BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c0... Trump's sweeping global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court ruling - follow live - BBC News Is the next card higher or lower? The Trump appointed Supreme Court rebels. Where to now?

Always unique.

Didn't Vance and Rubio lecture the Brits on free speech?

The clown cart. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Terrifying, but Colbert is superb and Donny Diddums is just so precious. The YouTube interview with James Talarico is the next post /1 www.instagram.com/reel/DU2LTPa...

He's a sensitive chap, as is his braying membership.

Storyville, The Darkest Web: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002rls3. Tonight BBC4 10pm, and now on iPlayer. Excellent documentary. Informative and deeply concerning, not least because only fifty officers worldwide work in this realm. As you can imagine, it takes its toll on all those involved.

Unbelievably this wasn’t even raised on SkyNews just now during the interview with Reform's head of policy Zia Yusuf. If UK news shows won’t call this boll**** out let’s do it ourselves

Katie Hopkins' valentine message to Ben Habib.

It doesn’t really matter *why* Trump’s desire to destabilise & divide Europe precisely mirrors Vladimir Putin’s - whether kompromat, self-interest, naked bigotry or something else l. What matters is that Europe treats both regimes like the enemies of progress & democracy they so clearly are.

[email protected] social i/v with @lewisgoodall.com. We learned abt improvements Govt is making for abusees 𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 their disclosure. That's the easy bit. We were left uninformed about the useless #MR bill, which will fail future generations. www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/epi...

Crimson it's not, but it's good to feel and see.

For interest: @warrenoates1.bsky.social - Lords to recommence on this aspect of the Crime and Policing Bill shortly.

For interest @parentingcircle.bsky.social . A rethink perhaps? bsky.app/profile/tom-...

The Govt’s proposed model for mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse is without international precedent; it bears no resemblance to #MR law in any of the 82% of countries that have enacted such legislation || Explainer. open.substack.com/pub/tomperry...

Cracking article. substack.com/@lewisgoodal...

The Govt’s proposed model for mandatory reporting is without international precedent; it bears no resemblance to the frameworks used in the 82% of countries that have enacted such legislation. Fyi @natashadevon.bsky.social - evidenced, unlike the childrens NGO's open.substack.com/pub/tomperry...

Trump determindly undermining confidence in the electoral system before the mid-term elections. Now, why might that be? /1

forgot to share the link sorry www.ft.com/content/f869...

This seems to be leaving an open goal for Nigel Farage to announce at 2pm today that Reform is going to introduce such a bill, whether he’s actually got the parliamentary time to do so or not. He might not if feels nervous about other people associated in the Epstein Files, of course…

"Cinderella points at gold baubles and designer dresses, cunningly distracting us while her husband and his cronies prepare to dismantle the Constitution and asset-strip the federal government." I sense Xan Brooks is unlikely to visit the US any time soon. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...

BBC News - Don Lemon: Ex-CNN host arrested after anti-ICE protests at Minnesota church - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

On cusp of widespread layoffs, 'Washington Post' staffers to Bezos: don't gut our newsroom My story for NPR www.npr.org/2026/01/30/n...

Latinas for Trump cofounder "worried for the first time that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents might stop her son, a young adult, because he looks Hispanic" www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

C4News tonight. Charles the environmentalist. Will Alastair Martin CVO, the Chief Executive Officer and Clerk of the Council for the Duchy of Lancaster be interviewed? substack.com/@channel4new...

Johnson culled the Tory Party of all but its grimmest dregs & now the grimmest of the grimmest dregs are defecting to Reform. It would be funny if it didn't alllow them, along with Farage, to pretend that they're not responsible for the state of the nation.

It's tedious telly. Like Toksvig, she'll be as bored as a cactus in a rainstorm by the end of the first series, if not before. But it'll pay the leccy www.theguardian.com/food/2026/ja...

"Last week Jamie Dimon, the boss of the US bank JP Morgan, told the World Economic Forum in Davos that governments and businesses would have to step in to help workers whose roles were displaced by the technology, or risk civil unrest". www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Brilliant, and his insulting remarks about NATO troops receive a verse. youtube.com/watch?v=F4ne...

Looking forward to the day when the news begins with something other than 'President Trump......' @omrgriffiths.bsky.social #r4today

Trump's approval rating 📉. What odds are being given against him completing the term? Anyone!

From 6th Nov 2013: Former Director public prosecutions supports the introduction of *suspected* child sexual abuse. 13 years later, that's not what his Govt has tabled. Its proposal is the status quo in new clothes which is designed to mislead. See substack photos.app.goo.gl/FaFZPcWLcyfJ... /1

USA: MN. MR of child sexual abuse isn't working because the sanction for failing to report is too weak. In the UK, the Labour Government's proposal for alleged MR is a hologram that will contribute nothing to improving child safeguarding @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/minn...

NEW: Another Conservative MP defects to Reform, just days after Robert Jenrick. Andrew Rosindell becomes Reform’s seventh MP. Put another way 43% of Reform’s serving MPs were Conservative MPs and were not elected as Reform.

Morning.

Tim Stanley is like a screaming, fainting fan, lost within a crowd of thousands at the back of some hellish teeny bop concert - desperate to be noticed by the very worst act in history.

The Govt's Mandatory Reporting chapter in the Crime and Policing Bill won't contribute to halving violence against girls (children) @chumleyprelude.bsky.social @politicsintheuk.bsky.social @iaindale.bsky.social @imincorrigible.bsky.social @ayeshahazarika.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/tomperry...

Ignore the rhetoric from @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social, the Government's proposal 'ain't going to make no never mind', and the Government's impact assessment for the Bill confirms it. substack.com/@tomperry940...

Even by Badenoch’s standards, responding to the opportunity offered by Jenricks’s departure by promoting the ‘mastermind’ behind Theresa May’s myriad disasters is an act of extraordinary idiocy.

Control of the media is crucial to controlling the narrative, mobilizing public support and in this case *discouraging resistance.* Will the National Guard and ICE be on the streets in Minneapolis for the mid-terms? The Democratic vote would be suppressed. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

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Sky's Rob Powell asks Nigel Farage that, given Robert Jenrick is the 7th person to have served in Boris Johnson's government to defect to Reform, how can his party be "a new, reforming force" when it is "bringing in so many people who caused the mess that you're trying to clean up"

Apparently, it is now acceptable to attain a new status in life, simply by proclamation. I hereby declare I am a 6' 2", 27 yr-old EGOT winner who is currently dating Taylor Swift. Thank you for your attention to our delusions.

Regrettable. www.ft.com/content/2870...

Well, he must have passed the party assessment. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/reveal...

Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.

The immigration doom loop in full swing. Chasing the xenophobes is a doomed strategy both economically *and* politically. (1/3) archive.ph/pyVLg

Powell won't do what Trump wants. This is the outcome.

What next for the oil companies in light of their reaction? www.reuters.com/markets/comm...

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