🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨 As you polish off the last of the Christmas nibbles and count down to midnight, join Rory and @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social as they explore what the year ahead could hold for British politics... and whether we’re on the brink of a new world order. Link in the replies 👇

Das hat Spaß gemacht!❄️❤️🎉🦄🌈 #B96begradigen #Bautzen Kommt alle gut ins neue Jahr!🙏

Das ist für mich übrigens meine Podcast-Episode des Jahres - selten so viel in so kurzer Zeit gelernt. 2026 wird dann das M-Wort von @annerabe.bsky.social gelesen!

The takeaway is not that journalists make absurd predictions. This was a blunt, but reasonable headline in 1996. It's that outcomes that seem highly unlikely/wildly optimistic do happen occasionally due to agency. Bulgarians and Europeans took forks in the road over the yrs that made today reality.

Watch the full New Year's message on YouTube. youtu.be/pXe6yaykQ2o

Wishing you all a Happy New Year and a great start to 2026 🤘

Zelensky announced Romania and Croatia have joined the PURL initiative, which now includes 24 countries contributing $4.3 billion to purchase U.S. weapons for Ukraine, including Patriot missiles.

Credit to Today for a remarkable discussion between John and Amy Hunt, Theresa May and the Queen on misogyny and the murders of Carol, Louise and Hannah Hunt. I hope Kemi Badenoch will listen, and reflect on whether this was an appropriate response to the issue of violence against women and girls.

'utin sends thousands upon thousands of Russians to their deaths and still cannot fully control Pokrovsk, and has lost Kupiansk again. But murdering peaceful families in Kyiv with drones in residential buildings—that he can do. War criminal.' [kagi]

Putin schickt tausende über tausende Russen in den Tod und kann doch noch immer Pokrowsk nicht vollständig kontrollieren und hat Kupjansk wieder verloren. Aber mit Drohnen in Wohnhäuser friedliche Familien in Kyjiw ermorden, dass kann er. Kriegsverbrecher.

Here we have the need for comfort & solace when faith loosens but longing endures, prayer not confined to religion but a human experience ‘a woman will lift her head from the sieve of her hands’ A quiet incantation, perfectly captured in the final couplet #poetry #poemoftheday #sonnet

The 38th Marines held Krinki without support for 124 days! Unimagineable courage. Now all they ask for is a pickup. They deserve this! car4ukraine.com/campaigns/ch... youtu.be/4vaa9Z6fCPk

Medical issues are a topic Private Eye takes seriously. We tried to do our bit with this piece about a broadcasting personality in trouble. Watch ‘An Evening with Private Eye 2025’ in full, on Private Eye’s YouTube channel now.

So Boris Johnson, Prince Phillip, Andrew Bonar Law, Freddie Mercury, George I, George II, Richard E Grant, Douglas Carswell, Rudyard Kipling, Cliff Richard, Joanna Lumley and Spike Milligan weren't British? Interesting www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

As I was saying, Trump isn't a mediator in the Russo-Ukrainian war, he has sided with the russian aggressor.

for Ukraine and its real allies to look for an alternative framework for negotiations with an objective mediator, or to simply invest fully in seeking Russia’s defeat. www.policymagazine.ca/the-russia-u...

„Über Moral, die AfD und Ostalgie“. Eineinhalb Stunden, die mehr als hörenswert sind. @annerabe.bsky.social im Gespräch bei @kattascha.bsky.social.

A new trial gave homeless people £2,000 to spend however they choose. What they spent the money on may surprise you.

A pair of Western Grebes with their chicks for today’s #serenity and #favorite themes of #BirdOfTheDay picked by @alan678.bsky.social I think this shot may qualify for both themes because it is my favorite one of 2025 and, well, I think it is a serene scene. #birds #nature #photography

36 species at Aberthaw today. The highlight was finally getting some really good views of the firecrest on the way back to the car in a completely different location to where it's usually spotted. #birds🪶 #birdingwales #BirdsSeenIn2025 @birdsinwales.bsky.social #UKwildlife #NatureTherapy🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

How much money are these private companies extracting from the NHS in profit? 💰 🚨 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/exposing-w...

Compare this to the Anchorage ceremony.

A reminder: Russia doesn’t want/need Donbas; it isn’t historically/ethnically special. Ru wants all of Ukraine. Receiving the heavily fortified Donbas towns it couldn’t conquer for 11+ yrs on a silver platter from Trump would allow Ru an easier 2nd march on Kyiv. That’s what Pu is focusing on now.

Some local kids write & sell their own newspaper called The Morning Moustache every few months. Last edition, I wrote a letter to the editor about a fruit & veg safari. This edition, they printed the letter & followed up with some replies from the editorial team. An extremely fun correspondence.

It's idiotic to ask him these things while his mind is freshly full of Russian propaganda. Ru wants to occupy all of Ukraine, destroy everything Ukrainian, absorb, russify, and rebuild as Ru. That's what they're attempting to do in the occupied territories. It's genocidal intent, not good will.

Jacek Czaputowicz w #PoranekTOKFM: Musimy zrozumieć, co się zmienia. Te przykłady dotyczą sytuacji, kiedy Rosja jest wrogiem, natomiast kluczem tego rozstrzygnięcia jest przekształcenie relacji rosyjsko-amerykańskich w niemalże sojuszniczą, ścisłą współpracę

⚫ Brigitte Bardot, actrice française légendaire, icône féminine des années 1960 et fervente protectrice des animaux, est décédée à l'âge de 91 ans, a annoncé ce dimanche la Fondation Brigitte Bardot.

Why do we keep burning through prime ministers? Should politicians have more faith in the people? Are we becoming "the heroes of our own disaster movie"? I *really* enjoyed taking part in this podcast. I hope you enjoy it, too!

Russia is 100% responsible for this development.

Number crunching: Telegraph editorial columns in December highlighting ‘the unreliability of social media’ v corrections the Telegraph has had to publish so far this year due to inaccurate reporting From the new Private Eye, out now.

'A school principal denies approval for an internship at the AfD and thereby fulfills his democratic duty. However, we live in a society where such a matter of course leads to death threats and to being marked as an enemy by taxpayer-funded right-wing extremists.' [Kagi]

Apparently county cricket’s historic tendency to produce experienced 135kph bowlers attuned to seaming pitches is no preparation for Test cricket. 🤷‍♂️

It's really quite mad that Companies House, a government website which lists every company in the UK, has only just started verifying that the people who register as directors of companies are who they say they are on 18 November, 2025. companieshouse.blog.gov.uk/2025/10/16/m...

On the 34th anniversary of the end of the USSR, I’m reposting my article from earlier this year, which argued that we should have understood the moment as liberation rather than only as collapse: www.eurozine.com/liberation-n...

“But it's also clear that there is likely something in the files that further incriminates him.” This is what I think, too. Horrible as the facts at hand are, there must be something else, something verging on the unimaginable. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/feminism-ver...

RIP John Robertson. One of most striking example of a player & manager transforming each other: he was not a first team regular in the second division for Forest when Clough arrived yet became central to winning promotion, the league title and two European Cups! www.theguardian.com/football/202...

💔🙏Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers are celebrating Christmas today in the trenches while holding the line against Russian aggression They're doing it for their nation's survival & for Europe's security Merry Christmas to all of them & their families. May they reunite soon

'Autocrats like Trump and Putin systematically trample international law underfoot. Against this, apparent realism is no help; what is needed is a return to universalism: peace through law.'

This gold solidus is the earliest coin to depict Jesus. It was minted in Constantinople in 450 to celebrate Emperor Marcian's marriage to Pulcheria. Jesus is shown between the imperial couple. This specimen from the Hunterian collection is the only known example in existence.

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President Trump announces details of his new Ukraine peace plan. Watch ‘An Evening with Private Eye 2025’ in full, on Private Eye’s YouTube channel now.

We need to get our arms out of the US machine. Regulate US companies out of our countries. It’s as big a security threat as Russia.

This is inspired by the Irish tradition of putting a candle in the window on Christmas Eve, a sign to the needy of an open door & food on the table. Then exploring in the 2nd stanza how a once hospitable nation has become less welcoming to strangers #poetry #poemoftheday #IrelandisNOTFull

It would be nice if a British leader could say the same: and stand up for London, it’s Mayor and the BBC at the same time

A transatlantic showdown over tech policy (as opposed to, say, net zero) could actually have a unifying & galvanising political effect within the EU. The union’s digital regulations are broadly popular and many voters actually want more, not fewer, controls on Big Tech. yougov.co.uk/technology/a...

Wesołych świąt and a Merry Christmas Eve to you all.

Workers for Royal Mail have described difficult conditions and being 'treated like robots' – particularly in the lead up to Christmas.

Abwarten und Tee trinken. What a good idea. 🫖🫖🫖

✊ #WirSindHateAid Die Bundesregierung muss jetzt… 👉 Solidarität mit HateAid & allen Betroffenen zeigen. 👉 dafür eintreten, dass die Sanktionen zurückgenommen werden. 👉 geltendes EU-Recht gegen BigTech durchsetzen.

Unsere Medien, die die Gefahr der AfD nicht sehen, tragen schwere Schuld: - Die AfD will Menschen deportieren - Die AfD will Oppositionelle erschiessen - Die AfD will CDU- und SPD-Politiker liquidieren. Sie hat all das öffentlich angekündigt! Dass Medien stattdessen über AfD-Reisen nach Disneyland