No Kemi, Trump threatening to invade a NATO ally is not a "second order issue." It’s a direct challenge to Britain’s security and the future of NATO.

Joint statement by 4 former officials in Democratic and Republican Administrations—including four NATO Ambassadors, 3 Assistant Secretaries of State for Europe, and 3 NSC Senior Directors. Excellent opening in particular.

If anyone is involved in monitoring the Iranian communications blackout or in helping Iranians access technology to communicate with each other and the outside works, then please get in touch.

The UK continues its ostrich approach to the battlefield conditions in A&E. Too many people don't care until it's them or their loved ones dying on a trolley or suffering the indignities and inadequacies of corridor care. Where's the clamour for change?

Highly recommended. This is as good a 'New Year' take on where we are now politically, and on where we might be going, as you'll read anywhere. And beautifully-written too.

A new report from the BTO has revealed encouraging signs for several of the UK's breeding songbirds, following a notably successful nesting season in 2025:

Roundup of @mprnews.org coverage of ICE protests around the Minnesota today. Just a gentle reminder that we have been covering this before national news and we will be doing it after they disappear. Support your local journalists. share.google/lFJhVHjWWdPe...

There was no ceasefire. The world is complicit

Robert Frost 🖎

remember that much of this damage was done by Doge, run by Elon Musk FRS

Latest blog post is here thecosmicshamblesnetwork.substack.com/p/the-world-...

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.

Slightly diminish a band: Maybe (Jon Anderson's Christmas album is playing on a loop in my head which took me to Yes).

⚠️⚠️ Amber weather warning issued⚠️⚠️ Heavy snow across parts of Scotland Sunday 03:00 – 14:00 Latest info 👉 bit.ly/WxWarning Stay #WeatherAware ⚠️

Kyiv's power, water and heat systems turned off for repairs amid intense cold reut.rs/49gwDDC

Magnificent. Make sure you click on the "1 more reply" link to make sure you read the whole thread. You will not regret it.

She smiles. "I'm not mad." He knows enough of hate. Fire! The world ends in ice. #Haiku #RobertFrost #FireAndIce #RIPReneeGood

⚠️ Yellow weather warning UPDATED ⚠️ A yellow warning for ice has been expanded to include areas of southern England Friday 12:00 – Saturday 12:00 Latest info 👉 bit.ly/WxWarning Stay #WeatherAware⚠️

sorry here's the link. FWIW Daily Mail is generally not great, but one thing they do excel at is tabloid-style "finding out where people live and who they're married to" stuff www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Minneapolis City Council member Jason Chavez: "Many of our immigrants neighbors are picked up simply by moving their cars. Help your neighbors take out the trash, because there are many reports of neighbors being kidnapped when they're taking their trash out."

LIVE: Protesters gather in Minneapolis after shooting of Renee Nicole Good www.youtube.com/live/vtQ_L9h...

If you want that fire to draw you need to hold a sheet of newspaper across the fireplace. Make sure you’ve swept the grate first though.

Tarbet Isle, Loch Lomond #Scotland #Trossachs #LochLomond www.damianshields.com

A couple of snow sketches from around our farm. I’m entering 2026 feeling a little more confident with my painting technique. It’s down to lessons with some great watercolour teachers and an insane amount of practice I pushed myself to do last year as a new year resolution.

The workmen are out there in the snow and sleet finishing off the gutters and soffits. #Respect to all outside workers today!

This, please.

If Trump isn’t like Hitler, why does he have a Gestapo?

It’s dark, and snowing heavily. I just saw a Saab 9-3 convertible being driven through the city streets by a middle aged woman in a thick fur coat and sunglasses. With the roof fully open. Her face set in a hard grimace against the weather. She looked so serious. It was surreal. But very funny.

The ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Nicole Good in south Minneapolis has been identified as Jonathan Ross, the Star-Tribune reports

🚨 Snowing where you are? ❄️ Post with the hashtag #uksnow, the first-half of your postcode and a snow-rating out of 10 (x/10) and see your report on the live map at uksnowmap.com

#StormGoretti hitting South of England and North of France with a gust of 99mph or 158kmh at Scilly off the Southwest coast of England. Airmass satellite shows the shape of Goretti.

ITV News has reporters outside in the red weather warning area. Feels quite irresponsible...

Pressure falling very quickly over Southern England now as #StormGoretti intensifies.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —George Orwell (1984)

"Murdering a mother of a 6-year-old child, you're in the wrong place in your soul. God help you! Her son's name is Emerson; Emerson does not have a mother today because one of you murdered a woman in cold blood yesterday!" -Minneapolis ICE protester scolds line of ICE agents ⬇️

France and Germany show the UK how you stand up to Trump. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

As as family carer, I'm thinking of all the social care and home visit workers in the red and amber weather warning areas of #StormGoretti who will still try to get to their vulnerable clients tonight. Stay safe and #respect.

While we think it is chilly here, Bernard Geraghty reports it is -34c in Ruka Finland today🥶

Storm Goretti brings a 'multi-hazard' event through Thursday into Friday. Different parts of the UK will be affected by strong winds, heavy snowfall and rain. Get all the latest information from our news release 👇

Same on #Today this morning. It's false balance over and over again. Even when you have a video in front of your eyes .

The BBC's David Willis' description of the US shooting videos does not describe what I saw....

The Trump administration will withdraw from dozens of international organizations, including the U.N.'s population agency and the U.N. treaty that establishes international climate negotiations, as the U.S. further retreats from global cooperation.

The US government is now freely killing people at sea, in other lands, and on its own streets. It is difficult to see what more is needed for Congress and the Supreme Court to exercise their constitutional duty to check and balance what is now a rogue state abroad and a gangster state at home.

Now that ICE is murdering people in the street can we agree that people were not over-reacting when they called the Trump regime fascists?

In the past two years of Israeli genocide, the number of Palestinians in Gaza decreased by 10.6%, according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics — representing the deaths or departures of 254,000 people.

The USA hijacks tankers in international waters...is this piracy? But, as an retired seaman I can't help but notice that nobody appears concerned about the crew on these hijacked ships...what has happened to them, have the pirates released them or killed them (standard practice for USA these days!)

This is unhinged. A 75 year old alliance in NATO is being trashed to serve one man's ego. Trump is not a reliable ally, he's a reckless bully. Starmer needs a plan B to stand up for Britain and our allies.