Trump's America: an empire in decline & denial. Next in the trash Presidency the joke of Trump Class Battleships. Trump is not even fighting the last war but stuck in naval battles pre-WW2. And Trump Class? Like all the other dross he has put his name to & tried to flog. A good day for China.

Reform ahead but down to 25% in poll; Tories above 20% in 2nd & the Greens in 3rd place ahead of Labour. REF: 25% (-1) CON: 22% (+2) GRN: 19% (+1) LAB: 18% (=) LDEM: 10% (-1) OTH: 6% (-1) 11-15 Dec; +/- vs 17 Nov. Via Lord Ashcroft Polls HT @leftiestats.bsky.social

What Trump wants people to see on Epstein: "The Trump administration is the most transparent in history." From Nicola Jennings.

Hearts 2 Rangers 1. The Tynecastle dream goes on with a well-deserved victory over Rangers to complete four consecutive league victories over the Old Firm. Last achieved by Hearts 40 years ago: the last time a non-Old Firm team won the league. Great to see a real challenge!

Who knew? Free healthcare, free education, affordable childcare, paid leave & a social contract between government & citizens really matters.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's behaviour is another argument against a hereditary Royal Family. Photo: Andrew with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell shooting at the Balmoral royal estate.

The Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts is named by a legislative act of Congress. It can only be changed by an act of Congress. This is Trumpian vandalism, hubris & of no legal standing.

What do people think of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year supposed tribute to Scotland in a segment by Iain Stirling? It came over as an embarrassing pile of Scottish stereotypes, cliches & claptrap. Is this really how we want to be represented? And how the #BBC think we should be portrayed?

The Orwellian policing of language. Decades into the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands & the refusal of Israel to accept Palestine's right to exist we are now being lectured by the likes of Jess Phillips & told we should not use the word 'intifada'. Clueless.

"So it's like the Olympics but only for ex-British Empire countries, aside from Rwanda because Paul Kagame, and we sort of kept it going because of the Queen and now no one wants to host it so the UK is now paying for Glasgow to do so." "Oh right. Still, at least it's free sport on TV, right?"

"Lies can serve a number of functions. People lie to deflect, to avoid embarrassment or evade punishment by creating doubt … [and they] hope that the lie will be convincing. The Trumpian lie is different. It is the power lie, or the bully lie." M. Gessen, Surviving Autocracy, 2020.

Matthew Goodwin objects to prosecuting this: ‘I think it’s time for the British to gang together, hit the streets and start the slaughter. Violence and murder is the only way now. Start off burning every migrant hotel then head off to MPs’ houses and Parliament, we need to take over by FORCE.’

Kemi Badenoch hits a new low chasing the racist vote weaponising violence against women. Badenoch said the focus should be on “people, who come from cultures that don’t respect women, coming into our country”. A sad day in UK & Tory politics.

The Daily Telegraph now openly inciting mutiny in the armed forces. Unconstitutional Conservatism thinking they can champion treason just as the Tories & Ulster Unionists did in 1914 over Irish home rule. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12...

Violence against women & misogyny are on the rise in the UK & a major issue. #c4news made it their top item lasting 27 minutes & could not find the time to say the govt initiative was an England only one.

Donald Trump renames the Kennedy Center after himself. And is congratulated for doing so by his Press Secretary. The kind of politics usually found in the most autocratic, despotic countries which is what Trump's America is fast becoming.

"I know Scottish football, I nearly signed for Carlisle" says Celtic manager Wilfried Nancy. Is Wilfried Nancy the Liz Truss of Celtic?

Liz Truss is happy to work to aid a foreign power & President undermining the national interests of the UK & British public institutions. A more subtle version of Nathan Gill.

An important tip for the right-wing media from Dominic Cummings & Brexit. If you are going to invent an entirely fictitious number about a policy you have to come up with a single agreed figure. Instead, the Telegraph & Mail fail to co-ordinate their lies on the Erasmus scheme.

Dundee United 2 Celtic 1. A magnificent United 2nd half after we rode our luck in the 1st half. So much to admire about Utd as we bossed the 2nd half & Celtic faded. So many questions for Celtic, Wilfried Nancy & its Board. Great result for Hearts too. Scottish football isn't just abt the Old Firm.

The Strange Death of Welsh Labour: Lab down from 37% in 2024 to a mere 10%. Plaid 23% ahead of Lab; 3% ahead of Reform in Senedd voting intentions & set to be largest party. PC 33% (+3) REF 30% (+1) LAB 10% (-4) CON 10% (-1) GR 9% (+3) LD 6% (=) Via @yougov.co.uk 28/11-10/12 +/- 4-10/9

The UK rejoining the EU's Erasmus scheme for young people has 65% support with 12% opposition. Net support by party: +81% Lib Dem, +77% Lab, +36% Con, +7% Reform. Via @yougov.co.uk

It is just like when Andropov was replaced by Chernenko leading the failing Soviet Politburo. Peter Lawwell out & Brian Wilson in. Have the Celtic Board never heard of headhunting talent? Instead they look like an aging, crumbling dictatorship who have never understood diversity.

The leading embodiment of Trump Derangement Syndrome is Donald J. Trump. From Bill Bramhall of the New York Daily News. #RobReiner

The Conservative 'little Englander' stance on UK relations with the EU harms the UK economically, socially & culturally. Lots of the Brexit puritans & dinosaurs are raging about the UK deal on Erasmus but they have to be challenged & defeated.

Where's Nigel Farage? Hiding from the media spotlight? "Open letter to Reform UK leader expresses ‘dismay and anger’ at his response to racism and antisemitism allegations" www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The Conservatives are like a broken record on Brexit searching for betrayal & treachery to cover their vulnerable right flank & the threat from Farage. Predictable, cliche ridden & saying nothing to young people on Erasmus.

The real view from inside Trump's White House from Susie Wiles, Trump's Chief of Staff: Donald Trump has "an alcoholic’s personality.” JD Vance is a "conspiracy theorist." Pam Bondi "whiffed on Epstein." Russ Vought a "right wing zealot." Elon Musk an "avowed ketamine user."

Reform 10% ahead of Labour; Green surge continues 1% behind Labour in WM voting intentions: Reform: 28% (+1) Labour: 18% (-1) Greens: 17% (+2) Conservatives: 17% (-1) Lib Dems: 14% (=) SNP: 4% (+1) Sample: 14-15 December Change: 7-8 December. Via @yougov.co.uk

Watching #BBC #PoliticsLive on Catch-up. Labour MP James Frith cannot bring himself to defend the BBC versus Trump. Instead he offers a wishy-washy pile of waffle about how "the two parties should reach a settlement." Truly dire from a cowardly Labour MP.

NIMBYism: uniting the UK from The Guardian to the Mail and Telegraph. Maybe the last Great British consensus.

Trump doubles down on his Rob Reiner remarks. Comments lots of Trump apologists are going to have to pretend they have not heard or have been taken out of context. Or for the real MAGA loyalists defend to the end.

Bullshit Right-Wing Commentary in the UK. Prone to lecture on supposed 'economic realities' while thinking large parts of the population should not be thinking abt or motivated by remuneration.

Trump should be stripped of his prestigious FIFA Peace Prize. He has brought this 'trophy' into even further discredit. Which many thought impossible.

Jules Feiffer, writer and satirist called it right on Trump's America: "He’s licensing his followers to behave as badly as they once fantasised but didn’t dare. And he’s saying, ‘Let’s stop fucking around, this is who we always were.’”

The authentic voice of Donald J. Trump on the genius of Rob Reiner & murder of him & his wife Michele. This is the moral abyss that is Trump. Unable to be decent, compassionate & empathetic. Blaming the victim for their murder while making it all about himself. No MAGA dare say how debased this is.

Has Alberto Costa, Tory MP, never heard of a short question that is to the point? Questioning Keir Starmer at the Liaison Committee his questions are longer than Starmer's answers. Pointless, pompous & indicative of poor parliamentary skills.

Nigel Farage has some real hard neck. We all know this. But he really cannot present himself as an anti-racist.

This thread is wild. Harry Cole is editor-at-large at The Sun. He is platforming extremism here, and leaving outright racism almost entirely unchallenged. Cole remains a member of parliament's Press Gallery (despite now being based in the US)

If Nigel Farage was really concerned with the hatred and violence against Jewish people, he would not send his supporters out to accuse Jewish people who remember him being antisemitic at school of being liars.

St Mirren 3 Celtic 1. A convincing performance & victory by the Buddies. Stephen Robinson & his team showed quality, skill, discipline & belief. Football is about moments like this. Well done the Buddies! And today is NOT about Celtic & Wilfried Nancy. #ScottishLeagueCupFinal

St Mirren 3 Celtic 1 with seven to go. Wonderful for the Saints & Scottish football outside the OF. And this is not all about Celtic & Wilfried Nancy. #ScottishLeagueCupFinal

How the BBC & ITV give disproportionate coverage to Farage & Reform: hard evidence from a serious study. BBC & ITV now give Reform more coverage than the Conservatives, more than the Lib Dems & nine times the Greens. Superb research from Stephen Cushion. www.enhancingimpartiality.com/blog/broadca...

How the BBC & ITV give disproportionate coverage to Farage & Reform: hard evidence from a serious study. BBC & ITV now give Reform more coverage than the Conservatives, more than the Lib Dems & nine times the Greens. Superb research from Stephen Cushion. www.enhancingimpartiality.com/blog/broadca...

Palestine Lullaby is a moving song by the Together for Palestine Fund. Its aim is to show solidarity & raise aid for the people of Gaza while showcasing their culture & creativity. Which will be aided by it becoming the Christmas No 1 in the UK: which Wham! do not need again. lnk.to/t4plullabyin...

The sheer brass neck of the Daily Mail: a continuing series. A lengthy feature bemoaning the mass exodus of Poles from the UK & the declining number of the Polish population staying. All without one single mention of Brexit or a Daily Mail apology. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Simon Jenkins in The Guardian. Writing on the important subjects week in week out: a) pointing out the bloody obvious; b) adding nothing constructive. The thinking person's Adrian Chiles.

The Daily Telegraph's Camilla Tominey has dramatically different views on allegations of antisemitism over the course of a single week. Dismissing them in relation to Farage as a product of a "frightened left"; but writing a whole column criticising Primal Scream.

The blatant & shameful hypocrisy of The Spectator on antisemitism. It gets all serious abt one incident of alleged antisemitism by a rock band. Yet it completely dismisses allegations of multiple incidents of antisemitism by a senior public figure who aspires to be PM. Go figure.

Watching 'Get Carter' on #BBC2 with Michael Caine starring along with Britt Ekland & Ian Hendry. Caine is on the top of his game in this classic aided by a brilliant Roy Budd evocative soundtrack & a tribute to British rail travel in the opening credits. #GetCarter