By far the funniest moment in Homer’s Odyssey is when Circe says, “Shall we have sex?” and Odysseus says, “You just turned all my men into pigs. You have the GALL to think I would sleep with you? Of course I will. Absolutely. But don’t do any weird spells”

I mean no offence to these women but have they considered simply not dating massive losers

They should bring back wine in schools as a trade-off.

I have some bad news about your AI flyer #art #NoAI #capybara

[smiling in Zitron]

Wes Streeting as defence secretary

A relative at a wedding recently, completely unprompted, ranted that Andy Burnham 'isn't ready for war' because 'we'll obviously be at war in less than five years'. I was uncomfortable at the time but it turns out they're a sage. Jesus Christ.

well he shouldn't be

HA, bye Lammy! More time for you to hang out with your good friend JD Vance!

The snobby 'LOL PM FROM NORTH' jokes are all over the TL already. Hope you're all enjoying getting them out of your system.

He didn’t end it. I’m not knocking the ambition - it was a huge, huge issue at the time, but unfortunately it still is. Numbers in GM are higher than they were in 2016, when he ran for mayor, and getting on for where they were when he was elected

Every Starmer speech is incredibly fascinating because he appears to live in a completely parallel reality to basically everyone else in the country. He never seems to ask the question "if I've done such a good job, why has my party drafted a mayor to drag me out of office?"

i am begging venues & bands to rediscover clipart

London folk: is Citymapper the best app to use for live bus times, etc? And does it work properly? (Bee Network in MCR works great until it suddenly doesn't.) Will need to do a lot of bus and likely tube travel next time I'm there.

This is very disappointing. Such an important and undervalued brief which was for years held by a succession of uninterested itinerants. A prisons minister who genuinely cared and who was starting to see results.

Woke up this morning pretty confused about several aspects of The Odyssey, which is especially embarrassing given my friends in the pub afterwards engaged in an incredibly specific discussion about what they thought was missing or didn't compare to the poem, while I sat there like this:

tomorrow spain will be formally presented with kier starmer

This bit was good

The fact that he covered his nuts elevates this to comedy heaven

THANK CHRIST FOR THAT right I'm off to bed, fun meme-ing with you 😘

PAELLA ALL OVER BOXPARK

VIVA ESPAÑAAAAAA thank the lord almighty

Poor bastard’s starving

Weeeeeeeeeee

Staying awake for the memes, at this point. This is your collective fault for being too fun.

END THIS, LAMINE

get fucked fernandez you horrible little shite

That is instantly one of my favourite red cards in football history

blimey, he went flying

Football is a lot like jazz, it's more interesting if the Muppets are involved

I might be wrong but it's rare to never that you see women sitting in those fancy executive seats, eh. #worldcup

Hydration break flavour: chamomile.

All I'm saying is that The Muppets have a history of taking down corrupt businessmen and Infantino is *right there*.

All worth it to hear Ian Wright say 'good to see Animal again' as if he's an old teammate of his

Oh to have a camera on Roy Keane throughout this thing

look if we’re trying to showcase parts of america that don’t suck we can do a lot worse than the muppets

Dearie me

Me being really cynical about the World Cup half time show then completely 180ing and shouting MUPPETS!

is this a bodega

They have these at the cricket as well and I was so hoping that Stokes would see out his test career by absolutely hoofing a ball at one.

oh by the way! if you're planning to go watch The Odyssey and would like a bathroom break, I'd recommend going at the point at which the gang encounters the big fellas in the forest, there's around two minutes there of not-very-plot-relevant fighting, bit early in the film but better than nothing

And a half time show. Half time is for pissing getting chips

See this is why they have their own sports. This kind of razzmatazz is US only. If you got a guy in a gold suit on at a UK match he'd get bottled

Can't watch properly until I get home in a bit but VIVA ESPAÑA and I look forward to Trump getting a brief but loud dose of IRL feedback. #worldcup