For a classic British political scandal, you need an osteopath #iykyk

We discovered yesterday that the teen thinks the phrase CBA is ‘can’t be asked’ - which does make a kind of sense, ‘I am so unwilling to do this thing, I won’t do it even if you ASK me’. We said ‘ok fine, but please don’t say it to a teacher’.

The old #jokes are the best @danherb10.bsky.social...🤔🫣 I walked past a line of #Viking assembly sites the other day.. It was rubbish.. literally just one Thing after another 😊

Rarely has the phrase ‘the banality of evil’ felt so appropriate.

It's totally fine to buy kids clothes like this but PEARLS CLUTCHED if someone has two uncles holy crap

I am not really a Sondheim person, but I saw ‘Sunday in the Park with George’ screened on TV way back when, and it became a formative moment. Then when I discovered the painting was in Chicago, I thought ‘one day I’ll go there and see that painting’.

Things are awful, so a little treat for the real Crush-Heads. It is now eleven years since I got this printed in the Metro.

This is literally what the Telegraph campaigned for.

Cat Clinging To Side Of Christmas Tree Admits That Was Extent Of Plan https://theonion.com/cat-clinging-to-side-of-christmas-tree-admits-that-was-1849899567/

Look, I'm sure that Nolan's adaptation of "The Odyssey" will be fun, but I highly doubt it will be as good as the original.

i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry merry christmas xx

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I managed to look away at key moments - the only way I can cope with watching A Ghost Story for Christmas. I’ve been listening to ghost stories all autumn - Edith Wharton got me hooked, but there’s some stuff I still can’t cope with looking at.

Tomorrow evening it’ll be my annual duty to vaguely shepherd the activity on the #duvetknowitschristmas hashtag and urge people to give small sums to charity. 7.30pm? Something like that?

Oh I would like to see this!

the lights of the West End will dim this evening in memory of legend Tom Stoppard x

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

RIP Tom Stoppard “It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting” the rare literary reference that highlighted the value of election administration

Goodbye to the master. ❤️

I’m very behind the times, wrong century even, but I have watched The Mummy for the first time properly, and I have thoughts. Mainly how, usually, don’t these sort of characters in films accidentally stumble into the wrong place and unleash evil by pure chance?

Here’s how jumbled my brain is right now: I panic-booked a hair appointment for tomorrow thinking ‘I’ll be too busy in December to get my hair cut’ but looked in the mirror and realised my hair still looks OK. I didn’t need a haircut now, I needed one in 4 weeks. But too late to cancel.

Zadie Smith.

The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.

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Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms. He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.

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Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

ultimately you cannot appease people whose purpose in life is to destroy you bsky.app/profile/drje...

the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever

No, YOU’RE reading that to the tune of Forrest’s “Rock the Boat”.

The reason I’ve found the Louvre situation so bizarre is that I’ve seen French security up close - we visited Ile de la Cite just as the trials for the terrorist attacks were starting. (Not on purpose, obvs). The security cordons to walk anywhere round the area were immense.

I obviously still know my childhood phone number, but the other one that stuck with me was my desk phone from the job I had in 2002-07. I get a weird urge to call it and see if it’s still 28 year old me on the other end, trying to buy banner ads on Yahoo.

Another of those days where I silently fume at my nemesis. Do I live rent free in her head or is she in mine?

Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is? It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

“An example of the town of the future is Coventry.... Traffic and pedestrians are kept apart and the roads are planned to let traffic flow smoothly” (Our Land in the Making, 1966) Artist: Ronald Lampitt

I really hope this doesn’t catch on, in general, but also this particular example - living in a place called Norwood, the name is going to play havoc with the algorithm. I don’t want a load of AI nonsense to come up whenever I search for Norwood.

I remember the double standard of the ‘rule of 4’ being different in England/Wales & Scotland: Scotland didn’t include young children in the ‘4’, so in Scotland I could have met a friend with her 2 kids and my 2 outdoors, in England I couldn’t. It just seemed so unfair.

I saw this come up again on Facebook today and re-read that opening paragraph. I feel like I understand the context much better than when I first read it - having the Crystal Palace dinosaurs in the neighbourhood helps - but there’s no doubt it’s the Dickens I found most challenging to read.

It is possible to cherish the BBC as an institution while also saying that BBC News is failing very badly, day after day, in its duty to inform and that it always fails in a right-wing direction. It desperately needs to recover its integrity

This was a great joke.

Watching Nosferatu in the hope of being pleasantly scared in a minor key, but it’s just pure ham. What a shame…

I have dealt with my BIG FEELINGS about people saying mean things about London by writing this about 57 things I love in London. There were 100 things I loved, but it got too long for one email. London is inexhaustible. naomialderman.substack.com/p/57-things-...

Our daughter’s school suffered a fire in the holidays and we are fundraising to buy books and resources for the temporary site they are moving to. Anyone who is able to donate - thank you! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/juliansptfa

Fifteen years ago, Jon noticed that Penguin's new Modern Classic edition of Nabokov's Lolita had stripped out the foreword by "John Ray, Jr." - who needs this yawnsome old intro! - ...which is actually part of the novel. A contact at Penguin told me the following Monday morning was not a jolly one.

I can