Cat check: This was from a short section of the display celebrating achievements in 2025, in this case Team Europe winning the Ryder Cup. The stars are from the flag of the Council of Europe, which the European team uses during the match. Confirmed by the commentary while it was displayed: "Shane Lowry has done it and on American soil Europe have retained the Ryder Cup"

I am going to move to Bluesky using the same name This place is no longer healthy, and I’m frankly sick of having ridiculous right wing nutters pushed at me by X/Musk Tried arguing but it’s like dialogue with a wall. I used to get thousands of replies & retweets - no longer Bye!

The US has confirmed that Ukraine was not involved in the attack on Putin's residence, following a CIA review – WSJ. And there are still complete idiots in India and Pakistan who believe Putin, the biggest liar in the world and the worst mass murderer since Hitler.

Putin claimed Ukraine targeted his home — the CIA says it never happened trib.al/wmWxqq1

news.sky.com/story/michael-g… We don’t. Just think how much more damage he would have done if he was in charge earlier….

CIA says there was no Ukrainian drone attack on Putin’s residence.

Still 90 minutes to go, so I could end up looking foolish but I think it's fair to say Jane was wrong about that.

Can someone explain to me how an MP and a member of the shadow cabinet can moonlight as the attorney for a Russian oligarch who is trying to wiggle out of a £2.5 billion deal to aid victims of the war in Ukraine that he made with the UK government? Back in the day that was called a “conflict of interest”

Surely this kind of behaviour breaches UK terror laws?

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Did I miss the bit of the American Christian right winger bible, where God comes down and cleans up all the oil pollution they dumped, tidies the toxic chemicals away, nurtures all the endangered species back to sustainable levels, and still gives everyone a huge pension?

news.sky.com/story/israel-su… The intention to exterminate them remains.

Tory's 'conflict of interest' over Abramovich job news.sky.com/video/share-134… There’s either a taxi rank or there isn’t. Time for Tories to stop shouting about it when it suits them.

Hegseth already knows whether Ukraine had a pop at Putin’s countryside pad…..but Trump preferred to take the word of Putin and Lavrov…… Why does USA need a Dept of Defense if it only listens to the enemy propaganda?

Stand by UK …. cnn.com/2025/12/30/europe/de…

Trump 🇺🇸 & Netanyahu 🇮🇱 are truly psychotic: ‘Gaza 🇵🇸 is a mess’ ‘A mess for centuries’ ‘Seems to be born for that’ ‘We are going to put it right’ These monsters bombed Gaza 🇵🇸 to oblivion & murdered 20,000 children Evil, evil mad bastards The Hague is not enough.

Roald Dahl on Measles: Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. 'Are you feeling all right?' I asked her. 'I feel all sleepy,' she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was...in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunised against measles. ...I dedicated two of my books to Olivia, the first was ‘James and the Giant Peach’. That was when she was still alive. The second was ‘The BFG’, dedicated to her memory after she had died from measles. You will see her name at the beginning of each of these books. And I know how happy she would be if only she could know that her death had helped to save a good deal of illness and death among other children. Roald Dahl, 1986

"Dear Diary, My latest brilliant plan is to prosecute civil servants for letting in foreign sex offenders. By which, of course, I mean 'bad' sex offenders, not good ones like my mates Andrew Tate, Donald Trump, Connor McGregor, or my cheeky upskirting nephew..."