK politics this morning? My contribution would be the new Leader of the Green Party, leading a choral rendition of "Lib Dem fightback", at Lib Dem conference 10 years ago.

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This Labour MP has an interesting attitude to the truth.

We now cross over to BBC Radio Derby.

This Archie Bland piece is such a thing. Beautifully written, heartfelt, triumphant. He's on Bluesky but not active. He should know this is a lovely masterpiece. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

you can't spell "tariffs" without "FFS"

What Larry said:

When someone tells you who they are, believe them.

Ouch. Very ouch.

Fridman is perhaps the most execrable of the podcast bros. He started as a vapid monotone charlatan but has blossomed into the most pathetic venal bootlicking sycophant for powerful men while pretending to be some hippy love-preacher to mask his opinionlessness. A pitiful husk of a human. Loathsome.

The most shameful day for the United States of America in any of our lifetimes.

Take as much time as possible to travel to places unknown | James Jobson

Strangely enough the Telegraph looks less ridiculous with Sunday Sport stories.

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

A new paradigm begins.

“tantalising” WTAF