When Trump dies and people celebrate that fact, show this to anyone who complains.

First Iran called Trump's bluff and now the markets are. They've spotted that the cards Trump is holding are Master Bun the Baker's son and the rules of solitaire.

Confused old man yells at military alliance

"Kansas firefighters rescue chubby cat trapped in massive recliner while trying to hide from the vet"
God speed, chubby cat.

‘Jim Ratcliffe has moved to Monaco to save £4 billion worth of tax in this country one might question whether he is the patriot we need to comment on this issue'

Home Office minister Jake Richards speaks to #BBCBreakfast Ratcliffe claimed UK had been "colonised by immigrants"

EU have just signed a treaty with the Swiss to scrap the complicated trade relationship. EU want a simple overarching treaty not the mess they had with the Swiss and don’t forget Switzerland are in Schengen which is why they allow a closer relationship than the U.K with the SM

Freedom of Movement of people, goods, service and capital are certainly indivisible in the context of the single market.

But outside of that context, Freedom of Movement of people could certainly stand alone as a first step.

In fact, it does in Switzerland.

And between Ireland and UK too.

This is… quite good actually?

Times Extracts: Closer ties with EU are Britain's biggest prize Ben Clatworthy Whitehall Editor Closer integration with the European Union is the "biggest prize" for Britain, Rachel Reeves has said. The chancellor said closer alignment with the EU "is a political argument Labour can win" and closer ties with the bloc would boost trade and make things easier for businesses and cheaper for consumers. Speaking at the London School of Economics, Reeves said: "The biggest prize is clearly with the EU. The truth is, economic gravity is reality. Almost half of our trade is with the European Union. We trade almost as much with the EU as the whole of the rest of the world combined. There are three big trading blocs in the world -there's the US, there's China and there is Europe. "We want to make Europe as strong as possible, and that means not putting up the drawbridge." Sir Keir Starmer has maintained that rejoining the customs union was a red line, although he is open to closer ties on specific issues, such as food stan-dards, animal welfare and pesticide use. Reeves added she believes that the UK rejoining the EUs Erasmus scheme, which was announced late last year, is "one of the most popular things that we've done as a government". The comments will raise hopes on the soft left of the Labour party, which is feeling emboldened after Starmer was forced to head off a challenge to his premiership on Monday, the leadership plans a change in its stance on the EU. They also mark a shift in Reeves's language on Europe. Last month in Davos, she urged Cabinet ministers to stop floating the idea of a closer union, insisting Britain could not "go back in time". Her comments were seen as aimed at Wes Streeting, the health secretary, who said in December: "The best way for us to get more growth into our economy is a deeper trading relationship with the EU."

“We want to make Europe as strong as possible and that means not putting up the drawbridge”
Didn’t Brexit detonate that drawbridge?
Great if you want to rebuild it though. Not that great if your red lines mean your pace is glacially slow and has Farage standing by with more explosives.

(Times)

This is bizarre. It doesn't even make sense. Why is Tower Bridge in it? They're stupid as well as bigoted.

Teachers in England driving homeless pupils to school and washing clothes, research shows Survey finds schools referring homeless children to food banks as record numbers live in temporary housing

www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Yep.
And emptying their freezers.

Trump vs. U.S. allies: How will this end? The president has backed off his threat to take Greenland by force. But his highly inflammatory remarks in Switzerland rattled U.S. allies and threatened to tear down the pillars of the world order.

The president has backed off his threat to take Greenland by force. But his highly inflammatory remarks in Switzerland rattled U.S. allies and threatened to tear down the pillars of the world order.

'Trump Has Already Rigged the 2028 Presidential Election': US Defence Insider Regardless of how people vote, the chances of a Democrat Government coming to power in 2029 is now virtually nil, argues Brynn Tannehill

Please read and share this. It shapes all my thinking about the future of the US right now, and it explains why Trump and the GOP are behaving the way they do.

There is a near zero chance a Democrat will be sworn in as President in 2029, no matter how people vote.

bylinetimes.com/2026/01/22/t...

Ed Quote Graphic. TEXT: Now is the moment to be clear-eyed about the threats facing Britain. Vladimir Putin is waging war in Europe while Donald Trump is tearing up the rules and alliances that keep us safe. Britain and our allies must rapidly strengthen our defences to deter the likes of Putin. Defence Bonds would give ordinary people the opportunity to contribute to Britain’s security. It is much better to invest now in deterring a war than having to fight one.

Now is the moment to be clear-eyed about the threats facing Britain.

Putin is waging war in Europe, while Trump undermines the alliances that keep us safe.

Defence Bonds would help protect our country and let people invest in Britain’s security.

Zack Polanski: “Brexit has been a catastrophe: economically, socially, culturally and around the arts. It made absolutely no sense in the first place. Even with people who voted for Brexit, polling shows again and again that they now regret that decision or they can’t see a single real benefit.”
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Special Address by Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada YouTube video by World Economic Forum

Canada’s PM Mark Carney's now legendary Davos speech. Worth listening to:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=miM4... - (speech is 17 min long)

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Trump wants to send the military after American citizens.” — 10/15/24

She told you so‼️‼️‼️

Everyone has seen the videos, yet they lie, and they lie, and they lie.

Federal Agents in US murdered nurse Alex Pretti

Choose a new path for London Before it's too late. CHOOSE A NEW PATH FOR LONDON REFORM UK LAIla cunningham sharing meme of herself and a penguin in tribute to Trump

That AI penguin has more chance of being the next mayor of London than Cunningham.

Talk about not understanding the city you seek to represent.

Showing their true colours then. The NHS would be destroyed by Reform UK

They’d happily see a US style system where people die or go bankrupt if they get too

Bookmark that Vice President and future presidential candidate JD Vance retweeted a post that said Alex Pretti was “an assassin who tried to murder federal agents.”

Don’t let this White House lie to you. Believe what you see.

Alex Pretti was trying to help a woman off the ground. Then immigration agents tackled, shot, and killed him.

It’s time for them to get the hell out of MN.

Ed Davey, "With Trump in the White House, the US is no longer a reliable ally"

"We have to look at alternative coalitions"

"Customs Union with the EU"

"How did we get Trump to back down on Greenland? It wasn't the UK, it was the EU threatening retaliatory tariffs"