Trump may never concede, but this video shows us he’s at least said all the right words, if not necessarily in the right order.

A Christmas cake (rich fruit cake) sitting on a cooling rack.
Christmas cake cooling on a rack

The Christmas cake is in the oven. ‘Tis the (start of the) season.

Lot of fireworks going off in Hackney at the moment. It’s probably just random November parties, but I like to think they’re celebrating the great news from the USA.

Congratulations, over there!

A blue sky with mottled, fluffy, white clouds. The type sometimes called a mackerel sky.
The sky over Hackney, this morning

These videos of Americans chanting ‘Stop the count!’ What… why… how…?

Trump’s reality distortion field is powerful indeed.

(For example: <twitter.com/SJPeace…>)

In Trump’s fake-news world, ‘counting all the votes’ equals ‘stealing the election.’ Out here in the real world ‘counting all the votes’ equals ‘democracy.’

Why do the polls close so early in the US? Seems to be 6pm. On the other hand, with all the early voting, I suppose they’ve been open for weeks.

Good luck today, America. Here’s hoping for a landslide against the guy in office.

It’s extremely disappointing that yesterday’s UK government announcement of the new lockdown made no mention whatsoever of masks or ventilation – and barely any of testing and tracing.

We still need those things, even as we lock down again. The virus doesn’t know the rules.