Holy cow.

Knut Hamsun (Literature Prize 1920): In 1943, he gifted his Nobel medal to Goebbels to thank him for meeting him. Goebbels was honoured by the gift. "The present whereabouts of the medal are unknown." www.nobelpeaceprize.org/press/press-...

Home Office TikTok account posting deportation footage accused of turning ‘brutality into clickbait’

And despite it all, this is Tehran 🇮🇷

The leaders of all five Greenland political parties, including the PM, have issued a joint statement: “We don't want to be Americans, we don't want to be Danish, we want to be Greenlanders.” “The future of Greenland must be decided by Greenlanders… We must decide our country's future ourselves.”

If a new app was produced which had, as its core features, the generation of sexual deep fake images of children and calls for a violent global far-right revolution, then not only would it be swiftly banned, but you wouldn't have a single mainstream politician willing to associate themselves with it

One reason I feel like I'm going mad is, even if Musk did immediately halt Grok and issue a grovelling apology - rather than PAYWALLING IT - he should *still* be prosecuted and his website banned. Very obviously! You don't get out of CSAM charges by just stopping. AND HE STILL HASN'T STOPPED.

Britons are divided on the UK assisting the US in the capture of shadow fleet tankers Support: 37% Oppose: 34% Don't know: 29% Net support by 2024 vote Reform: +29 Con: +23 Lab: +1 LD: -3 Green: -25 yougov.co.uk/topics/inter...

I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK

The three biggest US oil companies have so far not had any meetings with the government, contradicting Trump's comments.

Starmer demoralised his party members, then his MPs, then the country. Now he's undermining the civil service, blaming them for his failures. A fish rots from the head pal.

Not satisfied with breaking international law to take control of Venezuela, Trump reiterates he wants #Greenland. We should believe him. World leaders must uphold international law consistently. They must stop Trump from annexing Greenland, and hold him to account for his actions.

We really should stop people saying this raid on Caracas had no casualties. None of the US special forces were killed, but the total number of deaths is estimated at around 40, including an 80 year old woman. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...

All it takes for evil to thrive is for mediocre world leaders to say “I’d rather not say”

If the President himself says it's all about oil you as as the media do not compromise any neutrality rules by stating that that is in fact what it is about.

Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.

Get ready for Phase Two: a raid on Oslo to seize the Peace Prize.

Trump's actions in Venezuela shows why it was wrong to dismiss his threats to Greenland. If he's willing to do this, he will be willing to do anything

Calais exposes our moral failure on migration. We can and must do better A visit to the French town’s makeshift migrant encampments made it clear that we need a new vision for the new year, writes Zack Polanski https://bit.ly/4b6qZVK

Trump reminds us that the true spirit of Christmas is bombing the infidels.

Just in case 🤗🎄✨

Every time I'm in a restaurant I remember Kevin McAleer's reply to a waiter who told him the Soup Of The Day. "Where there any other contenders?" "Um, no?" "A hollow victory, then".

At #PMQs just now, Labour MP Abtisam Mohamed asked Starmer for - amongst other things - the government to consider bringing water companies into public ownership. He said "yes"! But sadly I don't think this was a Christmas policy U-turn, I think he just wasn't listening properly 🤷

Brilliant statement here @andrea4gs.bsky.social new General Secretary @unisontheunion.bsky.social “Wes Streeting? Anybody that thinks he’s going to try and save the NHS, I’ve got some magic beans for you, because he’s not. He is privatising the NHS now.” 💯🎯🔥 www.politicshome.com/news/article...

British politics is a mess. Food, energy, housing are all too expensive. Major parties are all flogging the dead horse of trickle down. So I’m joining the Green Party. Britain needs an economy that works for workers, for small businesses, and future generations. @greenparty.org.uk

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

A man who heroically tackled and disarmed one of the Bondi Beach gunmen has been unmasked. The hero has been named as 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed, a Sydney local who owns a fruit shop in Sutherland. www.news.com.au/national/nsw...

❄️Christmas sale!❄️ 50% off all books until December 13th! plutobooks.com

It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.

📢📢📢 Migrant Workers’ Rights – National Emergency Demonstration 📌Saturday 13 December, 12PM 📌Birmingham City Centre (Shabana Mahmood’s constituency) Stand up for our neighbours - your salary DOES NOT define your contribution to the UK!! @regulariseuk.bsky.social

Good thing against bad things.

To be fair it’s going to be very funny when these clowns invent AGI and the super intelligent machine tells everyone to get offline, avoid processed food, stroll in the woods, seek community, eschew racism, pay high marginal rates of tax and ignore the ravings of deranged billionaires.

A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism. — Georges Bataille (c. 1952-1957) 📘

On December 14th we'll be hosting an online reading group with John Berger’s biographer, Tom Overton, and Maria Nadotti, Berger's Italian translator and friend. They’ll be discussing Berger’s works on political resistance and what art tells us about ourselves.

so, they're negotiating how human rights shouldn't apply the same way to refugees as to everyone else. what - a - world

Harassment, 'untruthful' evidence, and 'unusual' legal questions. Our reporter Xander Elliards looks at nine points from the Sandie Peggie ruling that the rest of the media has left out

Staggering to watch pretty much every news outlet in the country report that Sandy Peggie has won her tribunal case despite her losing on almost every count, and despite the ruling stating that the Supreme Court FWS judgement does *not* require trans women to be excluded from women's spaces.

Two marvellous #poetry collections, reviewed with sample poems and links on #SixtyOdd poets. Both very different, both romantic yet contemporary. Have a break, have a coffee, have a kit-kat (if there are any in the house), and have a read.

Personally I think we should legalise drugs. Portugal shows it makes them safer, reduces crime and we stop criminalising those who are in need of treatment. Weirdly it also reduces use and addiction rates. So if you hate drugs you really should be in favour of bringing the trade into the light.

Starmer says he’s "taking the gloves off" and that the Greens are "nuts" Big talk from the PM of vibes based cruelty and trickle down cowardice. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Check it out! Lumpen 16 - Class and Care is now available. Class Work Project ( @classworkproject.bsky.social) have put together a banger and makes for some important (occasionally difficult) reading! Issue 16: seditionist.uk/distro/reada... Solidarity bundle: seditionist.uk/distro/reada...

⏰ It's time for change on immigration policy - We all agree on that much! Labour so far have got it all wrong, chasing hostile headlines that will only make our system crueller, society more divided & immigrants easier to exploit. BUT THERE IS ANOTHER WAY!! My 9-point plan for a system that works👇

I'm glad everything went so brilliantly today, and to everyone's satisfaction. Jolly good.

Copying Denmark’s hardline asylum policy a ‘terrible idea’, Danes say Helene Brydensholt of the The Alternative party has urged the UK Government to think again, explaining it’s been a disaster for integration and led to more racism www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Sometimes when you stand up to the far right you have earned a little Schadenfreude.

The cruelty is its purpose.

I don't think Labour are enabling reform. I think Reform are enabling Blue Labour.

If a Prime Minister is brought down by being too cruel on asylum policy - which is not the most likely option but feels plausible right now, which is new - what does that do the debate? Is it too much to hope that draws some kind of line?

Completely beyond why people try to defend Labour record on treatment of asylum seekers. They are awful. They have done terrible things the Tories never even thought of, like denying any refugee who came here through irregular means from EVER becoming a citizen & ENDING FAMILY REUNIFICATION. demons.