Michael Oliver not enough to get City three points? Huh.

This is not a good thread, it's conspiracy thinking. Venezuela pricing oil in Yuan is not a threat to dollar hegemony. It's clever-clever sub Adam Curtis / Noam Chomsky ism

*unless Russia does it. Then Jezza’s on board.

Russia signed a treaty to defend Venezuela just two months ago but its crickets this morning from the Kremlin. Utter humiliation and evidence of just how weak it is globally.

babe wake up, they're doing insider trading on war crimes

My understanding was that when you did regime change it was customary to change the regime.

Brilliant this in the Wolves v West Ham game 😆 "The chant from the home fans to their visitors is 'We'll see you next year.' "That morphs into 'You're going down with the Wanderers.' "The West Ham fans respond with 'You're going down with the West Ham.' "Applause all round."

There's a non-zero chance he thinks that they've captured Mamdani

Movie. Now.

Invading Venezuela might be President Trump's first entirely orthodox US foreign policy action

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Relax, everyone, maybe Trump is just borrowing Maduro to pick his brains on how to run the 2028 election.

👏👏👏

Gabriel is right, unfortunately as a long time McSweeney watcher the conclusion here is obvious. The government must produce porn.

grim posthumous scenario i had not previously considered: you post a picture of the missile headed straight for you, and are memorialized by a bunch of random assholes complaining about alt text

US warns Americans to urgently leave Russia, advising those who stay to make a will and avoid social media (per Fox News). Ukrainian intel claims Russia may stage a deadly provocation Jan 6–7 to blame Ukraine and derail talks.

The French authorities will investigate the proliferation of sexually explicit deepfakes generated by Grok artificial intelligence on the Twitter platform, the Paris prosecutor's office told @politico.com www.politico.eu/article/la-j...

Come on Aquaman, no one would ever mock you again.

This is quite an important point; if you are a UK citizen with Twitter on your phone, opening it up is like playing Russian roulette that the algorithm might commit a strict liability offence on your behalf.

Pedocracy (Yes yes I know that’s not a proper derivation from Ancient Greek)

Sounds like borderline-abusive French parenting standards extends also to raising dogs.

Here’s hoping for a newsworthy 2026.

“It’s having zero effect. It’s maybe solidifying our core support" says Nigel Farage of the media scrutiny of the testimony of fellow Dulwich College pupils recalling antisemitic and racist abuse from Farage as a teenager

🚨Statement | @ChelseaFC CHELSEA Football Club and Head Coach Enzo Maresca have parted company. "During his time at the Club, Enzo led the team to success in the UEFA Conference League and the FIFA Club World Cup.

They’re livid. 2026 off to a decent start.

Leaving 2025 like

I have absolutely no idea what I’m talking about.

I absolutely guarantee conceding a nerve-shredding end to this. #ARSAVL

Latest middle-aged thought: relief at not having a ticket for tonight because 815 is an unreasonably late kick-off.

Jesus christ. www.npr.org/2025/12/30/g...

I've become pretty jaded over the past decade but this for me is up there with the worst things he's ever said, the bit about Putin's generosity in particular has a certain 'arbeit macht frei' quality about it

I’m in.

Definitely don’t feel seen here

🇬🇧

We took a Minsky-style approach to understanding the refinancing risks across the sector and how they all interact. In other words, we made a TON of T-Charts to show exactly how capital flows. Balance sheets gotta balance!

Omg. @katie0martin.ft.com

Слава Україні

So either JP Morgan has gone bust after losses substantially smaller than the London whale losses which didn’t stop it making a decent profit that year or some people need their internet access supervised.

Second generation leftovers: Turkey curry toastie

Sandy and Sandier

Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.

Was @dsquareddigest.bsky.social not me (though I do go on about betting a lot). Quite the fact though.

I know absolutely fuck all about cricket but even I know that England reliably get a meaningless Ashes win after the series is decided.

Don't need to imagine, Sinatra had something to say about multicultural liberal democracies 🧵

Gotta admit, even among all the horrors wrought by AI, I didn't imagine we'd be joining the war on dementia on the side of dementia