How long do we have to put up with this crap? www.thetimes.com/article/900c...

"Press barons can meet the prime minister, but the people who have suffered at the hands of them can't." Don't think that's right? Demand the PM stops cosying up to press barons and restarts the inquiry to put victims first NOW. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/do...

Wow! Fascinating, not only the date but also the fact they were Neanderthals (and maybe using traded iron pyrite).

Millions of Londoners lives to be blighted purely so Rachel Reeves could appear to take a ‘difficult decision’. Only economic case: a discredited study paid for by Heathrow. Heathrow plan 'will impact air quality progress' www.bbc.com/news/article...

The decline of democracy in the US means you can’t visit the US if you commented on the decline of democracy in the US

Trump’s obsession with me is beyond weird. He needs serious help. Since he has no economic policies to tout, he’s resorting to regurgitating bigoted lies instead. He continues to be a national embarrassment.

Quite randomly this image of Wembley from the 1923 FA Cup final appeared on Insta. It’s as if it’s in the middle of nowhere.

🔴If Nigel Farage’s Racism Is Forgotten It Will Give Him Permission for Far Worse When someone tells you who they are, over and over again, it is wise to listen, argues @labourlewis.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/12/10/n...

Absolutely amazing chart from @peterkellner.bsky.social's piece in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social today: www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...

This is horrifying and cannot be allowed to become normal. "A surge in death and rape threats and harassment has created a 'culture of fear' at charities serving women and refugees, and at mosques, churches and synagogues." https://bit.ly/44irJTE

A crypto investor just donated £9 million to the Reform Party. Right now, billionaires can pour unlimited money into our elections, effectively buying our democracy. Think that's wrong? Add your name to call for a cap on donations today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

@thetimes.com headline:”Over-confident Londoners 'more likely to crash on rural roads'”. Evidence in article? Londoners are more likely [75% v 69% other regions] ”to say they had felt prepared to drive on rural roads immediately after getting their driving licence.” www.thetimes.com/article/5bdf...

From the @wsj.com chief foreign correspondent

Sunday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

Yinka Bankole was 12 when Farage spotted him in the playground: “He towered over me. ‘Where are you from?’ he asked. Within seconds of offering my rather confused and sputtering answers, he had a clear response: ‘That’s the way back to Africa,’.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Here is the whole Trump, Brexit, Russia story neatly summed up for you The battle started about Ukraine, now it’s about big tech monopoly power

Donald Trump just removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of free entry days at national parks. They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.

Nothing to do w arguments about biological sex, the female category in sport, or safe spaces, but gratuitous bigotry against a person simply because of their gender identity. Shameful.

Swedish navy encountering Russian submarines ‘almost weekly’ – and more could be on the way

How long before this stuff gets normalised? No, it is not ok.

🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history 75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men Is this what democracy looks like? New on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...

Important: these videos are increasingly convincing, and will only become more convincing. They're designed to instill fear into the ex-religious. AI gives would-be televangelists a tool to fabricate 'miracles' in a way previously impossible. Beware, and exercise sceptical criticism.

Well done. Social media companies must be held accountable. https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-slaps-e120m-fine-on-x-straining-ties-with-us/

It sure looks like Russian intelligence attempted to use military drones to assassinate the President of Ukraine inside an EU country. Looking forward to more thoughts from Belgium on why freezing Russian assets is an escalatory move that might compromise the peace process.

The way I'd put it is that there's currently a global struggle between democracy and nationalist gangster-capitalism, that this struggle is simultaneously unfolding both within and between states, and that the US currently sits at its epicentre

Jesus.

This is an excellent piece of work by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and the DfS gang

An insightful analysis of why boys are feeling alienated by modern western society and what we can do about it

We’ve updated our asylum backlog explainer with the latest figures for Q3 2025. They show that the number of cases waiting for an initial decision has fallen by 28% since Labour took office.

Vigilante far-right 'street patrols' with links to Neo-Nazis and the support of senior Reform UK figures, are falsely claiming police backing, while attempting to infiltrate school networks in order to "protect" local children. bylinetimes.com/2025/12/02/t...

“Okay, I know what vinyl is, and a record player – but what’s a shop?” From the new Private Eye, out now.

Violent West Bank settlers acting with impunity. How can a peaceful settlement even be envisaged when these people and their sympathisers have power? @standing-together.bsky.social @ukfost.bsky.social www.itv.com/news/2025-12...

Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market

Can’t get this @newhumanist.bsky.social piece on Afghan earthquake and impact in disasters of Taliban rules on women’s education and “no touch” rule for unrelated men (including rescuers). Shakeeba, trapped while hearing her children dying. Unimaginable.

A reminder that London is far safer than many major cities, that crime is falling and that racists hate both these truths because they undermine their vicious little divisive narrative. Multiculturalism works. London works. And those who hate both things hate themselves most of all.

The government are working on a new law about our elections, and we want to see donation caps in it. Do you? buff.ly/1yqUrOP

A diverse range of mammals once roamed the planet. This changed dramatically with the arrival of humans, who have become the dominant species through our own population, as well as the animals we breed and raise for food. What is the distribution of the global mammal kingdom today?

Electricity prices jump after Trump rejects disaster aid for Michigan utilities

On the one hand, this. On the other, HAMAS, Netanyahu, Ben Gvir, Smotrich...

So take this in. Straight from the NATO meeting after Russia’s attack Britain’s primary military town, Salisbury, Boris Johnson flew unofficially to party in Umbria with a former KGB officer working for the Kremlin. Can anyone tell me how this has been forgotten? It is Profumo on stilts

Asking for a pardon before being found guilty and while maintaining innocence. Hmm…

What can anyone do if the President of the US and his circle can simply be bought? Maybe European government should offer him a better deal - all cash, no questions asked.

This absurd pardon shows the murderous boat bombings were never about stopping drugs

Perfect Tom Stoppard story from DTel obituary: His response to a letter from Harold Pinter canvassing support for a proposal to have the Comedy Theatre in London rechristened the Pinter Theatre, “Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?”

So many people in politics whose brains should be studied in a lab.

This play. This passage. Simply the best ever – or at lesst most succinct – defence and justification for the very idea of Civilisation ever written. This is why we’re here. Because of what this means. And because someone can put it into words like this. open.substack.com/pub/benjamin...

Northwestern University agrees to pay Trump regime $75 million in order to reclaim the nearly $800 million in research funding that Trump took from them. Sad times. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...