This from former British diplomat @alexhh.bsky.social, who now is now based in the US, really hits home about the nightmare currently playing out in Trump's America bylinetimes.com/2026/01/15/a...

What a coincidence. I’ve lost confidence in our illiberal Home Secretary. Home secretary says she has lost confidence in police chief behind Maccabi Tel Aviv fans ban www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The government has joined forces with the National Literacy Trust to launch the National Year of Reading – a national effort to put reading back at the heart of families’ lives Book by book, page by page, we'll make 2026 the year that Britain rediscovers its love of reading. #GoAllIn2026

In the 1951 Defense of Greenland Agreement with Denmark, the US unambiguously recognized ‘the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Denmark’ over Greenland.

No staff, no equipment, no medicine: a doctor on returning to Gaza after 665 days in an Israeli prison www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.

I share this periodically and it feels like the time to reshare: You Feel Like Shit, a self care game. It's a series of click through prompts that get you back in tune with your basic needs, designed for people with executive dysfunction/ fatigue/brain fog. youfeellikeshit.com

PM Keir Starmer issues a joint statement with European leaders backing Greenland’s sovereignty and international law. Meanwhile Badenoch and Farage would be popping champagne as Donald Trump moves to occupy it. #ukpolitics

#Starmer backs #Danish #PM, saying #Trump has NO right to any claim over #Greenland. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

America is a rogue and malevolent state and global bad actor

Trump: "We're there now, but we're going to stay until such time as the pop -- proper transition can take place. So we're gonna stay until such time as -- we're gonna run it essentially."

Well that special episode of #TheArchers was pretty revolting, even if it ends with a possible Bobby Ewing and then I woke up, moment.

Well those lines of questioning are pretty repellent #thearchers

Who hurt Katherine Viner at @theguardian.com for her to publish this never ending bile against Labour’s Starmer? Labour needs complete ‘reset’ to defeat Reform UK threat, says strategist www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The depths of inhumanity.

Sharing this from the brave and fearsome @chrischirp.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/christin... It’s a harrowing summation of the scale and extent of the descent of the USA into authoritarianism. Read it and weep.

@paulspeacock.bsky.social hadn’t realised you were leader of Newark and Sherwood. In the 80s I worked in coalfield regeneration from a partnership office in New Ollerton with colleagues from NSDC. Good work but the £ available was insufficient for the need. Thanks for carrying the flag. Best wishes

You might miss it, mainstream media aren’t talking about it - but Labour have delivered a shed load of things already - more to come.

Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s... A very good podcast series by @peterjukes.bsky.social and @carolecadwalla.bsky.social if you really want to be depressed. Available on other podcast platforms; this was just the first in my search results.

@theguardian.com anti @teamlabouruk.bsky.social bias on view here. Election of new hostile-to-Labour Unison General Secretary described as “decisive” with 59k votes out of 1.4 million eligible voters. 😂 New leader says Unison to end support for…Labour right wing www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Bloody Labour delivering their manifesto commitments!

As the country goes into moth ball mode, can we agree on just one thing? That is, the Labour Party has survived a barrage of constant attacks from the Right this year, and ■WE■ are going to tell THE story they refuse to tell Labour #FixingBritain

Labour ain't done nuffin

#uncanny friends. Do you listen to it on Alexa? The last episode available on my BBC Sounds via Alexa is from 31 October! Is this true for you? I’ve tagged @dannyrobins.bsky.social @bafflegabble.bsky.social and emailed BBC to no avail

There are more than 100 NHS Community Diagnostic Centres now open for appointments from 8am to midnight. It’s just one of the changes we’re making to the NHS. Let me explain👇🏻

Well blow me down. Anyone would think our government is just getting on and doing the hard yards.. despite the daily RW drivel. Well done to all negotiators ... just some grownup governance at last

NOT ONE HEADLINE Not one has a single mention of Labour’s outstanding achievements on workers rights, BBC Charter, Planning Rules, Investigation of Russian interference in our politics. Why?

Great news for young people UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Dear God has anyone seen the trailer for #animalfarm ? How did this get made? Or distributed? youtu.be/g8wLmj9SiKM

All that apologetic stuff from the BBC is looking more absurd as the multiple depravities of Trump emerge. Did the BBC really wrong a child rapist?

What an utter c***

The author of the national security strategy that committed the US to aiding the far right in Europe is a race-obsessed hysteric and paranoid fantasist. Piece from Nick Cohen on why America is not our friend nickcohen.substack.com/p/michael-an...

“The new poll found that 36% of Americans approve of the way he’s handling his job as president, which is down slightly from 42%” 6% fall is not “slightly “!

NEW: Five years of social media history is only a fraction of what the US Government will shortly demand of overseas visitors. The full requirements will end tourism in the United States. Below is the full, mind-blowing list. 🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨 1/

PS: longer podcast version is now up. #StrongMessageHere

There’s no satisfying racists in the UK. They object to refugees and asylum seekers in hotels and now in camps. Sussex group begins legal challenge over plan to house asylum seekers on military site www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

MAGA regime officials are now threatening retaliatory sanctions against the ICC (International Criminal Court) in fear that the ICC may try to prosecute them for their war crimes. Innocent people don’t do this, only fascist criminals do.

FURIOUS Denmark CLASSIFIES USA as MAJOR SECURITY THREAT Video by Meidas Touch @meidastouch.com youtu.be/-If6BSB9CZk

Trump lambasts ‘weak’ and ‘decaying’ Europe and hints at walking away from Ukraine www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... It’s Trump and USA that are weak. Russia has conquered the USA without a shot being fired.

"Incidentally, in the 1960s and 1970s, when net migration was running at minus 50,000 a year, more than 85% of Britons still thought immigration was too high." Last week's New World column ocncerned immigration to the UK.

Reminder of some Labour achievements to date. 👇

The rapist formerly known as Prince