The council structure across Sussex is changing this year. There are 4 different options on the table and the consultation for them all closes TONIGHT! Go here to see the summaries and give feedback: consult.communities.gov.uk/local-govern... FWIW my preference is the B&HCC proposal.

Brand-new Sonys and Panasonics start under $60, if you’re wondering

Having the US dictate terms as Ukraine negotiates with Russia is the equivalent of having a cop tell a mugging victim they must negotiate the contents of their purse with the mugger.

Fantastic night for shooting stars- clear and not much moon and the #geminids are plentiful!

One of the four elements of malignant narcissism is sadism.

Watched BBC 6 o clock news. Just a completely unserious broadcast. Chris Mason, acting like a children's entertainer, giving a prolonged impenetrable editorial. Not a whiff of informative content about the Budget or what it means for the country. Just playschool blah blah bollocks.

Not sure about this one. Wish me luck. #cheeseventcalendar

At #wpldn this evening. Speaking. Eek!

@wpldn.uk is on! Loads of great sessions and the community convenes! #WordPress

Ahead of launching a war on Venezuela, the US would like to announce that no one in Venezuela should help US forces, it'd be stupid to do so, the US will denigrate you and screw you over no matter how much you help, and blame you if even one Venezuelan who also helped the US ever does something bad.

ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

This is the correct take. Stewing in white supremacist propaganda is bad for your thinking. And if think you are so savvy that it won’t impact you, you are the exact kind of mark they are slowly converting (I’m looking at you, centrist pundits).

Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action... (from my presentation at the IMF last week)

Disturbing. Incidentally @rutgerbregman.com has written some interesting books that you might want to read. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

Carole Cadwalladr asks why the Labour gov are choosing not to investigate Russian interference in British elections and referendums

Bloomberg has audio files of Trump envoy Steve Witkoff coaching the Russians how to pitch their extreme Ukraine demands to Trump as a peace plan. Should rule him out of holding public office ever again. This entire exercise is thoroughly compromised.

Dim Philby at work.

Dear Bluesky, www.thenerve.news is still tiny. We launched it with no dirty money (no money at all, lol!). But we're proving what's possible with a small expert team & no billionaire owners. We knew the UK press wouldn't understand or properly cover this story, so we did. Thank you for the support!

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

The countries that are still consuming it? Well, Hungary is one of them and it’s a pretty far right and authoritarian place with Russian sympathy. And the EU can’t ban them buying it outright without universal assent from all their members including Hungary.

Quick note for people who hear Trump’s statement that Europe still buys oil from Russia, in fact they’ve drooped their Russian oil consumption by 90% and now only 2% of their energy supply comes from Russia.

Mumbling “every accusation a confession” until the end of time

I mean, this is proper reporting and great work... 👊🏼 ...but, in other news, it's become clear that the pope is, in fact, catholic...

Climate change is shrinking carbon sinks: In the past ten years, the land sink has shrunk 25% and the ocean sink 7%. Atmospheric CO₂ is increasing faster than ever

Not looking great for Santa's workshop 😳

I rarely think this… But this man actually LOOKS evil. Like his corporeal self cannot HELP but reflect the reality of his soul. And it is literally terrifying to behold. If I believed in such things, I’d call him demonic.

My issue is this- Russia needs a breathing space. It will pause then strike again. Russia must never be trusted- they are and remain belligerent aggressors and will be back.

not only is trump transforming the united states into a rogue player on accountability (unsurprisingly), but europeans are not fighting back. this is awful and it's not gonna stop. see brazil, too. vindictive & selective - all in the service of impunity.

Id like to see the Ukraine reject the peace plan and UK and European allies send forces to the region. The US has collapsed morally. Europe must now stand together against tyranny.

It's July 2016 and Russian bribe enthusiast Nathan Gill is doing the rounds on Nigel Farage's behalf explaining why he resigned as UKIP leader. Here he is on Russia Today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQtz...

If you’re in the US please pressure your representatives a clear message that the Trump Ukraine capitulation plan is horribly damaging to the interests of Ukraine, Europe, the west in general and indeed the US. It mustn’t happen. It will only store up a cataclysm for the future.

Superb reporting on a tragic story. It scares me how our system has decreed that the fundamental events of our lives must now be monetised, and focused on finance. By corporations first, and those that reject corporate greed are vulnerable to ghouls like this. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

New commission finished!! This handsome chap belongs to the wonderfully lovely Megan Bednarczyk. I don’t know what he’s called, but I’ve named him Gary Meownfield.

A UK wide money laundering newtwork arranging funding for Russia via a bank in Kyrgistan. www.france24.com/en/europe/20...

2 days. Ffs. What’s that wicket made of?

That was going to be the follow-uppppppppp but it's late in party, everyone's wrecked, people are ordering cabs, they just want the deal done, who's picking up the tab doesn't matter to anyone involved.

I apologise for this, but I need everyone to join me in a rousing internal chorus of Where's the money from? to the tune of chirpy chirpy cheep cheep. Because I shouldn't suffer alone and the Mail's last bid for the telegraph was funded by Qatar and Abu Dhabi I think

Excellent column from @stephenkb.bsky.social on what @alanmanning4.bsky.social refers to as the “infernal circle” of immigration policy www.ft.com/content/1144...

The basic problem with the temporary refugee status policy - especially one lasting up to 20 years - is it leads to very few removals (based on Denmark's experience) but does significantly worsen integration.

i know “quiet, piggy” is just one raindrop in the flood of vile, shocking statements from trump, but it’s SO cruel, so threatening, such a violation of our most basic interpersonal norms. i would really like to see it get some actual coverage.

You know, if the press refused to report him after this kind of thing, he would stop. Some 19th century journalists did this to a threatening congressman. It worked.

Can those in Commons and media holding govt to account please keep asking this Q until we get a clear answer?

Shabana Mahmood is wrong - Another cowardly attack on immigrants does not hide the incompetence of the Starmer government. Me, for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu

Remember, always, that the post-Brexit-vote Tory government, and specifically Home Secretary Sajid Javid, deliberately and with malice aforethought reduced to almost zero the timely processing of asylum claims in the UK. They literally created the "overwhelming backlog" that traps people in hotels.

Not sure "can't tell you, its a hypothetical" is going to be much use to an MP with a pregnant refugee in their surgery, asking if they and their baby is going to be deported.

Next time someone starts whining about antifa, remind them of this.

From Germany: "The UK wants to abolish the obligation to support asylum seekers that became EU law in 2005. UK had 84,200 asylum applications in 2024. From 2011 – 2020 (before Brexit) the average was 27,500 applications per year. By comparison, in Germany, 250,945 people applied for asylum in 2024."

"This is a government that, thanks to its own mis-steps, has burned right through the political capital its landslide election victory earned it just 16 months ago". www.ft.com/content/3128...