Jonn Elledge

Britain neither won the war nor stood alone, but I think you can go too far the other way, it was a key player

Smörgåsbord This week: a long weekend on the Øresund; and mansion tax map. But first: Christmas comes early.

"In a very real sense, after all, the purpose of Christmas is to provide light in the darkness."

The case for going hard on Christmas when everything is fucking shit.

He means the loss of the empire

He goes on, “Britain has shrunken, not just physically, but in some way that’s hard to describe. Its culture has changed, some might say has been destroyed, and it’s become something completely different.” For some reason, my dog just started barking.

www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

Why does Tucker Carlson hate Britain? His garish fantasies about our country are starting to infect our own conservative movement

"If you’ve ever wondered how a Trump speech might read with all the rapier sharp wit and easy charm stripped out, I can heartily recommend the Tucker Carlson piece published by the Spectator last week..."

Why, to mangle a quote from a work of great American literature, are they so obsessed with us?

hey @lewisbaston.bsky.social look at this

just... the way you can immediately understand both every part of the thought process and what it tells you about FIFA. great stuff. no notes

okay to be fair this is fucking hilarious

Why does Tucker Carlson hate Britain? His garish fantasies about our country are starting to infect our own conservative movement

Why does Tucker Carlson hate Britain?

His garish fantasies about our country are starting to infect our own conservative movement

By @JonnElledge.bsky.social

Sri Lankan cyclone relief fundraiser to take place in London this weekend · News ⟋ RA Mutton Roll Daytimer will take place at The Big Chill House in King's Cross this Sunday.

So it seems like the least we can do is play some music and eat some authentic Sri Lankan snacks to help out.

Big up RA for the news piece

ra.co/news/84145

I am just one of a group of British Sri Lankans promoting this event on Sunday, 3-11pm at Big Chill King’s Cross. But the message stands: nearly half a million Sri Lankans have been affected by Cyclone Ditwah and resulting landslides and extreme flooding. Around 500 are dead and 400 missing (WHO)

(you can also donate if you can't attend/don't fancy the party)

My friend @manueky.bsky.social is organising this event Sunday to raise money for the victims of the floods in Sri Lanka. Why not go along?

I mean, it absolutely bothers me how much I think about Nigel Farage, yes. But I realised that laundering was his main skill years ago when every UKIP rising star imploded after accidentally doing a racism on BBCQT or somethin

I think that's why he seems, for the first time in ages, genuinely rattled by this stuff. Because it shows him doing the less socially permissible form of racism, and reminds everyone that this skill had to be learned

[shamelessly both promoting Dorian's point and adding my own]

Farage has always been very good at doing sort of golf club racism. He has an instinctive grasp on what codes to use and how much he can say before people recoil that his heirs and imitators lack. (...more)

Dan Wineman @dwineman@xoxo.zone You’re absolutely right — you are Pagliacci. It would certainly be difficult for you to attend your own performance! I should not have given such paradoxical advice, and I apologize deeply for the error. There is no excuse for my failure. Nevertheless, comedy is a powerful healing force. My recommendation is to seek out live entertainment. For example, great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up. 🔗 Sponsored Reply (Great Clown Productions, Ltd.) Dec 02, 2025, 03:10 PM · · Mona for Mac https://xoxo.zone/@dwineman/115651788702895997

this story isn’t going away

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

Then again, perhaps this is over complicating it. The wheel turns, and this too must pass: ruling classes have often been haunted by visions of what has happened to the people they replaced. Perhaps this obsession is entirely natural. What seems rather less natural, though, is the behaviour of the British right. Such people would surely be offended by the suggestion they were anything less than patriotic – yet there they are, allying with foreigners against their own countrymen, colluding to spread nightmarish visions of a Britain in decline. Perhaps those hysterical Americans were right – and Britain really is in danger from an enemy within, after all.

Quite.

not my own! it's a meme

Why does Tucker Carlson hate Britain? His garish fantasies about our country are starting to infect our own conservative movement

"If you’ve ever wondered how a Trump speech might read with all the rapier sharp wit and easy charm stripped out, I can heartily recommend the Tucker Carlson piece published by the Spectator last week..."

Why, to mangle a quote from a work of great American literature, are they so obsessed with us?

As a journalist you’re always looking for ways to sum up the now, but the story is really often more incremental. This is from a Derbyshire county council paper. I was, inevitably, looking for “library to close” or “doge identified £Xm”, but the starting point is at least as important

Can't wait for these kids to meet, become a found family, fall in and out of love, grow up together, take part in a cover-up of the negligent death of their classmate, all the things intrinsic to a Starfleet cadet's life

As a Doctor Who fan, I'd say this half-dead thing sat in a chair with one arm tucked away, surrounded by obedient fascist robots reminds me of Davros, except the Daleks aren't robots.

you can now read some of the book in German, in the event you want to read some of the book in German

NO-ONE NEEDS THAT

if it's any consolation my mother says "well I've read *some* of it"

hope he enjoys! gorgeous bird

I apologise for prematurely ageing you, but I knew you were horrifically young so remain unmoved by the number

obviously not going to post the whole thing as it's a print only mag and I do not want to get in trouble, BUT here's a photo of a bit of it. get yours here!

doctorwhomagazine.com