A new wave of fake stories about curbs on personal freedoms and bogus taxes has had millions of views on social media. In the three months since we first wrote about this trend, we’ve fact checked a further 45 claims. Our new investigation 👇

Cool money-making idea: set up fake company, lie to get massive contract from government, buy yourself yacht with your new millions, get made a baroness for your hard work, fail to fulfil contract, wind up the company when you're ordered to pay money back. Isn't that clever? ♥️

Great news: Colindale station is the latest to have a step-free entrance, making it London’s 94th step-free Tube station. I’m determined to keep growing this number and making London as accessible as possible.

MAHA Country if only it was a joke www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The bit that gets missed in the scandal around Farage's schooldays is that his school made him a prefect - despite warnings from staff about his conduct. It's a recurring theme for Trump, Johnson, Farage & co. We can't be surprised at the way they behave, when their behavior is constantly rewarded.

I understood the assignment.

Our @MagpieCirclePod Christmas Special will be on TUESDAY - no show tonight (Monday) - with Mark Stallard and myself. See you all from 7pm. Powered by @TrentNavigation and JH Accountants. @Official_NCFC

I was scared when the piece solely on Schaerbeek centred on Place Dailly, but Eoghan has rightfully recognised it as a top-tier commune

I always use Claudia Roden’s.

Morning everyone. I’ve got a new play on tomorrow (Tuesday) and on @bbcsounds.bsky.social thereafter. It’s about PG Wodehouse’s war and it’s a comic defence of laughter in dark times. BBC Radio 4, 23 Dec, 2.15pm.

Fabulous news and another promise kept. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Times is running a front-page story about the Villa-Maccabi Tel Aviv away fan ban without noting Maccabi's long history of racist disorder, which includes a €20k fine *this week* for racist disorder for singing the "rape song" at the club's *first* away game with fans since the Villa ban.

Good grief

"but he made millions from the bout!" I'm sure he did but he already had millions and one thing you can't buy is both lack of humiliation and also lack of brain damage

If I had millions of dollars I simply wouldn't volounteer to be part of an event where a world-class professional athlete specializing in face punching will receive a lot of money and applause if they succesfully face-punch me until I can no longer stand.

Donald Trump has made it his explicit policy to interfere in European politics and ‘cultivate resistance’ in the UK and elsewhere. The government should include the US administration in the scope of its investigation.

Really don't know how the SNP have got away with failing on drugs policy so badly that not only are deaths at record highs, but they've now found themselves in a position where they're advocating for publicly funded crack houses. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Congressional investigation now.

To paraphrase Kang or Kodos "These are not tears. We are vomiting from our eyes. Strictly' s treacle has only intensified our loathing!"

A short hop on the bus to the William the Fourth. Made famous by Brodies and now run by @ExaleBrewing. 12 taps and 4 handpumps offering mostly their own beers but with some guests.

Anthony Joshua: That's a natural twenty. Critical hit! Matt Mercer: How do you want to do this?

Wonkle stadium!

Jodi called in

Walsall are one of those shitty teams that never meet their comeuppance. Time wasters from minute one

Starting on the Christmas #beers with an 11% Gingerbread Latte Imperial Stout from Edinburgh's @vaultcitybrewing. It's sweet, strong and tasty with seasonal cinnamon and ginger tastes. Just the thing for a cold day. Cheers!

Your usual reminder that the UCKG is an extraordinarily shady outfit. It is not clear what the money they collect is for or where it goes. They are collecting all over London today. Avoid.

#Trump #SleepyCreep #Liar #GoodOrBad #Epstein #PedoFiles #Santa #ChristmasCarol #Jail #Politics #Memes

www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7no... This isn't because I can't be bothered doing a new one. Before you say anything

He's made over $100m from being knocked out last night. He's not got his comeuppance, he's played you as suckers.

Jeffrey Epstein & David Walliams leading all the bulletins but Kemi Badenoch knows that only men from ‘different cultures’ pose a threat to women.

Big match build up

The Epstein case didn’t just expose a criminal. It exposed a system willing to bend, hide, and protect itself. What Americans learned watching that unfold can’t be unlearned...and it explains everything that came after.👇 www.jackhopkinsnow.com

From the CWS ARCHIVE. 20th August 2024.

Nottingham folk, the Local Studies exhibition at the Central Library is well worth a gander. A celebration of the local football scene, refreshingly, it is much more than the usual pandering to the F-word.

Jo Cox was murdered before the vote by a far-right terrorist & this is the language this complete disgrace chooses to use

Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.

New house getting there, but most importantly I have the tree up and I've just hung the artwork of a Black surfer who is also a merman

Genius as always from This Cannot Possibly Get Worse Correspondent @mrhenrymorris.substack.com in #TheNewWorld , have a read of his year in review now . . . www.thenewworld.co.uk/henry-morris...

One month ago.

Spare a thought this festive season for those who will be spending the Yuletide period all on their own, with no family to visit them. People like ‘A’, who will spend this Christmas without any of his titles. From the new Private Eye, out now.

Christmas in CANCELLED in Leeds 🎄

He saw the light.

Always tricky working out where to put the fig leaf with this kind of thing

See: bsky.app/profile/muel...

The prize goal for Stephen Miller and others who surround Trump is to trigger both the Alien Enemies Act and the Insurrection Act - formal bases for unlimited executive power. A great deal of what is being done is simply them working backwards from that objective.

The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.