There’s more to the Epstein Bannon Farage connection than this. Epstein was actively guiding Bannon how to secretly finance ‘The Movement’ — a right wing pan Europe organisation in concert with Farage — set up by his partner Laure Ferrari 👉 bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...

The quiet part out loud..

Netanyahu moves forward with plans to annex all of Gaza. “Culture Minister Miki Zohar, of the ruling Likud party, says Gaza belongs to Israel, and that Palestinians in the territory are 'guests' whom Israel is merely allowing to live there for now” but may well expel.

Busy kitchen today. L is making two recipes at once. Tomato and lentil stew.. and our new favourite, onion and white bean stew. It's basically a French onion soup base. Slow cooked down onions, with white beans and herbs. It's very delicious. Lots to eat. Yum!

Jaguar Land Rover every time a new series of The Traitors comes around

If you've forgotten I need to remind you that it is BINS in the morning.

“Countries that pride themselves on their long history of democracy and openness, like the UK, may be reluctant to take Romania’s approach to dealing with Russian interference, but governments need to be tackling the problem as a matter of extreme urgency.”

They gentrified the tinfoil hat

Please do not print out herds of these on A4, cut them and then post. Nigel Putin needs his cash.

Few averages from Wanstead for 2025 and how they compare with last 10 years or so. Biggest takeaway was the lack of rain; the total of 458.4mm, 73% of average, made it the driest for 22 years and 4th driest in a local series going back to 1960. #LondonWX wansteadmeteo.com/2026/01/01/2...

Ok. Who's ready for #Traitors?

One of the first things a Farage government will do will be to make sure "the young are taught correctly about our history," and if that doesn't set off all manner of alarm bells then it should. (MAIL)

Spending this quiet holiday time speccing a new (bigger) garden shed / workshop and a posh (larger) greenhouse. Yes, embrace me, middle age!!

Just listened to the political leaders' NY speeches. As one of the last Starmer / Labour supporters.. God Starmer sounds muted, the words were depressing, no lift, not much optimism. He sounded tired. Ed Davey sounded the best, and saying what Labour should be saying.

Looking forward to the three of them being as rubbish at it as everyone else. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Ah,it's Jools Holland. He's been doing NYE for a 1000 years.

Timezones are so weird. Australia is in 2026, Canada is in 2025, and the United States is in 1939.

Put some champagne in the fridge. In Jan, our company / start-up, had no customers and no money. We now have customers, and some money, and actual employees (great ones). It may have been a very hard year, but I deserve a cheers to that. HNY!

Went to big Tesco. Very busy. Brought dishwasher salt by mistake. We already have about a ton of it, and brought myself the wrong cider because cider competitors keep copying each other's packaging. Not going back. 0 out of 10. No stars.

Russian puppet Donald Trump sacked his Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg for praising Zelenskyy and backing Ukraine, called him an idiot and replaced him with his golfing buddy Steve Witkoff, NYT reports.

Health Speculations Swirl As Trump Seen With Damage Numbers Above Head https://theonion.com/health-speculations-swirl-as-trump-seen-with-damage-numbers-above-head/

It's all very murky..

Heist!!

In Iceland they bring out the sunlight lamps to the changing rooms at the public pool. At 64N, the sunlight lamps are communally-provided property and offered as a public service.

If you wonder why they are attacking citizenship rights, it's because Farage and the Tories are now funded by and working with the Trump-aligned mob, and want to bring mass deportations to the UK, like they are in the US. Attacking Starmer / Labour is the bonus win.

Oh great, nose streaming, sniffling everywhere, eyes like tiny dots. How the FUCK have I caught a cold? We've barely been anywhere or seen anyone. Not seen or heard anyone with an obvious cold. Been to no parties. Oh thank you, Fate, how lovely of you!

My takeaway is these politicians know something about Trump's medical condition that we don't. Trump is very sick, probably dying— and they're betting that he won't last out his term. They're carving out space in the post-Trump MAGA world. MTG is distancing herself from the Vance 2028 camp.

It's the "We will be doing this shit for years" That upsets me so much. We said. We shouted it in 2016. And they now claim this is somehow good. US run social media, manipulated by criminals did this.

Snowed-In Gamer’s Routine Affected in No Way hard-drive.net/snowed-in-ga...

Might just stay in bed all day.

Up is down. Death is profit.

"I had a good and very productive phone call with Führer Hitler of Germany prior to my meeting with Charles de Gaulle of France today. Führer Hitler was very clear about which parts of France not currently under Nazi control he wants. Thank you for your attention to this matter! Winston Churchill."

Mr Putin says so..

Call it “mutual” and suddenly people get it.

He's appalling.

Zelensky lands in Miami. Not a single US official is on hand to greet him. In the language of diplomacy this send an unequivocal message of coldness and hostility. Compare it with the lavish pomp and red carpet shown to Putin when he landed in Alaska a few weeks ago.

Can you imagine any real 'free world' leader boasting of this?

Is the TSB Bank now called PTSB? Someone in the media department must be tearing their hair out. "Boss, it sounds like PTSD, you can't call us that.."

Went to the gym this morning. Men with new underpants was the changing room theme. It's obviously been a bumper pants and socks Christmas.

It's that time of year again. Lunch is leftover onion and bean stew, with some grated cheese and a side of fridged roast potatoes.

By reposting this nonsense I'm promoting it. But this is the sort of rubbish misinformation opinion designed to get Farage in. If a far right gov gets in (Farage) they can do anything. They don't need help from what's on the statute already. I would have replied, but of course replies are disabled.

A reasonable interpretation of the Trump-Vance play is they are telling Europe that in unless it gifts Greenland to the US we will abandon Europe to Russia. So our madman leader is now simultaneously attempting to take all of Venezuela's oil and a big chunk of mineral-rich European territory.

I remember the UK sailing thousands of miles and going to war over a few rocks.

Truth.

its really just that simple, theres an entire network of well-funded morons that can turn “litter boxes in classrooms” into a giant campaign issue whereas “armed goons sending kindergarten teachers to slave labor camps” gets ignored

British public transport is outrageously shit and expensive, genuinely never experienced anything like this even in countries where the primary mode of public transport is some guy in a van picking you up.

Time to leave the house. We shall shortly walk through Epping Forest to the Forest Gate, and lunch finely on their excellent chips and curry sauce.

This is literally what the Telegraph campaigned for.

UK campaigner targeted by Trump accuses tech giants of ‘sociopathic greed’ Exclusive: Imran Ahmed says US companies are ‘corrupting the system’ of politics by seeking to avoid accountability www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

So what did we all get for Christmas? I was very lucky indeed. A lovely jumper from a British brand 'Perigrine' and some lovely garden snippers from the Japanese firm 'Niwaki. I will prune in style.