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UK food exports to the EU have decreased by almost a quarter (23.4%) in the last five years, compared to the five years before Brexit. Brexit killing business. https://www.esmmagazine.com/retail/uk-food-exports-to-eu-plummet-nearly-a-quarter-after-brexit-302878

Home isn’t always a safe place at Christmas. Support is available for anyone experiencing domestic abuse. If you’re in danger, call 999. For free, confidential advice, contact the National Domestic Abuse Helpline on 0808 2000 247. refuge.org.uk/i-need-help-...

This is what Reform UK does. “These closures are nothing short of a betrayal of local people and staff.” “Derbyshire county council did not stand before the electorate last May pledging to shut care homes." https://bit.ly/4pOeD9h

Yet another excellent thread from @monkemma.bsky.social

👀 Cartoon by @seamus-jennings.bsky.social

Thank you kind sir. Twatted them both with my diamond encrusted blocking stick.

Have just finished listening to the audio book of The Cut Throat Trial by @barristersecret.bsky.social. Absolutely excellent ! It felt like I was there in the room with each of the characters…splendid stuff. I do hope there are more books planned. Well done Sir/Ma’am 👏👏👏👏

Security Sign Wins ...

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The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.

Sadly, spot on by @bjennings90.bsky.social.

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This is just utterly disgraceful and dangerous stuff from Badenoch. It's appalling that the leader of a major party should be engaging in this sort of rhetoric

Finally, we’ll again hear stories like this one from young people. Rejoining Erasmus+ is a huge win for young British people. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly0d9je56zo

What Badenoch so egregiously misses is that these 11 year old boys, whether “native” or migrant, turn into men who are capable of perpetrating violence against women and girls. This is a desperately poor show from her, not unexpected in that it happened, but worse than usual.

If you needed a better example of the way politicians use and discard young teenage girls, this is it. The stats are there if you’d care to view them, Kemi

Dog-whistle and factually incorrect. Ladies, raise your hand if you were sexually assaulted by a boy at school? I’d wager this or a family member is most women’s first experience of sexual violence

Jimmy Kimmel: This looks like the promo for a Hulu series about personal injury attorneys, who fake bus accidents.

If 26 people remember your appalling racist behaviour as a schoolboy and are willing to call you out for it 50 years later you cannot simply brush it off and say it doesn't matter. "The child is the father of the man," as William Wordsworth once put it. And this father was a nasty bullying bigot.

Thou shalt not declare war to distract from the Epstein files! It won’t work, you prick. Donold, you will get what is coming to you, you evil bastard.

This is more like it.

I really hope that he puts up a giant, spray-painted gold statue of himself, just so that we can one day enjoy the visual of it being pulled down.

Christmas Prime Minister's Questions is the Prime Minister's Questions with the worst jokes. My SKETCH. thecritic.co.uk/stan...

We’re back in Erasmus but we’re still a bit rubbish at languages. The continuing quest to understand ADHD. tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx

This photo of Marco Rubio, from Vanity Fair, questioning every life choice that has brought him to this point, is my new favourite thing. "Why won't you say anything?" he pleaded with the lamp.

I'm been at a Richard Tice press conference at which he: • Refused to say whether he still believes Nigel Farage's school accusers made up their claims, calling the row "old news". • Refused twice to condemn a Reform candidate who said David Lammy should "go home" to the Caribbean.

DECENT POLITICIANS: GET OFF X. Stop fuelling his madness.

A huge huge THANK YOU to the nearly 400 @quietriotpod.bsky.social listeners who helped buy gifts for children who will otherwise go without. You’re all gorgeous and amazing 🤩

Reform Goes Woke! My SKETCH of Richard Tice asking us all to Mind Our Language. thecritic.co.uk/a-be...

😍We are rejoining Erasmus. Official announcement tomorrow😍 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Such insensitivity from the supposed 'Leader of the Free World'. https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/what-did-trump-say-robert-reiner-comments-s5w3tbtfg

NEW - The Employment Rights bill has finally passed, after a tortured time in the Lords. Christmas cheer for ministers and trade unions

To all the people in the US who follow me (which I know is everywhere now outside of Montana, Kentucky, Mississippi, West Virginia, Michigan and Vermont for some reason), can you please do us in the UK a solid? Tell Orange Grampa to wind his neck in - he’s becoming very problematic. Ta! 🐻

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The BBC is not just any other institution. It's a core part of this country's identity. It's ours to criticise, ours to get cross with, ours to love and ours to the end. By attacking it Trump may actually be doing us all a favour as we are obliged to remember that. www.politico.eu/article/brit...

A must-read article 🚨 "Since January, I’ve been tracking actions of the administration that follow the classic populist authoritarian playbook. Last week, I logged the 2000th," writes Christina Pagel. Read here: https://bestforbritain.substack.com/p/beyond-the-headlines-corruption-coercion

HURRAH! Petitions are crap at making gov'ts do things they don't want to. But they are good for two things: First, making them explain why they won't do something, but second (and more important) nudging/giving them permission to do something they DO want, but that's been crowded out bandwidth-wise.

🚨 BREAKING NEWS🚨 Starmer orders investigation into foreign election interference. 🇷🇺 What will this mean for those persistent Russian links to our elections? https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks-starmer-orders-probe-into-foreign-election-interference-after-ex-reform-2025-12-16/

good morning holy shit www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...

🚨NEW - My latest piece for The New Yorker. Nigel Farage: Canterbury Pilgrim mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/nigel-fara...

And that BBC show didn't broadcast in the USA (where the suit has been filed), rendering it impossible for it to have affected anything in the USA. So: false. And that's just the stuff he or his lawyers have said today.

Trump is seeking "punitive damages for the extensive reputational harm inflicted" I doubt it can be shown it affected his reputation, given that his reputation was already apalling, including hundreds of documented lies and filmed threats of violence. So: false

Trump: "I’m suing the BBC for putting words in my mouth. Literally, they put words in my mouth. They had me saying things that I never said coming out" He did say all those words. Demonstrably. So: false.

I'm no lawyer, but it feels like Trump has undermined his own suit today. Trump's spox: "holding BBC accountable for ... reckless election interference" The election was over when the show was broadcast. So: false. 1/*

Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, aka Tommy Robinson, is threatening to sue Nigel Farage for damaging his reputation, in the latest webisode of the YouTube sitcom "Pot, Kettle". ~AA leftfootforward.org/2025/12/tomm...

This worthless, worthless, worthless, worthless, worthless, worthless, worthless, worthless, worthless, worthless, worthless, worthless, worthless, worthless, worthless, worthless, worthless, worthless, worthless excuse for a man. May he rot. Actually, he is rotting. Visibly.

And these CLOWNS want the keys to Downing Street.