Ministers can get in the sea.

oh my god no fuck off www.thetimes.com/uk/law/artic...

Roses are red Violets a whim

This reads very much as though AI wrote it. Because if not, humans are now writing like AI.

Husband and I are 200 miles apart watching our separate little programmes.

Me, cleaning out the fridge: 'I think this is a dead burrata.' Husband: 'Dead burrata Why don't you come to your senses?'🎶 And that's why I married him.

Look, I love Leonard Cohen but here he looks like the school secretary about to put an announcement out over the PA.

i, for one, am delighted that we finally have a definition of “woke”

Tbh I'd rather have a hereditary House of Lords than a rabble of no-mark assistants who knew where the Tory bodies were buried.

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This is AWFUL. If you have any spare £, this poor lass is going through a dreadful time.

The Glasgow fire is so awful. I use Central Station all the time and seeing the buildings around it collapse is shocking. I'm so sorry for the people who have lost their businesses.

@michaelspicer.bsky.social has a brilliant take on this type of programme: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wjnm...

Lance in Detectorists is one of the most poignant characters in the history of TV. That's today's thought.

Excellent juxtaposition here.

WHAT? Copyright law is ALL that protects creative work from being stolen.

he looks like the guy in a sci-fi movie who gets infected by a deadly space virus but refuses to tell the rest of the crew

Piece of shit.

For fucks sake.

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I suppose one day, future civilizations may look back on this era as they labour to understand us, surrounded by files documenting the human rights abuses, the growth of fascism and the political sex trafficking rings and wonder what the hell we were thinking when we wrote headlines like this one.

If cats were ruled by a single evil overlord, it would be one with this face.

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

I’ve come up with a fancy new name for the MAHA yoga-mom anti-vax homeschooling crafty-ass wing of MAGA: the Zone of Pinterest

Nice Game of Thrones energy from Charles!

Trump repeals EPA climate change regulations in move scientists say is a “rejection of the laws of physics” | The BMJ

It's easy to think* that Reform is doing better than it is because it gets so much media coverage. It IS a concern but - and I know it's hard to strike the right balance and punters want news - a more balanced approach from journos would paint a different picture. *I speak from personal experience.

Blimey. Looks like Matt Goodwin, who seems to think the Handmaid's Tale is an instruction manual, is in the pay of an Orban think tank, funded by Russian oil money.

Only Fools and Dark Forces

The UK was declared measles free in 2017. Vaccine programs completely eliminated it. Since then, pro sickness conspiracy theorists and anti science idiots have enabled its return.

Roses are red Violets grow faster

I love Small Prophets. There's so few charming programmes, but this is. And Michael Palin is just a delight.

I’m very far from the only person saying this, but it seems clear what is happening in the camps is worse than anything we’ve seen in public so far—including Minneapolis. At some point we will know the truth about the camps. I am very afraid of what we will learn.

So many weird salads and damp, spinach-y wraps, when a homemade cheese sandwich is so obviously the Lunch King.

Watching another subtitled Scandi noir with my husband. Him: 'this'll be the quirky female police officer who's just had a painful breakup.' Two scenes in: 'they're having an affair, so he's the chief suspect.' Shortly after: 'the camera lingered on him - he's the murderer.' And he's always right. 🙄

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

Wait, THIS is young Anton Chekhov? This? Good lord. Let that gun go off, daddy

I'm not normally a fan of Kermode but I think he makes some sound points here.

Roses are red Violets are calmer

There's a one hour special on Nigel Farage and Reform UK, and whether they are ready to lead, on BBC2 Presumably, there will be a similar one hour special on Zack Polanski, and whether The Greens are ready to lead, as well?

The WaPo cuts are devastating. And to cut the Books section entirely makes the already bleak critical landscape even more bare. This was all preventable but Bezos, who could find the post I perpetuity without noticing it, is hellbent on destroying the Post. And for what?

I haven't seen it, but a) there are several versions like this b) books are not films. C) the director has made it clear this is a fantasy not a strict adaptation d) Hollywood has always glossed up literature to put bums on seats. E) I have read it 'all the way through' and the film sounds fun.

Poor little naive Peter. If only he'd had a bit of cunning or street smarts to help him spot a bad person.

Every single policy is scribbled on a packet of Woodbines by Gene Hunt.

Daniel Craig there, in his latest role as Nicholas Parsons.

American friends: can I ask, what's the general vibe like- are your Trump supporting families & neighbours doubling down and MAGA-ing up, or is there more of a 'hang on a minute, maybe this guy's been lying to us' feel?

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

THIS is your 'breaking' Trump news?

This is who runs this account.