Roland Smith

Eurosceptics went on about traitors for years, but it turns out the traitors are among them.

Full statement here. Despite apparently calming down in recent weeks, she's still awful. After all the eruptions and hate, it's like she has finally blown herself out. Good-Bye and Good Riddance.

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Well, good morning.

This is Zelensky putting pressure on Trump. He knows Ukrainians don't want to surrender. He's talking to all Americans across the political spectrum who support Ukraine, love freedom, and hate surrender. He's telling them: "you can't allow Trump to align the US with Ru against Europe". Let's see.

Plot twist: The CPS is not happy with the latest High Court judgment in favour of Hamit Coskun, and is appealing.

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Oh hulloooo.

Just an absolute joke of a newspaper these days

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'The Times Radio Gender Debate', with Helen Webberley and Helen Joyce. Chaired by Jo Coburn.

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Zelensky admitting that the pressure Trump is putting on Ukraine to take this grotesque deal is immense.

Chart showing detention population, among those arrested in the interior, by criminal record, May 2019 through present. There are three lines shown. (1) Prior conviction (which rises from around 9,000 in January 2025 to just over 16,000 in November 2025), (2) Pending criminal charges (which rises from around 5,000 to 15,000), and (3) No criminal record (which rises from around 1,000 to 21,000).

NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.

It is indisputable that Brexit has been an economic disaster, and notable that none of its political architects have paid any price.

This is an actual Daily Express 'story' about Question Time.

Yes, really.

This is one of the changes in the UK media landscape that should be more remarked on: the fact that being a very open, proud, outright racist is no longer a bar to being a pundit on some TV stations (in this case GBN and Talk TV).

Morning.

Morning.

The President of the United States just called for Democratic lawmakers to be killed. Trump is putting my colleagues’ lives at risk because they have exercised their free speech rights under the First Amendment and Speech and Debate Clause.

Dominic Cummings ‘poisoned the atmosphere’ of Boris Johnson’s No 10, Covid inquiry finds Report from inquiry’s second module also says Johnson as PM ‘at times actively encouraged’ chaotic culture

Gosh. What a shock.
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Men will spend billions on building their own AI rather than go to therapy.

Covid Inquiry finds Cummings created a culture of fear and likely contravened the SPAD code.

A relief, and good news: September's jobs report was (finally!) released, and it shows a relatively healthy labor market.

Payrolls +119k, a bit stronger than expected, and definitely well above recession territory.

The unemployment rate rose a tick to 4.4%, continuing a slow but worrying trend.

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🚨 Labour MPs are calling for a minister-led review of the government’s use of X, warning it poses growing risks to democracy and public safety

@politicshome.bsky.social understands a review is currently being carried out by officials, but without ministerial oversight

At what point do young people start rioting..?

Teenage knife deaths 11 year low in London

I'm sure the Londinistan guys will be delighted to read this... really good news... they'll be talking about something else altogether now... sure of it... because they were genuinely concerned weren't they

Shocking chart. Particularly alarming that the UK's figure has gone from 5% to ~10% since around 2014 whereas it's taken about 25 years for the same to happen in the US.

Oh, hullo....

A surrender, then.

Sunlit Uplands latest...

Yes, Michael Crick dug it up years ago but the sources then were anonymous. They're now coming out.

It shouldn't matter what you say/do in teen age. But what if it has resonance with what you say/do today?