‘The illiterate of the 21st Century are not those who cannot read and write but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn. The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order. Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.’ - Alvin Toffler

remarkable that media coverage of Trump’s ambitions for Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) is failing to mention that Indigenous Inuit people make up 89% of the population

‘“I think Delcy is going to dance the tango with Team Trump and then she’s going to be stabbed in the back by Diosdado and Padrino López, and then Trump will be back in a kinetic sense.”’ www.ft.com/content/4b87...

‘"If you look at what the national socialist party did in Germany… community organising, talking to people about local issues, not as politicians… that is what paved the way for them skyrocketing to the elections from 1929 onwards," [the former teacher] said.’ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

West Berliners wave to their relatives on the other side of the Berlin Wall, Christmas 1961.

‘The murder of a British Asian prisoner by a racist gang member, after they were put in the same cell… ‘Sundeep Ghuman died in February 2020 after he was violently assaulted with a table leg by a member of the so-called Racist Army of Woolwich at HMP Belmarsh.’ www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/b...

‘Four former senior British Army officers have called on the government to impose a full arms embargo on Israel and a ban on involvement with any Israeli-owned or Israeli-supported defence companies.’ www.thetimes.com/article/ebbc...

Cut arms ties with Israel, say ex top army leaders because of war tactics employed in Gaza bit.ly/4qndzcn and objected to MoD saying they were similar to our own

Stephen Miller wants everyone at 60 Minutes who “engaged in this revolt” (aka told the truth) fired

I've now watched the censored 60 Minutes report on CECOT. If you watched it too—and if you have any decency at all—I'm sure you came to the same conclusion I did: winning elections won't be enough; people like Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem will need to be charged and imprisoned.

Reform UK-led Derbyshire council announce closure of eight residential care homes just days before Christmas. That's going to spell misery and considerable upset for hundreds of vulnerable people and their carers. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Between the TP USA rally, the 60 Minutes CECOT piece and the daily ICE horror show videos, there should be no doubt this regime is 100% capable of genocide, concentration camps, the whole works.

For no particular reason there's an excellent website called down.blue 🤓 I'm watching MS NOW at the moment and they've said that CBS is making copyright takedown requests to YouTube and elsewhere to get this 18 minute segment removed from sight. We are Spartacus ✊🏻

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

I'm not gonna accept that it's OK to do those things to immigrants and it's only an atrocity when it happens to a citizen.

Grizelda in @privateeyenews.bsky.social

‘Stefan Eiriksson, director-general of Icelandic national broadcaster RÚV, said: "There is no peace or joy connected to this contest as things stand now. On that basis, first and foremost, we are stepping back while the situation is as it is."’ www.bbc.com/news/article...

‘The Trump adm said that Europe was facing the “stark prospect of civilizational erasure” & pledged that the US would support like-minded “patriotic” parties across the continent to prevent a future in which “certain NATO members will become majority non-European.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...

The line here that made my ears prick up (and should really spook Labour) is the third one (that we need “fair and managed” migration). That’s not the answer of someone who has come to get his 12 per cent. That’s a much more “no, when I say I want to replace Labour, I’m not coming to play” line.

‘The Trump adm said that Europe was facing the “stark prospect of civilizational erasure” & pledged that the US would support like-minded “patriotic” parties across the continent to prevent a future in which “certain NATO members will become majority non-European.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...

From what I am told - sotto voce - in some media circles, there is fair bit of cosying up to Reform going on at the top of British journalism & broadcasting too. And not just the usual suspects, now a new wave of self-interested shapeshifters who have more ambition than they do basic common sense.

From what I am told - sotto voce - in some media circles, there is fair bit of cosying up to Reform going on at the top of British journalism & broadcasting too. And not just the usual suspects, now a new wave of self-interested shapeshifters who have more ambition than they do basic common sense.

Teenage Farage emerges not just as racist but as bullying and sadistic. No wonder he admires Putin and Trump and people fall out with him. Some say he’s no longer racist but nobody denies the rest. Maybe supporters think these are winning qualities. www.bbc.com/news/article...

‘The Association of Family Businesses, which represents around 6,500 of Germany’s small and medium-sized companies known as the Mittelstand, quietly invited the AfD to a networking event in Berlin in October and then declared that it no longer wanted to isolate it.’ on.ft.com/48IZ4cU

“[W]hen I hear Farage talking about rounding up & deporting hundreds of thousands of human beings, & threatening those with leave to remain or settled status, I cannot help but think of the schoolboy sidling up to me & telling me that “Hitler was right”. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

And we all know what Reform say in private because occasionally it comes out in public. Not hard to find examples.

2014 - Farage then said he may have made comments that he did not know were racist at the time. "You can define namecalling in all sorts of different ways", he said. Asked if he had used a racist term to confront a fellow boy, he said "I don't know, I don't remember. It's not relevant, is it?"

BBC World at One reporting on our investigation into Farage's schooldays, with one of the contemporaries who has spoken to us, Andy Field, speaking on the programme. It also features an excerpt from a 2014 interview with Farage on BBC Kent, which is a new bit for the timeline of his positions.

Was an excellent interview! Highly recommend ppl listen. Recalled that #Farage was ‘very strange’, a ‘loner type’, ‘bit of a pariah because of his extreme racist views’, ‘celebrated his initials being NF’, ‘a nasty piece of work’ and a ‘complete liar’ who used to goose step around the playground 😖

All the supposedly progressive people saying 'Nigel Farage's racism doesn't matter. His fans love it'. It matters whether the leader of the party leading all the opinion polls is an outright racist. It matters if he called black people 'wogs' and said 'gas them' to Jews. Not everything is a game

‘Former classmates alleged that Nigel Farage made pro-HitIer comments, joked about gas chambers, and put someone in detention for the colour of their skin’ - @dailymirror

‘“Farage used to say things like ‘Hitler was right’ and ‘gas em’, you know, that sort of thing.”’ … ‘“‘Gas em all, gas em all, into the chambers they crawl. We’ll gas all the paks, & we’ll gas all the yids, & we’ll gas all the coons and all their fucking kids.’”’ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Nick Robinson and Michael Crick on BBC R4 Today blithely absolving Farage of racism just because Nigel learnt to stop hissing death camp gas sounds into his targets’ ears (and instead started doing his racism in political code) is giving me indigestion at 9am.

There's a large bang of "We are right-on white saviours for you people, how dare you criticise us, know your place" about the whole shameful affair. Not sure you need a 6 or 7 part podcast to ascertain that. The endless handwringing about it is tedious.

Astute summary.

It shows that the criticial Goodreads review had gone largely unnoticed, that many couldn't stomach the book privately, but didn't feel able to speak up (how right they were), until Clanchy poured petrol on the review, set it alight for everyone to see, and then blamed everyone else for the fire.

I listened to the first 3 episodes of BBC's "Anatomy of a Cancellation," and I don't know how the interviewer didn't laugh at Kate Clanchy when she said that "slanty eyes" wasn't in her book, it was "slantED, sparking, black eyes," so that was okay. The podcast completely vindicates the criticisms.

Now it’s called ’cancel culture’ and it’s everybody else’s fault, just never your own.

It’s time to stop claiming people are ‘cancelled’ on.ft.com/4r6sBEy | opinion

Great piece, so true. ‘The true definition of cancellation would be to disappear, left to exist only as an image in people’s minds. But that doesn’t often happen. TV interviews, podcasts, profiles and editorials can follow: “I Was Cancelled” or “Cancel Culture Ruined My Life”’. on.ft.com/3XPPMFD

Macclesfield Central (Cheshire East) Council By-Election Result: 🌍 GRN: 41.8% (+19.7) 🌹 LAB: 28.6% (-25.7) ➡️ RFM: 15.8% (New) 🌳 CON: 9.1% (-4.5) ⚖️ EQU: 2.5% (New) 🔶 LDM: 2.2% (-7.7) Green GAIN from Labour. Changes w/ 2023.

Do we talk about Kuenssberg's horrendous failure of journalism with regards to Johnson and Cummings or is that just okay now? She keeps her show and her salary? Serious BBC questions to answer on how they didn't challenge during Covid. Compare with Pym and Walsh in the same bulletins. Astonishing.

Who’s coming to the LDNDOCS screenings this weekend? www.ldndocs.co.uk/programme

‘On Friday 13 March, 2 senior No 10 officials are sitting in a key meeting of scientific advisers in Whitehall. "WE ARE NOT READY," one writes in capital letters in his notepad, external. The other leans over & crosses out "NOT READY", replacing it with an expletive.’ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

‘“He would sidle up to me and growl: ‘Hitler was right,’ or ‘Gas them,’ sometimes adding a long hiss to simulate the sound of the gas showers,” Ettedgui says of his experience of being in a class with Farage at Dulwich college in south London.’ www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

I just backed Trafficked: Dying to get to Britain on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/794...

Sickening rhetoric by Home Secretary. Denying access to human rights isn't "protecting the public". This is Labour further demonising those seeking asylum in language very reminiscent of the far right. Yes, some break the law, so should be prosecuted within the law. Removing rights is not the answer

‘BBC apologises to Trump over Panorama edit but refuses to pay compensation’ "While the BBC sincerely regrets the manner in which the video clip was edited, we strongly disagree there is a basis for a defamation claim." www.bbc.com/news/article...

‘Israel’s parliament has backed a controversial bill that seeks to impose a mandatory death sentence on Palestinians who kill Jewish Israelis for nationalist reasons, but not on Jewish Israelis who kill Palestinians.’ on.ft.com/47xhHA4