The only way Labour can win the next election is by passing legislation that proscribes the Reform and Conservative parties as Anti-Democratic and closing/ choking any media that is similarly undemocratic. Murdoch, Musk Rothermere, the BBC news dept, GB News DAY ONE.

Radio 3 seems to be maintaining its Russian theme long after the customary Christmas Tchaikovskyfest; has the government fallen?

A lot of courageous women reported abuse at the hands of Trumpstein but seemingly almost all fell on deaf ears. Released files suggest that many were threatened or even lost their lives. But as this enormous crime scene is slowly exposed it reveals how the coup has happened.

Did FIFA enlarge the number of teams competing at the WC 2026 because they were advised boycotts were likely?

Should we ban the over 65s from social media? The government are considering banning the elderly from social media as their brains haven't properly developed. But is a ban a step too far?

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Who’d have thought Call Of Duty was Hybrid Warfare? Well, after my son had sneaked up on me and shot me in the head on several occasions, it occurred to me that virtually normalising civilisational breakdown is going to summon it.

Good and Pretti murdered in Minnesota; Melvillesque allusions that go straight to the heart of the matter; imagine the darkness of using tech to single out such victims

LOOKS LEGIT

A joke for the history buffs.

The Grok of $hit porn tool tactic flushed out some Govt responses and outrage but, as always with hybrid warfare one needs to contextualise the message. Perhaps by collecting a ‘file’ of popular engagement that normalised misogyny and paedophilia, the gravity of the Epstein Files would be diminished

Ah, I get it: Trump-Nobel-Greenland isn’t derangement but absurdist theatre. The Peace Prize itself is born of dynamite: moral arbitration grafted onto scaled violence. The gesture exploits that irony to signal a shift - peace is no longer awarded by panels but permitted solely by power.

When craftswomanship is a matter of life and death

Omigod, Bored Of Peace irony warning; Tony Speechless In Gaza

What’s the point of banning RT from the airwaves if GB News is still live doing the same damage to democracy ?

Did the NAZI party receive defecting politicians from other parties? Asking for a nation under threat

Further glimpses of a changing landscape hidden in plain sight

If you haven’t yet glimpsed this apocalyptic transformation

Great animation

Beloit, WI revitalized its waterfront and chose this way to celebrate it: by bringing to life Georges Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte."

There’s evolution but someone’s got to want to dance too

I was hoping to find a Yorkshire speciality restaurant in Berlin but no

Let’s do this

Capitalism and Democracy can always co-exist as long as the rule of law .. but wait

I thought George Orwell was the most far-seeing writer of the 20thC…

Excellent article.