ID cards are a sensible answer to an awful lot of questions in a lot of areas. The concerns about them are massively over-egged. #Newsnight

All that sucking up to the mango maniac last week was for absolutely nothing.

There is zero evidence to support Trump and his anti-science cranks baseless opinions about paracetamol.

Few things mark the annual slow trudge towards Christmas more than the return of #Strictly.

Resident Evil 4 on the MetaQuest is an awesome VR gaming experience.

Jenn Pellegrino is a name that sounds like she should actually be wearing a tinfoil hat #C4News

Why is that spam faced gobshite Piers Morgan still getting trotted out? #BBCQT

Who’d have thought that an organisation such as this would descend into a such vainglorious and factional turf war… I am surprised it’s happened so quickly though.

I hope this the UK journalists in this afternoon’s media conference show Trump what freedom of speech and a free press really looks like…until now, he’s chosen to be cosseted by sycophants and toadies.

Insightful comment from Trump that Prince William, the hereditary heir to the throne, will go on to have “some great success”. The man is a soothsayer.

Robot Redford was a great character name too…

Powys doesn’t even have a coastline.

If Starmer and the Labour front-bench continue to sit on their hands and look the other way while fascism rises and multi-billionaires are calling for violence, then what exactly is the point of them?

Hat tip @clownf1st.bsky.social

All the divorced dads having a day trip out in London with their “If you say you’re English, you get arrested and thrown in jail…” walking party.

I actually factchecked this in a book once.

The English National Anthem is - by far - one of the worst in the world.

the answer to the second verse is "fetch it yourself"

The answer to every single question in “Jerusalem” is “No” #LastNightOfTheProms

Such a shame that Rule Britannia has been hijacked by the roundabout painters and hotel botherers. #LastNightOfTheProms

Two artists of yesteryear that still seem to enjoy a disproportionate amount of longevity and exposure are Craig David and Sophie Ellis-Bextor.

When Reform are distancing themselves, then you really have jumped the shark. www.bbc.com/news/article...

“May every day be another wonderful secret” 🤢 🤢🤮

The GMC should have the power to impose financial penalties on doctors - like the Solicitors Regulatory Authority can do. Hit these people where it hurts - they obviously have no professional pride, so the usual sanctions would just bounce off them.

The way the GMC has sat on their hands with Malholtra is utterly shameful. He is too high profile, and too well connected, for them to do anything about him.

Reform, a party of self-declared English nationalists, have absolutely no interest in the governing of Wales for Wales. They’re using the Senedd elections as target practice. #C4News

Imagine being so bad that you see Nadine Dorries as something of a coup. #C4News

Farage’s latest “promise” to break conventions and bring multiple non-MPs into the Cabinet somewhat undermines his years of rallying against unelected bureaucrats.

As this is the first one that Starmer has done, isn’t this a shuffle, and not a reshuffle?

Dorries is going to fit right in with the rest of the cranks, grifters, liars and opportunists in Reform.

I shall take to signing off work emails with the words: “THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER”. I think it adds an air of presidential gravitas to it all.

How does the law work for Rayner? If somebody takes legal advice that is given in good faith, but it later transpires that the legal advice was incorrect, is that person still liable for any crimes/wrongdoings coming from that?

I’m very sorry to learn that Rudi Guiliani has been injured in a car accident. When I saw his name trending, I’d assumed he was dead.

A sterling media performance by Australia’s Bob Katter here… www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Biden outliving Trump, by 4 years, would make for a nice little flourish for the end of this tale.

Labour need to, and have to, take Reform on properly. None of this “understanding legitimate concerns” and giving Farage a wide berth out of fear of the chronically online right. Call them out for what they are, and who they. Call Farage out on his record, and the non-existent Brexit dividends.

Pretty much every UK politician hearing Farage’s “radical” plan to send illegal immigrants elsewhere….

If the English want to fly their flags, they can do it in England. Please don’t come to Wales and deface our areas of beauty with your daft little Farage run campaigns… www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news...

BBC News running some vox-pops about Schrödinger’s Immigrant: The mythical foreigners who are coming here just to claim benefits while simultaneously taking all of the jobs.

“Mobland”, in and of itself, is absolutely 100% worth subscribing to Paramount+. Helen Mirren is deliciously evil in the role of Maeve.

I have just had a meal that has provoked the meat sweats to such an extent that I need a shower and change of clothes.

I’m just deleting any and all new emails as and when they arrive. It’s better for the environment and makes my work a whole lot easier.

Just killed the biggest wasp I’ve ever seen in my life with the handheld electric zapper. I feel like a tennis-playing God.

If social media is not for peddling inconsequential and vaguely whimsical BS, then what is it that we’re all here for??

Wow. Jimmy McGovern’s latest drama (“Unforgivable on BBC2) is an incredibly tough watch. Absolutely brilliant, and very thought provoking.

Out of office on ✅ Work Mail and Teams deleted from phone ✅ WhatsApp on mute ✅ Anything I’ve forgotten?

Not having the name of the party sorted before its official launch makes it look very amateurish and silly.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social It’s not just the undergraduate tuition fees that are a financial noose, it is the postgraduate training and exam fees (approx £15-20k in total) - plus the £1000/yr fees for the GMC and legal indemnity. It’s an expensive hobby!

Was woken in the early hours of the morning with an intense, stabbing pain in my big toe. It is almost certainly to be gout. I know people said it was painful, and they weren’t lying. Is there a Gout Group on BlueSky? It’s seems like the sort of thing BlueSky would have looking at the users.