"Sir Keir told the BBC: 'Every minute that is spent talking about anything other than cost-of-living is a wasted minute in my book.'" OK, so why does his government keep banging on about immigration? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based. Here’s an “influencer from Texas”

In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ... ... listen to Steve Wozniak.

Russia's ambassador to the UK, Yakovenko, boasted about Brexit to another diplomat: “We have crushed the British to the ground. They are on their knees and will not rise for a very long time” Today, Farage’s close ally, leader of Reform in Wales, was sentenced to 10yrs for taking bribes from Russia.

THIS!!!!!! (Former FM of Lithuania)

An investigation into Russian interference in our politics is long overdue. And we all know who should be questioned first.

Rewarding a dictator-aggressor always leads to another war. One that is usually even worse.

Traitor #NathanGill sentenced to 10yrs for taking Russian bribes. “Farage and the Brexit Party voted against stronger EU measures aimed at countering “highly dangerous” Russian disinformation.” www.theguardian.com/world/2019/o...

Oh, Customs Union again? Based on recent conversations I am pretty sure that any form of greater UK market access to the single market including this will require substantial financial contribution, alignment, and close to freedom of movement. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Ukraine is on the brink of an historic betrayal by Trump to Putin. Keir Starmer must bring our European allies together to back Zelensky, starting by seizing frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine.

Key points: Met police say investigation into other politicians is ongoing. Gill sought to recruit multiple MEPs including 4 British ones. The judge gave strongest possible quotes about the gravity of the crime and the damage done to public trust.

More than half of ethnic minority Brits say the England flag has now become a racist symbol, with Brits of all colours now tending to say the raising of the flag is mostly about expressing anti-migrant, or anti ethnic-minority sentiment

Many Europeans convinced themselves that Trump's public statements of frustration with Putin meant he was committed to 🇺🇦 Today they got a rude awakening. Washington presented a US-Russia peace plan to Kyiv which amounts to a surrender, with an ultimatum to accept it by Thursday or lose all 🇺🇸support

This story is all Nigel Farage should be asked about by journalists for months

Zelensky admitting that the pressure Trump is putting on Ukraine to take this grotesque deal is immense.

⭐️ EXCLUSIVE: John Lewis Christmas Ads In DANGER. 👇🏻 Please watch and share this #BrokenNews report. youtu.be/kwfpyV19CQo?...

Gill’s conviction for taking Kremlin money is yet more evidence of Russian influence in our politics, as the Russia report itself found. So when will Ministers finally investigate this wider interference? Why are we forced to pursue it in court? @carolecadwalla.bsky.social

1/ What a Russian breaking of the ceasefire will look like, step by step. There are far better experts on this, but I was an Australian diplomat in Ukraine in 2014 so I've seen this play out up close. So join me, brothers and sisters, as we count down to a fullscale re-invasion.

BREAKING: Nathan Gill is sentenced to 10 & a half years in prison after pleading guilty to eight charges of bribery from a Russian agent. The "ultimate source" of the funds came from "a close friend of Vladimir Putin," said Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb.

Donald Trump’s latest plan for ending the war in Ukraine would see territory ceded to Russia, Russia readmitted to the G8 and Ukraine banned from joining Nato, according to drafts of the proposal seen by @axios.com, @afp.com and @apnews.com Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he expected

🚨🚨This is no "peace" plan, it is a recipe for further suffering and #Russian imperialist expansion in the #west. It is difficult to appreciate just how much damage the #trump administration has done to #Ukraine and its war efforts. It is disgusting beyond words. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

So, #r4today reports on the Covid inquiry and the “too little, too late” Tory govt, then says they’ll be talking to *Lord* Gove about it. Ugh. That just sums up so much that’s so very wrong with our politics and media. Rewarding, rather than punishing, those responsible for failing us all.

I think when all of this is over, if it ever is, Ms Leavitt needs to be put in a museum for all to wonder at. The eighth wonder of our new benighted world.

An important part of the job for any WH Press Secretary is to clean up remarks made by the president or offer explanation/context or apology when warranted. But Leavitt never does that. She always crafts a response that makes it even worse by adding her own toxic twist.

Don't tax the rich, you horrible bastards. John Rentoul thinks you are being utterly mean.

The UK prides itself on the imagined untouchable pre-eminence of the BBC, but I have just watched a segment on the TF1 evening news that is more sensitively presented, imaginatively filmed, scrupulously researched than any UK equivalent I have ever seen. And they do it every night.

Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage. www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...

*Pops over to X* Has he? Has he been? YES! He's published an 1,835-word tweet rebuttal of a report he hasn't read!

It's always a classic giveaway when governments try to lard their problematic policies with talk of their moral excellence. Because it is precisely any sort of decency that is lacking in those cases.

“In a world of rising protectionism, Britain is in danger of being left outside all of the big trade blocks”. Why is a government beleaguered by economic woes not (yet) of its own making, failing to explain the damaging impacts of Brexit to the public at large?

This is what happens when you put a preening, lazy, populist, dilettante in charge of a country. Johnson was completely out of his depth and more concerned with his pathetic perceived popularity than leading this country through the greatest crisis since 1939. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...

‘Boriswave’ migrants to wait up to 20 years to get settled status Shabana Mahmood has announced restrictions to force hundreds of thousands of people who arrived after Brexit to wait longer to qualify www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

the U.S. President is calling for the execution of U.S. lawmakers who made a video reminding the military that they don’t have to follow unlawful orders.

TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE. For shame, Mr Johnson and the team you pretended to lead. Preventable deaths on your hands. They will not return to us. You live on, rich and vainglorious. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Covid Inquiry finds Cummings created a culture of fear and likely contravened the SPAD code.

People who migrate to UK may be eligible for benefits & social housing only when they become British citizens. Those who arrive by small boats could wait up to 30 years for long-term residency. For latest on home secretary's plans read @syalrajeev.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The pandemic was the time when the "world beating“ discourse peaked.

No matter which way you cut it, this has become a very unpopular government - now at Johnson on resignation day and Corbyn in mid-2019 levels of dislike, including among their own voters. Only Truss-tier is yet to be reached, though with Reeves already at Kwarteng levels, it's not out of sight.

After another week of banging on about immigration, Keir Starmer's ratings fall to their lowest ever level. At what point do Labour strategists start to think that maybe this isn't quite the winning strategy they believed?

I haven’t seen this get covered in English yet so let me translate. Grok is saying that the crematories at Auschwitz’s were conceived as disinfectant chambers, not mass execution and that the law has made it taboo to acknowledge that this is what they were X is a Nazi site. Get off the Nazi site.

Scientists at the CDC were left reeling after discovering that the agency had quietly rewritten long-standing vaccine language to fuel a debunked autism claim.

Hmmm. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

Where’s Nigel? And why won’t he answer our questions? Who introduced his good friend Nathan Gill to a Russian spy? 🧐 Cracking new film from @johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social & @sheridanflynn.com for @thenerve.news

Epstein’s email web:

Far too much credibility is being given to the new ‘Trump peace plan’ that would be tantamount to Ukraine’s capitulation. Here I explain why this new plan is far less than it seems and is unlikely to lead to anything. (£/free trial), open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/y...?

Eat out to Help Out was killing people, but they “kept it out of the news”.

Britain is not a serious country. And is not serious about the EU reset. www.ft.com/content/1699...

The UK isn’t a “soft touch” on asylum. UK asylum seeker benefits are similar to European neighbours No right to work before 12 months (it’s 6 months in France, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands) UK settlement after 5 years (it’s 3 or 4 in Germany) Let’s cut out the alarmist rhetoric.

Labour stepping up to save our beloved British Xmas, and not before time. open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...

On Labour MPs in a dark place. Featuring King Lear. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...