Fat rats leave a taxing ship

How long before this person is described as a “Walter Mitty” character? Article from The Times: 'Fake' rear-admiral charged after attending remembrance parade. www.thetimes.com/article/faa4...

Fake admiral exposed by wearing ‘wrong sort of shirt’. Of course. Knew he was a bit of a rum cove as soon as I saw his dodgy collar. I thought you would be interested in this story from The Times: 'Fake admiral' accused of gatecrashing Remembrance Sunday parade. www.thetimes.com/article/a35d...

What are “fears businesses” - do they mean social media?

Oh dear, @thetimes.com can’t tell the difference between a cassette and an 8-track cartridge

Because swearing to do so isn’t apparently enough? www.thetimes.com/article/f5a1...

How badly informed do you need to be not to know that Supreme Court Justices are not styled “Lord Justice” (which relates to judges of the lower Court of Appeal)? Shoddy subbing as usual from the Times. (since corrected, but astonishingly let through initially)

Sir Laurie is not a saint, is he?

Waiter, there’s a plane in my omelette

And if the battery’s flat, they can just push the car itself.

Well those are certainly impressive - suits you to a T sir!

Nom de dieu! Another Times sub-fail

Why are large sums of money always described as "eye-watering"? Why not "throat-clenching" or "scrotum-tightening" or some other redundant formulation? What makes your eyes water is sadness, or pain, or a howling wind on a cold day. Talk some sense, please, journalists.

This must be galling after twenty years of pandering to Farage and his gang - BBC plans to win over Reform voters who have 'lost trust'. www.thetimes.com/article/18fe...

They broke up, they tore it down, they crumbled it to dust…

In what sense can anyone be 'handed' a suspended sentence? Sentences are issued or ordered or given. They're not a handout. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Surely he ‘threw fishermen overboard’ or ‘sold them down the river’? What’s all this about climbing? Are the fish up a mountain?

Not just the prices that are steep. You should try climbing the hills. The Times: Edinburgh tops league for most expensive city break. www.thetimes.com/article/161f...

C’mon. “White papers” You’re kidding, right? bsky.app/profile/comm...

Can’t believe this isn’t their lead story The Times: Alchemists rejoice as Cern turns lead into gold — for a flash. www.thetimes.com/article/fddf...

That’s six out of ten, dear. on.ft.com/4jUnV0I Almost 60 per cent of UK women complain of financial ‘mansplaining’

Can’t believe this isn’t their lead story The Times: Alchemists rejoice as Cern turns lead into gold — for a flash. www.thetimes.com/article/fddf...

Forget turning lead into gold; how about we turn Labour into Reform? A matter of some con Cern? www.thetimes.com/article/fddf...

Won’t you subscribe to my Spudsack?

AI forgive you - really? Arizona man shot to death in road rage 'returns' to address his killer www.bbc.com/news/article...

I really don’t know how they will “make ends meet”. Literally. on.ft.com/4jIXb2U Slaughter and May holds junior lawyer pay at £150,000

The Pope had ‘favourites’? Headline from The Times: Two favourites for pope accused of mishandling child sex abuse claims. www.thetimes.com/article/c4a3...

Nigel’s teeth: should they be nationalised?

I thought that subheading read ‘AI-deas’ but of course AI does not ‘have’ ideas. It just regurgitates real people’s ideas. It probably can’t even come up with a portmanteau word. - from The Times: Pope's final interview to feature in Scorsese documentary. www.thetimes.com/article/7f24...

Victim was not alleged perp’s mother, so why suggest she was? Headline in The Times: Woman, 69, held over killing of British mother in Dordogne. www.thetimes.com/article/8139...

100 DAYS...of lying, grifting, lawbreaking, division, incompetence, ignorance, illegal deportations, self-aggrandizement, vulgarity, self-pity, cruelty, ignoring the Supreme Court & due process while attacking: the Media, Universities, Law Firms, the Courts & Journalists. 1362 Days to go...

Net Zero doomed to failure because … no one plays a musical instrument at school?

Here’s one: Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. Eggs, chips, apples, steel. Whatever. on.ft.com/44b2bZw Apple aims to source all US iPhones from India in pivot away from China

If it’s not a flagship, it’s a landmark. It’s almost as though these headlines are being written by AI. (Are they? And if so, what was the model trained on? Previous lazy headline writing by humans.) on.ft.com/3GripDW UK to announce final go-ahead for flagship carbon capture project

Guys, the word is “anterior”.

This was kind of obvious even from the advertisements on the tube etc.

50% chocolate is ‘dark’? Really? No wonder no one bought it, probably just tastes of sugar like most other mass market choc bars. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Gotta separate the goats from the sheep, eh? www.thetimes.com/article/421e...

Great. Just need to wait a couple of billion years before we can hope to have a conversation with fully evolved intelligent species

Props to the Getty photographer back in the day who took this picture, when the rest of homo sapiens was drawing bison on the cave wall

They got paid that much to say those rude things?

Will they toss to see who goes first? (from The Times: What to expect from 'world's first competitive sperm race'.) www.thetimes.com/article/7962...

Brilliant. From @privateeyenews.bsky.social

Conference season coming up! This is spot on - from @privateeyenews.bsky.social

This is good, from @privateeyenews.bsky.social

On what were the babies suspended? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Most headlines can be improved by adding the words "in bed". But this one doesn't need it. bsky.app/profile/juli...

Nice one, @financialtimes.com

Well no, she’s not an astronaut

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