London is Over, Finished, and Washed Up
By Professor Matt Goodwhinge

From the new Private Eye, out now.

Bezos wedding. Dump gifts here.

From the new Private Eye, out now.

Sunset at Spanish Point, Co. Clare, Eire, last week. The weather was gorgeous!

Reform councillors don't care about running council services. They'll be slashing whatever services it deems to be woke while setting up cronies with huge salaries and finding ways to make money frombackhanders on service contracts.

7 months ago today I bombed that kids hospital in Kiev. But as Trump says, "it's what anyone would do".

Revealed: at least 25 UK ‘spy cops’ had sex with deceived members of public Total shows scale of dishonesty in undercover operations over more than three decades

At least 25 #spycops deceived women they spied on into sexual relationships, 4 of them having kids. The true figure is likely much higher - the public inquiry has granted most of them anonymity, we only have full details on the ones we unmasked ourselves.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I wrote this before the Oval Office performance, but really, there is nothing to add. It's all still true.

TV tonight: pop art pioneer Pauline Boty gets the documentary she deserves Peter Blake, Jim Moir and more celebrate the late artist’s genius. Plus: Norma Percy’s masterly series on Israel and Palestine continues. Here’s what to watch this evening

TV tonight: pop art pioneer Pauline Boty gets the documentary she deserves

SNL debuts Mike Myers as Elon Musk

Double page colour spread in The Times. The headline is 'One bad apple? It was a whole rotten barrel'. The subheader says 'Meet the women who exposed one of Britain's biggest police scandals'. There is a large studio portrait photo of three middle-aged women looking sombre, confident and perhaps a tiny bit menacing.

"One bad apple? It was a whole rotten barrel" - large feature in today's Times speaking to several of the women who exposed their partners as #spycops & lifted the lid on 50 years of the unlawful police unit & its institutional sexism. Here's a link without a paywall: archive.ph/fRIw2

Europe’s dependence on US tech is a critical weakness In order to protect their sovereignty, the continent’s leaders must invest in a digital ecosystem independent of America

Europe’s dependence on US tech is a critical weakness. From @marietjeschaake.bsky.social
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The Minsk Accord was destabilised by Russia, as they continued to send troops and weapons into Donetsk in 2015. Russia's invasion of Ukraine 3 years ago was the biggest outbreak of armed conflict since WW2, destabilised the whole of Europe. Why are you justifying the actions of a dictator?

Were undercover cops involved in the firebombing of Dingles? Culprit was never caught for 1988 inferno

Did #spycops officer Bob Lambert burn down a Plymouth fur retailer when undercover? This 2017 article is about a Plymough fire, & in recent weeks at the public inquiry we've learned an incendiary device was unaccounted for & Lambert was in Dorset at the time

www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymout...

Russia fired the starting pistol 3 years ago with a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Putin won't be satisfied until he restores Russia's former borders under Peter the Great.

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million.

How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65

Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

Things went downhill in the British Isles when the Norman's arrived in 1066. After doing a quick audit (AKA the Domesday Book), they took all the prime land and enslaved them as serfs. Today, they're known as the establishment and are very upset by tax changes brought in by a Labour government.

Can't figure out why there's no crowds in Syria is trying to force their way onto our vehicles to come to Russia with us like it was when US left Afghanistan.

You do remember that, right

Whooping cough cases skyrocket in Michigan, as vaccinations decline | Bridge Michigan A potentially deadly disease in infants, whooping cough — pertussis — has exploded in Michigan this year, in part because of decreased vaccination rates.

Cases of whooping cough in Michigan are at their highest level in at least 20 years, as vaccinations decline. The disease can be deadly to infants. Alarmed by the increase, doctors are pleading for families to vaccinate their children.

YouTube video by Cops Campaign Spycops inquiry reaction: end of 9 Dec 2024 ('Callum' & 'Walter' evidence)

Today's hearing of the #spycops public inquiry also heard evidence from 'Walter', a hunt saboteur who was spied on by officer Andy Coles & other officers.

Tom Fowler & Ben - both spied on for their activism - were there & reported on what they heard.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro9N...

The head of the statue of Hafez al-Assad was dragged by a car through the streets of #Hama after its liberation from the #Assad regime.

He meets his family in #Aleppo after 13 years of forced displacement Which Bashar al-Assad forced him to do 😭

It's not just that Bob Lambert committed a catalogue of outrages. It's that he was then seen as exemplary by later #spycops. One said Lambert's was regarded as 'hands down the best tour of duty ever'. He was put in charge of the unit & made a new generation of abusers in his image. Then given an MBE

The Ukraine missile crisis: Putin’s shadow war against the west finally breaks cover After Kyiv used Storm Shadow missiles, Russia’s leader asserted his ‘right’ to attack the UK and US. In truth, he has been doing exactly that for two years now The unprecedented firing by Ukrainian forces of British-made long-range Storm Shadow missiles…

The Ukraine missile crisis: Putin’s shadow war against the west finally breaks cover