Editor: I thought I’d start with a snippet sent to me by a member of our Red Brick staff who works at our Greenland offices, which are currently under renovation and being given a red, white and blue makeover. It is a headline from one of the daily ‘fish and chip wrappers,’ I mean daily newspapers.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/9-bits-bad-news-slipped-36423764
The Daily Mirror used to be popular with the British Working Class, which was when employment was in abundance in the United Kingdom before the systematic dismantling of our most treasured industries by successive Swampster Governments.
The outsourcing of UK industries to foreign countries led to the de-skilling of future generations of UK citizens and generally speaking, the lowering of peoples IQ’s within what were once stable and contented family units, in my opinion, of course.
Praise ‘NOT,’ for Margaret Thatcher’s Tory Party and the New Labour Government which took up the ‘New World Order Agenda’ mantle from her.
Another ‘NOT,’ special mention for Tony Blair, the ‘real’ Prime Minister behind the current government, the ‘New Labour-Labour Fabian Party’ fronted by ‘wotsizname’ who, when he actually does something of any significance for the UK citizens who elected him, then I suppose his name might strike a chord with me, but for now it ‘falls well short of one single crotchet.’
Straight away from the headline above, my mind turns to the political ‘truth drop show,’ I mean comedy, the one with the title ‘Yes Minister.’
The show highlighted all the shenanigans and diddly-bobs and downright ‘skullduggery that is the politics of Westminster’s Lower House, which is the House of Commons (HoC) and where Prime Minister’s Questions are held (PMQ’s), although when a prime minister actually last answered a question directly, if ever, has so far not been in my lifetime and I was born over 200 years ago.
Of course, at Red Brick we have long since believed that the HoC has been a ‘den of iniquity’ and over the years, there have been many politicians whose indiscretions resulted in their highly publicised falls from grace and rightly so.
We unreservedly refer to the HoC as ‘Lower Swampminster,’ a title well-earned and richly deserved and more so now than ever given the publics’ distrust of the current UK Government, which I believe at the time of writing has one of, if not the lowest public approval rating….’Ev-verrrr!’
Then there is the other half of the duo who share the ground space at the Palace of Westminster, the House of Lords (HoL), or should I say the ‘publicly unelected HoL. HoL is the ‘Upper House’ (Upper Swampminster) full of ‘Lords and Lordesses’ for whom no one voted.
Despite a small proportion of those sitting in the HoL due to receiving hereditary titles, I think the rest of the ‘Grifters,’ I mean peers names were randomly pulled out of a hat having been nominated, impartially, by their mates and the like who run government and nothing to do with any lifelong or lump sum buy-in donations to their favourite or any other political party for that matter, so’s to speak, so….move along now, nothing to see here, in my opinion, of course.
Dr Banana will take it from here.
Hi, Dr Musa Banana here. I shall be taking over this part of the article re the UK Farmers. Just so you know a little bit about me, I am a surgeon who specialises in ‘cosmetic repair’ of ‘fruits and vegetables’ who are victims of disfigurement through injury or at inception resulting from their germination, the process by which a plant develops from a seed, spore, or other reproductive body.
To put it in simple terms, I help misshapen fruits and vegetables not aesthetically pleasing to the eye of the consumer, through corrective surgery and treatments help the afflicted fruits make it to the shelves in the major supermarkets fruit and veg aisles. Here are the links to two previous articles of mine:
https://theredbrick.co.uk/2025/06/04/dr-banana-meets-the-fruit-and-veg-coalition-article-2-of-2/
On a cheery note, the farmers will no longer be subjected to crippling taxes introduced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, or better known to you and me as ‘Rachel from Accounts,’ because the idea that a farming family would have to buy their own farm back, effectively, once the senior household member died became too ridiculous even for the Labour, New Labour Fabian Party….at least for now?! Perhaps it had something to do with the following:
Farming Report: A government-commissioned report on farming profitability from former NFU boss Minette Batters was published without fanfare. It highlighted strong opposition from farmers to the potential changes in agricultural Inheritance Tax.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9975z55dr5o
However, for many of us who have worked around but not within the farming communities, knew that the apparent narrative of ‘Farmers versus Government’ was bollox from the start, given that much of the land fell within the ‘purview’ of the Lords and Ladyships and moving up the ‘Entitlement Food chain,’ we can include ‘Dukedoms,’ too. So you see, the farmers had some pretty powerful allies on their team.
I wonder if this was ‘Rachel’ trying to bring the ‘upper classes into line or bring them to heel through an act of showing them ‘Whose their Daddy,’ so’s to speak, or a clever deception to distract us ‘Plebites’ from a bigger picture being developed behind the Swampminster Wall of Government?’ So, let’s see what news slipped out from Swampminster before and during the Christmas festivities.
Dr Musa Banana for Red Brick.
Google AI Overview 3rd of January 2026:
‘It is a common practice for UK governments to release significant or “bad” news just before the Christmas parliamentary recess to minimise scrutiny and media attention. In December 2025, various announcements were made, including a pause on the Ajax tank programme and details about potential local election delays.’
Key stories and data slipped out by the government before Christmas 2025 included:
Ajax Armoured Vehicle Programme: The government announced a pause on all trials, training, and exercising of the new Ajax tanks due to ongoing investigations into noise and vibration issues that have made 30 soldiers ill. A written statement was released just before the recess, with the results of further inspections not expected until the New Year.
Red Bricks person in charge of the UK Diversity, Inclusion and Exclusion Department, Penn Curns nickname ‘Q-tip,’ will take it from here.
I can confirm that there is no truth in the rumour that the Ajax Tanks were purchased through TEMU or eBay, although I am still awaiting a reply to my ‘freedom of information’ request from Swampminster’s Civil Servants as to whether there is any truth in the rumour that the Ajax vehicles were put together using ‘Tonka’ and ‘Meccano’ parts.
A leaked image received by Red Brick shows an image of a ‘Tonka-ish’ looking vehicle being field tested by two of Ukraine’s latest recruits undergoing driver-training whilst on secondment to the British Army’s 77th Brigade. The 77th is training them to become part of the Ukrainian Army’s ‘Parental Snitch Squad.’
A non-existent spokesperson from the Ukrainian Ministry of Deception & Disinformation Department when asked by Red Brick reporter, Penn Curns: ‘Are Ukrainian children being recruited to spy on their families and report any adults who are eligible to be fighting at the frontline, but are in hiding having ‘dodged the draft’ or have deserted. The Ukrainian spokesperson issued the following statement:
“There is no truth in the Rumour that Ukraine is having trouble recruiting men and women to send to the frontline, and any suggestion that we are deliberately recruiting children to ‘snitch’ on their family members who have deliberately ‘dodge the draft,’ or have deserted from their units and gone into hiding and are being protected by other family members, is without foundation.”
When pushed further on this issue by Penn Curns who asked, ‘Is it true that the majority of Ukrainian’s newest recruits being sent to the frontline are unlikely to survive their first week of combat in the ‘Meatgrinder, and have about as much chance of surviving a month as Blyth Spartans Football Club does of winning the 2025-26 English Premiership League, especially when Blyth Spartans are a non-league football team. The Ukrainian Spokesperson replied, “Yes, we too are looking forward to the FIFA 2026 World Cup in America, thank you.”
Penn Curns then accused the spokesperson of ‘dodging’ the question and asked if he had also ‘dodged the draft’ back home in Ukraine to avoid being sent to the frontline. The spokesperson now looking flustered screamed from the top of his lungs, “Political Asylum, Diplomatic Immunity, Wibble-Wibble.” Bugger, I have digressed, sorry.
Red Brick Comment: Re Ajax vehicles being put together using ‘Tonka’ and ‘Meccano’ parts, the Civil Service has now replied and apologised for the delay blaming ‘Freedom of Information Requests’ for tying up over six (6) million Civil Service employees, with no conceivable date being announced by them as to when I, or the public can expect an answer to our original request.
This is because the remaining seven (7) million civil servants are working on behalf of the New Labour Fabian Party re the legalities, or lack of, so that any red tape can be underhandedly circumnavigated prior to rejoining the European Union or se we’ve heard, allegedly.
Local Election Delays: A statement from the Communities Minister indicated that some councils could be allowed to delay their local elections by a year, to 2027, if they voiced concerns about running elections for bodies that might soon be reorganised or cease to exist.
Red Brick Comment: So, nothing ‘dodgy or underhanded’ going on here then, given that the Labour Fabian Party was going to get its arse handed to them in the Local Council Elections.
I am also sure that there is no correlation between number 10 Downing Street Swampies cancelling local elections and their announcement that they are also cancelling Downing Street Press Briefings.
We sent two of our junior reporters best suited to visit Swampminster, ‘Slugtrail and Oilsnake,’ to ask the Swampies if they were being deliberately underhanded and who, if not the Mainstream Media, holds Swampminster to account? A Swampminster Spokesperson issued a short statement which read: “Move along everyone, move along, nothing to see here.”
Conclusion: Fails the ‘smell test.’
For the next subject we have invited Red Bricks Motor Racing Journalist, Klay Warremur, to add his comments on behalf of Red Brick.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c70rk80p9eqo
Speed Camera Faults: National Highways revealed a fault in some speed cameras on English motorways and A roads, leading to 2,650 wrongful activations since 2021. The government has said affected drivers will be compensated.
Red Brick Comment: Ha, going back to 2021 indeed, bollox! There might only have been 2,650 wrongful convictions, but will the victims receive any actual compensation in real terms, like shite they will and why, because it is unquantifiable.
How much did those wrongfully convicted:
- Suffer financially year on year?
- Did the extra points result in an unnecessary disqualification and if so did it result in….?
- A loss of driving licence? Did any loss of a driving licence lead to….?
- A loss of employment? Did loss of any employment lead to…..?
- Financial difficulties? Did any financial difficulties result in….?
- Loss of car and or home and if so, did these losses lead to….?
- Relationship difficulties? Did any relationship difficulties result in an….?
- Irreconcilable breakdown?
And if this has been the case with any of the wrongful convictions, did it result in an increase in the ‘mortality rate’ amongst those wrongfully convicted of motoring offences?
Questions, questions, questions, so I ask again, will the UK Government address the victims loss of money through speeding fines, but also the loss of interest for the money wrongfully taken from them, which would have received interest compounded year-on-year. I very much doubt this will be the case although hopefully, I will be wrong.
However, whilst authoring this article Red Brick’s resident psychic, Cyball L Starr, received a message from the ‘beyond’ delivered to her through the tea leaves. The sender, a contented soul, who wishes to remain anonymous, sent Cyball L Starr an adaption of a poem they wrote centuries ago.
The original poem is written in plain text with the literary adaption in bold italics under the original words. It reads as follows:
For want of a nail, the shoe was lost;
For there was a speed camera that happened to fail,
For want of a shoe, the horse was lost;
For the innocent drivers it meant fines through the mail.
For want of a horse, the rider was lost;
For some the speeds meant a driving disqualification,
For want of a rider, the battle was lost;
For some it went further meaning employment termination.
For want of a battle, the kingdom was lost,
For the financial pressure the house was lost and the marriage derailed,
And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.
And all because a speed camera failed!
Note: “All for the want of a…” refers to the proverb, “For want of a nail, the shoe was lost; For want of a shoe, the horse was lost; For want of a horse, the rider was lost; For want of a rider, the battle was lost; For want of a battle, the kingdom was lost, and all for the want of a horseshoe nail,” a classic saying illustrating how small oversights can lead to catastrophic consequences, famously used by Benjamin Franklin. It emphasizes the importance of attention to detail, showing that tiny failures can cascade into major disasters. Google.
This poor chap did not receive much sympathy from his friend following his wife leaving him:
BREAKING NEWS: Flying pigs to deliver compensation packages to those wrongfully convicted etc,
I can hear ya’all asking what happened to the poor bloke above who lost everything, well, karma turned out to be a bitch for some, but not for him….look:
Red Brick’s Political Analyst Rusty Retton will pick up the story from here.
Downing Street Press Briefings: Number 10 confirmed the cancellation of its daily afternoon press briefing for political reporters in the new year, a move criticised by journalists as restricting access and scrutiny.
Red Brick Comment: Not that the Mainstream Media have been doing much to hold anyone to account let alone the UK government. Is this government showing its contempt for the MSM due to the MSM’s impotence and lack of independence re who owns them and which narrative they are allowed to push, or could it be that the government does not need the MSM as a ‘friend,’ not when it can issue them with a ‘D-Notice’ to shut them up’ in the interests of something, anything or nothing in particular?
Thank you google AI.
Google AI Overview 3rd January 2026: A D-Notice (now officially a DSMA Notice for Defence & Security Media Advisory) in the UK is a voluntary request to media outlets not to publish information damaging to national security, affecting military, intelligence, or critical infrastructure, with the decision to comply resting with the editor, not the government, serving as self-restraint rather than censorship.
Thank you Google, again.
Great, innit? The Globizonist owned Mainstream Media (MSM) and propaganda tool of governments, were originally given special freedoms to hold governments and big corporates and the like to account and if they ever did, they certainly don’t seem to do it now, with many choosing to fill their fish and chip wrappers with scantily clad females and pointless celebrity gossip.
And the part of the MSM whose time is spent ‘live on air’ are so bias towards certain governments and narratives, they are about as much use as tits on Tarzan, utterly failing in their duty to report the ‘Genocidal Palestinian Land Clearances’ and the suffering of the innocent women and children, a suffering of which is not exclusive to the People of Palestine.
The MSM doesn’t even pretend to try and provide both sides of the story, choosing to direct the narrative given to them. It wouldn’t be so bad if the MSM at best tip-toed around subjects important to the public and the UK by giving them at least enough information to ‘whet their appetites,’ inspiring them to research the important subjects for themselves, but that would be an innovative concept.
To be honest with ya’all, any public momentum for change died when the UK Government released its UK Citizens from COVID home entertainment, I mean internment, I mean Lockdown, by giving them their freedom back.
It soon became clear that freedom for the masses meant sitting back on their arses, drinking the deliberately manufactured unhealthy processed foods and shitty shitey takeaways, which many of them washed down with the equally and deliberately manufactured cheap lagers and wines, notwithstanding the overly sugared up fizzy drinks for their kids.
So, it was a straight return to the pre-COVID Lurgydemic days of ‘as you were,’ sitting back down in front of the ‘Rot Box’ being entertained through moronic junk. A return to ‘type’ for the masses and default settings restored, Well done to the Globioso’s, you have certainly succeeded in ‘re-couching’ the masses.
At times I do understand why the Globizonists look down upon us as ‘useless eaters,’ and sometimes I feel like pulling up a chair, sitting with a cup of tea and watching the dystopian future unfold, whilst at the same time wondering why my cup of tea no longer cheers me up like it used to.
We are now in an era where the MSM spouts whatever tune the pipers who own them tell them to; just look at the overly biased reporting re Venezuela and Iran situations.
Then there is the ‘under reporting’ of the Genocide and Land Clearances the Israeli Government is undertaking in Palestine, events of which are of such magnitude that they should be on the front page of all self-respecting international ‘fish and chip wrapper’ organisation, but it isn’t.
The plight of the innocent Palestinian innocent men, women and children is without doubt the ‘event of the century’ so far and might well remain so until the end of the Millenia, due to it being an absolute stain on humanity and all under the watch of us all, our governments and the international institutions and organisations who have done very little to stop it.
The Palestinian Genocide might only be superseded by our ‘failing governments’ lust for war and an international war at that, where all their evil secrets, their failings and deceptions can be buried along with the citizens whom they will send to die for them, citizens fighting foes they will never know and to be more accurate, citizens fighting foes that never were their foes in the first place.
So, what might a war come down to in the end, well, it will be as a result of a ‘handful’ of mostly men, although women, the supposed ‘gentler sex,’ will be involved too, all of whom will be utterly and completely mad and consumed with a raging urge for power and control over people they perceive to be their subordinates.
And the ‘craziest’ reasons of all that many of them will claim to justify their actions will be: ‘Tradition, History and Biblical’ ones and I deliberately say Biblical and not Religion, because religions should never have been used to divide us.
We, the everyday people from all around the world, should never have allowed ourselves to have been manipulated by corrupt people who used religion to divide us, because religion should have been used to bring people together bridging the gap between our differences and learning to understand them.
Finally, there are those who justify their actions by claiming ‘biblical endorsement’ through their interpretation and or belief of what is written within their ‘Book,’ be this a Bible or other title, which leads me to asking this question: Would a loving God (Deity) ever endorse the pain, suffering and inhumane treatment of the most innocent of us all, the children? If you are wondering, that was a rhetorical question.
I’ll finish with one of the most powerful lines from the Christian Bible:
Matthew 19:14 King James Version of the Bible: ‘But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.’
Per Google search: The Kingdom of God belongs to those who have childlike qualities like faith, humility, and trust. The phrase highlights that adults should emulate the simple dependence and openness of children to enter God’s Kingdom, as children represent the innocent, trusting spirit needed for salvation, a lesson emphasized when disciples tried to turn away people bringing infants to Jesus.
Rusty, Penn, Kal and Dr Banana for the Red Brick International Media News Group, winners of the Red Brick International Award for News and Journalism.