Got a very irate comment yesterday about not doing a Quiet Riot on this, told we "missed the boat" while others had put out emergency eps. So, I listened to a couple. They contained minimum insight and maximum outrage. I'm PROUD we took 12 extra hours to get a guest who actually knows their onions.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Hyundai and Kia combined for roughly 1.75 million sales in the US last year, and with Genesis, almost certainly cleared 1.8 million for the group. Records across the board. Hyundai is among the OEMs that increased EV sales YoY. www.kiamedia.com/us/en/media/... www.hyundainews.com/releases/4661

Three of the top five British grid electricity records smashed in 2025! This is a huge success story, despite what Russian bots and U.S fossil fuel shills scream on X. Every unit of clean domestic energy we produce means a safer future for our children…🥳

@tomgordonld.bsky.social As a constituent, I find this a disappointing stance. Location can always be challenged but to question the need for BESS when the IEA says they are essential is disappointing. www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/2573256...

Happy New Year, to all our amazing family of Quiet Rioters. Onwards and Upwards! Or, at the very least, Sideways! Naomi, Alex, Kenny, Arthur - and one more Alex xxx

It is, simply, an unEnglish attitude and mocked for over three hundred years. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44081/...

This message hits hard.

There should be a mandatory late, great Janey Godley stationed at every course, delivering the obvious message.

"Labour Alienating Rural People by opposing hunts" lads I'm gonna be real with you the purpose of a social democratic party is not to speak for the country squire

I really fear for the future of Test Cricket.

Merry Christmas! Michelle and I hope you have a wonderful holiday filled with light and joy.

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

HAPPY CHRISTMAS! From us and @mrjamesob.bsky.social as we look back on the year t’was. A good one to listen to while you peel spuds/walk the dog/hide in your room 🎧👇 (Part 2 follows later in the week)

Prioritizing critical loads would open the door to lobbyists, lawyers and other dorks claiming that AI data centers, bitcoin mines, etc. are "critical," but utilities already make these prioritizations during load-shed events. There are definitions and precedents.

This was SUCH good fun: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

lot of people seem convinced that "actually Bari Weiss is doing exactly what they want" and I'm sorry but you're just wrong on that. she was supposed to quietly shift CBS to be rightwing. instead she Streisand Effected a story they wanted to kill because she is incredibly stupid.

Remember that jingositic wally from the Telegraph, Oliver Brown? The guy who didn't have nuts cuts about rugby? He's the same with cricket. Apparently 'foreign' is good now. Told you he'd churn out even more laughable twaddle during this Ashes series.

We are failing our kids

A lovely thread.

Guys I'm getting the impression Trump’s lawyers are struggling

The greatness of Thatcher.... and Truss.

Boris surviving.

I wrote about a year of Trump for Best for Britain's Diplomatic Cable, covering some authoritarian themes that haven't been making the headlines…. open.substack.com/pub/bestforb...

Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.

Sounds about right.

Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago. His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship." He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

🚨NEW - My latest piece for The New Yorker. Nigel Farage: Canterbury Pilgrim mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/nigel-fara...

@sturdyalex.bsky.social @quietriotpod.bsky.social Why is @pimlicat.bsky.social flambé-ing steak? Has she become a carnivore?

I don't know if AI is in a bubble, but these guys want to get paid now

Apparently Europe has an issue with free speech.

The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party. Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar

Unlike Clarkson, or Sugar, Andrew Neil actually fronted BBC politics programmes, at the same time was the publisher of a right-wing Conservative magazine and freely expressed his very right wing opinions on Twitter. Not once did he come under pressure to step down

They say never meet your heroes but I know Robin so I know sometimes you should.

I grew up in the 70s and 80s. If you weren't there, just a little clarification on that Spectator piece. Literally, NOBODY admired Hitler. Apart from nazis. Hope that helps.

If you’re tired of explaining yourself and the misreporting of the Peggie tribunal to your lazy and ignorant friends save your energy and send them this. open.substack.com/pub/ajustsoc...

#EV fact of the day. You can do other things while charging, you do not have to stand there holding a plug.

Here is Pete Hegseth, on several occasions in 2016, lauding the military "ethos" that means they will refuse to follow unlawful orders - which he reckons is treason, now that they are his orders - because "there have to be consequences for abject war crimes". Deserves to go viral.

This story more than any other disgusts me. Yinka was a little 9 year old boy Farage was a swaggering bully aged 17 We all knew those bullies at school and in this case teenager Farage was a racist bully too

Being a British parent is so weird bc you're actually worried about paying the sky high rent/mortgage & getting GP appointments but the entire press keeps telling you you're worried there's a trans person or immigrant nearby & the vat on Eton means there'll only be two skiing holidays this year

Good to know that as an architect with a masters degree working in a practice that specialises social housing I’m considered a ‘taker’ because I don’t earn above £50k… but It’s ok, we don’t have a housing crisis or anything. Why do I bother paying so much £££ in visa fees to be treated like this.

Welcome to the second Origin Story episode of the week as @iandunt.bsky.social & @dorianlynskey.bsky.social conclude the story of the New Left. Listen to Part Two: Children of the Revolution here 👉 linktr.ee/originstoryp... #originstory #thenewleft #Gramsci #politics #podcast #history

All of this stuff is in the Crick biography and has been reported much longer than that. Farage's career should never have progressed out of the gutter

Hi @sturdyalex.bsky.social I just listened to the latest (excellent) Quiet Riot podcast and heard you pleading with the government to put down the Ming Vase. I wondered if you had seen this (also excellent) blog post? @warringfictions.bsky.social @quietriotpod.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/warr...

Finally someone says it.