UPDATE: *peace president* Trump bombs Venezuela… (after pardoning an ex president of Honduras for drug trafficking) This is about oil (+ distracting from Epstein), not drugs. “international condemnation followed US military strikes on Venezuela”: www.trtworld.com/article/ab57...

The most flag heavy road I've seen in Middlesbrough goes past the huge James Cook Hospital. It looks like a 1970s NF demo. I wonder if the knuckle daggers responsible are aware of the consequences if the 100s of foreign health professionals who work in the hospital returned home.

Amol Rajan just has to let us know that he knows the answer : "yes, great book", "of course it is!!" So obvious that he doesn't know simple stuff in science and tech. "Well done" he says to the architect when they answer a simple q about architecture. It's not about you, Amol. #UniverityChallenge

Another American trying to tell the BBC what to do #wato

God honestly. Doesn’t this just sum up Reform. And their plastic patriotism. Can’t even give a straight answer or follow the rules on their unbelievably naff merch. So on brand. Oh well. You sell or wear one of these, you’ve told us all we need to know about you. (iPaper)

When the Mind Returns - the puzzle of terminal lucidity: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/cons...

A new trial gave homeless people £2,000 to spend however they choose. What they spent the money on may surprise you.

Not much in the way of AI productivity gains for me as I have to spend time rejecting stupid copilot suggestions from my boss. #r4today

2025: Liz Truss criticising Keir Starmer over the release of Alaa Abd El-Fattah 2022: Liz Truss as Foreign Secretary trying to secure the release of Alaa Abd El-Fattah

Man who bought up 33,000 acres of farmland to avoid tax and moved his business to Singapore after the Brexit he voted for wants your sympathy.

Getting sick of Epstein files headlines that are like “files reveal Epstein and friends abused girls” etc etc. This is not a reveal. The girls told us. They told police. Partners. Press. Courts. They told it over and over. The victims/survivors revealed everything. People chose not to listen.

He isn't "losing" this money. This is called "paying tax like a responsible citizen and not hiding your money offshore" and we need to start recognising and applauding it.

Tesco makes nearly £4bn profit. Nearly 50% of its workforce are on Universal Credit, receiving about £600m a year. Why isn't Tesco paying?

Labour has put countless small progressive policies into action. Today's include help for young people leaving care and a huge increase in retired miner's pensions. Just wish the bright young things at Labour HQ could come up with a narrative not chase Reform votes.

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Jo Cox was murdered before the vote by a far-right terrorist & this is the language this complete disgrace chooses to use

Suspect some female Tory MPs are quietly dying inside at this. When you’re so desperate to get in a bit of gratuitous foreigner-bashing that you find yourself arguing *against* preventative strategies that try to prevent sexual violence, ffs, what have you become?

If you (like me) need something to laugh about tonight... here you go.

Sounds about right.

Tommy Robinson's Christmas Carol service featured two arrests - one for assault and another of a man suspected of homophobic abuse. And loads of union flags and massive crosses... because that's traditional at the events where we celebrate Christ's BIRTH, isn't it. Crosses and flags.

So now we have "good migrant" and "bad migrant" case studies?

A+ trolling from Zelenskyy

Reform UK used this graphic during the Local Elections to criticise Councils. Now the councils they control are raising Council Tax by the same or more. Reform UK lie their way in to power. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

If you rely on the BBC for your news you will have no idea of the suffering Palestinian genocide survivors are enduring right now. #r4today

Number crunching: Individuals arrested within five days for suspected manslaughter after fire apparently related to building materials ripped through seven Hong Kong apartment blocks v individuals arrested over Grenfell From the new Private Eye, out now.

Sorry for using comics and art to vent and cope with the world changing around me. I will return to drawing whimsical and silly frog wizards and adventures.

So when #Farage voices his political opinions & polls show that voters endorse him, the strategy is to copy him. But when @zackpolanski.bsky.social voices his political opinions & polls show that voters endorse him, the strategy is to belittle, attack, & denigrate him.

#OTD in 1903, Marie Curie became the first woman to win a #Nobel Prize (#Physics). AND #OTD in 1935, her daughter Irene Joliot-Curie won the Nobel Prize in #Chemistry for the discovery of artificial radioactivity. They're the only mother–daughter pair to have both won Nobel Prizes. #WomenInSTEM

For the record: 📈 2,300 more secondary and special school teachers 📈 Trainee teachers up 11% 📈 Physics up 36% 📈 Computing up 44% 📈 Maths up 16% 📈 Attendance improving 📈 Behaviour improving Labour is getting more children in class & more teachers in front of them. #PMQs

Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move

New Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to £10 billion with a central estimate of -£5.4 billion. It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops

Know your rights. Protect your neighbors. New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.

I'd recommend a visit to Bastogne in Belgium and the scene of the Battle of the Bulge. One of the last big battles of WW2, where US troops destroyed the remnants of the Wehrmarcht making victory inevitable. The gentleman is a fine example of the courage of the US army.

These cricketing nicknames are so imaginative no? Stokesy, jacksy, let me guess, rooty?

From today, over 96,000 unpaid carers in Scotland will receive a £293.50 Carer’s Allowance Supplement payment - extra support that’s only available here in Scotland. Dignity and fairness in action. That’s what you get with an SNP government.

Pastor Black: While I was in the middle of using the words of Jesus, they opened fire on me. It was so clear that they had been so poorly trained, or — the alternative — that they had been deliberately told to escalate violence against peaceful protesters.

Bike-lanes don’t cause traffic congestion. Car dependency, dumb land-use sprawl, too many (& bigger) cars being driven too much taking up too much space, highly subsidized driving costs, and not enough choices in how to get around, ALL cause traffic congestion. Think about it. THAT’S common sense.

The one thing Zia Yusuf, Nigel Farage & Reform NEVER wanted you to see or hear. #BBCQT

So tell me again how Nigel Farage, who just took the largest ever political donation, from a Tory mega-donor, and another donation from the Viscountess wife of the non-dom owner of the Daily Mail, is planning to "take on the establishment"

Data centres are energy hungry but what if we could use their waste heat to heat our homes? That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.

🚨NEW POLICY ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 All Evri executives to have their Christmas presents delivered by Evri, to see how they like it. Love Christmas. Vote Binface.

This is what we're up against. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The Co-op is backing the government, supporting the people in our country and our farming industry. In news totally ignored by all major news outlets the Co-op has said "Today’s Budget provides the clarity & certainty that small shops and local communities have been waiting for". 1/3

There's going to be a lot more pain – and regrettably there *needs* to be a lot more pain – for Farage supporters before this is out. The Farage way is costly. That's the lesson. And you will damn well learn it.

Children are dead because of this idiot. HE IS NOT A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL!!! He went yo law school then spent a decade or so addicted to heroine. RFK Jr. is overhauling the program that helps preserve Americans' access to vaccines Source: POLITICO share.newsbreak.com/g4e2gzr5

He really does.