Phil Jones' body double

"The wheels came off British trade because of Brexit. We MUST fix it. Put the wheels back on, you say? No, that would be looking backwards. Rule 1 of Brexit, never look backwards, only forwards. Why don't we, hear me out, REINVENT the wheel instead? Here, let me show you this promising alternative"

Defund Justin Webb!!!!

Farage tying himself in angry knots here ... as he refuses to answer the basic question: Is it racist to call Kemi Badenoch a "Nigerian scammer"?

It is not just that this is only 0.2% of what UK consumers spend on food and drink a year, there is zero guarantee UK consumers actually will benefit at all. It is food & drink retailers who will benefit from this cut in import tariffs. And if they pass this cut on to customers remains to be seen.

Ai.

In too many ways the Starmer government was EXACTLY like the previous Tory governments. What a waste and disappointment that guy was.

Really pleased Harry Kane won the Ballon d'Or. He has got to be one of the nicest guys in top flight football nowadays. And he more than deserved it based on his achievements last year.

So here it is, why Made in Europe and the general air of major power coercion are key to Andy Burnham's rejoin and free movement talk. A world about as far as possible away from the Brexit vision as it could be - and an incentive for the pro-EU side. rejoinrejoin.substack.com/p/made-in-eu...

I understand the BBC is in urgent need of cost cutting. Might I be so bold as to suggest......

#Delft #Delftholland

By all accounts this is what most of the recent Reform media events have looked like. Bubble well and truly burst

I am starting to think maybe communism wasn't such a bad thing after all. And yes, I do know about Stalin and his gulags and how he used the NKVD to terrorize the population into submission. This is sarcasm, but fact is the power of the billionaires / trillionaire needs to be curtailed.

Obviously this is outrageous in terms of partiality. But it's also yet another argument against rolling news. Rolling news has *so much* time to fill. Things like this must be a godsend for producers but it's really unhealthy for our discourse. If the BBC has to make cuts, it should bin News 24.

Solar has overtaken nuclear. A decade ago it supplied 1% of the world's power. In 2025 it met three quarters of global demand growth. Almost nobody saw it coming. I spoke to Jocelyn Timperley at BBC Future about why. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

Number crunching: Royal Mail From the latest Private Eye, out now.

www.wsj.com/opinion/vikt... It's a thing.

If the UK and France can't or won't hold the line against a Victor Orban Secretary-General bid, they should give up their Permanent Seats on the Security Council. No shame in no longer being globally relevant, but if it really has gotten that bad it would be humiliating to keep pretending.

Trump on Bolsonaro's loss: "It looked like another rigged election" 😆

Playing defense in a state Trump won by *23%* in 2024

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Shocking to see this from Al Jazeera (link in Carol's substack)

To everyone getting their knickers in a twist… All because @andyburnham.bsky.social suggested a sensible conversation about freedom of movement …do you perhaps need reminding of this?

Trump, "I'm not in love with Norway. Frankly, Norway sucks. Norway has become a sh*thouse country" My view: That is the language of a president throwing a tantrum because Norway didn’t give him the Nobel Peace Prize.

BBC News just interrupted its coverage to go, live, to Nigel Farage - a man with no contitutional standing in our setup - responding to the budget - a document which nobody has seen yet. WHY

What is the BBC's justification for maintaining this level of coverage of Reform now it has slipped into third place?

This really is so clear and obvious nowadays, you have to wonder when Westminster will finally be able to admit this instead of mumbling about immigration and an economic hit.

“While each of us (voted Brexit) for different reasons, we all believed that the UK could do a better job of running its own affairs than *unelected officials* in Brussels could." Ben Houchen... November 2020 Six years later 👇👇👇

Sack the schweinhund. Both of them, preferably. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Incredible. Student List are candidates selected by groups of students to form an anti-corruption party. Another youth-led movement overthrowing an authoritarian government in Europe.

In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.

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🚨🚨🚨🚨Breaking: Lula has officially been declared the winner in the 2026 Brazilian Presidential Election, defeating Flàvio Bolsonaro.

"Across UK & Europe, tens of thousands of deep vertical coal & mineral mine shafts sit abandoned after the fossil-fuel mining era end — and Scottish engineers at Gravitricity have found a way to turn them into giant mechanical grid batteries .." www.facebook.com/engineeringe... via Engineering Facts

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A morning note of caution. The usual suspects are out and about with their geography denial (we must have nothing to do with neighbours we inevitably have to deal with) but I don't yet see Burnham's political outriders on the EU - it is him making the weather alone.

The Government™ has made an ad about all these protests happening around the world, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.

I mean, yay obviously! ... but it IS insane that a week into this story we still don't have anything resembling a definitive explanation of who restricted it, why, and on whose authority. Like admit it, you wouldn't be entirely surprised if tomorrow the NYT revealed it was a rogue Claude bot.

This take is always a sign of abject stupidity - Nazis banned free trade unions and collective bargaining, persecuted actual socialists and communists, shot the nominally lefty Nazis early on etc

If I were emperor of the universe any candidate promising to balance the budget or fund expensive programs by "cutting inefficiency, waste and fraud in government" would be immediately slimed like a Nickelodean host.

“Trump's British apologists are finally starting to calculate… their potential reward for supporting this lame duck President in the US is no longer worth the growing cost to their reputations in the UK” Too late, Farage. Too much MAGA money. Too much fawning. www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/trumps-apo...

Q: Republicans are denouncing the Ramaswamy ad— Trump: They don't know the facts. Q: Do the sexual abuse allegations mean nothing to you? Trump: Quiet. You're a horrible little reporter, aren't you?

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Beth Rigby, "All of the people in the Makerfield focus group voted to Leave the EU. When Burnham said it at conference I thought: Brexit betrayal. Those Leave voting parts of the country won't like this." "But you ask those people and they don't seem to mind (closer ties with the EU"

What frankly is the point of government publishing this sort of statement on trade negotiations with absolutely no useful content? Compulsive secrecy to the point of parody. For no good reason whatsoever. www.gov.uk/government/n...