If not this galaxy then in one of the other trillion or so. Sadly, it is unlikely we will ever find out. Supposition will have to do.

Tories and Daily Mail unhinged. Can we have considered and informed debate please rather than these radical headlines with no substance in the text.

Yes is winning on 58%

Mail is running a poll on whether the UK should rejoin the EU.

Takes seconds to vote and it's going hilariously well...

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Orbán’s pay cheques: Reform candidate fuelled by profits from Russian oil The Reform candidate at this month’s byelection claims he wants to put Britain first, but is he still on the payroll of Viktor Orbán’s far-right propaganda unit?

These people call themselves patriots. Almost invariably, they turn out to be stooges of foreign powers. goodlawproject.org/orbans-pay-c...

So you are saying we shouldn't have defended our people and assets? This post leaves me with grave doubts as to your suitability to lead.

Before voting in May please consider if this is what you really want in the UK.

Oh for goodness sake. They may have relocated from Lakenheath a while ago but they sure as hell didn't launch an attack directly from there. Combat radius of this aircraft is just over 1000 kilometres.

Please, if you have any interest in the subject, from whatever perspective, read this substack. When delivering its decision the high court specifically warned against what has been done with it. If you cannot appreciate the difference between sex and gender then refrain from commenting.

I see the news pundits are now comparing the current gulf situation with the Suez crisis. Suez was resolved by the humiliation of the UK and the resignation of Anthony Eden. Given the choice between that and escalation I cannot see the USA choosing withdrawal. Buckle up.

Looks like some are trying to drive our politics rightward using obscene wealth. Who benefits?

We've seen smiling racists like this before and sadly we will see them again. Call them out at every opportunity. Appealing to and stoking fear where none should exist.

It's the Trump/Maga/Project 2025 playbook writ large. How's that going USA?

Should the British not read "Project 2025"? It appears to be the manifesto of Reform.

Ummm, whatever happened to the notion of the presumption of innocence? If found guilty then fine, but until then.....

Strikes me the people want to vote Reform to "stick it to the man" as it were. Well, that didn't work out in 2016, but I wonder if these people take any notice of what is in front of their eyes.

Bannon, Epstein, Farage and Johnson and the Plot to 'Topple' Theresa May The far-right former Trump adviser told Jeffrey Epstein that "we are overthrowing May right now" as he worked with Boris Johnson to remove the then Conservative Prime Minister from office

Asked back in 2019 about reports of his work with Steve Bannon, Boris Johnson described them as “the biggest load of codswallop I have ever heard.”

His spokesperson did not respond to requests for comment following the publication of Bannon's messages to Epstein confirming the relationship

Orbán’s pay cheques: Reform candidate fuelled by profits from Russian oil The Reform candidate at this month’s byelection claims he wants to put Britain first, but is he still on the payroll of Viktor Orbán’s far-right propaganda unit?

Blimey. Looks like Matt Goodwin, who seems to think the Handmaid's Tale is an instruction manual, is in the pay of an Orban think tank, funded by Russian oil money.

"It is a singular if highly dubious distinction of Donald Trump’s pungent contribution to the political discourse to have essentially bankrupted the English language’s capacity for outrage." Thank you Robert Tait of the Guardian for a brilliant encapsulation of a truth.

The Legislation Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will: 1) Leave the ECHR 2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights. 3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill: This Bill will: Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act." The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years: Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT) Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order. These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR. Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds. If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight. Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence Re-entry after deportation will be…

The Operational Plan We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property. Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000 Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes. This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month. Initial Voluntary Return Window A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this. The Deportation Flights The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.

It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

As a veteran of the first Gulf War I will not accept and never forgive that gross insult to my colleagues who fought later in Afghanistan and Iraq. The US soldiers and marines I met in Iraq would be horrified by this president.

Nonviolent opposition. Refuse to support, directly or indirectly, all in Project 2025.

As Trump menaces Greenland, this much is clear: the free world needs a new plan – and inspired leadership | Gordon Brown The idea that the liberal rules-based order can survive his presidency now seems complacent. This is a historic moment – and a time to act, says former UK prime minister Gordon Brown

Brown articulates a way forward for us all in a world threatened by cowards whose only strategy is violence. An alternative to leaders that exert power because they fear their own weakness. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

And about time too. No sense pussyfooting around with populists.

And with so many bots running X is being used to deliberately generate discontent and lower confidence in the democratic process. This is not "freedom of speech", the purpose is to separate and silence us.

An essential and fascinating read. My wife and both daughters have read it and call it marvellous. So, the Roman empire never really fell, just changed its form.

Now then; who could possibly be behind that?

Make a Bond movie academic:

Thunder orchitis.

Over 5.5K within the Broads Authority area alone. Will the public tolerate culling and can it be a commercial exercise?

Don't worry, enjoy your day. Tomorrow will do for the next episode. 😎

The year turns tomorrow. The winter solstice in the northern hemisphere is at 1530hrs, 21st Dec.