Fujitsu accused of being a ‘parasite’ as boss questioned over Post Office scandal www.channel4.com/news/fujitsu...

BREAKING: “What is becoming increasingly apparent is the falsehoods that were peddled by Nigel Farage and others at the time of the Brexit referendum…all you had to do was leave the EU & you would have £350m a week for your NHS, well it hasn’t materialised” PM Keir Starmer

Russia is struggling to service its Arctic ports, laying bare a widening gap between the Kremlin’s grand Arctic ambitions and its actual capabilities, Ukraine’s foreign intelligence says. www.kyivpost.com/post/67494

The full ICO decision is at ico.org.uk/media2/titda... . The key paragraphs in the ICO's reasoning are 42-44.

The ICO has published its decision in a high profile FOI case, backing the EHRC's refusal to disclose internal communications about its interim guidance after the UK Supreme Court judgment last April (which ruled that the meaning of "sex" in the Equality Act 2010 is biological)

#FOI proving useful in the quiet post-Xmas news week We've got potholes, speeding, danger dogs, & food hygiene reports that'll put you off your 'run out of cheese/can't be bothered to cook' takeaway:

Andy Bunday @bundaycartoons on #Trump #Putin #XiJinping #venezuelainvasion #venesuela – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

Danish PM Mette Frederiksen says if the US attacks Greenland, NATO Is over Meanwhile Keir Starmer is the coward who couldn't call out Trump for attacking Venezuela, breaking international law

I diverged sharply from this consensus, as the FT notes at the end of this article - although my actual quote referred not just to poor governance but to Trump's economic illiteracy, flagrant and gross corruption, and ethnonationalist bigotry. www.ft.com/content/1af2...

And when Musk says it isn't true, Ofcom will go away with its tail between its legs. Ofcom asks X about reports its Grok AI makes sexualised images of children www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🔴 Reform Chairman Who Boasts of Expertise in Business ‘Compliance’ Had Ten Firms Struck off for Breaking Company Law Exclusive: Paul Donaghy established at least 10 firms struck off by Companies House, according to official records bylinetimes.com/2026/01/05/r...

Imagine, given what is happening right now, being "afraid" of getting closer to the only power-centre that has not abandoned reason, democracy, and the rule of law. ~AA

Cornwall Insight expects Autumn Budget measures to deliver pretty substantial reduction in energy bills from April. www.businessgreen.com/news/4523722...

So, USA will run Venezuela until they find a tame leader who will do whatever Trump wants. Trump says US is going to 'run' Venezuela after capturing President Maduro www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...

But what if Maduro’s involvement in the drug trade was an “official act”?

In Opinion President Trump “is pushing our country toward an international crisis without valid reasons,” the editorial board writes after the U.S. attack on Venezuela was announced on Saturday. “If Mr. Trump wants to argue otherwise, the Constitution spells out what he must do: Go to Congress.”

HSBC files bankruptcy petitions against Aidan and Howard Barclay www.ft.com/content/1bae...

Claims Company investigated by @TheFCA which is looking into whether The Claims Protection Agency Limited misled customers by what it did or did not say to them when it tried to sign them up bit.ly/4jqu7xY

Tesla loses title of world's biggest electric vehicle maker to Chinese rival BYD 🤣🤣🤣 news.sky.com/story/tesla-...

Belgian court asks CJEU question about data protection under EU law on advance travel authorisation (ETIAS) www.linkedin.com/posts/jbager...

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

Brexit has cost each and every one of us £3,700 a year. But instead of solving the problem, Labour are using Brexit as an excuse to raise your taxes. My message ahead of the Budget: Stop blaming Brexit and start fixing it!

Native Americans created a never-broken code to transmit messages that helped the US prevail in the Pacific in the Second World War. Now only two survive ⬇️

Remember when the right-wing press and the private schools lobby said VAT would mean an exodus to state schools causing a crisis? Not so much. (From this FT analysis: www.ft.com/content/c979...)

Ex-Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has Lunch with the FT and in one of those instances so rare that you know he didn't sign an NDA, says exactly why as.ft.com/r/e503690d-8...

Well spotted on the date. In his emails to Epstein in mid November 2018 Bannon claims to have met up with Rees Mogg, Farage and Boris Johnson to keep Brexit on track and defeat Theresa May. Farage denies this…. And yet…. bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...

If rumblings about Special Needs changes are true,they'll place huge pressures on schools, in the absence of the necessary resources.Also, taking rights away & putting schools in the driving seat would be a retrogressive move: the Labourism of institutions rather than the empowerment of families 1/2

Ukrainian intelligence foiled an assassination plot targeting Denis Kapustin, the commander of the Russian resistance group RSV, they faked his death and collected the $500,000 bounty on his head which now belongs to Ukraine’s Defence Intelligence special forces.

Two hikers who were rescued from Britain’s second-highest mountain in minus 15C temperatures were found wearing jogging bottoms and trainers ⬇️

What the war against London really is about. V good by @robertshrimsley.bsky.social #Giftlink And on a different note: A v Happy New Year to everyone!

Disability charity chief condemns UK government as she rejects MBE www.bbc.com/news/article...

"Immigrant Derangement Syndrome is a top-down phenomenon, not a broad popular movement. It reflects the perverse obsessions of MAGAdom, with racism a key component.' To state the obvious, this analysis by @pkrugman.bsky.social also largely applies in the UK/Europe. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Ofwat must say NO to 15 years of illegal sewage in 2026. OCTOBER: Thames Water is locked in negotiations with Ofwat on a rescue deal which could see them relieved of fines for past OR future sewage dumping. #OFWATsayNO

I assume that means he will completely change his mind and blame Ukraine for everything ....

“Our side has been trained by Donald Trump to never apologize and to never admit when you’re wrong.” Read the inside story of how Marjorie Taylor Greene went from zealous Trump cheerleader to his loudest Republican critic: nyti.ms/3Lbzi88

An absolutely enormous amount of work over 5+ years to get to this result. A huge credit to my client Ian McGrail who has kept going despite the many barbs and arrows flung at him over that period. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Our press summary (with some absolutely extraordinary quotes from Sir Peter Openshaw’s report)

I still find some of this totally extraordinary despite having acted in the case. No exaggeration to say (as many did during the proceedings) that it could be a Netflix series. Except I always thought it sounded too implausible!

Another Brexit 'bonus'... 'Foreign doctors and nurses are increasingly shunning the NHS because anti-migrant rhetoric and rising racism have created "a hostile environment", the leader of Britain’s medics has warned.' www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

No one has ever been able to adequately explain what Putin is meant to have thought NATO expansion would threaten him with, apart from limiting his expansionist ambitions. "He was worried they'd invade Russia." No he wasn't. He just wasn't. That's not a thing anyone thought might happen.

Reminder that Henry Hoovers are made in Britain by a unionised workforce

Russia not only banned all American social media platforms, but also fined them several times, including a two-undecillion-rouble fine against Google for restricting Russian state media channels on YouTube. Stop lying!

Sounds like great motivation for everyone to vote for Democrats.

Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers

Nicola Jennings on #Trump and #Putin’s #Christmas Day @guardian – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

Many landowners don't like "The Hunt" anyway. They are extremely arrogant & often trespass onto land they have been told by the owners to are not welcome on. They do damage to fences, gates & hedges. This is a small group of well-connected people having a tantrum.

The DOJ is lying when it says they *just now* received Epstein files from the Southern District of New York.

When other nations broadcast news that the US has decided is contraband and won’t broadcast, you know you’re living in a third world authoritarian country.

UK social media campaigners among five denied US visas. Trump happily admits fascists and racists to the US. Visas used as a tool for dominance, intimidation; extract trade and tax concessions; silence critics. Compliant Govts risk domestic ridicule.