Clive Savage

All aboard the last bus out of Mousehole It was lucky that the bus was behind schedule – mainly because the driver had stepped out to take his own photograph for social media (#endofanera) – otherwise the young lad in the hoodie might have…

It was lucky that the bus was behind schedule – mainly because the driver had stepped out to take his own photograph for social media (#endofanera) – otherwise the young lad in the hoodie might have missed it.

✍️ Andrew Watts spectator.com/article/all-...

How Reuters captured the photo of former Prince Andrew leaving custody Slumped in the back seat of his Range Rover, a visibly shaken man once referred to as the "Playboy Prince" stares ahead of him as the car leaves Aylsham police station in Norfolk, England.

Credit where credit is due: Phil Noble of @reuters.com took *that* photo of Andrew leaving the police station www.reuters.com/world/uk/how...

The stench of lies follows the Coward-in-Chief everywhere he goes.

The EU is thrashing out a more muscular set of economic policies The bloc is done playing nicely

Instead of panicking, leaders would do well to stick with the liberal economic model that made Europe strong

UK borrowing costs now within a whisker of their lowest in more than a year (we wrote about the post-Budget rally back in Jan www.ft.com/content/0574...), as gilts have settled after the Starmer wobble

January Update under Rachel Reeves:
Retail sales up 1.8% month-on-month; 4.5% year-on-year;
Initial OBR estimates record a £30.4bn public sector surplus;
Inflation falls to 3%;
I thought the ‘girl from accounts’ was meant to stay quiet - not deliver a £30bn surplus. #UKNews

If you've got a history book at home, take it out, throw it in the bin – it's worthless. The history books will now have to be rewritten.

It's illiberal I know but I really am starting to think that we need urgently to disenfranchise the “let’s just roll the dice” voters.

They may be lovely in person but the harm they have done is incalculable.

Let alone the harm that they are still to do.

Amazon delivery van 'stuck on The Broomway after following GPS' HM Coastguard Southend says the van driver had been trying to get to Foulness Island.

A magnificent set of choices led to this. What a time to be alive www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

‘Right about everything’: Liz Truss tweets photo of her and Trump at Mar-a-Lago Unclear how meeting between Britain’s shortest serving PM and US president was initiated and how long it lasted After spending time and resources crisscrossing the Atlantic to cultivate the support of the Maga faithful, Liz Truss has finally got the prize she apparently craved: a photo with Donald Trump. Britain’s shortest serving prime minister tweeted a photo on Sunday showing her in the company of the US president at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida. Continue reading...

‘Right about everything’: Liz Truss tweets photo of her and Trump at Mar-a-Lago

Until 1982 Andrew was second in line to the throne. He could very easily have been king - as so many spares were before him. And really he's only been (superficially) stripped of his titles and privileges because this stuff became public and because Virginia Giuffre dared to speak out.

Lucy and Angeliki at the campaign launch

Delighted that Angeliki Stogia is Labour’s candidate for Gorton & Denton by-election.

She’s a strong Mancunian woman with Labour values & a record of delivery.

All our doorstep work is clear, only Labour can win against Reform. Don’t risk voting for others.

We chose unity & hope over division.

Please join us and help make history at the Gorton and Denton by-election! 💚. We have a brilliant candidate, Hannah Spencer, we have momentum and we have a vital message - that the politics of hope *can* win over the politics of hate.
We can win this! @mcrgreenparty.bsky.social @greenparty.org.uk

Reminder that the administration now arresting journalists, and its sycophants, are also whining that the EU and the UK are enemies of free speech

David is among the most interesting commentators around on place and politics and the history of that sort of thing. Deffo worth a follow.

Responding to former Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi's defection to Reform UK, Liberal Democrat MP for Stratford-on-Avon (Zahawi's former seat), Manuela Perteghella MP said:
"Reform is becoming a retirement home for disgraced former Conservative ministers.

www.libdems.org.uk/press/releas...

And yet the prevailing political attitude is that stopping them coming was antisemitic. Can you imagine what would’ve happened if there had been violence? I just think you have to avoid conflict if you can and it had potential to be a nightmare on both sides.

New proposed Ukip logo compared to iron cross used by Nazi regime Anti-racism campaign group Hope Not Hate warned that the logo was ‘echoing Nazi-style imagery’

Where is Indiana JONES when you need him?

Has UKIP not heard of the Iron Cross?

Or the Spear of Longinus?

This is is beyond all belief - & tragically there will be an audience for this blatant imagery.

#democracy #wales #scotland

Fuq me.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Quick to criticise the fourteen years of Tory austerity, mismanagement, and chaos - Farage is even quicker to welcome them into his party with open arms.

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#Brexit and the damage it’s done to our country isn’t something #Farage should boast about, says this @teessidelive.bsky.social letter.
If so, #UKLabour #Starmer should use the opportunity to highlight his role and that of Tory Brexit refugees such as #NadhimZahawi in our disastrous #EU departure.

‘Too good to be true’: parents warned to check before they buy amid flood of counterfeit toys Border Force warns knock-off Labubu dolls and similar items can be dangerous, and sales fund criminal networks At this time of year, with the big day looming and the north pole elves straining to meet their manufacturing quotas, it may be tempting for Santa to try outsourcing toy production to international organised crime gangs. But Father Christmas would do well to heed fresh warnings that counterfeit versions of one of this year’s most popular toys can be dangerous to children. Continue reading...

‘Too good to be true’: parents warned to check before they buy amid flood of counterfeit toys

The tariffs that nearly stole Christmas The Economist spent a year talking to toymakers battling President Grinch

The Economist spent a year talking to toymakers battling President Grinch

Boxing day hunts to be thing of the past with trail hunting set to be banned

Boxing Day hunts are set to become a thing of the past with the process to ban trail hunting to start next year.

Bring back the ancient woodlands smothered beneath your timber plantations Ancient woodlands are vanishing – and with them, some of our most loved and endangered wildlife. Over 100,000 acres of our public forests used to be ancient woodland - that’s bigger than the Isle of W...

🌳Vast areas of our most vital habitat are at risk of being lost forever.

Will you join Dame Judi Dench and @wildcard.land in calling for DEFRA to fund the restoration of our publicly owned ancient woodlands?
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/br...

Two-thirds of councils in England have not prosecuted a single landlord in the past three years, despite receiving 300,000 complaints from desperate tenants living in unfit homes. #England #landlord #councils #homes

“When even Trump puts inflation on trial, you know it’s out of control. The ‘jury’ is just skyrocketing charts — and the verdict is already written: record-breaking failure.”
#InflationCrisis #Trump #Economy #CostOfLiving #USPolitics

This will be remembered as the most pathetic moment in American history. What a needy fool.

Keir Starmer banned Labour MPs from joining any picket lines. #FuckStarmer