How could any professional working in journalism approve a headline that falsely suggests Trump either revealed pre-election how radical he would be or actually delivered on his promises? What kind of headline accepts the Gaza ceasefire hoax or pretends ICE is a Trump win?

LATEST: A major fire has broken out in Glasgow's city centre tonight According to reports, the Revolver Hotel above the Polo Lounge nightclub is on fire

My uncle Robin, who passed away on Dec 20th, with his wife, Joan, on their wedding day ❤️

If you can, please help this family raise the €400 they need to buy a tent: chuffed.org/project/1315...

My Dad's brother, Robin, sadly died on Dec 20th. This pic is of three brothers - my Dad, Robin, Douglas - in Springburn Glasgow, a couple of years before the family emigrated to Toronto in 1953. All three of them are gone now.

The third paragraph reads as if the Russians wrote it. Maybe they did. In any event, it is an atrociously big lie; 1984-grade, as Aaron Rupar rightly says.

Perry Bamonte, guitarist and keyboardist for the Cure, dies aged 65

This shit is made up, actually

‘The NHS would collapse within hours’: BME staff say Britain fails to appreciate their roles

A top tip from the Bedfordshire Times in 1871 🎄 Do not use arsenic to decorate your Christmas shortbread. Learn from the mistakes of this reckless Scottish baker. 📷 BNA #Christmas #History

'Record numbers of Swedish retirees are enrolling in a university run “by pensioners for pensioners” amid increased loneliness and a growing appetite for learning and in-person interactions.' 1/2

We've always had these dead-eyed socipaths around. It's just a few years ago they were ignored and now they're "senior fellow" at places funded by evil millionaires + going on podcasts with a brain-rotted ex-PM.

If you aren’t familiar with this guy, he’s been buying up domains with the names of various right wing figures and orgs and making his own websites for them and it is making them crazy. Here’s his insta www.instagram.com/wordclown?ig...

Newly discovered recordings show how far Donald Trump went to attempt overturning the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia. Trump told the Speaker he could call the session “for transparency, and to uncover fraud,” adding, “Who’s gonna stop you for that?” trib.al/Yk7Lyb5

If we can't kill foxes, we'll kill our dogs. Your move.

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

Archibald Pitcairne died at the age of 60 #OTD in 1713. Pitcairne led the first recorded legal public dissection in Scotland when he dissected the remains of David Myles in 1702. The man leading the dissection in this painting is believed to be Pitcairne.

‘There​ is a difference, I want to suggest, between allowing a rational fear of domination to shape our politics, and making that fear the totality of our politics.’ Amia Srinivasan on psychoanalysis, in her Winter Lecture of Friday 12 December. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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‘Dancing on bones’: Mariupol theatre to reopen with staging of Russian fairytale

I'll watch the king's speech if he tells us just how much his late mother knew about his brother's nefarious activities and how long for

Happy Christmas

An annual Christmas Eve jazz concert at the Kennedy Center was canceled by its host after a board appointed by President Trump added his name to the Washington building's facade.

UK social media campaigners among five denied US visas. Trump happily admits fascists and racists to the US. Visas used as a tool for dominance, intimidation; extract trade and tax concessions; silence critics. Compliant Govts risk domestic ridicule.

The Birlings' family Christmas dinner is already a tense affair when an uninvited guest blasts through their door. But this cousin isn't just unwelcome. He's supposed to be dead. And he's no benevolent ghost of the past, present or future... ft.trib.al/25lAe3S

I have a new piece out in @smithsonianmag.bsky.social for Christmas Eve: Louisa May Alcott wrote to survive for much of her life. What became of her love affair with words later, when she was rich and adapted Dickens' A Christmas Carol for children? tinyurl.com/4ypdyyah #christmas #writers #books

After one year in office, the Trump administration has destroyed: The Department of Education USAID The Kennedy Center The Institute of Peace The east wing of the White House The Department of Justice The FBI The State Department The White House press corps The Washington Post And on and on…

Not now, haunted Victorian shoes

Goodness me, it’s like someone rewrote The Twelve Days of Christmas with sex pests www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Russell Brand has been charged with two further offences of rape and sexual assault, the Met Police has confirmed

Don't think we need Bletchley Park to decode this one.

This is how I would end the news if I was reading the news.

Wow! Letter from Epstein to a convicted sex offender Larry Nassar right before Epstein’s death. This was in the files the DOJ released last night and then removed from their site.

FFC review: AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH (2025), by Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social). filmfreakcentral.net/2025/12/avat...

More seasonal than an overpriced German sausage: the Nunkie Ghost Story for Christmas Eve. M R James's "An Episode of Cathedral History" broadcast live at 7pm(UK) on 24 Dec & available for catch up anytime after. Simply register in advance & PWYC here christmascathedralghosts.eventbrite.co.uk

Gertrude Bacon UK aeronautical pioneer. Achieved number of "1sts" for women in aeronautics & contributed in areas of astronomy & botany. Popularised aeronautics through her writing promoted commercial & popular flying as fields for women. d. #OTD 22 Dec 1949 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrud...

At the start of this year I noted in a piece that, while there were murmurings, the British right at least hadn’t succumbed to the talk of remigration that had taken over some European parties. Anyway, what a year it’s been for all the worst people www.ft.com/content/1ce8...

My latest for @thebookseller.com Thanks to everyone who helped with this one! www.thebookseller.com/news/authors...

is this "free speech campaigner Bari Weiss" or a different one? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

The Times, just protecting women again today

The Concert in the Egg https://www.wikiart.org/en/hieronymus-bosch/the-concert-in-the-egg-1480

Hi. Court reporter here again. I can confirm about a third of local cases I see are domestic abuse of women and girls. Where do you think the men start? And almost every columnist tells you to look elsewhere.

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

Agree with all of this, other than "the right will go 'pro-natalist" - I think what will happen is that much of the right will shift from 'blaming our ills on immigration' to 'blaming our ills on ethnic diversity', which is already happening to an extent.

My exclusive splash today for @theipaper.com Thousands of elderly and vulnerable people are being forced to move out of their care homes every year with just 28 days' notice, often in distressing circumstances, following a big post-pandemic rise, FoI data shows inews.co.uk/news/health/...

A portrait of the kind of science we are losing, and for no reason www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/r...

They’re really pushing this narrative about the new CEO. If you want to believe women at HC have suddenly done the right thing, sure. But - Walliams’ editor/publisher was a woman, new head of kids dept & head of Corp Comms both women and new CEO all knew about this for 10+ years and did nothing.

"Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have." Remembering Margaret Mead, who was born #OTD in 1901. She was one of the most important cultural anthropologists in history. www.history.com/articles/mar...#OTD#WomenInSTEM #quote

Diana Ross , Bill Clinton and the Michael Jackson family should put in a defamation claim of $10 billion against the government and Trump and I’m sure the chance of success is much greater than the $5 billion lawsuit issued to the BBC!