A reminder that after the Brexit vote, Farage fled the scene of the crime, then grew a moustache to conceal his identity.

If you listen very carefully this morning, you will hear Wes Streeting shitting his pants. Rayner has obviously been saving this announcement for optimum impact.

If we get a Streeting vs Starmer leadership election, I would be tempted to rejoin the Labour Party, vote for Starmer. Then likely cancel my membership again.

Jess Phillips successfully managing to do some self-promo in her resignation letter. "PS. I wanted a bigger job."

Wes Streeting would be the final nail in Labour's coffin. More neoliberalism, more privatisation, more austerity, more grovelling to economic power, when we desperately want change.

Catherine West to launch her Labour leadership campaign today with the potential slogans: Go West West We Can West is Best Laser West Westington World of Adventure Return to Westeros

Wes Streeting is apparently preparing a challenge for the Labour leadership. All that stands in his way are his unpopularity and inherent unlikeability. Starmer might even stand a chance.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social If politics doesn't work out for Kemi Badenoch, she'd make a cracking gameshow host.

Poem by Andrea Cohen.

This lady scared this shit out me when I was four years old. Morgrim was also terrifying.

The look they were going for in this new Smithsonian portrait: Angry old man using a zimmer frame.

If this doesn't get Trump the Nobel Peace Prize then nothing will.

If you're wondering what Captain Tom's daughter is up to these days, she's joined Kasabian.

Dutch late night TV has its take

Turns out AI really stands for Annoying Interference. Stop putting it everywhere. Every day use cases are largely irritating and pointless.

it's real support from actual racists

If Kneecap are ever forced to change their name, they should be called Néecap.

Take That's profile pic on Spotify is hilarious. Gary has indigestion after a pub lunch half-way on a country walk. He doesn't know if he can continue. Gary: I knew that Ploughman's was a mistake. Mark: Take your time. Howard: Looks like it's going to rain, anyway. We can do the rest another day.

That's it. Edinburgh Fringe is over for 2025. To commemorate this, I recreated the ending of Breaking Bad. You can watch it on my Instagram account here: www.instagram.com/reel/DNx9V05...

Today, I had more Edinburgh Fringe punters in via @mrjamesob.bsky.social. They helpfully identified themselves with their quiz team name 'The James O'Brien Appreciation Society'. I also had a five-star review published today: broadwaybaby.com/shows/alex-l... 21 shows now done, three to go.

If you take one thing home today... ... you may be a shoplifter.

UK police have now started seizing Palpatine action figures. They come with a walking stick too.

I had my first confirmed Fringe punter today who came from my appearance on Mystery Hour via @mrjamesob.bsky.social. Although he failed to correctly answer who invented darts. Which is, of course, the Earl of Dartmouth. How To Win A Pub Quiz runs until 25 Aug. www.thestand.co.uk/fringe/2427/...

@alexdlove.bsky.social great craic at How To Win a Pub Quiz at Stand 1 this morning. Our 3rd attempt and we came a close second! And I got the Colossal Squid question wrong…AGAIN!!😫

Ridley Scott's career really went downhill with the original Hovis advert.

What is the meaning of this? Tempting Tattie in Edinburgh has had a makeover and removed The Richard Herring from its menu. Massively disrespectful to man who has dedicated so much time to eating baked potatoes there @herring1967.bsky.social

@mrjamesob.bsky.social It is I, Alex of the strange foot question fame. I'm taking a trivia-based show to Edinburgh Fringe next month called How To Win A Pub Quiz. It's part stand-up, part actual pub quiz. I think Mystery Hour fans will like it Here's more info: www.thestand.co.uk/fringe/2427/...

Nice try, Jumanji. But I know your game. (Getting trapped inside for decades.)

Keir Starmer is the political equivalent of a bed sheet that absorbs the smells of whatever it comes into contact with. From Reform, it's stale ale and cheap cigarettes. From the Labour right, it's various types of mouldy excrement from 2010.

I queued for hours for an Oasis ticket for Edinburgh, but didn't succeed. It cost some people thousands. I'm not missing out. I may also lose thousands from the Oasis gig due to the extreme accommodation costs stopping people from going to the Fringe and seeing my show. #edinburghfringe

Thanks again for Brexit, you tits. The queue for non-EU/EEA passports at Amsterdam I am currently stuck in. Brought to you by Nigel Farage and Question Time. These shall hereby be known as the Farage Queues.

In my reporter days, every time I went to a parish council meeting, they had a hidden agenda. I hid it to try and get them to stop talking.

While Andor is up there with some of the very best of Star Wars, I am gutted they never went to Dantooine. And we still haven't seen it in live action. Mainly because of all the countless hours I've spent pissing about on there on KOTOR.

Wow. What a last line. "I'm Andor. Andor Skywalker." In many ways the whole show was just building up to that moment.

I only drink builder's tea. I'm not welcome on construction sites.

If you invented a brand of crisps for people with high blood pressure, you'd make a killing.

People who #Brighton who have never won a pub quiz: Your luck is about to change*. I am bringing my show How To Win A Pub Quiz to @brightonfringe.bsky.social next Sunday (4 May - the Force etc). Tickets are available here: www.brightonfringe.org/events/how-t... * I guarantee nothing

Stranger: Do you know CPR?!? Me: I might. What's his first name?

People described as being big personalities are always cunts.

Grant Shapps is getting a knighthood, which means we will now have to refer to him as Sir Michael Green, Sir Sebastian Fox, and Dame Corinne Stockheath.

Same energy

Pop facts: Take That's Never Forget was actually written by Gary Barlow after a dream about being an elephant.

He's just like a real-life Tony Stark. If Tony Stark bought all the companies who had already invented stuff, paid people to do the clever shit and take credit for it. Then dedicated his life to being a perma-teen edgelord, spreading misinformation, and helping Thanos achieve his goals.

The Homer car is an infinitely superior design to the Cybertruck

We are now up to Ep9. In this episode, Alex and Siobhan discuss the project Ross Kemp: The Musical. It is a real project that Alex was working on with an ex-school mate and very talented musician, Rich Shillitoe, who is the guest on this episode. Now on Apple. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Post your favourite Doctor Who. Wrong answers only.

Don't know about you, but I'm actually better off under the Labour Government. By £5 a month. Because I have cancelled my membership after 14 years. This is approaching Cameron and Osborne levels of awful, which, ironically, I joined Labour to fight.

Cut MP salaries and expenses before you even think about taking money away from vulnerable people who actually need it to live.

We Didn't Start the Fire is what happens if you make a song out of answers in a pub quiz.

People of Glasgow, I am bringing How To Win A Pub Quiz Returns your way this Sunday. It'll be the final outing of this incarnation of the show in one of the finest comedy clubs in the world. Get your tickets here to join me: www.glasgowcomedyfestival.com/events/alex-... #glasgowcomedyfestival