2026 warning to all adults trying to be cool in front of young ‘uns. “6-7 is so dead,’ declared a kid on the train just now.. Be advised.

Gianni Infantino will have to withdraw Trump's Fifa peace prize www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...

Good morning from England’s North East Riviera

Bomb-happy Trump is more like Putin every day www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Fossil fools will be furious, doubtless sitting in the cold and dark to avoid enjoying the encouraging surge in UK green energy. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The morning after the night before at a bouncing SoL I’ve read every newspaper report of our magnificent performance against Man City. Think I’m in love with Regis Le Bris.

The dwindling minority of Britons supporting Reform UK are likened to a group on a messy night out they would regret then move on from. Happy 2026. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Hope www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

RIP former Military Police officer and pipe fitter turned @M_Star_Online industrial correspondent Roy Jones, 95, who put a smile on the face of Communist revolution and dictatorship of the proletariat. Back in the day it was a joy to cover the same beat. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/from...

Roker pier in the sunlight over the waves from Whitburn looking premier league. You can’t beat a refreshing cliff top walk

Rudyard Kipling(India), Terry Butcher(Singapore), Gyles Brandreth(Germany), late Duke of Edinburgh(Corfu), Harry H Corbett(Burma), Susan Penhaligon(Philippines), Boris Johnson(USA) and JRR Tolkien(India) not British? Racist morons 👇 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Bravo this Whitley Bay estate agent

RIP ace journalist Bill Hagerty, former editor of The People. He was a shrewd, kindly and humorous bloke with an engagingly cantankerous side. Thinking of Liz and his family and all his friends. RIP.

Nigeria a new frontline in ungodly Trump's culture wars after his lies about a South African genocide against white farmers Islamist extremists kill Muslims and Christians, as Nigeria makes clear, but he poses as saviour of Christians to appease USA evangelicals www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Surely the Met Police must investigate email evidence "girls" were organised for Andrew Mountbatten Windsor on an official visit to Peru by super rich paedophile Jeffrey Epstein's since jailed little helper Ghislaine Maxwell. This ain't over. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

McCarthyism is back in Trump's USA. Laughable how Britain's self-styled free speech champions are silent. In reality they defend and promote only their own hate speech. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

So Tory boy Andrew Pierce reveals, in between insisting he was right on absolutely everything, the late Queen asked what I was really like. I could've told her myself: committed republican, ma'am. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Ho ho ho the Christmas Pierce Vs Maguire special looks back at 2025, a "cough" turbulent year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx4j...

Tetchy Nigel Farage would have good reason to fear history might repeat itself and he'll never be Prime Minister www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

The Labour mood has turned against Starmer in 2005 Pierce vs Maguire podcast

Decent start for a new podcast launched in the back end of 2025 but top 10 is the 2026 goal. @PierceVsMaguire

Trump’s 50 lies in 18 minutes yet some people are more upset about one Panorama bad edit. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Farage the man not boy Nigel is the big issue. "what disturbs us is less what happened years ago, hurtful as it was, but rather your refusal to acknowledge your past behaviour or apologise for it.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Strikers vs Streeting. Who will win the battle for the soul of the NHS in England: Doctors or the Health Secretary? Here is our latest Pierce Vs Maguire or go to wherever you listen and watch your podcasts. youtu.be/yO8TwgCgL_A?...

Make that 10 with seven wins and three draws

Donald Trump siding with soulmate tyrant Vladimir Putin against Britain, France, Germany, Europe itself and particularly invaded Ukraine is the moment to stop pretending this US President is any kind of ally. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Ho ho ho. Folk think Santa's a Lefty who'd probably vote Green and Scrooge a Reform UK supporter. The people are not wrong. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Sunderland are unbeaten in our last nine Premier League games against Newcastle(6 wins, 3 draws) and my nervous excitement is off the scale before heading to the SoL for the first top flight derby since 2016. Please let Christmas come early for us.

Today Longsands, Tynemouth. Glorious.

Why do morons have a problem with trees in North East England? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

“Without immigration there will be no Europe, no civilisation and no one left to argue about it.” “The balti might have a greater claim to be the UK’s national dish than fish and chips(a Portuguese import).” Something for racists to think about 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My final @newstatesman1913.bsky.social weekly Commons Confidential after nudging 21 years so ta very much to all you snouts, informants and sources. It's been a blast(for me anyway). The parish news is I'll write a different NS column from next year. www.newstatesman.com/politics/com...

Britain’s Union Jack-waving Right-whingers reveal their true plastic patriotism by cheering unhinged Donald Trump’s racist and absurd criticism of our country and European neighbours. ⁦Pierce vs Maguire ‬⁩ youtu.be/58OS6S7pJ3w

The Life of Keir: What has Labour ever done for us? www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Loved a joyous, uplifting Kinky Boots musical at the magnificent Sunderland Empire but those Northampton workers in the Price & Son factory really need to join a trade union. Fighting, bullying, discrimination and sacking threats broke so many laws.

No more peppercorns for palaces. We discussed the royal family's wealthfare state in this week's Pierce vs Maguire podcast. Slimeball Andrew Windsor's opened Pandora's box. www.youtube.com/watch?v=riQQ...

Even some peers opposed to assisted dying now believe it would be undemocratic for diehard opponents in an unelected House of Lords to use 1,000+ amendments to kill a right backed by the elected House of Commons This week's @newstatesman1913.bsky.social column. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Will Reform and the Turquoise Tory Party do a cynical electoral deal? On this week’s ⁦‪Pierce vs Maguire‬⁩ podcast.

“The picture they are painting is completely wrong. Untrue. They are peddling lies.” Magisterial dismantling by Gordon Brown of “Benefits Street” bollocks from Badenoch and Britain’s reactionary Right-whiners after 500k kids were lifted out of poverty. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Must be rough in the local little Sainsbury’s when there’s a security tag on a bag of Revels. Not even the biggest packet anarl.

Starmer welcomes the feudal City of London’s first Lady Mayor after 696 men and the Church of England’s first female Archbishop of Canterbury after 105 blokes but overlooks that Labour’s only elected male leaders in the party’s 125 years when even the Cons are on a fourth woman.

The Grinch that is King Charles III ended his mam’s tradition of giving royal workers a box of Christmas crackers. Let them pull gruel. (From The Year of the Dog by Sophia Money-Coutts, obvs)

Magnificent Versailles(10m visitors) is a much bigger attraction than Windsor Castle(1.5m) or Buckingham Palace(0.5m), proving you don’t need a royal family to attract tourists. And the extensive grounds are free. France showed the way forward for Britain

Wonder why Conservative former MPs on defection watch are most upset about their party chair's Nazi badge dig at Reform UK. www.newstatesman.com/politics/com...

And most Britons wrongly believe it's going up. We live in an age of ignorant rage. www.bbc.com/news/live/cn...

Lifting half-a-million working class kids out of poverty is why Rachel Reeves’ Budget deserves to be celebrated. Enjoy the latest ⁦‪Pierce vs Maguire podcast. youtu.be/aVmQcHed4K4

Rachel Reeves transformed herself from Scrooge to Mother Christmas in lifting 550,000 working class kids out of poverty. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

The monster Brexit black hole at the heart of Britain. Farage, Johnson and Badenoch should chip in to fill it when they helped dig the thing. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Why Starmer must stand up to Putin puppet Trump on Ukraine www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Putin appeaser Donald Trump is the heir to Neville Chamberlain www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...