A Warning. Danish PM Mette Frederiksen says that an attack by the US on Greenland would mean the end of NATO.  “One should take the US president seriously when he says that he wants Greenland. If the US chooses to attack another NATO country militarily, then everything stops, including NATO”

Although Labour are effectively partially privatising NHS England, they can’t be honest with the public. So the words ‘private medicine’ are banned & instead Labour say ‘partnership with the independent sector’. That sounds much more Labour-cuddly but means exactly the same. Charlatans & con-men.

Wes Streeting, part of a govt that won't confirm it'd uphold an ICC arrest warrant, won't meet its obligations under the genocide convention, & won't condemn what the US has done in Venezuela, says he's concerned about the disintegration of the rules based international system

"Is there still a legacy of [January 6th], 5 years on?" Professor Scott Lucas: "Sure there's a legacy, this was a coup attempt.. by a man named Donald Trump to try to hold onto power illegally"

"What is your assessment of the legality or not of what happened over the weekend in Venezuela?" Scott Lucas, a professor of international politics: "Its illegal... this was an egregious violation of international law"

According to BBC ‘verify’ (oxymoronic name), countries taking ownership of their own resources is a “controversial” idea!

BBC Verify tells us that Venezuela exerting further state control over its own oil industry in 2007 was controversial. Controversial to who? The World Bank, apparently. Alas BBC Verify doesn't explain the role of the World Bank or its history.

Sky military analyst: "We've gone from being an empire to a little vulnerable island nation.." Presenter: "They'll be some people that will go, hang on a second, there was only an empire because you raped, stole and pillaged from nations around the world"

Onay Kasab from @unitetheunion.bsky.social explains that last year the union agreed to framework proposals with Birmingham Council, then the council withdrew the agreement and now they're refusing to negotiate with the union at all! Solidarity with the Birmingham bin workers ✊

More Labour incompetence #BirminghamBinStrike has cost more to fight to cut bin-workers wages than it would have cost to negotiate & settle.

Onay Kasab from @unitetheunion.bsky.social : "The council have spent over £17 million now just trying to break the strike.. they could have resolved the dispute for a fraction of that cost" Shocking. Solidarity with the Birmingham bin workers

Back to the future: we’re back to where we were 50 or 100 years ago, where the big, powerful countries (US, Russia, China) are exploiting & manipulating smaller countries for their natural resources. The UK is powerless & isolated. And the EU needs to wake up & step up, or risk becoming irrelevant.

Speaking to CNN: Trump aide Stephen Miller: “We have a complete embargo on all of their oil & their ability to do commerce. So for them to do commerce, they need our permission. For them to be able to run an economy, they need our permission. So the USA is in charge. The US is running the country.”

Greenland: Stephen Miller, a top aide to President Trump, said on Monday that ‘Greenland rightfully belonged to the USA’ & that the Trump administration could seize the semiautonomous Danish territory if it wanted. Miller: “Nobody’s going to fight the USA militarily over the future of Greenland..”

Trump has emboldened Russia & China. Fiona Hill, a Russia expert at the Brookings Institution: “If USA has the right to be aggressive in its own backyard, why can’t they?” Ms. Hill was the senior director for European & Russian affairs at the White House during the 1st Trump administration.

The UK has become like Venezuela: we have no real influence & must obey & comply with the USA on literally everything. Unlike Canada, we’re not even a US ‘state’. youtube.com/shorts/ykRaM...

Why has Starmer, a human rights lawyer & DPP, presumably knowledgeable about Intl Law, NOT been able to comment on Trump’s military kidnapping in #Venezuela? This is a very revealing moment about Starmer. Clearly he is not the PM of an independent UK, confident enough to express his opinion or lead.

To Ramona from Bob 1964 Who is Ramona?Joan, Suze or Sara? open.spotify.com/track/70yzmE...

Why has Starmer, a human rights lawyer & DPP, presumably knowledgeable about Intl Law, NOT been able to comment on Trump’s military kidnapping in #Venezuela? This is a very revealing moment about Starmer. Clearly he is not the PM of an independent UK, confident enough to express his opinion or lead.

Hope for a fresh start with the economic powers of every other European country with control over own country & its resources. And back in the EU as an independent Scotland. youtube.com/watch?v=Twbt...

Randy sings about his country & its values Coming soon to Greenland?https://open.spotify.com/track/5lrMrAFPZVWtM8lGShrKua?si=PkpOwYhPQoeEA0IyVqD5aQMy country

Trump ridiculed a disabled man, was convicted of sexual assault, was a close pal of Epstein, tried to stage a coup by encouraging an insurrection against Congress, bombed Iran, armed an Israeli genocide & annexation in Gaza & threatened to annex Greenland. Starmer gave him the highest UK honour.. 🤔

NYTimes Report: ‘On Air Force One, President Trump threatened Colombia and its president, described Cuba as “ready to fall” and reasserted his desire to acquire Greenland’

Leonard: There are no diamonds in your mind open.spotify.com/artist/5l8VQ...

Perry Como: one of my dad’s favourites open.spotify.com/track/6N1z0O...

L’épouse du directeur de cabinet adjoint de la Maison Blanche a publié une photo de Groenland aux couleurs du drapeau américain, avec le mot « bientôt » en légende. Un message qui a déplu au Danemark.

Worry for UK produce

Very misleading headline from BBC as usual #StateMedia Consider dumping the BBC in 2026 - what we don’t need is more gaslighting from 2nd rate propaganda www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Jackson: fountain of sorrow open.spotify.com/track/3lc5Lf...

Pixies: here comes your man open.spotify.com/track/4IvZLD...

These are great minimum wage policies in California. Why not Scotland? Because we don’t have the constitutional legal powers to do this or the control over our finances to fund it. That’s why (contrary to what Labour lie to you), independence does matter & would improve all our lives.

Let’s look after ourselves. No party based outside Scotland, like Labour or Reform should rule over & control Scotland’s wealth.

The Labour Party have just released a New Year photo of Sir Kier…

What ‘more facts’ does Starmer need? We’ve had detailed statements of the military action & policy intention from President Trump & Secretary for War Pete Hegseth. They confirmed regime change by US force & that oil resource would now be run by private US corporations for the benefit of the USA.

Zack Polanski nails Keir Starmer

England’s PM isn’t a leader.

How Trump's raid on Venezuela has shaken up the international order “For China, this could encourage a more aggressive policy towards Taiwan and Russia may also feel emboldened both in Ukraine and towards its other neighbours” www.itv.com/news/2026-01...

And Scotland needs to get independent ASAP & then join the EU. To remain in the US-vassalage that is Brexit Britain would be very foolish, risky & a recipe for continued low standards of living & inequality. As an independent country we will have much more of our own wealth in our own hands.

Great powers have always, to some extent, written the rules for themselves. But this should be a reminder that for all we might lament the “rules based order”, it’s largely gone, if it ever existed. Hard power is the only thing which matters now. Europe needs to wake up to the new realities.

Trump says he’s “designating people” to run Venezuela Says “the people behind me” will be running Venezuela Ie Rubio, Hegseth and the US military It could hardly be more imperial…

Trump: “We’re not afraid of boots on the ground.” Suggests potential for long term military occupation if necessary. A transformation of Trump’s long term position on foreign adventures and “forever wars.”

I really wish we cared for our old folk with dementia much better. Much more investment in staff needed & better job prospects. It won’t happen in the UK, but in an independent Scotland, it could be possible. So important for the many people needing care; as a society, we need to do much better.

The international community must now ensure that de-escalation, diplomacy and democracy are the foundations of what follows the events of the last few hours. (2/2)

I am deeply concerned at the events we have witnessed unfold in Venezuela over the course of today. The Maduro regime is without doubt illegitimate and authoritarian but it is absolutely essential that all nations act within the international rules based system. (1/2)

The ‘Putinization’ of US foreign policy has arrived in Venezuela

Is President Trump’s action today how he will reduce Russian income from its oil exports? And help bring the Ukraine war to an end?

Watching President Trump take questions from a diverse media. Some quite challenging too on #Venezuela Trump won the US election, unlike Labour who got 33% of the vote. You will never see Starmer face media scrutiny like this. PMQs? A pantomime that insults the idea of serious democratic politics.

Bobby Z “On this New Morning with you”https://open.spotify.com/track/1FIrnH3Dme6EyYNnd96svn?si=aSJwCw1ET_Kco3rhMaH7wg

Billie Holiday open.spotify.com/track/1pZn8A...

Every word x.com/tomlondon6/s...