WH press secretary Karoline Leavitt tells Fox News that a military draft is on the table.

Save The Music Boutique! Check out the appeal video, what a lovely place. They need to raise £56,789 by Monday! Stick in a little and pass it on. Be great for this to go viral please! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the-music-...

Salford's Shelagh Delaney outside Wyndham's Theatre, London, where her play 'A Taste of Honey' is running, in 1959. Photo by Howell Evans.

‘Summarising the Israeli government’s position, Citrinowicz said: “If we can have a coup, great. If we can have people on the streets, great. If we can have a civil war, great. Israel couldn’t care less about the future . . . [or] the stability of Iran.’ www.ft.com/content/dd07...

would love to be a fly on the wall in Reform HQ this morning www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Amazon’s MGM studios spent tens of millions, but the documentary is projected to make just $1M in its first week. This comes as a new report from Rolling Stone details serious labor issues and two-thirds of the film’s staff requesting not to be credited at the end of the film. trib.al/Clr03cD

To avoid the possibility Holocaust remembrance might lead to empathy for migrants, Trump's antisemitism envoy claims Anne Frank "was in Amsterdam legally." In reality, Margot Frank received a summons to go to a labor camp on July 5, 1942. After ignoring this call, they were in Amsterdam illegally.

Philip Glass leading by example, withdrawing a premiere from the Kennedy Center

Vote Labour or the racists will get… oh hold on. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

So Reform has no problem with a candidate who doesn't think Rishi Sunak is English, and effectively endorsed the neo-Nazis of the AfD in the last German election.

Whether intended or otherwise, the administration sure looks as if it's engineering a decline in the dollar:

I just want to point out that Bovino's response to Bill gives away the underlying worldview: Sympathizing with (black and brown) immigrants over (white) American citizens makes you a (race) traitor, which makes you a part of the "problem" (and thereby deserving of same treatment as the immigrants)

I have never ever seen anything like this. I have seen communities organize around natural disasters in a somewhat similar way but obv that wasn’t 80% SECRET.

I know people keep saying this but it’s hard to communicate the depth of active resistance here. Like, I’m on random cafes and people are checking in for observation shifts. Signs everywhere. Folks in visibility vests on the corners. It’s wild. Absolutely wild.

‘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.