Nigel Farage ‘tricked into paying tribute to Ian Watkins’:

"If he is prepared to lie for relatively paltry sums, what is he prepared to do for larger amounts?"

Factcheck: How ‘scary-sounding numbers’ are being used to mislead the UK about net-zero:

The most common tactics for misleading people about net-zero include: focusing on the cost of action without mentioning the cost of business-as-usual; mentioning the costs of cutting emissions but not the benefits; and omitting the costs of failing to tackle dangerous climate change.

Apropos of nothing, my grandfather could be a mean, vindictive SOB, but knew how to behave when he had to. Once the dementia kicked in, he continued to be a mean SOB but no longer had any restraint.

Sound familiar?

Heather Cox Richardson's letter for 12th January:

On January 5, Hegseth issued a formal censure of Kelly, saying Kelly’s call for military personnel to refuse unlawful orders “undermines the chain of command,” “counsels disobedience,” “creates confusion about duty,” “brings discredit upon the armed forces,” and “is conduct unbecoming an officer.”

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the New York Times reported that when the U.S. military attacked a small boat apparently coming from Venezuela on September 2, 2025, the first such attack of what now number at least 35, it used a secret aircraft that had been disguised to look like a civilian plane... The journalists report that disguising a military aircraft to look like a civilian plane is a war crime called “perfidy.”

It's easy to be cynical and say this is just the US government just being brazen about what they have always done, but I think it's more than that. While being dodgy about politics and regime change in other countries has always been the US' perfect display of hypocrisy, they're now deliberately destroying any sense of honour or morality amongst other groups (sort of like the whole 'good chaps' theory in the UK).

Maybe at some point soon, they will say fascism is good and everyone should do it. I don't know if Winston Smith could outdo them.

Now, are the commenters bots or simply so stupid they believe what others say even when the evidence is contradictory?