British politics is no longer left vs right—it’s bloc vs bloc. Ben Ansell’s analysis shows voters are sorting into durable camps, not switching sides. Labour’s strategy must change accordingly. Stephen McNair reports

St Edmund’s in Southwold Sat 3 Jan 2026

The graveyard at St Edmund’s #Southwold Saturday 3 Jan at 1pm

It’s not AI! 🤣🤣 #adoorable in Southwold

Contemporary Polish painter Martha Zamarska #WomensArt #January

From the wife of the White House Deputy Chief of Staff. Europe, don't say you weren't warned.

Good morning from sunny #Southwold. Minus three degrees apparently! 🥶🥶🥶

Today is Sunday 4 January 2026 It is World Braille Day ⚫ also 👩🏽 Rachel Day ❓Trivia Day 😵‍💫 World Hypnotism Day 🍝 Spaghetti Day 🎵 Pop Music Chart Day French Republican Calendar: RABBIT Rauhnächte/Omen Days/Lae na Céalmhaine: October #OTD 40 years ago, Phil Lynott (Thin Lizzy) died aged 36.

Somerton, Suffolk. Corbel

Trump IS a mob boss. This is the worst of all worlds. Whether Venezuelans themselves will go along with his scheme remains to be seen. I somehow doubt it, meaning this is going to turn ugly very fast, while Russia and China laugh at American hubris.

Surkov's Theatre of Cruelty, the Weaponisation of Syrian Refugees, and Arron Banks' Invitation to the Russian Embassy The first half of Book Seven of Trojan Horses sets the global scene for the election upsets of Trump and Brexit in 2016 open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...

The PM and Foreign Secretary should be condemning this illegal strike and breach of international human rights law. After years of arming a genocide and worshipping the “special relationship”, Trump now believes he can act with impunity.

Burgos Cathedral #Espana #Burgos #Cathedrals the view from our rented apartment January 2019

It was never about drugs Blatantly stealing oil

His superb health minister @monicagarciag.bsky.social was out there almost immediately bsky.app/profile/moni...

Not for the first time, where other European leaders wring their hands over Trump, Spain’s Sánchez draws a line. A stance that is only looking more sensible (more *realistic*) as time goes on.

Pedro Sánchez afirma que España no reconoció al régimen de Maduro, “pero tampoco reconocerá una intervención que viola el derecho internacional”

Why can’t Starmer say something like this?

The US produces >13 mn barrels of oil per day. Venezuela produces <1 million bpd There's a global oil glut i.e. lower prices. That's bad for US producers, who need higher prices to break even. Hard to imagine they're eager to make big new investments in an unstable place w/ decrepit infrastructure

CNN: Venezuela is a sovereign nation. Why is it okay for the US to go in, arrest its leader, control its oil, and take over for a time? REP. CARLOS GIMENEZ: It's okay because that leader happened to be under indictment here in the US

The kidnapping of Maduro inaugurates a highly dangerous era of U.S. empire that for perhaps the first time in an era of mass media is not pretending to be anything other than a violent, extractive enterprise of domination.

Flash Wesleyan chapel. Flash is one of the highest villages in the Staffordshire Moorlands #Methodism #Wesley #NonConformists

One picture, describes it all.

The Balkerne Gate at Colchester (Camulodunum) in Essex. The gateway was the original main entrance to the town, and is the oldest surviving Roman gateway in Britain. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #Colchester #Essex

One of several surviving glass vessels from Roman Colchester (Camulodunum). Now part of the collections at Colchester Castle. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #ColchesterCastle

📢 TODAY, SATURDAY JANUARY 3, 2025 No war on Venezuela! Stop the bombings! EMERGENCY ACTION: Times Square, NYC 2:00 PM This violence is not in our names. We must refuse another endless war for profits!

Well, the FIFA Peace Prize committee must be feeling very silly today.

'Young Woman Seated.' (1910) Writing about William Orpen's draughtsmanship, a critic of The Art News commented: 'his drawings are remarkable not only for their delicacy of handling, but for the loving care with which the pencil has revelled in beauty of form.'

Aargh. Just accidentally deleted the orginal post while trying to delete and re-do a follow up, which I also deleted. Anyway. Wolf Moon. (Better version) (Fujifilm X-E3, Fujinon 55-200mm at 200mm, f8, 1/500 sec at ISO 200.) #photography

“The world now appears to be at the mercy of a 79-year-old egomaniac…there is no doctrine, no philosophy, no sense to what America will do next. “Foreign policy relies on predictability and stability, and Trump is allergic to both—and with no-one around him either able or willing to rein him in.”

Venezuela's citizens are turning out to protest, they don't want to be an American dictatorship.

156 years ago, on the 3rd of January 1870, construction started on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York. Controversies and complications caused the construction to last 13 years. Before, travel between Brooklyn and New York was only possible by ferry. #otd #history 🗃️

Analysis of the Dorestad brooch shows it was modified in antiquity so that it could be fastened with small nails to another object, perhaps a casket or book cover. Read more about the Dorestad brooch in this article by Annemarieke Willemsen: www.academia.edu/8027463/Dore...

Something lovely for the weekend! The Dorestad Brooch, c. AD 800. This beautiful Carolingian brooch was found at the bottom of a well in the Netherlands in 1969! Gold inlaid with almandines, pearls, glass, and enamel. Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden 📷 AlexanderVanLoon www.rmo.nl/en/collectio...

now we find out if the rest of the world does anything to stop a rogue state, run by narcissists, rich kids, attorneys & podcasters, treating anything or anyone they want like a piñata - i imagine Starmer is in a meeting now checking with his advisors on best way to avoid upsetting the Daily Mail

A clear evening in Newbury at St Nicolas church. Photo while walking from the Weirside to the Cow & Cask, Newbury. A Berkshire town with many good pubs that is well served by buses from Didcot, Reading and Basingstoke and GWR trains. Visit soon!

Super moon over Southwold #Moon #Suffolk #EastAnglia

#OnThisDay 1967: The first ever episode of Trumpton aired. "Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grubb"

Holy Trinity #Blythburgh #Suffolk #Churches 3 Jan 2026

Southwold church of St Edmund. A real treasure #Churches #Southwold #Suffolk

@simoninsuffolk.bsky.social just enjoying St Edmund’s in Southwold sheltering from the blizzard & using your excellent description

The US public supported most, if not all major US military interventions - at the moment of intervention - since WWII, including Vietnam and invading Iraq. If, as suspected, the Trump admin has launched attacks on Caracas, this would be the first such intervention they overwhelmingly opposed.

It is hard to think of anything more likely to unite Iranians behind their dreadful government than the prospect of more air strikes by the US. Trump promised to stay out of foreign adventures but the toddler is throwing tantrums again. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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At least Woodrow Wilson’s notion of a League of Nations did not involve the United States bombing each country in turn and then claiming a FIFA peace prize.

A good news story #2026