Extra-effing-ordinary. Who knew there was such a thing as reactionary clothes that want the worst for women?

well well well

who could have predicted that stopping international students, care workers and nurses from coming to the UK would damage the economy/public finances while yielding precisely no political benefits? Oh. Me. [& lots of others obviously]

Code is a liability (not an asset). Tech bosses don’t understand this. They think AI is great because it produces 10,000 times more code than a programmer, but that just means it’s producing 10,000 times more liabilities. AI is the asbestos we’re shoveling into the walls of our high-tech society

The threat to shut X in the UK is a threat to the whole far right ecosystem. They're going to throw everything at stopping it because they know it would cause them almost irreparable damage. That's not the case for more moderate voices on left and right who have choices..

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

@kamalaharris.com told us exactly what would happen.

How is this still happening?!? bsky.app/profile/pete...

The BBC is doing it again. On both the Radio 3 & Radio 6 news it reported Vance's story about that video of Renee Good's murder and denials of it, without telling us the facts. It should have the same approach to weather forecasting: "some say it'll rain, some say it won't. Who can tell, eh?"

Yes, it's become completely normal for this terrible man to say and do terrible things, and the governments of the world just ignore it.

Two-thirds of UK voters wrongly think immigration is rising, poll finds

💥🇬🇧💥🇬🇧 This is a prospective REFORM MP. Both Farage and Badenoch support creating a UK ICE force. You ask how did the Nazis take over Germany? By dividing the populace, media propaganda and lies. This is how Trump was elected. We still have a few more years … but I see it creeping into our discourse

I don't much like the title, but the is article very much worth reading. On organization and cooperation going on in and between blue states, to make federal intervention of many kinds unnecessary. medium.com/@carmitage/i...

'she laughed at him, and he shot her in the head then called her a bitch - in Trump's America, both sides continue to raise the temperature'

They absolutely didn't think this through, part XXVI US oil giant ExxonMobil tells Donald Trump Venezuela is ‘uninvestable’ - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @financialtimes.com

Entirely predictable/predicted: I wrote this almost two years ago "If this government – or the next – does indeed succeed in reducing migration very substantially below projected levels, it will have a large fiscal cost, with consequent impacts for tax and spending." ukandeu.ac.uk/has-higher-i...

Looks like ICE is now cracking down on … Native Americans. This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota: “Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”

Guess what: xAI has done even less to rein in Grok's nasty image generator than headlines suggest. Turns out not many journalists bothered to do their homework, unlike the Verge, which actually TESTED Grok's restrictions rather than relying on xAI's statement.

We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.

She is aggressively trying to turn the wheel AWAY from the ICE agent. It is her very last action. They provoke her, surround her, then kill her in cold blood. I have barely slept since this happened and I don't think I'll ever stop being angry about this.

"I will not be f*cking gaslit by these people. I will not calm down the rhetoric and tone it down....Jonathan Ross murdered her." @timmiller.bsky.social on the new footage of the Renee Good shooting:

Trump says Venezuela's oil wealth will "go to the United States. Some will go to Venezuela, and some will go to the oil companies."

Misogyny is the oldest and most enduring oppression known to humankind. No other hatred is more visceral.

My editorial cartoon for Tuesday's Metro

I guess one way of avoiding the necessity of installing the sort of protection a dictator needs is not to be a dictator in the first place. And there are savings too.

I suppose it will be too much to expect the Vice President to acknowledge that this doesn't look good.

Watching JD Vance since he entered politics has really made me understand the kind of person that led Dante to write about someone so monstrously amoral and treacherous that his soul could fall straight to Hell while still walking around alive and well.

Like, even accounting for losses to Reform counting double in swing terms in Lab vs Ref contests, it can no longer be viewed as the greatest individual source of electoral cost for the party.

The level of quixoticism at this point is like Kemi Badenoch spending all day trying to win over Your Party voters. What part of ‘no’ does Blue Labour not understand?

“Greenland, the largest island on Earth, possesses some of the richest stores of natural resources anywhere in the world. These include critical raw materials – resources such as lithium and rare earth elements (REEs) that are essential for green technologies” theconversation.com/greenland-is...

Enemies within and without. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog includes a look at Erasmus, the Mail's anti-emigrant campaign, the great hate at home and the threat from Trump abroad, and the government's response: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/01/enem...

Time to stop writing articles about the "security" or "economic" reasons to capture Greenland, they are irrelevant

One curious, yet not surprising, aspect of the Grok nudification scandal is the deafening silence from Apple and Google. Why haven't they delisted the X app for violating their terms of service?

President Trump declared on Wednesday evening that his power as commander in chief is constrained only by his “own morality,” brushing aside international law and other checks on his ability to use military might to strike, invade or coerce nations around the world.

GOV. WALZ: “Now that Minnesota has been taken out of the investigation, it feels very difficult that we will get a fair outcome. And I say that only because people in positions of power have already passed judgment. They have stood and told you things that are verifiably false.”

Macron: “There are two paths that do not suit us: blindly following the return of the law of the strongest—this is the choice of happy vassalisation—and the moral posture of saying we can do nothing while claiming righteousness. “Neither serves the interests or the values of France and Europe.”

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

It's a shame she wasn't an incendiary activist for the far right like Charlie Kirk to speak ill of whose memory is a capital crime.

The Trump Admin begins the cover up.

Posts may be a bit more sporadic from me today as my kids are home from school because my city is being brutalized by the federal government to the extent that it's unsafe for schools to be open

“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"

Conservative Mayor of Tees Valley Lord Houchen told Newsnight in 2024 that 2 private developers had ‘£50m of their money sitting in a bank account’ when I quoted an independent report pointing out the pair had put no direct cash of their own into regenerating the huge old Redcar steelworks site 👇

As the US becomes more antagonistic toward Europe, and the UK continues to cling unconditionally to the special relationship, I am sure that, whether publicly acknowledged or not, there will be serious questions about the safety of including the UK in EU defence structures.

There is no evidence that the officer who shot the woman was injured at ALL, despite Trump’s claim here that he is “recovering in the hospital.” Immediately after the shooting you can see him walking completely normally, and he stayed on the scene for a while before driving off.

Disgraceful article by BBC News. It's abundantly clear from the videos what happened. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I had a look at this when @iainmartin1.bsky.social said energy was the reason UK trade goods performance was so weak. For the overwhelming majority of firms, energy costs are less than 3% of total costs.

I understand the pressures on the BBC, but Radio 4's coverage of the Minneapolis shooting is an example of "bad balance". It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder". The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.

Exclusive: Labour's support has collapsed among school & college staff, according to a poll carried out for UK's biggest education union NEU NEU general sec @danielkebedeneu.bsky.social tells me conditions have worsened for teachers since Labour took power

Disgraceful and dishonest behaviour from a filmmaker.