The story of US intervention is a story of suffering, misery and chaos. How many more catastrophic failures will it take before we learn the lesson? My piece for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social on the illegal invasion of Venezuela. tribunemag.co.uk/2026/01/star...

My editorial cartoon for Tuesday's Metro

This woman has a most amazing voice. It's like a sky-high version of Aaron Neville. youtu.be/JmnZHQNN5cc?... #NowPlaying Caroline Polachek Tiny Desk Concert #NPR #TinyDesk

A feast for eyes and mind. Art and fiction are great companions like - horses and goats. I mean for each other. I'm not sure a horse counts as a companion. You are a companion to the horse, it's a bit like being a servant to the horse. Goats, do we need to think about them as companions? #art #flash

Try to get real honey from real beekeepers. According to this, we are consuming fake honey - a lot of it from China - that would be better called "honey flavoured syrup". And this says we don't really know what's in it. It's "Honey Fraud". youtu.be/5G5HrM757N4?... #FakeHoney #HoneyFraud Honey Don't.

The Washington Post should add "(Live)" after their strapline "Democracy Dies in Darkness" @washingtonpost.com

🚨🚨EMERGENCY EPISODE🚨🚨 Very few people can claim to have met and known 🇻🇪's Maduro, Chavez & interim president Delcy Rodriguez. Well, my guest @catheriner.bsky.social, former 🇬🇧 ambassador in Caracas, is one of them and she spoke to me earlier today. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

Question for President Trump SJM: So it would be okay for Ukraine special forces to abduct Putin and his wife (Medvedev) and put them on trial in Kyiv? Trump: Medvedev is not his wife. Who are you with? SJM: Willesden Herald. Trump: You are fake news. One of the worst. You need an MRI more than me.

Ok this is interesting.

Weird

How sure can we be that Wes Streeting is not some sort of AI hologram? For that matter, the entire Labour government and supposed throng of MPs have an aura of implausibility about them, I feel. Only opposition will be real in future, government will be by AI and mass hypnosis, to fade humanity out

Google AI is inherently unreliable. I tested it, knowing the answer to a difficult question. It made up an answer that was completely incorrect, fake but sounded plausible. It is fatally flawed by trying to impress and desperate to come up with anything other than "I don't know." Same with ChatGPT.

Creatives! Show me your favourite thing you made in 2025…

Going wild over here, huh? Good luck in 2026, y'all. 明けましておめでとうございます。

Right, so I seldom have a ranty post n this platform because - let's be frank - what's the point? Social media ceased to have any valency beyond solipsistic self-affirmation for shakey lock-ins, lonely psychopaths or morbidly obese Nazis whose hands are welded with dried semen to their mice...

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Latest toon for The Morning Star, out in print 1.1.26

Blogged this, which I recently shared here but with a different image for illustration. Boxing Day stephenmoransmuseumofillusions.wordpress.com/2025/12/30/b...

We're limping to the end of 2025 like marathon runners on their last legs, reaching for Jules Holland's wonderful though fake countdown and Hootenanny music delights. We'll try to eat 12 grapes while Big Ben chimes 12am. No one knows why. youtu.be/HrKmDgk8Edg?... #WeAreHere #AliciaKeys #HappyNewYear

Tá seo greannmhar!

I knew someone in the middle of trying to get citizenship and his life (and earning capacity) was so limited as a result. If we want people to become a successful part of our country and not sit at the edges feeling alienated we need to get the process streamlined, imo.

It’s not our duty to just smile and nod when a man with this much power demonstrates that he’s a pathological liar and an imbecile. Quite the contrary. Real patriots say out loud this is just plain nuts and he’s unfit to hold office.

I bloody love December

ロンドンの街路の設備 Street lights, street pipes? #イギリスの文化 #ロンドン地理 #日本語下手 #イギリス地理 #japanese #日本語勉強中 #fyp

So heartwarming to play the organ for my home village church on Christmas Day - I’d like to say I pulled all the stops out but I’m not sure what they do… Merry Christmas everyone! ❄️🪾❤️

Deep connections in Irish names and mythology to the animal kingdom. And some fascinating examples of words to do with the sounds made by horses and cattle. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... #SundayMiscellany #Audio

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte... A v strong letter from a teacher at the school at the time. Big {{eye roll}} for the senior staff who claimed Fartage was just ‘naughty’ - as well as for Fartage’s own deep-baked wankery.

Please (please!) try to avoid messages like “Glad you are still alive/not injured”. And tell others. It hurts. Kyiv is still under heavy attack. No power, heating, water. But we hold on.

The US declassified exchanges between US President Bush and Putin from 2008 in which Putin already called Ukraine an „artificial“ state, clearly denying its right for existence.

Photo: Buddleia on the road bridge wall 25 December 2025, partially silhouetted, late afternoon, cold sky, crouching buildings, train tracks

#NowPlaying "The Bells of Dublin" (1991) by The Chieftains and guests featuring the "St Stephens Day Murders" with Elvis Costello, a ratty old dirge but also nice things like The Wexford Carol with Nanci Griffith. open.spotify.com/album/6aL012...

I have a new story playing on BBC Radio 4 on Boxing Day. Perfect to listen to if you're getting cosy while waiting out a turkey hangover www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

This is my only Xmas poem, a carol inspired by sitting up all night to watch the rescue of the 33 Chilean miners in the 2010 Copiapó accident after 69 days in what seemed like a miracle to me as slowly the darkness gave way to dawn.

Kyiv on Christmas Eve. I film these moments to show you our strength. We haven’t lost our spirit in this long war.

giving this beautiful essay a Christmas Eve boost

Photo: Wood End Road, Christmas Eve, 1:34 p.m.

Fascinating timelapse story of building and launching the Ariane 6 rocket. Noisy music. I watched with sound off. youtu.be/gnHuDZA2MSw?... #ESA

"The End" - a Christmas Story - set in London stephenmoransmuseumofillusions.wordpress.com/2025/12/23/t... #fiction

Boxing Day #poetry #weather

One day something will happen — a wedding, a graduation, a job promotion, Jake Paul getting knocked out, Andrew Tate getting knocked out the next day — and you’ll want the right outfit to celebrate. Buy that special outfit now, so you’re ready when that next unexpected moment arrives.

this is actually really important and I hope you all can take a moment to read through this to the end

Ireland: On this day in 1948 stephenmoransmuseumofillusions.wordpress.com/2025/12/21/i...

Winter Solstice, Cardington Park

Artist! Quote with your most detailed art.

They probably have videos. Bondi let slip to an undercover reporter that there were "thousands of videos" to be gone through. Even if she exaggerated the number, there must be videos. Putin probably has the worst ones already, which would explain a lot - for example, how Russia now writes US policy.

Morning.

I can hardly believe this but it says here that someone bought a copy of Ghosts and Pigeons and it wasn't me.

THREAD. My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments. I've collected his work here...

I've removed the paywall permanently from this piece, which is a chapter from my novel Villager, told entirely in the form of an online village message board. If you like it, you'll probably like the book. If you don't, you won't... www.tom-cox.com/the-village-...