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katie0martin.ft.com
Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff.
Game on.
January 18, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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jonathancoe.bsky.social
I feel I should bang the drum for this post, which hasn't received the love it deserves.

It helps to know that Jenrick's constituency is Newark.
beestonia.bsky.social Lord Beestonia @beestonia.bsky.social · 2d
Robert Jenrick is unique in British politics for being the only MP who is an anagram of his constituency
January 18, 2026 at 12:58 PM
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happytoast.co.uk
Trump's second hand peace prize covered in blood (his face removed from the photo because there's too many pictures of him on the timeline)
January 16, 2026 at 8:20 AM
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happytoast.co.uk
NASA say that the crew member who was ill and returned to earth is doing well and now having a meal with colleagues.
John Hurt enjoying a meal in the film Alien
January 15, 2026 at 1:31 PM
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sturdyalex.bsky.social
Some editor at the Guardian read this and thought "terrific".
January 13, 2026 at 9:44 PM
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acyn.bsky.social
AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
January 13, 2026 at 1:20 AM
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“It seems unlikely not to have occurred to [Farage] that the reason he is so popular… is that so many people have had enough not just of people like Zahawi, but in this case, people who literally are Zahawi”

Here’s to hoping their piss-taking opportunism does for them both.

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Extract: Farage's one-man band adds a disgraced banjo Tom Peck Political Sketch the sketch writers keep saying we're a one-man band," " said Nigel Farage, 48 hours after some idiot sketch writer in The Times had called Reform UK a one-man band. The sketch writers clearly needed to be taught a lesson but what happened next was surely overkill, when out on to the stage and back into the political big time strode Nadhim Zahawi. How would we describe Reform UK now? What part of the one-man band is the party's newest defector? Is there even such a thing as a discredited mouth organ? A disgraced banjo? There was no time to think about that. First there was a pre-roll video of Zahawi, a stirring montage biography of the kind you used to see on the X Factor judges' houses episode, immediately before a painter and decorator from Croydon murders a Michael Buble cover next to Simon Cowell's swimming pool. "l've gone from councillor to chancellor of the exchequer," Zahawi said, looking beyond the camera and into the middle distance, where a brighter future may theoretically lie. Zahawi is extremely proud of his time as chancellor of the exchequer, which lasted exactly two months and was mainly spent paying his own tax bills to HMRC. "Westminster watchers", , as Zahawi called us, may recall the very first thing he did as chancellor, which was to get hold of a piece of HM Treasury notepaper and use it to write a letter to Boris Johnson, who had appointed him fully 48 hours before, to tell him to resign. "Britain is drinking in the last chance saloon," said Zahawi, over soft string music, "and it really does need Nigel Farage as prime minister." In the questions at the end, someone had the temerity to bring up a social media post, written by Zahawi in 2015, in which he had said of his new best mate: "I would be frightened to live in a country run by you." Zahawi let out a little smile. "If I thought this man next to me had an issue, in any way, with people from my background, I wouldn't be sitting next to him," he said, and then he reached over and placed a loving hand on Nigel's elbow. Smiles can say a lot. This one specifically seemed to be saying, "Come on, guys, if you actually believe a word I say, we're not going to get very far, are we?" Which was just as well, because no one does. As the press conference wore on, Farage did not seem his usual ebullient self. Smiles were forced. Brows were creased. Farage is as canny as they come. It seems unlikely not to have occurred to him that the reason he is so popular, the one reason that towers above all others, is that so many people have had enough not just of people like Zahawi, but in this case, people who literally are Zahawi. Zahawi seemed to think people would be "shocked" to see him defecting to Reform. People were shocked, but not quite for the reasons he thinks. That Zahawi decided to ask Farage out is no surprise at all. What is more surprising is that Farage said yes. The Tory stampede to Reform is now very much in full swing. At some point, Farage will surely have to say no to someone. He must have a limit. It's a remarkable thing to say, but at the moment Farage can't seem to find the bar.
January 13, 2026 at 7:22 AM
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adamjschwarz.bsky.social
Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal warns ICE:

"No law enforcement professional wears a mask... Those that come into our communities wearing a mask to commit crime... You getting arrested".

"Fake wannabe law enforcement... The criminal in the WH will not be able to keep you from going to jail".
January 10, 2026 at 3:43 PM
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January 12, 2026 at 12:01 PM
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bestforbritain.org
Nadhim Zahawi ‘begged’ for Tory peerage weeks before defection...

They all want to smash the establishment *right after* they stop advancing within it. ~AA
January 12, 2026 at 2:24 PM
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peterjukes.bsky.social
“If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer… And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind…And with such a people you can then do what you please.”

Hannah Arendt
January 9, 2026 at 1:12 AM
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anamariecox.bsky.social
Ok, I couldn't stop thinking about this. Apologies to the literally dozens of people I've lifted from... I want to do a fully credited version, but I'm sitting here sobbing and, well, maybe you'll feel some release, too.
January 9, 2026 at 3:23 AM
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kevbro1969.bsky.social
#RejoinEU
January 9, 2026 at 6:51 AM
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cardonebrian.bsky.social
Rep Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) with no fucks to give‼️’You’re sitting here redefining shower heads while millions of Americans are losing health insurance, can’t afford food…and while the president is illegally invading foreign countries.’ Brava💥🔥💥#StopTrumpsHealthCareCuts
January 8, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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peterjukes.bsky.social
I hope BBC lawyers have read the deposition of prosecutor Jack Smith released recently: after years of investigation, he holds Trump responsible for the Jan 6 insurrection

judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
January 9, 2026 at 7:11 AM
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msanfieldpark.bsky.social
In 1984 over drinks in Leipzig I asked a 25 year old East German friend did he think his country would ever reunify? “I hope so” he answered. “I think so. But probably not in my lifetime.”
January 8, 2026 at 12:04 PM
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ottoenglish.bsky.social
Make this go viral.

Labour MP Louise Haigh.
louisehaighmp.bsky.social Louise Haigh @louisehaighmp.bsky.social · 12d
I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.
January 8, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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sturdyalex.bsky.social
Also... Trump is 79, Putin 73, Xi 72, Modi 75, Erdogan 72, Khamenei 86, Netanyahu 76, Obiang 83, etc.

There is one relentless enemy that the gerontocracy has never yet beaten.
January 8, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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sturdyalex.bsky.social
I know "nothing ever changes" is part psychological defence and part easiest hedge bet, because it is so often true, but people should think before sharing their "everything will always be awful" take. First, it adds to collective depression, but also it becomes a personally disempowering mantra.
January 8, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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louisehaighmp.bsky.social
I have not personally used X/Twitter for some time now. It was already an unpleasant place prior to its takeover by Elon Musk but since his acceptance of hate speech and anonymous online abusers, it has become utterly unusable.
January 8, 2026 at 12:31 PM
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peterwalker99.bsky.social
If you missed this question to Nigel Farage from The Critic's Rob Hutton – and it was over an hour into the press conference – then it was a particularly good one. The answer was... vague.
“In the last 18 month you’ve taken about £13,000 from X, the social media site. Its new innovation for 2026 is child porn on demand, that kind of thing. I was just wondering – are Reform MPs and you going to continue taking child porn money?”
January 7, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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capitolhunters.bsky.social
The cynics think today's attack on Venezuela is staged and transactional. Maduro is allied with Putin, but in 2019 Putin offered Trump a swap: Russia cedes Venezuela and gets Ukraine. (See Fiona Hill's testimony in Trump's first impeachment trial, h/t @davetroy.com). Even Maduro may be in on it. 2/
January 3, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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hopenothate.org.uk
A Reform council leader behind a “Doge”-style crackdown on public spending owns two firms now in administration owing £1.5 million, including over £500,000 in unpaid tax, Covid loans, and staff wages.
January 7, 2026 at 11:46 AM
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roberthutton.co.uk
If the UK government had a Culture Secretary, that person would be in a position to take a view about whether child porn on demand was a good thing, or a bad thing. thecritic.co.uk/brin...
Or there’s X, the website formerly known as Twitter. Its owner is committed to removing the government, and seems keen to encourage violence on Britain’s streets. Now its 2026 update lets users create what are politely called “sexualised images” of anyone, including children. A Secretary of State for Culture, if Britain had one, could take a view on whether this was a welcome development. They could, if they had been appointed and went into work every day, offer Starmer advice on whether X should be one of the government’s main channels of communication, effectively supporting a site that produces on-demand pornography of real people including, let’s say it again, children.
January 7, 2026 at 9:49 AM