A review of Battlestar Galactica's ending: "damn it, doesn't anybody know how to write an ending any more?" Guess who wrote it?

A new era - a Simon Jenkins column that is not wrong. Things will never be the same.

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

To misquote George Orwell, the word 'neoliberal' has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something I don't like'.

Eek! Feels like we're approaching some sort of civil service singularity.

Hope you enjoyed the nice weather today... here's to the week ahead! youtu.be/cK5G8fPmWeA

Parklife!

Your Mother Should Know is now the sort of song Paul McCartney was thinking of when he wrote Your Mother Should Know.

Nope. You can draw the line at London or Manchester or Glasgow or Coventry. There are no other sensible options.

Sausage sausage.

Good news! And also encouraging to read that they are planning to build more platforms at Euston than previously announced.

Zack Polanski the Greens are sharing misinformatioin about the Gorton and Denton by-election, and ought to be ashamed of themselves. The chart he has shared on Threads suggests only thee Greens can beat Reform. But it's using vote change data. 1/2

“You guys just got to the last page?”

Arguably this was the origin of hip hop...

This was a fun watch back in 1993. Not so much now. youtu.be/NYpA2jNOWDE

The Reform pitch is increasingly “the last government was terrible, so we’ve hired everyone who was in it”.

Gravitational confinement with electromagnetic energy transfer may be a promising fusion technology.

Why can't we have have nice wholesome family films like this anymore where good looking people fall in love and have strong happy marriages when there was RESPECT but instead everything's got to be 'complex' nowadays but it wasn't back then before Hollywood got infected by the woke mind virus.

Just remembered this particularly baffling front page

Ok. So. They anonymised the sheep.

What does Jools Holland do the rest of the year?

It is a little known fact that they prerecord the Jools Holland Hootenanny - all the people on screen are faking it being New Year for tv. For eg, last year’s was prerecorded June 15th, 1535, during the Siege of Munster, look carefully and you can see John of Leiden mingling with the audience.

Here'sthe Guardian with another exclusive! In other news, there could be trouble ahead for John Major and the Balkans is looking a bit dicey.

calling a military tech company Anduril: honestly, solid name, vibes of Aragorn's sword positive calling a data company Palantir: sinister, but at least in a way that makes sense calling your home security company *Sauron*, a cartoonishly evil villain famously undone by poor threat monitoring: ???

Watching the King's Speech...

oh shit you guys oh no

Someone should tell King Herod.

Can't believe the makers of It's A Wonderful Life thought they could get away with ripping off Back To The Future 2. And they filmed it in black and white, the cheapskates!

"Hymn lyrics" ... ?

I watch Doctor Who spinoffs for the extremely long and dull political conferences. I'm sure we all do.

Hat tip to the artist who created the "FIFA peace prize" trophy. It's trashy and somehow 'off'. Like Shostakovitch, it outwardly delivers to the spec but with criticism embedded within it.

Waiting for the world cup draw. But first, this...

Come on FIFA. Stop the conflabbing and pick your balls.

For 65 years, Christians on the Left has been shaped by the people who call this community home. Today we’re sharing Rachel’s story, why she joined, what keeps her hopeful, and how her faith shapes her politics. Thank you to everyone who has helped shape this movement over the decades.

This is the ultimate victory of the 2010 to 2015 coalition government. People like Zack, claiming to be left wing, but refusing to accept that general taxation has to rise if we want to reverse austerity. Osborne should be very happy.

Wise words. youtube.com/shorts/jP5cj...

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I wrote for Premier this week on what I think Badenoch & Cates get wrong about (what the Bible says about) the relationship between the church and the welfare state.

One of the first things Christians did after pentecost was set up a welfare system.

The total lack of seriousness that UK elites show while facing an obvious pre-war/ grey war situation in most policy realms is atrocious. Small boats? Yeah whatever mate.

Ah, my first 'no, Christmas is not pagan' message of the season. It's happening earlier and earlier each year...

One human alcohol beer please bartender.

The SNP's grievance machine is running on fumes. The context here is Scotland has only ONE gas power station, which is getting carbon capture investment. No other power stations in Scotland can have carbon capture installed, as they don't produce any CO2.

I switched to an EV a couple of years ago. Its battery stores 65kWh if energy. Just for fun I worked out how much energy was in a tank of diesel in my old ICE - 500kWh!

The Malthusian Catastrophe is just around the corner, and has been for over 200 years...

I see the Cockneys have cracked open their fancy dress box again...

BBC really burying the lede there

Unbelievable tone deaf interviews on Jeremy Vine today. He appears to have found the two people in the country who think Andrew's been hard done by.

She’s right. She *deliberately* hacked into Harriet Harman’s website, whereas Rachel Reeves is accused of obtaining a license late by accident. I assume that’s what she means, given Badenoch is widely known for her thoughtfulness and her self-awareness.