Leviathan Wilde
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5. Under the Trump administration, the US is no longer an ally of Europe or Canada, it has aligned itself with Russia.
January 1, 2026 at 4:55 PM
5. Under the Trump administration, the US is no longer an ally of Europe or Canada, it has aligned itself with Russia.
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It's New Year, so time to look back and forward. These are 10 things I think we need to recognise in 2026. It’s a response to what I think are profoundly damaging mistaken assumptions I’ve heard and read from practitioners, journalists, and analysts in 2025. Warning: very long🧵
January 1, 2026 at 4:55 PM
It's New Year, so time to look back and forward. These are 10 things I think we need to recognise in 2026. It’s a response to what I think are profoundly damaging mistaken assumptions I’ve heard and read from practitioners, journalists, and analysts in 2025. Warning: very long🧵
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Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over
January 1, 2026 at 4:43 AM
Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over
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2/2 A boy & his v. large & patient dog: Frederik de Vries in 1597, by Hendrick Goltzius, whose day is today.
January 1, 2026 at 3:03 PM
2/2 A boy & his v. large & patient dog: Frederik de Vries in 1597, by Hendrick Goltzius, whose day is today.
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I think Zack is doing a valid & useful job in helping to push the Overton window a little left & a bit away from being dragged rightward - but Greens/Polanski have not yet got a coherent policy framework for everything. That’s ok. There is lots of time before next election. But at the moment..🧵 1/6
December 31, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I think Zack is doing a valid & useful job in helping to push the Overton window a little left & a bit away from being dragged rightward - but Greens/Polanski have not yet got a coherent policy framework for everything. That’s ok. There is lots of time before next election. But at the moment..🧵 1/6
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..it’s full of populism - some lovely populist ideas but eg no plan how to get from current global monetary status quo to say MMT world paradigm shift he espouses. There’s a Green schism between more Tory leaning nimby views “no pylons or new houses here” and pragmatic need for green transition 2/6
December 31, 2025 at 2:13 PM
..it’s full of populism - some lovely populist ideas but eg no plan how to get from current global monetary status quo to say MMT world paradigm shift he espouses. There’s a Green schism between more Tory leaning nimby views “no pylons or new houses here” and pragmatic need for green transition 2/6
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It’s true that there are many fantasy ideas already in politics eg Tory idea that you can cut social security & taxes and that the public sector & health of nation won’t grind to a hault. But don’t we want better from the Greens? Wouldn’t a “donut economics” mixed with Ed Miliband’s “go big” 3/6
December 31, 2025 at 2:13 PM
It’s true that there are many fantasy ideas already in politics eg Tory idea that you can cut social security & taxes and that the public sector & health of nation won’t grind to a hault. But don’t we want better from the Greens? Wouldn’t a “donut economics” mixed with Ed Miliband’s “go big” 3/6
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big ideas manifesto w a step by step pathway to creating change, public engagement programme, plans on transparency & programme update & costings actually help the Green Party to move from protest vote to serious contender in the eye of Jo public? I heard Zack Polanski on “Leading” pod & he’s a..4/6
December 31, 2025 at 2:13 PM
big ideas manifesto w a step by step pathway to creating change, public engagement programme, plans on transparency & programme update & costings actually help the Green Party to move from protest vote to serious contender in the eye of Jo public? I heard Zack Polanski on “Leading” pod & he’s a..4/6
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great communicator - but has a lot of nebulous ideas that aren’t fully formed about the economy & is lacking on understanding of what IS. To get towards what OUGHT you need to hv knowledge of what IS & a plan for change. If you sell easy fantasy ideas of finger clicking change it will all end 5/6
December 31, 2025 at 2:13 PM
great communicator - but has a lot of nebulous ideas that aren’t fully formed about the economy & is lacking on understanding of what IS. To get towards what OUGHT you need to hv knowledge of what IS & a plan for change. If you sell easy fantasy ideas of finger clicking change it will all end 5/6
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in tears. & that would be a poor show for UK. Just as I thought Alastair Campbell’s questioning of Polanski & Green policies must hv been really helpful to Zack - a policy design master class - I’m sure these Fabian comments will just help Polanski & Green Party to iterate & improve 👍😊 6/6
December 31, 2025 at 2:13 PM
in tears. & that would be a poor show for UK. Just as I thought Alastair Campbell’s questioning of Polanski & Green policies must hv been really helpful to Zack - a policy design master class - I’m sure these Fabian comments will just help Polanski & Green Party to iterate & improve 👍😊 6/6
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Winter Queen's Flowers, Zofia Plewińska-Smidowiczowa (1888-1944).
December 31, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Winter Queen's Flowers, Zofia Plewińska-Smidowiczowa (1888-1944).
Happy New Year’s Eve! 🤩🎉⭐️ And this is a lovely happy-ending story for the year. May we all be a bit more Valerie 🐶
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
What happened next: Valerie the dachshund taught us how to survive – and thrive
We could learn a lot from the pampered sausage dog who became a canine Bear Grylls. Perhaps all of us are capable of more than we might expect
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December 31, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Happy New Year’s Eve! 🤩🎉⭐️ And this is a lovely happy-ending story for the year. May we all be a bit more Valerie 🐶
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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Wassily Kandinsky, Houses in Munich, 1908.
December 30, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Wassily Kandinsky, Houses in Munich, 1908.
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Well, what else could we mark on 29 December but the 97th anniversary of the birth of that gift to the world, Bernard Cribbins? (small🧵)
December 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Well, what else could we mark on 29 December but the 97th anniversary of the birth of that gift to the world, Bernard Cribbins? (small🧵)
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Find someone who loves you as much as a cat loves a newly switched-on radiator
December 27, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Find someone who loves you as much as a cat loves a newly switched-on radiator
If as the proposal says, this wouldn’t impact flow nor be in any protected areas, - then this would be amazing
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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London Eye architect proposes 14-mile tidal power station off Somerset coast
West Somerset Lagoon would harness renewable energy for UK’s AI boom – and create ‘iconic’ arc around Bristol Channel
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December 27, 2025 at 6:36 PM
If as the proposal says, this wouldn’t impact flow nor be in any protected areas, - then this would be amazing
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
This is a really interesting point. Uk citizens who want to stop Farage are going to need tactical voting insight, & understanding of where Reform has a chance of winning in local or General elections & which party can challenge that. In many places it will be Labour - but it varies greatly.
Polanski loves to say he is ‘taking the fight to Reform’: so it’s actually important for Labour to make it clear there are basically zero Green versus Reform contests anywhere in the UK at national, regional or local level, even under the current polling regime. The real contest is Labour v Reform
December 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
This is a really interesting point. Uk citizens who want to stop Farage are going to need tactical voting insight, & understanding of where Reform has a chance of winning in local or General elections & which party can challenge that. In many places it will be Labour - but it varies greatly.
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Alas! It is 31 years since the world was deprived of one of its more colourful culinary characters: Phyllis Nan Sortain Pechey – better known as double bigamist, child abandoner, amphetamine user, dangerous driver, and celebrity cook Fanny Cradock
December 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Alas! It is 31 years since the world was deprived of one of its more colourful culinary characters: Phyllis Nan Sortain Pechey – better known as double bigamist, child abandoner, amphetamine user, dangerous driver, and celebrity cook Fanny Cradock
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The Angels' Kitchen, Eugène Grasset, originally the cover for the 1893 Christmas issue of l'Illustration magazine.
December 26, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The Angels' Kitchen, Eugène Grasset, originally the cover for the 1893 Christmas issue of l'Illustration magazine.
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🎄 Merry Christmas, dear supporters, gorgeous friends, and precious listeners.
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☃️ We love you lots! A, N, K & other A x
Check your apps first thing, for a cracker 2025 Review, with @mrjamesob.bsky.social. We'd never abandon you without company, on what can be a pretty stressful day. 🎁
☃️ We love you lots! A, N, K & other A x
December 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
🎄 Merry Christmas, dear supporters, gorgeous friends, and precious listeners.
Check your apps first thing, for a cracker 2025 Review, with @mrjamesob.bsky.social. We'd never abandon you without company, on what can be a pretty stressful day. 🎁
☃️ We love you lots! A, N, K & other A x
Check your apps first thing, for a cracker 2025 Review, with @mrjamesob.bsky.social. We'd never abandon you without company, on what can be a pretty stressful day. 🎁
☃️ We love you lots! A, N, K & other A x
Merry Xmas one & all. May there be peace, love & understanding
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“I ask myself, "Is all hope lost?
Is there only pain and hatred and misery?"
And each time I feel like this inside
There's one thing I wanna know
What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding?”
m.youtube.com/watch?v=iHkh...
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“I ask myself, "Is all hope lost?
Is there only pain and hatred and misery?"
And each time I feel like this inside
There's one thing I wanna know
What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding?”
m.youtube.com/watch?v=iHkh...
[What's So Funny 'Bout] Peace, Love And Understanding (Remastered 2020)
YouTube video by Elvis Costello - Topic
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December 25, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Merry Xmas one & all. May there be peace, love & understanding
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“I ask myself, "Is all hope lost?
Is there only pain and hatred and misery?"
And each time I feel like this inside
There's one thing I wanna know
What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding?”
m.youtube.com/watch?v=iHkh...
🎄🕊️🎄
“I ask myself, "Is all hope lost?
Is there only pain and hatred and misery?"
And each time I feel like this inside
There's one thing I wanna know
What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding?”
m.youtube.com/watch?v=iHkh...
“A former Tory councillor..Philip Young, 49, & five other men have been accused of more than 60 rapes & sexual offences against [his former wife] Joanne Young, 48.”
Will Reform supporters now carry out protests outside Conservative Clubs or consultancies? 🤔😳
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Will Reform supporters now carry out protests outside Conservative Clubs or consultancies? 🤔😳
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Former Tory councillor in court accused of drugging and raping ex-wife
Philip Young appears at Swindon magistrates court charged with 56 offences relating to 13-year period
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:24 PM
“A former Tory councillor..Philip Young, 49, & five other men have been accused of more than 60 rapes & sexual offences against [his former wife] Joanne Young, 48.”
Will Reform supporters now carry out protests outside Conservative Clubs or consultancies? 🤔😳
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Will Reform supporters now carry out protests outside Conservative Clubs or consultancies? 🤔😳
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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This is a good thing to witness, here's to more light in the world 🙏🕯️❤️
This is the sweetest thing and I hope they keep hanging out periodically
December 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
This is a good thing to witness, here's to more light in the world 🙏🕯️❤️
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I think, if you are reporting a press release, quite literally sent to you, as "sneaking out", and the 18th of December as "the last day before Christmas", you sort of asked and answered your own question.
No10 has sneaked out, at 4.50pm on the last day before Christmas, that they are cancelling the daily afternoon lobby briefing for journalists.
And they'll sometimes be cancelling the morning one too, to in favour of a televised press conference, to which "content creators" will be invited.
And they'll sometimes be cancelling the morning one too, to in favour of a televised press conference, to which "content creators" will be invited.
December 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I think, if you are reporting a press release, quite literally sent to you, as "sneaking out", and the 18th of December as "the last day before Christmas", you sort of asked and answered your own question.
Hear hear! 🎉👍😊
Entertaining as this spat is, it contains not-a-flicker of recognition as to WHY this might be happening.
For 16 months, a tax-exile-oligarch-owned, mostly right-wing press, has abused the privilege of these exclusive private sessions, to misrepresent the gov't on every issue. This is the FO stage.
For 16 months, a tax-exile-oligarch-owned, mostly right-wing press, has abused the privilege of these exclusive private sessions, to misrepresent the gov't on every issue. This is the FO stage.
Broadcaster backs televised briefings shocker
December 20, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Hear hear! 🎉👍😊