Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. John Stuart Mill #HolocaustMemorialDay

Weirdly, maybe if more Americans were as sensitive about losing their constitutional rights as the gun lobby are, the country wouldn’t be in the state it is right now?

This new video from Bellingcat shows the moment a gun is taken off Alex Pretti just before he's shot to death by ICE officers bsky.app/profile/bell...

Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power

No apologies. This is still totally fab 😍😎

Fuck off. Just fuck off. I’m tired of pretending to be civil about him. I worked with guys who served in Afghanistan and Iraq. He’s just the scum of the earth.

Increasingly of the view, given who’s being invited to join it, that Trump’s Gaza ‘Board of Peace has absolutely nothing to do with Gaza.

This is fabulous. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney explains why the post-WW2 world is over and Europe, and especially the UK, needs to wake up and adjust pretty damn quickly or be eaten.

I still think this has to be fake because no sane person writes like this, least of all POTUS. It is apparently real though. Incredible.

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Totally. The level of parochialism that dominates the Westminster lobby is off the scale.

Fabulous 😍 Everyone needs A Secret Wish in their record collection

For the avoidance of doubt, this is not a binary world and therefore the following things can all have been or be the right decision at the right time. 1. Sacking Ange 2. Hiring Frank 3. Sacking Frank Right now we’re are 3, obviously. Or we should be.

Not sure how anyone seeing that can suggest the second half did anything more than paper over the huge tactical chasms in the teams coaching. They did the least that should be expected. This can’t go on. Something - or someone - has to go. #COYS

This.

My prediction of 4-0 to Villa looking good at the moment 🙄

I'm cranking the heat AND the fun up this Saturday afternoon at 3pm with a hot bunch of Erotic Monster tunes. I think we could all do with some warm giggles, kitchen dancing and utter filth. I'd love you to join me 🪩 🔥 www.lovewillsavetheday.fm

Dearlove again proving that being head of the SIS is no guarantee of intelligence.

You have to be Truss-level thick or Johnson-level cynical to come up with this.

Who would have guessed that AI would go the way of other tech created to benefit mankind - phones, internet etc - and be monetised primarily for the dark arts? 🙄

Ten years since David Bowie died today. Still feels strange to say it. His work hasn’t faded into nostalgia . It keeps unfolding, revealing new meanings with time. Bowie remains present: in the music, the ideas, and the permission he gave so many to be themselves.

Deranged 🤮

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10 years since he left us. Still miss him. The world, almost literally, hasn’t been the same since.

40 years ago this week, Rik Mayall completed children's TV, with his telling of ', George's Marvellous Medicine' on Jackanory. Here's the whole thing in one video. I love that his voice for Granny is just him riffing off Ade's Vyvyan voice. I really miss him. Bastard!

Racist white supremacist doing what he does.

Roger proves my point

Trump is quite clear that this has nothing to do with restoring democracy to Venezuela so I’m not sure why anyone else should be making that argument. It’s about power, dominance, spheres of influence and oil. Let’s not pretend it’s about anything else. Trump certainly isn’t.

Happy New Year!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

Ah fuck. RIP Perry Bamonte. The Cure forever 💔

Happy Christmas and deep love from me and mine to you and yours. As always, my hope is for a lot more love and a lot less hate in the world. Sadly that’s not my expectation. Peace. Salam. Shalom.

RIP Chris Rea. Thanks for this bona fide Balearic classic ❤️

Nearly Christmas guilty pleasure alert 🚨🚨🚨 I utterly love this 🤩

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RIP Rob Reiner. A shocking, incomprehensible loss 💔

Only the Arse can win a game 2-1 and not score a single goal themselves. Fucking lucky.

Ridiculous and sad. All power to you, Robin.

"In his endorsement of Brexit trade freedoms, Starmer resembles Alec Guinness’s half-mad colonel in The Bridge on the River Kwai, defending an edifice he has forgotten was built for the benefit of the other side." www.ft.com/content/2d00...

Go on. It’s the biggest geopolitical pivot of the past 100+ years. It’s an existential moment of crisis for a set of political values that we hold to be the foundation of decent society. Would it kill you to show that you have noticed; to say, I dunno, *something*?

I can’t help thinking that when, in future, people ask what UK political leaders said as it became undeniable that US saw European liberal democracy as its no1 strategic foe, Starmer and others will regret that the answer is “not much, shuffled awkwardly, looked at their feet”.

‘Land of the Free” latest. Glad I live in tyrannical Europe.

The other reporters in the White House press corps are apparently waiting until the president actually takes a swing at one of their female colleagues before they say anything

This feels all too true. We collectively need to adjust and wise-up pretty damn quick.

Depends what debate. The one here accepts that Customs Union on its own has a limited positive economic impact, but the EU would demand significant alignment as well as money and people movement - which would have further economic gains.

If you’ve not figured out yet what big tech, hard right, and Elon are all about, you better wake up pretty fucking quick. Power. That’s all it’s about, and they’ll deal with anyone to get it.

Mason is fucking shit. Terrible analyst. Classic modern day correspondent, chasing “”gotchas” instead of actually reporting the facts.

If you would like to know the actual problems with the budget I set it all out in detail here. As Stephen says the problem is the headroom isn't really there. Not that Reeves had loads of spare cash... samf.substack.com/p/survival-f...