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Hello lovely people, I need your help. We still haven’t found a buyer for Mum’s lovely retirement house near the sea in Cromer on Norfolk coast. It really is time someone else was making happy memories there. I’d really appreciate everyone sharing it widely 😁 www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

This a UN diplomat. Lebanese-born Mohamad Safa, the Executive Director and Main Representative of the organization Patriotic Vision (PVA) at the United Nations, won't be going to the World Cup this year because the USA is not safe to visit.

Trump has shredded the Constitution. He's taken an axe to checks and balances. He's using the presidency to line his own pockets and the pockets of those around him. He says he is constrained only by his “own morality.” When we say "No Kings," this is why.

What Gen McCaffrey says. And note that major US broadcast news outlets decided that the German president's remarks were not reportable news. They're afraid to cross Trump.

Leaning into the President as lead mobster approach that is becoming the hallmark of this Trump term (but is under-written as it shouldn't be possible and doesn't fit any IR theories) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

A few months ago Chris Philp called me “unhinged” in a Telegraph article about a video I made. In it I warned about the brutality of ICE, & argued those who appease Trump would open the door to Fascism here too. I was called ‘hysterical’. I have 0 regrets about that message.

This is a big deal.

The Danish armed forces lost 44 soldiers in Afghanistan (37 in combat and 7 in accidents due to other reasons) along with 214 wounded since 2002. This was due to a war called upon Denmark when NATO Article 5 was activated by USA after 9/11. We did not question it.

You can only pray that they are spinning this so hard because they know it has the potential to be a turning point in support for the Trump regime. This has to stay in the public eye. They must be held accountable for this and every other violent act and abduction committed by ICE

Richard Brooks reports in this week’s Private Eye that almost all of that £50m has now been taken as dividends by the developers Chris Musgrave & Martin Corney (there’s £2.7m left in the account) 👇

We fought the greatest war in history, one that left countless millions, killed, starved, abused and traumatised precisely because idiot leaders insisted that there would be great advantages in controlling the incredible natural resources of other countries.

Just seen Grok putting the body of the victim of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis into a bikini. Digital corpse desecration now available to the public.

Back to the grind for our Christmas tree recycling team... 🎄🐐

The BBC should be "impartial", but that doesn't mean refusing to make judgments. A jury or a football referee should be "impartial": they should not be "partial", or prejudiced, to one side or other. But that doesn't excuse them from making decisions. It's why we trust them to do so.

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These are apparently facial reconstructions of a 2,300-year-old Pazyryk Scythian male and female from the same kurgan in Berel, Kazakhstan and not - as I first thought - that couple I met at a Spiral Tribe soundsystem in 1992 who sold me E that turned out to be paracetamol.

Depressing, for pretty much summing up America’s foreign and domestic policies. ⬇️

Trump: We'll always be there for NATO even if they won't be there for us. The rest of NATO, of which the US is still formally a member: The US is the only NATO member that has ever invoked Article 5, and many of us came to your aid. #BBCPM

"We are the dominant predator force in the Western Hemisphere" is the sort of line that gets edited out of an anime villain's evil monologue for being a bit much.

Happy New Fear! The new Private Eye is out now.

"Iron laws of the world"? Some of America's most important national accomplishments are about leading humanity away from this kind of bullshit. If we let ideologues like Stephen Miller drag us back into a world where brute force is all that matters, all of us will be less safe.

Yay! Series 13 👏👏 - and not at all ridiculously excited to see @megsdigs.bsky.social Meg from episode two 🤗

Only 10 tickets left for this webinar on adaptive teaching now. Pay what you can to attend. Grateful for any shares. Thank you! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-ultima...

Five years ago today, the United States Capitol was attacked in a violent insurrection incited by the President of the United States for one purpose: to overturn a free and fair election and cling to power in clear violation of the Constitution.

Five years ago today, Donald Trump urged his supporters to attack Congress and the Capitol over a proven lie. More than 140 police officers were injured. Trump then pardoned the attackers. He betrayed his oath and his country, and we won't ever forget it.

KS2 teachers! Are you doing any of the following topics? Roman Britain Aztec Empire Indus Civilisation Kingdom of Benin WW2 or the US Civil Rights Movement Magna Carta If so - TA DA! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand... (We also cover a load of other topics but I think those are the main KS2 ones)

But Mark Kelly is not deterred.

Bears repeating. Your punishment for being successful, unapologetic & opinionated will be AI humiliation revenge porn. This fits right in with the misogynistic streak of the theocrats & tech bros & #Project2025. Time for a new era of warrior feminism.

Splendid. Ten people found guilty of cyber bullying France’s first lady Brigitte Macron over the ridiculous, rotten false claims she was born a man… Brigitte Macron did not give evidence but said she took action to “make an example” and take a stand for others. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Once more for this. V interesting

GS: “Sen. Warner said you can’t argue drug trafficking charges demand invasion in one case while issuing a pardon in another…”🤔 @marcorubio: “Maduro was indicted.” GS: “Hernandez was CONVICTED.” RUBIO: “I wasn't involved in the pardon… I've got other things going on.” 🤷🏽‍♂️

THREAD: Viral misinformation on US capture of Nicolas Maduro - 4 January This video, shared by Alex Jones and others, falsely claims to show millions of Venezuelans in Caracas celebrating Maduro's capture. In fact, it shows anti-Maduro protests in July 2024 over a highly disputed election.

The pardon for Hernandez makes an obvious & absolute mockery of each & every attempt to rationalise, or even justify, Trump's treatment of Maduro. I'm not sure this single, simple point can be stressed enough. Once again, he proves his critics right & reduces his supporters to epic moral corruption.

Pretty much…

@davidandress.bsky.social of @jameshobson.bsky.social might have ideas?

The detention of Noriega in 1969 is clearly the closest precedent for the Maduro operation. But events in Caracas remind me of a now-forgotten episode in which the US invaded a Commonwealth Caribbean state, giving the UK Gov’t a few hours’ notice and ignoring their objections 1/9

1/ It wouldn't be a real Christmas without a gloomy forecast from Igor 'Strelkov' Girkin, Russia's answer to the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. He sees Trump turning against Russia in 2026, anticipates the loss of Transnistria, and predicts a naval blockade by the EU. ⬇️

Have you ever communed with a tree spirit on Twelfth Night? 🍏✨ This week on the blog, we've shared a recipe for mulled cider wassail, plus: - Why do we sing to the apple trees in January? - Who was the Apple Tree Man? - What were wassail bowls made from? www.butserancientfarm.co.uk/blog/2026/1/...

If Trump’s concern was drugs, he’d not have pardoned Honduras’s corrupt leader; if terrorism, he’d have gone after Iran; if world order, Russia; if preserving US power, China. If democracy, human rights or humanitarian motive, dozens of other worthy cases. What’s left is oil. And Epstein.

For city people who scoff at descriptions like “it was a dark and stormy night” this is a “bright and moonlit night” on the moor, bit of snow, no artificial light.

L'Etat, c'est moi. That's where we are now. Trump acting like MBS, Putin, a monarch, where he and his family are enriching themselves by acquire/occupy/seize/rule/exploit Gaza, Venezuela, Greenland and what the f-ck Witkoff and Kushner are negotiating with Putin.

the peace president, doing more peace stuff

The French far right as always been, in part, motivated by anti-Americanism. Le Pen and Bardella have had notably cooler relations with MAGA than, say, Farage or the AfD. (Despite the US alt-right being v influence by French far right thinkers).

Trump says he’s “designating people” to run Venezuela Says “the people behind me” will be running Venezuela Ie Rubio, Hegseth and the US military It could hardly be more imperial…