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If someone tries to rain on your parade, poke them in the eye with your umbrella.
Trans Rights Are Human Rights
Trans Rights Are Human Rights
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The Social Media giants need to be accountable.
Banning SM for kids under 16 simply lets those corporations off the hook and those kids who want to, will not only get round it - but do so surreptitiously and in my opinion that's far more dangerous.
Banning SM for kids under 16 simply lets those corporations off the hook and those kids who want to, will not only get round it - but do so surreptitiously and in my opinion that's far more dangerous.
January 21, 2026 at 9:08 PM
The Social Media giants need to be accountable.
Banning SM for kids under 16 simply lets those corporations off the hook and those kids who want to, will not only get round it - but do so surreptitiously and in my opinion that's far more dangerous.
Banning SM for kids under 16 simply lets those corporations off the hook and those kids who want to, will not only get round it - but do so surreptitiously and in my opinion that's far more dangerous.
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From what Australian friends tell me - kids who wanted to, just got round the ban and lied to parents and guardians.
Not convinced that's progress at all.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Not convinced that's progress at all.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
As a parent – and a Conservative – I know that banning social media for under-16s is the right thing to do | Kemi Badenoch
Britain’s parents know that this content is harming their children. It’s vital to put young people’s mental health first, says Kemi Badenoch, leader of the Conservative party
www.theguardian.com
January 21, 2026 at 8:07 PM
From what Australian friends tell me - kids who wanted to, just got round the ban and lied to parents and guardians.
Not convinced that's progress at all.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Not convinced that's progress at all.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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This should be the end of Farage but the media will protect him.
January 21, 2026 at 5:30 PM
This should be the end of Farage but the media will protect him.
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People need to be less restrained about open comparisons between Trump and early Hitler.
"Inferior" people to be expunged. Claiming territory that is theirs "by right". Violent assaults on the legislature. Obsessed with grievances. Constant violent rhetoric. Military used on their own people.
"Inferior" people to be expunged. Claiming territory that is theirs "by right". Violent assaults on the legislature. Obsessed with grievances. Constant violent rhetoric. Military used on their own people.
And now a blood-and-soil pivot into how the orgy of ICE violence unleashed on Minnesota is a defense of "the West"
against a "foreign" and inferior culture.
against a "foreign" and inferior culture.
January 21, 2026 at 5:54 PM
People need to be less restrained about open comparisons between Trump and early Hitler.
"Inferior" people to be expunged. Claiming territory that is theirs "by right". Violent assaults on the legislature. Obsessed with grievances. Constant violent rhetoric. Military used on their own people.
"Inferior" people to be expunged. Claiming territory that is theirs "by right". Violent assaults on the legislature. Obsessed with grievances. Constant violent rhetoric. Military used on their own people.
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My snap take on Trump’s Davos speech. For all his bullying bluster, it was the weak and needy bleating of a spoilt brat knowing he can’t get his way on everything.
🔴Trump’s Greenland Delusion Runs Aground in Davos
For all his attempted bullying, taunts and threats, Trump’s delusional Davos speech revealed a man who is far weaker than he appears, argues @alexhh.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/01/21/d...
For all his attempted bullying, taunts and threats, Trump’s delusional Davos speech revealed a man who is far weaker than he appears, argues @alexhh.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/01/21/d...
Trump's Greenland Delusion Runs Aground in Davos
For all his attempted bullying, taunts and threats, Trump's delusional Davos speech revealed a man who is far weaker than he appears, argues Alexandra Hall Hall
bylinetimes.com
January 21, 2026 at 5:08 PM
My snap take on Trump’s Davos speech. For all his bullying bluster, it was the weak and needy bleating of a spoilt brat knowing he can’t get his way on everything.
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I have solved it.
January 21, 2026 at 5:12 PM
I have solved it.
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I cannot tell you how absolutely infuriatingly this stuff comes across to Europeans.
When we say America is no longer a reliable ally, it goes considerably deeper than Donald Trump himself. This kind of complacent, condescending shit is a *huge* part of it.
When we say America is no longer a reliable ally, it goes considerably deeper than Donald Trump himself. This kind of complacent, condescending shit is a *huge* part of it.
Newsom: "It was remarkably boring. It was remarkably insignificant. He was never going invade Greenland. It was never real."
January 21, 2026 at 4:22 PM
I cannot tell you how absolutely infuriatingly this stuff comes across to Europeans.
When we say America is no longer a reliable ally, it goes considerably deeper than Donald Trump himself. This kind of complacent, condescending shit is a *huge* part of it.
When we say America is no longer a reliable ally, it goes considerably deeper than Donald Trump himself. This kind of complacent, condescending shit is a *huge* part of it.
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Trump sincerely believes Norway stole “his” Nobel Peace Prize.
That isn’t a joke. It’s the key to understanding his second presidency.
We have to drop the self-delusion, over-intellectualisation and listen to him. America is no longer Europe’s ally.
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That isn’t a joke. It’s the key to understanding his second presidency.
We have to drop the self-delusion, over-intellectualisation and listen to him. America is no longer Europe’s ally.
My latest 👇
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The Valueless Presidency
America is no longer Europe's ally. Stop bleating about NATO. It's already gone.
open.substack.com
January 21, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Trump sincerely believes Norway stole “his” Nobel Peace Prize.
That isn’t a joke. It’s the key to understanding his second presidency.
We have to drop the self-delusion, over-intellectualisation and listen to him. America is no longer Europe’s ally.
My latest 👇
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
That isn’t a joke. It’s the key to understanding his second presidency.
We have to drop the self-delusion, over-intellectualisation and listen to him. America is no longer Europe’s ally.
My latest 👇
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
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Entirely typical of the BBC's treatment of trans people that it presents Michael Foran, who is literally on the advisory Board of the Sex Matters hate group, as an independent expert.
How the NHS became the battleground in the trans debate at work
What's next for employers and their staff in the aftermath of the Darlington nurses ruling?
www.bbc.co.uk
January 21, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Entirely typical of the BBC's treatment of trans people that it presents Michael Foran, who is literally on the advisory Board of the Sex Matters hate group, as an independent expert.
Want to feel old? 😳
Bake Off has been on Channel 4 for *nearly* 10 years.
Nah bruv, can’t be true, she only took over from Mary Berry a couple of months ago.
January 21, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Want to feel old? 😳
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Western leaders tiptoeing around hoping things can be patched up are making mistake. Appeasement doesn’t work. Starmer should make clear to British public what’s at stake and prepare them for rough road ahead. I believe Brits wd respond positively, and be willing to accept some costs. Self respect.
January 21, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Western leaders tiptoeing around hoping things can be patched up are making mistake. Appeasement doesn’t work. Starmer should make clear to British public what’s at stake and prepare them for rough road ahead. I believe Brits wd respond positively, and be willing to accept some costs. Self respect.
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I’m increasingly fucking mad at Trump, his cronies, and moral cowards in GOP. Most Americans still don’t get how bad it is. Europeans, and Canada, need to organize mass protests outside US embassies, bases, Trump properties, and make enough noise that it finally registers.
As long as Trump remains POTUS, nobody can take the US seriously.
Nobody can make any agreement with the US.
The US has become out of bounds.
In the long run, this madness will be vewry costly for the US.
Don't US republicans understand that?
Are they merely cowards?
Nobody can make any agreement with the US.
The US has become out of bounds.
In the long run, this madness will be vewry costly for the US.
Don't US republicans understand that?
Are they merely cowards?
January 21, 2026 at 12:47 PM
I’m increasingly fucking mad at Trump, his cronies, and moral cowards in GOP. Most Americans still don’t get how bad it is. Europeans, and Canada, need to organize mass protests outside US embassies, bases, Trump properties, and make enough noise that it finally registers.
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For years, experts have warned that nature loss would become a security threat.
Now a national security assessment confirms it: biodiversity collapse risks food shortages, economic instability and global disorder.
Nature underpins our global safety. So why is UK Government failing to protect it?
Now a national security assessment confirms it: biodiversity collapse risks food shortages, economic instability and global disorder.
Nature underpins our global safety. So why is UK Government failing to protect it?
January 21, 2026 at 11:50 AM
For years, experts have warned that nature loss would become a security threat.
Now a national security assessment confirms it: biodiversity collapse risks food shortages, economic instability and global disorder.
Nature underpins our global safety. So why is UK Government failing to protect it?
Now a national security assessment confirms it: biodiversity collapse risks food shortages, economic instability and global disorder.
Nature underpins our global safety. So why is UK Government failing to protect it?
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Distressing that Canada, which has the most to lose from this change, is ready to face reality, whilst Starmer bets on Churchillian nostalgia for the 'special relationship' and actively rejects meaningfully closer economic engagement with the EU, which must be where our future lies.
‘Nostalgia is not a strategy’: Mark Carney is emerging as the unflinching realist ready to tackle Trump
In a speech at Davos, written by Carney himself, the Canadian prime minister laid out his doctrine for a world of fractured international norms
www.theguardian.com
January 21, 2026 at 10:48 AM
Distressing that Canada, which has the most to lose from this change, is ready to face reality, whilst Starmer bets on Churchillian nostalgia for the 'special relationship' and actively rejects meaningfully closer economic engagement with the EU, which must be where our future lies.
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NEW: NEW: Standards commissioner finds Nigel Farage committed seventeen breaches of MPs code of conduct.
He failed to declare £333,000 in outside interests (more than 3x MPs annual salary)…
He failed to declare £333,000 in outside interests (more than 3x MPs annual salary)…
January 21, 2026 at 8:48 AM
NEW: NEW: Standards commissioner finds Nigel Farage committed seventeen breaches of MPs code of conduct.
He failed to declare £333,000 in outside interests (more than 3x MPs annual salary)…
He failed to declare £333,000 in outside interests (more than 3x MPs annual salary)…
He needs it to NOT happen every single day.
We need it TO happen only once.
We need it TO happen only once.
January 21, 2026 at 10:50 AM
He needs it to NOT happen every single day.
We need it TO happen only once.
We need it TO happen only once.
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Paging all the Sports Glinners...
January 21, 2026 at 10:19 AM
Paging all the Sports Glinners...
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Faced with the deranged threats and wild madness of Trump’s presidency, our Brexit ‘sovereignty’ couldn’t be more costly… and yet worthless.
Farage and Badenoch would rather bend the knee to the US monster than admit that our future is with Europe.
The deceit is pathological. Sociopathic. Ruinous.
Farage and Badenoch would rather bend the knee to the US monster than admit that our future is with Europe.
The deceit is pathological. Sociopathic. Ruinous.
January 21, 2026 at 7:42 AM
Faced with the deranged threats and wild madness of Trump’s presidency, our Brexit ‘sovereignty’ couldn’t be more costly… and yet worthless.
Farage and Badenoch would rather bend the knee to the US monster than admit that our future is with Europe.
The deceit is pathological. Sociopathic. Ruinous.
Farage and Badenoch would rather bend the knee to the US monster than admit that our future is with Europe.
The deceit is pathological. Sociopathic. Ruinous.
Dear media, the Beckham family spat isn't news.
January 21, 2026 at 7:13 AM
Dear media, the Beckham family spat isn't news.
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The Trump disbelief that the Norwegian govt doesn't control the Nobel process is deeply indicative of his thinking. He can't conceive that an institution could (or should) be genuinely independent of coercion or political power. That's the change he represents.
Trump: "I should have gotten the Nobel prize for each war...I saved millions and millions of people...and don't let anyone tell you that Norway doesn't control the shots. It's in Norway. Norway controls the shots. It's a joke. They've lost such prestige.“
January 20, 2026 at 8:02 PM
The Trump disbelief that the Norwegian govt doesn't control the Nobel process is deeply indicative of his thinking. He can't conceive that an institution could (or should) be genuinely independent of coercion or political power. That's the change he represents.
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I hear a lot of people say: Trump is escalating. I don't know if that's quite le mot juste. Trump is *spiralling*. There's quite a big difference.
The lack of any discussion around the 25th Amendment is astounding.
The lack of any discussion around the 25th Amendment is astounding.
January 20, 2026 at 8:11 PM
I hear a lot of people say: Trump is escalating. I don't know if that's quite le mot juste. Trump is *spiralling*. There's quite a big difference.
The lack of any discussion around the 25th Amendment is astounding.
The lack of any discussion around the 25th Amendment is astounding.
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Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said the Arctic island’s population and its authorities need to start preparing for a possible military invasion, Bloomberg reports.
January 20, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said the Arctic island’s population and its authorities need to start preparing for a possible military invasion, Bloomberg reports.
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