🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄 We all deserve a break from hate to see the bigger picture. Stay strong. Keep safe. Be happy. #MerryChristmas

Trump’s regime is no friend of the UK or Europe and the sooner we behave accordingly the better.

If you’re sick of overplayed Christmas chart tunes and fancy something alternative, give my annual festive indie playlist a spin. This year featuring Sufjan Stevens, Tori Amos, Phoebe Bridgers, Thea Gilmore, The Lemon Twigs, Bright Eyes, Lumineers. Happy Christmas! open.spotify.com/playlist/6IA...

German caller to LBC: “How would I motivate people ( in the UK ) to study foreign languages? Very simple, I would force them.” 😆 #learn #languages #German

🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄 Here's a German version of "Silent Night" by the Comedian Harmonists. It was made in 1932 in the Weimar Republic, one year before Hitler seized total power and two years before the Nazis stopped them performing. It's still one of the most beautiful versions ever recorded! #MerryChristmas

This Instagram account, “Howtotoppletyrants”, is very good, and worth following. Warns of the the real danger of fascism in the UK. A breath of fresh air. www.instagram.com/reel/DSb6eC_...

In the gloom, there are points of light - and what connects them is courage. Last column of 2025 offers some reasons to be hopeful www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is a remarkably stupid approach for Labour. I would be shocked, except I’ve watched them self destruct over the last year….

“Three hour delays at airports” - while EU citizens walk straight past.

These are the “fans” Sir Keir Starmer said should be allowed into the Aston Villa ground earlier this year…

Complete absence of moral compass, and when they do make a judgement call, they invariably pick the absolute worst option.

Retreating further into your bunker from an already embattled government is not a good look, proving once again they are not good at basic politics sadly

Labour government: “What can we learn from Trump?”

A massive Brexit blot on the landscape! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

17. Dezember 1941 #VictorKlemperer #Tagebücher #NS #Nationalsozialismus #Faschismus #Antisemitismus #Shoah #Arisierung #Enteignung (See alt-text for English)

Overheard in a middle-class pub this evening. QUOTE “ They come over here, claim benefits, and buy a house.” England is in serious trouble.

The @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social team rightly identify the biggest block to Trump as being "the bloc" - single institutional unity. Which means you must face down exceptionalists who want special treatment for the UK over weapons, science, 90/180, etc., and preach the gospel of European unity. 2

Donald Trump’s pursuit of personal enrichment and suppression of the press in the UK doesn’t even register in the ethics-free zone that is Wes Streeting’s brain.

Donald Trump’s pursuit of personal enrichment and suppression of the press in the UK doesn’t even register in the ethics-free zone that is Wes Streeting’s brain.

This is good, but it's still fiddling at the edges. We don't just want to be "closer" to Europe, we want to be back "in" it – back at the heart of the EU project! Our return is inevitable. Everyone knows it. So why prolong the pain of being out in the cold? Take the first step and apply to rejoin! 🇪🇺

Labour are launching an investigation into historical foreign interference in UK politics. But they are explicitly excluding the Brexit referendum from the investigation. That's like pledging to investigate instances of arson while ignoring the wall of flames spanning the horizon.

US reels from Bondi Beach attack on Hanukah celebrants, hours after Brown University mass shooting. My live report for Sydney's ABC Radio. audioboom.com/posts/881928...

Wow!

Was on Sky News this morning discussing Flu and whether this was a record bad year or not. Also discussed what we could do and the importance of vaccines, ventilation and wearing a mask if you're ill. youtu.be/_PZiU3R7jac

What is it with London, where you go into a pub, pay for the meal in advance, and the card machine asks you how much tip you want to give, before you’ve even tasted the food?

Every horror we're seeing in Trump's America will take root in the UK if Farage becomes PM. From racist oppression to blatant corruption to anti-vaxxing to Christian nationalism to support for Russia to hostility towards on Europe ... It will all be used by Farage to divide and rule us. #FarageOut

You do wonder, is there anyone in this Labour government who genuinely believes in what they’re doing.

Brazen lawbreaking by the Trump administration seizing asylum-seekers lawfully in the US … #kristi #noem #kristinoem youtube.com/shorts/QKWoT...

MPs call on Keir Starmer to condemn Donald Trump’s “interference” in European politics.

"He put me in a chokehold.....that was very uncalled for" encapsulates perfectly the civilisational clash here. This gentleman doesn't even have the words to articulate the sheer despicableness of what he's been subjected to.

Top marks to Liverpool. The most generous country on Earth.

What will happen to Gary Lineker, if he tries to enter to report on the World Cup?

Even before government says anything anyone with sense should stay away from the USA right now!

Should the UK government issue a travel warning for people intending to fly to the United States?

Unravelling the US trade deal would be absolutely the right thing. We should never be in a trade deal with a mafia kleptocracy like the USA.

Come off it. The UK government, including the prime minister, says stronger stuff than this (IMV to an unwise degree) about China *all the time*.

Planning to go see the World Cup next year? Maybe time for a rethink …

"The votes of the dead should not count for more than than the views of the young. Around 3.2 million Leave voters have died since the referendum. Six million young people have now reached voting age since 2016, and they are more likely to be pro-EU." #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

To beat the populists, politicians need to… 1. Fully understand the nature of the mortal threat facing the country. 2. Ditch convention, and devise an effective strategy to defeat it. There’s no sign the government has even reached step 1.

It’s not just the Brexiters in the Labour government then.

“Labour and the country have reached a historic inflection point. For all the talk of Brexit ‘benefits’, the anti-EU ideologues know the tide has turned” @pollytoynbee.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It’s like watching a training film called “Political Incompetence 101”

How did so much cowardice come to be concentrated in SW1A?

The Clacton constituency needs to organise a recall now, and the other parties need to put up a neutral, universally respected joint candidate against him at the following by-election. #FarageOut 🗳

"In 2024, UK GDP per head at constant prices was 30 per cent below what it would have been if the trend rate of growth between 1980 and 2007 had continued." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

I turned off the news for 1 day to give myself a break, and came back to this. wtf is going on now?

And on Britain

Farage’s “Armoured Land Rover” All perfectly normal

What an appalling thing for the UK government to post.

The billboard image closely resembled German NS anti-refugee imagery from the 1930s. Nigel Farage posed proudly in front of it. It tells you all anyone needs to know about Nigel Farage.