Trump inauguration: Zuckerberg, Bezos and Musk seated in front of cabinet picks: Remember the good old days where it wasn’t the done thing for political leaders to make their chumocratic oligarchy fantasies quite so obvious.

Trump embraces role of demagogue on divine mission to reshape America: Trump kicks off with an utterly shameless, quite chilling speech.

New Year, same American violence: America is a ‘culturally violent place’, as well as having far too many guns of course.

Zuckerberg’s Spineless Surrender: Rehashing Old News To Enable False GOP Narratives: ‘Zuckerberg’s claim that he would stand up to government pressure on moderation is undermined by the fact that he’s revealing this literally while caving to government pressure on moderation.’

‘I’ll kiss the ground’: chaos feared amid Gaza ceasefire as families head home: Many of the 90% of Palestinians who have been displaced by the war are about to set off to see what remains of their homes, presumably under the assumption that the cease fire holds.

TikTok ban: App shuts down in the United States hours ahead of a ban: Whether the ban will last is a different story.

Nowhere to retvrn: how far-right revisionism spreads online: You can’t ‘return’ to something if it never existed in the first place.

A new era of lies: Mark Zuckerberg has just ushered in an extinction-level event for truth on social media: Looks like I’m not the only person kinda terrified about Zuckerberg’s latest pronouncement.

Understanding DOGE as Procurement Capture: The Department of Government Efficiency is clearly going to be nothing to do with government efficiency.

Revealed: 1.5m children in England studying in unfit school buildings: Years of insufficient budgets mean that buildings used for services like education, health and justice in the UK are literally crumbling.

£100m spent in England on failed efforts to block children’s Send support: Only 1.2% of council’s decisions to refuse to provide special educational funding for children are supported by courts when appealed.

Welcome to Britain’s Victorian Christmas, where volunteers in Santa hats fulfil the basic functions of the state: A decent country would not rely on the whims of charitable donations to meet the basic human needs of its population.

Louisiana forbids public health workers from promoting COVID, flu and mpox shots: Public health agencies are no longer allowed to promote public health.

The billionaires are full of bull: ‘You don’t earn trust with “balance” – especially not between two imbalanced things – you earn it by consistently providing evidence to support your findings.’