Realisation is starting to sink in that Reform has a near zero chance of forming a Government after the Senedd Election. Other parties won’t work with them and they’re dropping in the polls, currently 2nd. Here’s their Trumpian direction - claim the election is illegitimate when they don’t win.

What do 2009 and 2025 have in common? 2025 was the best year for the FTSE 100 since 2009. 2025 was also the first FULL year under a Labour government since 2009. Coincidence? Maybe. But it's not as if it's the only data point showing improving trends now we have a Labour government again.

Starmer vows to 'defeat decline and division' in new year message www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In the 6th largest economy, 103000 people died in poverty in 2024. 120,000 died in fuel poverty, couldn't afford adequate heating. Ethnic minorities, pensioners, single working age adults more likely to die in poverty. Poverty and death sentence is a political choice as govts appease the rich.

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Let’s start the New Year as we mean to go on…

How is Farage not tarnished by this national debacle? Why is he not only not held to account by the UK media but almost feted on shows such as Question Time?

Israel plans to revoke the licences of dozens of international charities working in Gaza and the West Bank. Foreign ministers have condemned the move as “unacceptable”. 📩 Read our final InDepth newsletter of 2025, from Channel 4 News Presenter @cathynewman.bsky.social:

This is horrific. Every Republican member of Congress should be asked about this every day for the rest of their lives.

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Jeremy Clarkson complains about no village Doctor, no village shops, no village schools, no bobby. This is the same Jeremy Clarkson who loves Margaret Thatcher and David Cameron who made all these things happen with their cuts. They love complaining about what they voted for.

Richard Smith condenses Rutger Bregman’s Reith Lectures into a blog. richardswsmith.wordpress.com/2025/12/30/h...

🚨 “Can I tell you how many times in the last 45 years the European Court of Human Rights has ruled against the UK when it comes to deporting people from this country - only 13 times - in 45 years” Please remember this in 2026 when Nigel Farage tells you we must leave the ECHR to control our borders

✨ Here’s to a better, healthier 2026. ✨ We’re wishing for better staff support, better patient care & a fully public NHS — in other words, the EveryDoctor Charter made real. 💙Let’s make it happen. ➡️ bit.ly/SignEDNHSCha...

all meaning has collapsed in our post-literate society and i wrote a bunch of useless, useless words about it. read it if you, like me, are one of a diminishing minority who still reads www.theverge.com/policy/84960...

Britain's botched departure from the European Union is to join a litany of flops including the Titanic, Sinclair C5 and The Body Shop ✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀

As his poll ratings tank ahead of November’s midterms, splits are emerging in his MAGA movement. Can the Democrats unite and capitalise? ✏️ Matthew d'Ancona

Look at these terrifying flight paths of Russian drones coming for me in Geneva! What more proof do you need!?!

Crime, corruption and cruelty show how leaders like Trump and Bukele exploit power, and why they must be stopped ✏️ @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social

i read this and i just see a lazy person with a skill issue

If 2026 is to improve on 2025, the UK must start behaving like a serious country at long last ✏️ Patience Wheatcroft

Zohran Mamdani didn’t just win an election – his and Rama Duwaji’s story mirrors the city they now represent ✏️ Ivan L Nagy

Hilarious isn't it that your Politicians have complete coverage. And no one else does. But they are the ones who say YOU can't have it.

Would have thought the obvious issue is the ghoul lurking in the Kremlin’s bunker, sending drones and cruise missiles to kill kids; Putin.

Ohh yeah that must have went real well … what a loser. Do not know any President that was ever all alone. This is grueling to watch. America deserves better. CONGRESS ???

Governing is constantly making judgement calls that balance competing interests, good and perfect, short and long term, risk and opportunity. That's why electing an objectively horrible person because they happen to agree with you on a few major policy areas is a recipe for heartbreak.

November 2026 MAGA is Destroyed 🚩🚩🚩✊👏

How do we stop junior doctors leaving for Australia asks The Times which has called their strike for better pay "reckless and self-indulgent".

The Blue Tsunami continues!!! 🌊🌊🌊

Disability charity chief condemns UK government as she rejects MBE www.bbc.com/news/article...

Trump is to Putin as Mussolini was to Hitler.

New Year, new beginning, right? I used to do predictions for the year ahead, but in the Mad World we’re in it seems a wild roll of the dice. Instead a hope: the end of one despot which could set off a chain reaction bringing down other despots and would-be despots. A chance to turn to the light.

If Ukraine did attack Putin's home, US Intelligence would have confirmed it to back up Trump, who indicated that he believed Putin. The fact that they have not confirmed it means that Putin is lying & Trump is backing up Putin's lie as a pretext to end all peace negotiations.

U.S. removal of panels honoring Black soldiers at WWII cemetery in the Netherlands draws backlash share.google/UY04ABBR2sw2...

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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...

No way Drumpf would EVER understand this.

I thought the slogan for RFK Jr’s movement was Make America Healthy Again?

今年も残すところ1日となりました。Bluesky では、来年も日本のみなさんとコミュニティを成長させていくことを楽しみにしています。そのために、専用のフィードを作成しました。 bsky.app/profile/aiha... フィードに投稿するには、投稿にお正月に関するキーワードや新年の挨拶を含めてください。右上のピン:pushpin:アイコンをクリックすると、タブからアクセスできるようになります。 気になるアカウントを新たにフォローしたり、ゆるりと会話を楽しむお正月をお過ごしください:bamboo:

I'm wondering if anyone knows of books/articles on society/society & politics in late 18th century/French Revolutionary Ratisbon/Regensburg (in French or English). I'm not having much luck finding anything. All suggestions welcome. #skystorians #c18th 🗃️

This is very cool! The pamphlet by Simon Stevin (the mathematician who invented most of Dutch mathematics terminology) called The Tenth from 1585, proposing his decimal point notation which would eventually be referenced by Jefferson in 1792 when designing the system of the dollar

What were the stories that made the headlines over the first six months of the year? In the first of a two-part series, our timeline charts the world’s biggest talking points from January to June in 2025. 📩 Read our latest newsletter:

🔴 Hot Type: Your Freedom Is a Gift — I Ask You To Defend It ⁦Heidi Cuda argues that America's spiritual and political nadir in 2025 gives Europe the opportunity to light the way back and to remind everyone of the gift of freedom in 2026 www.bylinesupplement.com/p/hot-type-y...

Ukraine accuses Russia of lying about Putin Residence attack www.channel4.com/news/ukraine...

The grasshopper gets it — divide and conquer. Today’s robber barons use the same playbook. But together, we have all the power. Watch.

AOC: "It's not just that Trump is corrupt. It's that everyone participating in this is corrupt — Elon is corrupt. Jeff Bezos is corrupt. Mark Zuckerberg is corrupt"

The Ukrainian delegation on the left Putin’s delegation on the right-by all rights, the US flag s/b removed….

That's Not Fair,But In Chumplandia It Is A Reality......