Red USA caps have been handed out to every member of Trump's "Board of Peace" ahead of its first meeting. And yes, that is FIFA President Gianni Infantino.

Over their last 10 games, both Arsenal and City have secured 19 points each. No ground gained over the last 2 months.

Quite a major political choice by the UK. There are precedents for the UK refusing to let the US use its bases for military operations, but not many.

I've contact my MP to ask them to attend the Brexit referendum anniversary debate on Tuesday 22 February. Contact your MP here: www.europeanmovement.co.uk/contact-mp-e...

A Ukrainian ground robotic complex Ratel H has been presented with a module capable of launching four fiber optic FPV drones. The system combines an unmanned ground vehicle with a multi drone deployment capability. #Ukraine

Our Chief Executive Ruth Curtice says that economic damage in the autumn was largely done in the lead-up to the Budget. Ruth argues the way of dealing with Budget speculation is through transparency, and having a proper public debate in a contained period of time, rather than selective briefing.

Richard Tice has suggested that Reform may slash minimum wage (but not executive pay) — how woefully out of touch can you get.

I hope he makes a ridiculous crown immunity claim; we could do with some case law on crown criminal immunity.

Whenever I hear "Cambridge University", I think James Orr. I wonder how many other people are now making this spontaneous connection.

The University of Kent did well when it and Matt Goodwin parted company. Is Cambridge University not risking significant potential for severe reputational damage in James Orr's case? Is he not using the Cambridge cachet as a platform for promoting pernicious right-wing ideology?

Everything is Connected. Especially the Far Right.

A decade on from the referendum, on Tuesday 24th February, Stephen Gethins MP will be hosting a Parliamentary debate entitled the ‘Impact of the 2016 EU membership referendum on the UK’. It’s vital that parliamentarians from all parties come together to discuss how to move on from Brexit.

As per national guidance, the police won't be officially naming this Norfolk man in his sixties arrested over suspicion of misconduct in public office!

(I do wonder if this will end up tarnishing Elizabeth's legacy for good, or if she's sort of become untouchable at this point)

That's the shortest time anyone has had a second home in Norfolk, I can tell you.

Whoa! Here we go - and not before time! news.sky.com/story/epstei...

Judge Threatens Contempt After Zuckerberg Team Shows Up To Court Wearing AI Glasses

Matt Goodwin and the banality of extremism Matt Goodwin is a far-right bureaucratic politician without good looks, intelligence, charisma, oratorical flair, wit, or basic political honesty. Piece from me on how the very banality of boring men like Goodwin makes them so frightening

That should tell you all you need to know about Reform UK

Man who deliberately left millions behind in an entire country has thoughts does he

“Mark Carney maintains a substantial 29-point lead over Pierre Poilievre as Canada’s best choice for prime minister.”

Here's the UK age 16-24 unemployment rate compared to the European Union's unemployment rate (which is under age 25). The UK's latest reading of 16.1% is now higher than the EU's most recent reading of 14.7% for the first time on record...

Only confronting the truth can end this scandal: The best possible approach is full transparency, get out in front of it, then deal with the fallout inews.co.uk/opinion/pala...

"Like Stephen Miller, Robert Jenrick, most of the comment page writers for the Tory press, and J. D. Vance, (Matt) Goodwin is a humourless plodder from the second generation of the radical right." Nick Cohen on the "banality of extremism".

A new University of Oxford study finds that almost 1/2 of the global population (3.79 billion) will be living with extreme heat by 2050 if the world reaches 2.0°C of global warming above 1850 levels – which climate scientists see as increasingly likely. www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-01...

The Guardian reports that Ukraine made its fastest gains in three years over the past week, summarizing the Institute for Study of War which theorizes that Elon Musk denying Starlink battlefield wifi to Russian troops is making a big difference. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

They have already done it in Nottinghamshire www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Farage: "If Trump can behave like a nasty piece of work towards female journalists, so can I."

Farage absolutely clueless on the Epstein/Mandelson story here, where the FT (especially @pickardje.bsky.social) has led the way on recent revelations. His thin skin could easily become a vulnerability.

We interrupt tributes to Jesse Jackson to bring you your daily dose of racism. Thanks, Beeb. Respectfully handled.

Who is funding reform? Who benefits?

The only question worth asking at these incredibly flash Reform press conferences that take place every week now, is who is paying for all of this and what do they want in return bsky.app/profile/pete...

Blimey. Looks like Matt Goodwin, who seems to think the Handmaid's Tale is an instruction manual, is in the pay of an Orban think tank, funded by Russian oil money.

Who's paying for all these Reform UK press conferences, and what do they want in return? Something fishy going on here.

It's just so strange - like the fixation on 'imperial units'. I actually remember, just about, getting my pocket money in pre-decimal currency & can even still remember the advertising jingle of the decimalization public information films. But so what? Why would anyone *care* about this?

Staggering that 24% of voters in this advanced country continue to believe in a bunch of entitled bigots with unworkable policies, whose very ideas put us in the abject chaos we are in. Truly God awful idiots, and I make no apology for saying that.

After the Irish citizen detained by ICE for months despite having a work & residence permit, this is another report of US authorities turning against EU citizen living in the US, in this case from Poland.

Reform UK. Going down.

Just gave a talk to a group of sixth formers from a state school in Shropshire. Many questions asked, along the lines of: will the UK rejoin? How can I work for the EU? etc. These young people had their future stolen from them by Brexit, and they want that future back. 💪

Young Brits want their future back. #RejoinEU

Employment rates for non-EU born are now *above* those for the UK born. Gap used be nearly 10 percentage points. A tribute to the success of UK immigration/immigrants and labour market integration, especially in recent years. Something government should celebrate..

They are very weird people, and it will be their downfall. Performative religious nationalism might work in America, but most British people - including most Christians - think it's weird.

Reform is soft on Russia. And it's stuff like this which explains why 👇🏻

It’s not just that a large majority want Britain to rejoin the EU, it’s the fact that the majority steadily continues to grow…

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Measles: how does it spread and how can I protect my child?

Great response! “It’s very hard to believe these accusations. I come from a country [Estonia] that is number two in the Press Freedom Index – so hearing criticism regarding press freedom from a country like the United States, which is 57th on this list, is interesting."

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Unobserved by US media: a good part of the voluminous email traffic among Bannon, Epstein, Farage and Johnson was devoted to schemes to topple Theresa May. The far-right former Trump adviser told Epstein that “we are overthrowing May right now” as he worked with Boris Johnson on a string of schemes.