Breaking NYT: The FBI agent who sought to investigate the federal immigration officer who fatally shot Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, according to two people familiar with the matter, after leadership pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into the officer.

You dont have to imagine, listen to @mrjamesob.bsky.social 's radio prog of yesterday. Many callers with deeply emotional first hand experience phoned in. I was in tears listening.

imagine being the father or mother or son or daughter or sibling of one of those brave British troops who died in Afghanistan, and having to listen to this crass ignorance

via Private Eye

Annassi Hansen, a traditional Inuit carver, stares blankly at a chunk of narwhal tusk…unable to focus on transforming them into tiny figurines. “Trump makes me sick in the head,” he said from his workshop in Nuuk, Greenland’s capital. “He just does not shut up.” www.ft.com/content/726f...

I took this photo a while back, Westminster Abbey reflected in a puddle on a rainy day

imagine being the father or mother or son or daughter or sibling of one of those brave British troops who died in Afghanistan, and having to listen to this crass ignorance

I took this photo a while back, Westminster Abbey reflected in a puddle on a rainy day

my #Traitors theory is that James and Rachel are siblings, they have identical noses

Trump: "NATO has treated the United States very badly. We've never asked for anything. We've never got anything." Tell that to the families of 850 soldiers from 19 non-US NATO countries who died fighting to defend the United States in Afghanistan - the only occasion Article 5 was ever triggered.

And now something positive: solar and wind energy production in the EU surpasses fossil energy for the first time. ☀️ 💨 #TippingPoint Source: dr.dk

Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."

Perhaps more like this?

new board of peace shaping up nicely

US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick was heckled at a World Economic Forum dinner in Davos, with European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde walking out during his speech. www.ft.com/content/e2ae...

oh ffs really

Farage claims Greenland would be better under US control, so much for all that talk about the importance of national sovereignty and self-determination www.theguardian.com/business/202...

right now there is a a really sophisticated, heartfelt, careful debate taking place in the House of Lords about restrictions on teenagers' social media use a real contrast to the baying bear pit of PMQs which is most people's impression of Parliament

when the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea

Trump says that China does not have wind farms. 🙄

It's happening Jim.

not saying Trump isn't entirely with-it but he has just claimed that the current row is over control of "Iceland"

Donald Trump at Davos: "Canada lives because of the US, remember that Mark next time you make your statement."

sure, no one is taking the piss out of you any more

people often wonder why we have a cost of living crisis some seem to have forgotten Nigel Farage admitting before Brexit that Britain becoming poorer was a reasonable price for leaving the EU

Mark Carney's speech really is terrific: full text is here and very much worth your time.

yes the Macron sunglasses are for his burst blood vessel also yes all European leaders should wear the same aviators throughout Davos

apart from the fact that globalisation has delivered huge economic growth to the US economy as well as super-cheap products for its citizens

Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland. And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.

Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "

must-read column today by @edwardluce.bsky.social who accurately analysed the dangers posed by Trump long before many commentators www.ft.com/content/dede...

This is one hell of a quote. European leaders really are running out of patience.

first blossom of 2026

There's always a tweet or in this instance, a press release

“giving up Chagos was stupid and this proves you should therefore give up Greenland”

The UK would be “foolish” to embrace the seemingly “simple solution” of a new customs union with the EU in an effort to boost economic growth, business secretary Peter Kyle has said despite growing fears of a trade war with Donald Trump. (FT interview) www.ft.com/content/73c8...

Good point. Not many people know this, but I actually have access to a special, *secret* version of the global economy where I, and I alone, suffer absolutely no ill consequences to the global spike in food or energy costs, by using the special password 'are you nuts?' at the supermarket.

Or opening up all the prison cells for not winning Guard of the Year?

Some fun facts. ● 100% of Reform MPs ARE EX-TORY party members ● 57.14% of Reform MPs ARE former Tory MPs ● Feel free to add your own

this is like threatening to eat an entire hog roast because you didn’t win vegan of the year

"I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"

Boris Johnson: “The world needs a strong America”

Donald Trump’s latest tariff threats against Europe over his push to acquire Greenland have put European far right party - some of his closest allies - in a difficult spot www.ft.com/content/d41c...

Russia says President Putin has been invited to join Trump’s Board of Peace for Gaza. Astonishing to invite one of history’s most egregious warmongers on to a peace board. The international rules are already in the bin.

The invasions will continue until the Peace Prize is awarded www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Anyway, if I were the Labour press team I would be digging up absolutely every single positive thing Nigel has said about Donald, every photo of the two of them hanging out etc etc and I would be preparing to dump it like a bucket of cold sick over his head.

This is excellent www.ft.com/content/beea...

this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities