2025: Priti Patel says Labour adopting Erasmus is a betrayal of Brexit 2020: Priti Patel was Home Secretary when her boss Boris Johnson said Erasmus would not be taken away because of Brexit

#Trump tonight: Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me

For a change of pace...I wrote about Henry James's Venice. www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...

Why can't immigrants who come to the UK integrate as well as this?

Theresa Villiers on Badenoch. Oddly I hope she's right but this is the latest in the Telegraph's 'Whisper it' series. The record of this series is not good.... (thread)

not the kind of behavior I expect from the winner of the fifa peace prize

The Observer once asked me what I was reading so I replied honestly: a biography about The Krankies. I've never been invited to partake in one of these again. observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Tories to scrap Tory policy that the Tories made when the Tories were in power. How very Tory of them. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.

FIFA not only paying no tax, will also pay no wages to hundreds of thousands of volunteers. 8/10

Days after FIFA awarded Trump a fake peace prize, DOJ moves to drop charges in FIFA corruption case www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n...

Siri, what evidence is that Donald Trump knows he is committing war crimes ? (Oh well, I suppose that is me banned from entering the United States for five years.) www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

BREAKING: White House MELTDOWN! Trump demands immunity from the International Criminal Court — and threatens sanctions if they don’t deliver. In a move that screams guilty conscience, the Trump White House has just issued a threat straight out of a mob movie:

A U.S. customs officer having to go through my social media history

#GVerse #FuckICE detain U.S. citizen for "looking" Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground. Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse. The incident occurred at the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood in Minneapolis. #DemsUnited

A magnificent entry from Belgrade in the shit Christmas tree competition.

Martin Parr, absolute mensch. From Colin Wilkinson, founder of Bluecoat Press, on FB

The U.S. and Venezuela are on the brink of war? Did the FIFA Peace Prize mean nothing to Trump?

Leader of Reform-run council accused of ‘authoritarian’ attempt to silence opposition

Reform UK Councillors Gone: Updated ➡️ Kicked Out Brian Black Oliver Bradshaw Paul Thomas Bob Ford Bill Barratt Ed Hill James Regan Mark Broadhurst Paul Bean Adam Smith Daniel Taylor John Allen Nicole Brooke Patrick Lambert Maxine Fothergill Tom Pickup ➡️ Defected Amelia Randall Nicola Brown

Zarah Sultana voted with the Tories in every vote on the Employment Rights Bill last night. That includes voting to keep the Lords' wrecking amendments on strike ballot thresholds and to keep the 2016 Trade Union Act's restrictions on unions' political funds.

Communists for the far right! Piece on Frank Furedi, Claire Fox and others from the Revolutionary Communist Party who now embrace Orban and Trump Their weird story is also a story about the power of money and how our twisted media rewards bullshitters comment.press/rcp2025

Who has made this 🤣

In a statement Mr Flashman said that if he had roasted small boys in front of an open fire it was never in a malicious or unkind way.

The Edinburgh Christmas market has a very posh name for their toilets.

Entire planet watching FIFA World Cup draw build-up.

We are now at the stage where all those who knew him in the past have warned us that Nigel Farage is unfit to be PM. About the same stage as when those who knew him in the past warned us that Boris Johnson was unfit to be PM.

Reform is reporting £331 million in savings across the councils it runs, but Private Eye’s Rotten Boroughs writer Saba Salman says the claims are complete guff. Watch the full episode of Page 94, the Private Eye podcast, on YouTube.

Nigel Farage. The man who's spent 20 years attacking the politically correct "woke" BBC now attacking it for... checks notes ... "showing the Black and White Minstrel Show in the 1970s". Always good to be consistent Nigel.

2 in 3 of Nigel Farage’s current and former partners do not speak English as their first language.

“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement.” Bezos may have signed off on this WaPo oped by George Will. That’s how bad things are for Trump. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

The next time you hear about young people today feeling entitled, remember who really feels entitled to their money.

Feel like I'm going mad. The Budget's 'headroom' is based on frankly irresponsible and wildly optimistic claims about what Labour will do in the final year of the forecast, and on ignoring a bunch of upward pressures on spending, and the claim is that she was being exaggeratedly *pessimistic*?

Pretty awkward for Gullis & Tice…

this, but for Jonathan Gullis defecting to Reform

I’m very pleased that Jonathan Gullis has joined Reform – we need more conviction politicians with strongly held principles. In other news, here he is explaining why there is absolutely no chance he would ever defect to Reform.

i have never been nostalgic for the past before i was born and reading history only reinforces this. running water is good. not losing children to preventable diseases is good. human beings not being property is good.

Headline on The World at One just now: "Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap". Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

No idea what Adversarial Poetry is but it sounds darling.

Small print on signs at a tram park and ride hid the fact I could get clamped

I also write about how little the floods have been covered in national newspapers, and how appalled I am that the Prime Minister has said nothing to the people of Monmouthshire directly. Please read and share. www.thenerve.news/p/storm-clau...

Reform are normally part of the furniture on the Laura Kuenssberg show, but are conspicuous by their absence this weekend, and from the media rounds in general Nothing's happened has it? #bbclaurak #bbcbreakfast #NathanGill

For a decade, Russia has been seeking to divide Europe and America, to undermine NATO and weaken the transatlantic alliance. This peace plan, if accepted, will achieve that goal. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based. Here’s an “influencer from Texas”

None of today’s podcasts can be arsed covering this. Not the Spectator, New Statesman, News Agents or even The Guardian. For left and right, the Johnson government being a disgraceful mess is not even information any more.

Richard Hawley calls his music “a league away from most things in any genre". Rufus Wainwright says he was “so lucky” to work with him at an impressionable age. One of Billy Bragg's most famous covers came about because of him. But have you heard of Dick Gaughan?

I've been studying nuclear energy and weapons for decades and worked on systems architecture projects for utils with heavy NRC involvement because of nuke generation assets. So this video by @davidgerard.co.uk about more tech industry madness made my eyebrows curl: youtu.be/PW9lusiwMz8?...

Everything Ronaldo does seems designed to further enhance the legacy of Lionel Messi.