What on Earth has happened to the BBC’s presentation skills. The newsreader on the 1 o’clock has the weirdest inflection of any newsreader I’ve heard in years (and there’s no warmth in her delivery either) and the Chief Political Correspondent is huffing out his pieces with a similarly odd….

Trump criticises our PM so often, I think that he’s got Starmer Derangement Syndrome.

That’s the incumbent getting the ‘stolen election’ narrative ready. Via Euronews: Pro-Orbán actors accuse Meta of interference in Hungarian elections, despite lack of evidence www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

“The fact is that Gary Lineker was voted in the top 50 men you’d most like to surprise you in the shower” #W1A

My observation is that Harris, Edwards and Hall were investigated, prosecuted and convicted of their crimes. Saville died before any investigation took place. Mills was investigated, a file passed to the CPS and he wasn’t prosecuted. What did I miss here?

I love my tech and update regularly, but since the world is in such an uncertain place, I have stocked up on old methods of communication like writing paper, stamps, and ink. I’ve also ordered a new cheque book for the first time in a decade. Who knows how useful it might become?

Happy Easter

Well, I was going to watch the Southampton v Arsenal game on BBC1, but since the ref seems to have come down with the away team, the result is a foregone conclusion in my view.

Whilst taking it as read that such anti social behaviour is deleterious to business, so is taking money for items that aren’t fit for purpose. And I don’t recall them making a statement about that. This isn’t just bias. It’s M&S bias. news.sky.com/story/marks-...

Good for you. Enjoy your heart attack. Let others enjoy their lives. You’re paying them to work, they’re not indentured to the fucking company. You arse.

This old April Fool from The Guardian seems to have placed San Seriffe where Diego Garcia is! 🇮🇴

"The fact is the future of the BBC is not a man playing spoons on his head. The fact is that is what ITV is for" #W1A

After Trump’s repeated outbursts, there is little point in this going ahead.

Watching Hogwarts for Thieves, aka Crook Haven, on BBC iPlayer. It’s not bad actually. And it has nothing to do with JKR

No, I think she’s made them pretty clear.

L-R, Miranda, Jolene and Linda Snell #thearchers

‘I don’t know to what you are referring’ says Linda Snell like the snooty lady in the railway cafe in Brief Encounter #thearchers

He’s going to finish up with judge made law, which people of his ilk are against, I thought.

At the time, I remember the relief felt by those who didn’t think that the country could carry on as it was with Jim Callaghan. Fast forward to today, and we can only wonder at the damage the policies pursued by the government from 1979 to 1990 had wrought.

Someone is planning an almighty break 🍫

Blimey. 80% of the UK’s energy is being generated by renewables. Granted it won’t do much for petrol driven cars, but it will at least keep the lights on at home by not going through a dodgy waterway 🇮🇷

Is Texas part of the UK now?

Are those forces with us in room now?

This sounds like the annoyed cry of man who’s up to his neck in it and wanted some company, preferably British. He’s exposed and knows it. Meanwhile Starmer’s position is popular, even amongst those who didn’t vote for him (like me). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is not just a mic drop, it’s an M&S mic drop.

"Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." Alfred, Lord Tennyson

I have, for the first time, unfollowed a gay bloke on IG. He posts about his understanding of people’s emotions growing up gay. And it chimes with a lot of people. It doesn’t chime with me, though, and was starting to become irritating. Best leave them to it.

I’ve been watching so many Agatha Christie adaptations in film, that when I need new glasses I might get some pince-nezs.

Oh no you don’t. Your action wound up the price of crude oil to the level it is now for everyone. And even if it’s true that the United States doesn’t get its oil through that waterway, then the United States would get the benefit of other countries tidying up its mess. Absolutely not.

Following the Truss Tax, here’s the Trump Tax supported by Trump’s friends.

A health concern, that could have been serious, arose on Wednesday afternoon. Reported it to doctors surgery. They yanked me in early Thursday morning. Conducted some tests. Results are back already and we are all good. I’ve just called them to thank them. I love our NHS.

Wasn’t that Sykes Picot?

Not a GIF but this is what I REALLY wanted to do.

Bugger all happening in Cornwall, then.

Jesus Christ Almighty, why does one company after a-fucking-nother always want feedback or, if you’ve bought something from them, make you feel duty bound to fill in a questionnaire about their product. Just fuck off and leave me in peace with my purchase, thanks.

From 2022. Sadly pertinent now.

I have a British Constitution joke, but it’s on different bits of paper and some of it’s still in my head.

So you no longer need to use RAF Fairford or British Indian Ocean Territory then?

It’s almost as if you can’t let the VP turn up the Munich security conference, spell the end of NATO IN 2025, subsequently insult your allies and impose tariffs on them, tell 🇬🇧that you doesn’t need its ships, vacillate over 🇮🇴, and then expect everyone to roll over when you’re in the 💩.

Of COURSE we should help the United States in the NATO structure do whatever he wants. I remember only too well, in 1982, when NATO ships sailed to the South Atlantic in defence of sovereign British territory. Oh……wait.

I gather that Trump didn’t need them anyway, as the war is already won.

Happy 15th March

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Nothing is quite as funny/bizarre on QVC as the time, years ago, when a woman was flogging additions for charm bracelets and merrily flinging glitter from a black bag into the air like it was fairy dust. She came across as nuts.

And now the cunt is begging us to send ships.