Plus sides to today: Two-child benefit scrapped. Largely progressive tax implications. Good market reaction. No big spending cuts. Nightmare prospect of cutting funding to net zero etc avoided. It's a left-wing budget. Those who say there's no difference between Labour and Tories are bananas.

Direct casualties in Gaza likely exceed 100,000. www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

BREAKING: The Chief Whip in the House of Lords has assigned an extra ten days in the new year for the assisted dying bill to be debated. This makes it far less likely that the bill will run out of time.

If the Lords times out the #AssistedDyingBill, it would break the PM's pre-election pledge, as well as manifesto commitments by the Tories, Liberal Dems, and Greens. We're urging the Government to make sure the Bill has time to be fully debated by peers. humanists.uk/2025/11/25/a...

Cue rich people moaning about how they can no longer afford to live in their castles.... God it's all so horribly predictable

Badenoch is so incredibly unpleasant. Her response is nothing but personal attacks and describing support for kids in poverty as "hand outs". Grim.

Much of Badenoch speech has simply been a gratuitous abuse of Rachael Reeves. She clearly had planned all that abuse before the link. What a disgusting apology for a human being she is.

This is such important news. Hundreds of thousands of children taken out of poverty with the stroke of a pen.

Tory front benches equally furious at a tax on mansions and hundreds of thousands of kids being pulled out of poverty. Shameful stuff.

OK, I know I don’t like Badenoch so I’m predisposed to dislike her, but her behaviour towards Reeves is utterly disgusting.

And honestly I don't give a fuck if it's popular or not. It's going to make a lot of kids' lives better. That's the point of government. Not an opinion poll.

More than six weeks after the Gaza ceasefire came into force, journalists are still prevented by the Israeli military from entering the Gaza Strip.

I implore someone, anyone, in the media… Do your job And the next time you have Farage on, please ask him directly: …what were the motivations behind this?

Imagine - after you have fought a brutal invader for almost 4 years who has killed tens of thousands of your people and ravished your country - that an orange man far away declares you have to surrender territory to the invader who will get immunity. apnews.com/article/ukra... 🤮

Nooo! Press start in the week with budget predictions again. Surely we can bloody well. Wait till Wednesday.

This "dangerous" event in East Jerusalem was shut down by the Israeli police before it could commence today. Even cultural expressions of Palestinian identity seem to be perceived as threatening these days...

Navy intercepts 2 Russian ships in Channel so a quick reminder that Reform #PlasticPatriots former Welsh leader is inside for 10 years for taking bribes from Russia.. And Farage has appeared numerous times on Russian TV & secretly met their ambassador & is on record as admiring Putin Just saying 🤷🏼‍♂️

Cours à partir de 9 heures, cinq jours d'école par semaine : la Convention citoyenne sur les temps de l’enfant dévoile son rapport

IRA guns fall silent, photo by Brendan Murphy, Irish News picture editor and photographer, who died recently.

If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand” Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.

One cannot overstate America's insanity www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...

It's January 31st, 2020, and Nathan Gill is celebrating our imminent departure from the EU.... and that terrible idea of a European Army. Hmm, now I wonder who else would have been delighted about that.

Trump is now defending Mamdani in response to loaded questions from Fox News. incredible scenes

Mamdani is holding his own in the Whitehouse! Good man.

This is pretty disturbing

Senator Murphy sounds the alarm as Trump calls for the deaths of Dems who served the country to be killed for reminding the military their loyalty is to the constitution not to him 🇺🇸

Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage. www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...

This bodes well for the likelihood of mass violence in the future

My greatest disappointment with Starmer is the continuation of this same old game. Half-arsed policy with focus on electoral dynamics over effectiveness. Underlying situation gets worse. Then you complain the border is out of control, when in fact it is your policymaking which has failed.

Everything is the fault of foreigners, everything can be fixed by penalising foreigners. To call them Little Englanders is generous and euphemistic.

Has @roberthutton.co.uk seen this:

Covering Jamal Khashoggi's murder was one of the most disturbing things I've worked on. Hearing Trump say he was "extremely controversial" and people "didn't like him" is chilling. Hard to take any other way than he thinks there is moral ambiguity in the murder of a journalist.

Hey Labour Remember the majority of voters who believe in treating people decently and not stealing from those who've endured months and years of hardship fleeing war and persecution to seek a place of safety? We're still over here 👋

My letter to my MP this morning. I hope Labour is flooded with similar furious letters.

So far today Labour Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has been showered with praise by - checks notes - Far Right agitator Tommy Robinson, leader of the Conservatives Kemi Badenoch, the Daily Express and GB News.

There’s something deeply distasteful and horribly reminiscent of the 1930s that there is even any discussion about taking refugees’ jewelry away from them to pay for their keep. Looked at from France my country is becoming a racist, dystopia, and it’s Labour that’s leading the way. It’s unbearable.

The Home Secretary says "we have become the destination of choice in Europe, clearly visible to every people smuggler and would-be illegal migrant across the world" That is a factually untrue claim: the Home Office shows that the UK is fifth, getting 1/10 claims, while Germany gets 1/5 claims

Imagine.....

Since 7th Oct 2023, Israeli prisons have become torture camps of the worst kind. www.972mag.com/98-palestini...

The odious criminal who is in charge of the US is trying to take down our national broadcasting service & people like Farage are cheering him on. I'm beyond livid.

It bemoans lack of integration whilst making integration far less likely. It wants ASs to contribute, whilst forbidding most of them from doing so It asserts that 'the rules' are too lenient whilst claiming that the problem is that people aren't 'playing by the rules'. 2/3

Today, Jerusalem experienced torrentuous, incessant rainfall. Water rushed down the slopes of the city everywhere. In Gaza, the lack of any actual efforts to provide people with proper shelter since the ceasefire went into effect became brutally evident.

OMG A special Grin And Share It! A xx

Noooo this is terrible news for Farage, Reform, Lowe, Robinson, Trump, Musk et al.. In the year to Oct there were 10,000 less violent crimes in London, that’s not what they want at all.. Bravo to Khan etc just show Sharia Law works eh 😂

Illegal immigration isn’t tearing the UK apart. The far right is tearing the country apart, using immigration as a pretext.

When, inevitably, Labour's latest round of dog whistle anti-asylum measures don't appease the far right enough, exactly how far will those defending them today stomach it before they twig that the only way to beat the likes of Reform is to counter their messaging, not reinforce it?

Not the first to make this point. But there is a tyrant in charge of another country who is accused of being heavily linked to a paedophile sex ring - and supposed ‘patriots’ in this country are passionately willing him to take down our national broadcaster. Madness.