With the economy, foreign policy and immigration all going poorly for Trump, he’s scrambling before the midterms. But he has run out of cards to play, which is why he’s now talking about the “communist menace." Oh please...

Matt Godwin is a failure who needs to leave my city the fuck alone. Failed candidate. Failed academic. Failed commentator. Failed intellectual. A massive ego wrapped around a shrivelled and scared intellect, poisoned by bile and subconcious awareness of his own inadequacy.

That’s Trump’s yearbook photo, age 17. Remarkable that he thinks he was still attending his high school military academy at age 20. 🤪

The Reform UK Ipswich Chair Shayne Pooley has said his councillors won’t be speaking to local media saying “we don’t need you”. Wonder where he got the idea from? This is Shayne Pooley: Ipswich Tory councillor suspended over pro-Russia posts www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

Never mind stars let's not forget the important event of this day. youtu.be/MN_9VqfVQ9c?...

TIMELINE CLEANSE

The Professor makes an excellent point.

Coincidence corner: JCB and Reform UK From the new Private Eye, out now.

Dear Shabana, Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ca... Given that King Charles is Colonel in Chief of several regiments that fought in Afghanistan, should he really be going to visit a man who denigrated their sacrifices.

www.theguardian.com/society/2026... The "Labour" Party

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli... Stupid things Keir Starmer Has Said day 563

Stupid things Starmer/Reeves have said or done. Day 524.

It's noticeable that the people who are now angriest with Keir Starmer's Labour government are those who voted for it. And they are right to be. This has been his primary achievement. So where on earth does he think Labour voters will come from, next time round?

In the 1930s we didn’t have the ECHR and the far right still took power and there is zero connection between the ECHR and the rise of the right today. What did encourage the rise of the far right was appeasement which is what Starmer is proposing. This moron is the Paul von Hindenburg of our time.

www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec... Starmer Logic: Curb the right by moving to the right.

Can someone please show this to Rachel Reeves

Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇

CEO of Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management: "There is a very low level of ecological literacy being displayed by ministers. Nothing I have seen or heard gives me comfort that Rachel Reeves understands the importance of nature to economic and social wellbeing. Nothing."

This is going to seem very random but I miss how the old bird app would have worked brilliantly for this: I’m looking for someone who can help me find information about how, and in what - if any - capacity, the Salvation Army might have been involved in adoption processes in London in the 1910s.

Scoop. A still from the new BBC series about the English Civil War. Done by the same people who brought you King & Conqueror

This is one of the reasons why I gave up on the Guardian. They claim to be campaigning on climate change and then produce puff pieces like this. Golf courses are hardly an environmentally friendly land use.

Google Arts & Culture has an article about John Christie the serial killer illustrated with a picture of John Christie the founder of Glyndebourne. Isn't AI wonderful?

Just to let our US friends know that in the UK Trump is a slang term for a fart. Given how language develops if when farting we say that we are going to do a Donald and it catches on, in 100 years time that is what he will be remembered for.

When the penguin army comes for Trump and Musk.

Lets get the best people from the USA!

Donald Trump sparked outrage with his shocking display of bullying at the Oval office meeting with Ukraine’s President Zelensky. Now, over 150,000 of us are calling to cancel his second UK state visit - will you join the backlash too? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...

Donald Trump sparked outrage with his shocking display of bullying at the Oval office meeting with Ukraine’s President Zelensky. Now, over 150,000 of us are calling to cancel his second UK state visit - will you join the backlash too? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

open.spotify.com/episode/5wwl... Listening

Reading Shift www.goodreads.com/book/show/17...

Reading. Fighters in the Shadows: A New History of the French Resistance www.goodreads.com/book/show/25...

www.imdb.com/title/tt0870... Watching

open.spotify.com/episode/4Msn... Listening

Just watched "Elevation" on Amazon. More plot holes than Swiss cheese.

Annual release of millions of non-native gamebirds for shooting? Sure, no problem, no licences/permission required, fill yer boots, do what you like. Carefully managed & licensed reintroduction of a native species? Not if its got sharp claws and teeth. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

8 February 1943 | A transport of 2,000 Jewish men, women, and children arrived at #Auschwitz from the ghetto in Białystok. After arrival selection, 75 men and 95 women were registered in the camp. The remaining 1,830 people were murdered in gas chambers.

Measles outbreak erupts in one of Texas’ least vaccinated counties arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

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