Patrick Osgood

He’s challenging tradition! He’s a lovable rogue, defying staid conventions! He’s a virile, inventive scallywag, questioning etiolated norms! He’s Huck Finning his way around the constitutional order and we love it!

The Government agredd a compromise to get the bill through. The Lords have ignored that - unconstitutionally.

The govt should do the same. Return to the full version of the bill, pass it with the Parliament Act then reform the Lords to stop this happening again.

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The basic truth of all claims about immigrants is that immigrants are just, you know, people, and therefore what is true for any human in the UK working in one field is also true of an immigrant in that one: www.ft.com/content/10da...

One under-appreciated part of this: note the bit below about “and their dependents.”

Under the Trump admin’s new policy, dependent children of visa applicants are not allowed to have their social media set to private during the entire visa process. They MUST make their social media public.

Can’t talk for one moment about anything - not one single thing, not his wife, not his son - without sounding demented and senile

Woo is a reactionary force. Its association with hippies concealed this for a long time, but it has always been true.

Of course, normal handshakes don't involve the back of your hand in any way, shape, or form, so this is an obvious lie even by Trumpian standards.

What health issue does Trump have that the White House is so desperate to cover up?

i think one thing to remember about the republicans trump picked to lead his government is that most of them are below replacement level as politicians

Ooh it’ll regret this shit

Tanker is worth roughly say, $100m, so gross of transaction costs thats about $0.30 per American.

It's a bargain. Ukraine doing all the hard work and blood sacrifice tying up and destroying the Russian army, reducing the threat to the rest of us.

Conspiracy theorist election denier given FEMA’s second-most important role Gregg Phillips will lead the Office of Response and Recovery, “the heart of what FEMA does.”

Essential reporting from @marisakabas.bsky.social

FEMA's Office of Response and Recovery will soon be led by Gregg Phillips, an election-denying conspiracy theorist with no relevant experience.

"Americans will lose their lives because this administration refuses to put in competent leadership." 🧵

I’M LOSING MY SHIT THIS IS SO FUNNY

This whole thing should simply be a commercial. Frankly, if the Democrats have any sense at all, they will take this clip and pay to air it, unedited, across 90 seconds of Superbowl airtime

Revealed: The IEA’s oil and Murdoch money New “groundbreaking investigation” into Tufton Street’s funding...

"According to archive records seen by DeSmog, the IEA accepted more than £357,000 from fossil fuel giants – including BP, Shell, and Esso (owned by ExxonMobil) – between 1990 & 2005, adding to the £122,000 received between 1967 and 1989"

And over £164k from Murdoch's News International in the 90s

Britain threatened to cut off ICC funding over Netanyahu arrest warrant, claims prosecutor Karim Khan makes allegation in court submission while defending move to prosecute Israeli prime minister in 2024 The British government threatened to defund the international criminal court and leave the Rome statute that set it up if it pressed ahead with plans to issue an arrest warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu, the ICC’s prosecutor, has claimed. Karim Khan made the allegation in a submission to the court defending his decision to prosecute Israel’s prime minister. Continue reading...

Britain threatened to cut off ICC funding over Netanyahu arrest warrant, claims prosecutor

US raid allegedly killed Syrian undercover agent instead of Islamic State group official A recent U.S. operation in Syria mistakenly killed a man who had been working undercover against the Islamic State group, according to his family, a war monitor and officials.

Allegations of a US night raid with a local partner force going bad, this time in Syria.

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I used to report from the West Bank. Twenty years after my last visit, I was shocked by how much worse it is today The long read: Among the many people I met, there was a pervasive feeling of hopelessness and a sense that resistance is slowly becoming a memory

I used to report from the West Bank. Twenty years after my last visit, I was shocked by how much worse it is today

Exclusive: US weighs hitting UN Palestinian refugee agency with terrorism-related sanctions Trump administration officials have held advanced discussions on hitting U.N. Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA with terrorism-related sanctions, said two sources with direct knowledge of the matter, prompting serious legal and humanitarian concerns inside the State Department.

Exclusive: US weighs hitting UN Palestinian refugee agency with terrorism-related sanctions reut.rs/4q0RZKD

Starting With Formaldehyde, Trump Administration Reassesses Chemical Risks A draft memo from the E.P.A. assumes a safe threshold exists for formaldehyde, upending earlier findings that there is no safe level of exposure to the carcinogen.

The Trump administration is proposing to almost double what’s considered safe exposure levels to formaldehyde, a cancer-causing chemical found in many consumer products, as part of a broader overhaul of its approach to regulating carcinogens.

U.S. Moves to Drop Charges in International Soccer Corruption Case

Days after FIFA awarded Trump a fake peace prize, DOJ moves to drop charges in FIFA corruption case www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n...

'If Nigel Farage's Racism Is Forgotten It Will Give Him Permission for Far Worse' When someone tells you who they are, over and over again, it is wise to listen, argues Clive Lewis MP

Brilliant piece by @labourlewis.bsky.social on why the Nigel Farage racism allegations matter.

If we end up rewarding a politics based on the instincts of a racist schoolyard bully, we should't be surprised at what follows bylinetimes.com/2025/12/10/n...

George Retes is a U.S. citizen and Iraq war veteran. He was detained by ICE and held in solitary confinement for three days without explanation.

George shared his story before Congress to make sure no American has to endure the same abuse he did.

Big Tech’s PR work around AI has been a masterclass in how not to communicate with the public about technology

This opinion appeals to Musk because it treats women and children as objects without autonomy, which appeals to subhuman techbros in his crowd.

Suckers for the gizmo circus. And what a miserable tree!

Shouting fire (falsely) in a theater (of any capacity) was Oliver Wendell Holmes’ metaphor for handing out antiwar handbills encouraging people to peacefully disobey a wartime draft. Also known as “clear and present danger.”

So if that’s your test you are definitionally not in favor of free speech.

Will the barbarism ever end

Just despicable and utterly predictable- I have a piece in edits hopefully out soon on this whole sorry campaign.

Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial."

"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."