Anne McCune

Whoever made this, it’s BRILLIANT.

Trump’s “Board of Peace.”

Number 1 please 😋

The late, great DAVID NIVEN in 1975 with his wonderful ‘Prawn & The Crab’ joke.

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone’

Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime, with a valid visa, when she was shackled, transported and held by ICE for six weeks http://www.theguardi...

Powerful stuff.

YouTube video by Ethan Gontar Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Irish Folk Version)

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An English cricket scene

Jam and cream always the right way up here 😬

Noooo.. jam and cream wrong way round!!!

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

In the light of recent political confusion about the identities of Iceland and Greenland, we feel the need to post again this map of our local geography.

457 British troops lost their lives in Afghanistan.

Trump avoided military service 5 times.

How dare he question their sacrifice. Farage and all the others still fawning over Trump should be ashamed.

Troop lambasted as “Daddy Fool” in UK newspaper The Mirror

Never in my lifetime has a US President been viewed with such utter contempt in Europe.

Trump presenting a twisted, chauvinistic history of WW2 at Davos. Suggesting US fought for Europe and Denmark out of altruism. Conveniently forgets Pearl Harbour and Soviet competition.

Suggests that Denmark can’t have Greenland because they surrendered to the Nazis.

Is that orange weirdo still droning on ?

🤬🤬🤬🤬

Growing sense of embarrassment at Fifa over Donald Trump peace prize * Mid-level and senior officials uncomfortable with award * Fifa says it still ‘strongly’ supports the peace prize There is a growing sense of embarrassment among mid-level and senior officials within Fifa over the awarding of its peace prize to Donald Trump. The US president was handed the award at the World Cup draw in Washington DC in December with the Fifa president, Gianni Infantino, telling Trump: “We want to see hope, we want to see unity, we want to see a future. This is what we want to see from a leader and you definitely deserve the first Fifa Peace Prize.” Since then, the US has launched airstrikes across Venezuela and captured the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores, and flown them to the US, where he was put in jail. Maduro appeared in court on 5 January, pleading not guilty to drugs, weapons and “narco-terrorism” charges. Trump has also threatened to invade Greenland because he said the US needs the territory “very badly”. Continue reading...

Growing sense of embarrassment at Fifa over Donald Trump peace prize

Tylenol during pregnancy is safe without increased risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability of offspring
A new review of the evidence just out
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Ah - that explains why my flowered recently!

Khan: "[London is] one of the safest.. cities in the world when it comes to homicide. We're safer than Paris, Milan, Rome, Brussels, Berlin.. two and half times safer than NY, 5 times safer than LA, 12 times safer than Chicago.. those that spread lies have a problem with London"

Maduro’s capture had the world’s ear – but Trump returned to petty gripes Though he also discussed plans to ‘run’ Venezuela, the US president could not resist upending his moment of glory

Maduro’s capture had the world’s ear – but Trump returned to petty gripes

Brutal 😬

Steve Rosenberg: What are Russians hoping for in 2026? The BBC's Russia editor speaks to people in the country as the war in Ukraine nears a fourth year.

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All done for the year at work, so I’m signing off.

I hope you all have a great Christmas with your friends and family, and I’ll see you all in the new year!

🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening

YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica

Curious to learn more about CECOT?

Hear Juan, Andry, and Wilmer share firsthand how the Trump administration branded them as gang members without evidence and deported them to the brutal El Salvadoran prison.

This @pbsnews.org documentary is available on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lku5...

Amazing! Loved your latest book BTW Murder at Mistletoe Manor - a cracking Christmas read to be enjoyed with an odd canapé or two!

It’s to keep the poor buggers in you absolute tool!!

🇬🇧 🇺🇸 WATCH — @mrjamesob.bsky.social: “I’m going to say this slowly… The President of The United States of America has sided with Putin against the United Kingdom. He has put the whole of Europe in the crosshairs.”

Ben Stokes?!! 😱

Former Dulwich pupil says Farage told him: ‘That’s the way back to Africa’ Exclusive: Yinka Bankole says he felt compelled to speak out after Reform leader’s attempts to ‘dismiss’ hurt of alleged targets

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