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This one thing perfectly highlights the failure of the U.K. political process: The referendum result was 52/48. That is *not* a decision or a mandate. It’s basically a *we don’t know *. Would you bet your family’s future on a 52/48 opinion? Of course not. But Theresa May did. 🤬🤬🤬🤬

Here are just two of the victim impact statements in the David Gentile sentencing memo. We need to find a way to start talking about the victim impact of Trump's crime endorsement wave. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Honestly, he is *this* close to blurting out the "n" word. I expect it any day.

The Conservative Party is dead. No pulse. Starting to smell…

Look how visibly excited Robert Jenrick is by his brilliance as a statesman; how high on his own supply. It is astonishing that this bitter, angry, talentless bingo-caller is considered a serious prospect in a major party. If he or Badenoch are the best they can do, what does it say about the rest?

here's today's post: "piss-drunk embarrassment finds his fall guy" — Chickenshit Pete will betray you in a heartbeat. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —

the US is what rampant militarised populist nationalism looks like. Don't stop paying attention. Below are just some of the actions that I added to the TrumpActionTracker this morning www.trumpactiontracker.info

Sonia Sodha, "The state pension has gone up, but the threshold that young people have to repay their student loans has been frozen" "Graduates in their 20s and 30s pay an extra 9% of income tax" "There are people in their 20s that will never own their own home" #BBCQT

The Mirage 2000-5F jets recently supplied by France have proven extremely effective, claiming a 98% success rate intercepting drones and missiles, including at least 12 Russian Kh‑101 cruise missiles. Still, the pilots warn that the Mirage 2000-5F needs more long‑range weapons to stay effective.

It’s not unimaginable. This is the same peace deal the kremlin peddled to Trump in 2016 via Kilimnik. And don’t forget Jared’s multiple Middle East “peace deals” that never included Palestine. There’s been like three of those.

Russian money laundering and how it supports the Russian war effort youtu.be/4C3CXQrsFPw?...

This is SO stupid. We have known since 1798 that prevention is infinitely better than cure- a vaccinated world is a better world and a safer world for all

This is excellent. And depressing.

As John Healey once again draws attention to the Russian Yantar ship, my interview with the head of the Royal Navy (in which he discusses the Russian threat) feels worth resharing His claim that the UK is not afraid to call out Russia also rings true www.politicshome.com/news/article...

🚨EXCLUSIVE: Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon’s European Revolution – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein 'The Movement'. Farage's partner Ferrari started it. Steve Bannon and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were providing almost daily support bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...

Shocked, shocked that the plan would sell out Ukraine

NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court. Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution

@roberthutton.co.uk on marvellously mordant form.

Essential reading

The European Commission plans to slash red tape and pour money into making it easier to move troops and weapons across the continent, according to the Military Mobility Communication obtained by POLITICO.

🧵As he did in 2018, Trump denied that MBS had anything to do with the killing of Jamal Khashoggi. But this time he has enablers who felt differently in 2018. Thread with some receipts. Reporters should ask Rubio and Graham about it. 👇

Especially when you are paying the president tens or hundreds of millions of dollars (in blatant violation of the Constitution) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/w...

www.reuters.com/world/explos...

Very glad to see that some Labour MPs still have Labour values and are prepared to talk about them.

In other news look at councils projected cumulative deficit just on special needs costs over the next few years. Yikes.

Steven getting it in the neck here for explaining what Labour's comms strategy might be here, despite him not actually endorsing that strategy. Social media often struggles to differentiate the messenger from the message.

Confiscating the valuables of refugees and migrants at checkpoints is the sort of thing that militias in civil wars and corrupt cops in dictatorships do. Not everything done by the Danish is moral or smart.

Keir Starmer has spent months cosying up to Trump. If he can’t stop him attacking one of our most precious institutions and hitting millions of licence fee payers in the pocket, what was the point?

Curious how this will work. . . UK: "Is homosexuality still punishable by death in one of the countries we invaded and colonised?" Asylum seeker: "Yes." UK: "You fled because you were gay?" "Yes." UK: "Could you be less gay and go back?"

Latest development in the hard left "couldn't organise a bunfight in a bakery" saga: MP Adnan Hussain quits Your Party over ‘persistent infighting’ | Politics | The Guardian share.google/GgVO7hAZUAQV...

Donald Trump refuses to rule out pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Cracking, as per, from @chrisgrey.bsky.social . I particularly loved "[BBC] Radio Four’s Moral Maze (surely the most flatulently self-important and uninformative show in the entire history of broadcasting, but that’s by the way)." #DriveBy

Watergate every day

BBC Bias is often in the eye of the beholder So let’s stick to measurable facts During 10 yrs of debate about Brexit, BBC QuestionTime had Britain’s Members of the European Parliament on the show 50 times Every single one was from the pro Brexit minority 47 were from UKIP/BP 23 times Farage

Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage @georgemonbiot.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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PSA: Pulp have done the Tiny Desk Concert and it's great with really interesting arrangements www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_Kl...

We almost had a world in which this man was attorney general as the Epstein story blows up

As someone who has frequently defended free speech rights of sex workers and sex work advocates, it's completely unsurprising but nevertheless galling to be reminded once again how POWERFUL MEN talk fondly about sex work in private while demonizing it and pushing oppressive laws about it publicly.

🌏 "The geopolitical situation bolsters the case for closer co-operation with the EU." 🇪🇺 "Russia’s war with Ukraine, Donald Trump’s erratic second presidency, Middle East tensions: all make a stronger common European response more urgent." https://econ.st/4qZ6n7w

Not something that's easy to explain to the average person but man the Trump administration is doing everything to diminish America's standing in the world.

We've been in court all day at the hearing for our case against the EHRC's interim guidance. We stand by what we said: the guidance is transphobic, harmful - and legally wrong.

Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.

Here’s what happens when Russia occupies a city. 🧵1/17⬇️

This is absolutely 💯 percent correct.

Israel is stopping syringes and fridges reaching Gaza for vaccination programmes