In an era of great power rivalry, Canada is choosing to be principled and pragmatic. To name reality, to act together, and to build what we claim to believe in.

It’s Greenland, not Orangeland!

Trump: "Because a boat went there [Greenland] 500 yeas ago and then left, that doesn't give you title to property" A bit like Columbus and North America then ...

🚨The Petition calling for by-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party now has 55,000 signatures! Let’s get the 100,000 needed! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Not wrong. (From security table)

The Danish pension fund AkademikerPension is offloading its entire U.S. treasury position by the end of the month, selling roughly $100 million in U.S. debt. The fund’s CIO: "The US is basically not a good credit and long-term the US government finances are not sustainable,"

Subtle anti-govt bias from the BBC. A quarter of hospitals have increased waiting list is the headline. Or alternatively, 3/4 of hospitals have reduced waiting lists. It’s just incredibly wearing.

So I’ve only just heard Starmer’s speech and having listened to everybody saying how he wasn’t for forthright enough, I beg to differ. DT knows that KS is mild mannered and avoids conflict so the fact that he is saying outright that what Trump said is wrong is just as good as a lot of ranting.

Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff. Game on.

More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland. They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”

Not the sort of letter committed to paper by a well man. "Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"

There was, of course, absolutely nothing to stop these Tories resigning when their own Party was literally in the middle of doing all the things they now claim to be so unhappy about. (Come on Higgins!)

Appears that the most recent negotiated EU-US trade deal is dead, with Renew Europe and EPP party leadership rejecting the deal in light of Trump’s recent threats.

Farage bleats about Reform UK not being a lifeboat for Tories. It is exactly that, a party packed to the gunnels with those who failed while wearing a blue rosette or were too mad even for the Conservatives.

it's more or less impossible to find issues that poll this badly and he's decided to make it a major, public priority www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-tru...

Reminder of the spectacularly poor judgement of these people

A truly despicable little man. Him painting over children murals was the final straw for me.

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I'm not saying Trump is a Russian asset, just that I can't think of anything he'd be doing differently if he were.

“And I can’t understand the reason that America collapsed”

BREAKING: Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom:

I need to apologize for something I did. The @bostonherald.com is right, there is no place for profanities in politics.

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🥶This is what the entrance to one of the Kyiv houses looks like due to blackouts and lack of heat supply.

Dangerous new step in Trump's deranged pursuit of Greenland: economic punishment of allies to coerce Denmark into selling Greenland—on demonstrably spurious grounds. The president is lying: US missile defence can function perfectly w/out US ownership of Greenland. It has done for decades.

I was struck, seeing this on the tube, by the contemporary resonance of Auden"s Epitaph on a Tyrant in this phase of the global projection of Trump’s sociopathic narcissism

According to DHS, about 3,000 ICE and federal agents are operating in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. THREE THOUSAND! The entire Minneapolis Police Department only has about 580 officers. This is outrageous and unnecessary. Our tax dollars are funding this abuse, so it’s happening in our name.

We don't need to play games parsing US law or international treaties to figure out if it's legal for Trump to do this. It's not. It's crystal clear it's all illegal. Everyone's just pretending we're not at the point where the thing to do is to remove him. It's an advanced state of political denial.

So somehow reMaccabees incident it s 100% the fault of Islamists and no further mention of Maccabee rep for violence. I’m just glad the match never happened because I could’ve seen it being a bloodbath on suit both sides. Right decision even if it’s for the wrong reasons IMHO.

NEW: Jonathan Ross, the ICE thug who murdered Renee Good, was NOT TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL according to police reports. He was taken to the Federal Building. He was NOT INJURED. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

No surprise to learn X is still permitting users to post these images generated by Grok despite claiming it had taken action. Enough is enough. @ofcom.bsky.social MUST use its powers to shut this down www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

if Nigel Farage is lazy enough to record a message for paedophile Ian Watkins in exchange for money, what else might he do for money without thinking too hard

So much in here that's so fascinating. But this, for me at least, really stood out: "Nigel Farage, meanwhile, has stood – consistently, and often alone – for what’s needed. Ending mass migration. Cheap energy. Cutting waste and taxes and red tape." Not a single solitary mention of #Brexit....

"I wonder what David Frost thinks about this" will be that post I do to tell you I've been kidnapped.

So do the words “David Frost”, “Telegraph” and “column”

The Philippines is the latest country to restrict access to Musk’s Grok, following Malaysia and Indonesia.

Reminder that it used to be UKIP policy (during Farage's leadership) that defecting MPs should resign and run again in a by election (and the first two MPs to defect to UKIP did so)

The decent Tories were culled in 2019. The indecent ones are defecting to Farage. I wonder who or what will be left by 2029.

67% of Reform MPs have previously been elected as representatives of the Conservative Party. They broke the country last time; do you trust them to fix it?

Robert Jenrick says the Tories "broke Britain," so he's joined a party that includes: Nadhim Zahawi, Nadine Dorries, Jonathan Gullis, Ben Bradley, Danny Kruger, Jake Berry, Marco Longhi, Aiden Burley, Anne Marie Morris, Lee Anderson and Andrea Jenkyns.

Key question for Farage. There’s nothing new, reforming or anti-establishment about Reform. Exactly the same people, corruption, uselessness and racism just sidling over to the Reform/Tory recycling bin. And he’ll never fix the mess the Tories made because they made it for Farage. He is the mess.

And so it begins. Reform has grown, and people with opinions and egos have been allowed into Farage’s one man band. Won't end well... (going to be saying that a lot)

She didn’t mind his irrational behaviour or his racist videos but this was a step too big to forgive🫣

Sums up how rubbish Badenoch is that she has been forced into a “You’re dumping me? I’m dumping you!” rather than just sacking and disbarring Jenrick over the many, many things that would have kept him out of any Tory Cabinet since 1968.