Promises, promises!

Royal Cornwall Show - Saturday is cancelled due to weather!

It’s open! You can vote on which creatures should appear on the next series of Bank of England banknotes bit.ly/3PHeQhY to replace the single species that is on them now. When you vote you will see cute pictures of them by the tick box. Feel free to announce your choice!

If you say "I support Palestine Action", they might put you in jail. If you incite a racist riot, they put you on the news.

My feisty puppy, Champers, enjoyed her constitutional along the beach this morning!

A petition on Parliament’s website calling for a debate on #RejoinEU is approaching its 100,000 signature target. Please help it over the final hurdle by signing and sharing. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

My petition has been published!! Hoorah. In light of Farage and Co making money off GB News and other means, please consider signing and sharing the below. The only exception to the second jobs rule would be MPs who actively work within the NHS petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

Half way through it - a really fascinating read. Some of those mentioned were still there when I joined in the late 60s.

I know people are a bit tired of this but the people who wanted to leave the EU got their way by applying continual pressure, we must do the same.

I’m not a billionaire yet. (And if I was I’d use my powers for GOOD - not evil, when I wasn’t jumping about in a ballot full of frazzles)… so if anyone would like to help fund my ongoing nonsense by buying my art… I’d be appreciative… Greetings cards HERE! Dippyfishcards.etsy.com

Lady Chatterly's Loser

Have I got this right? If someone dies and leaves you a house, the tax man will have taken 40% above the threshold if the house is worth more than £325K. But if a billionaire living in Thailand gives you £5m as a gift, there’s no tax to pay? Nothing. Zilch. Nada. Can’t be right, can it?

A Cornish sunrise (taken just before 0600 this morning)

Can't help feeling that this could be another Brexit moment. I am not by nature particularly sympathetic towards Keir Starmer. But I have an uncomfortable feeling that those who are determined to bring him down may eventually come to question whether the result was what they really wanted.

Can't help feeling that this could be another Brexit moment. I am not by nature particularly sympathetic towards Keir Starmer. But I have an uncomfortable feeling that those who are determined to bring him down may eventually come to question whether the result was what they really wanted.

Just in case there are any other crypto-currency billionaires out there with £5 million they don't know what to do with - and want to give it away with no strings attached ...

As we see results of the local elections across England continue to come in, it’s clear that First Past the Post is failing voters – with some councils bearing little resemblance to how people actually voted. It doesn’t need to be this way. It’s time to scrap First Past the Post in England.

It would be great if that happened. However I fear it is more likely that they will make an enormous mess of running councils but that many of their less discerning supporters will believe them when they claim that the fault is all down to central government.

Think the BBC ought to sort out their autocarrot. There is an obvious typo on the on-screen caption.

What a pleasure it is to wake up this morning knowing that I am in no way involved in today's electoral activities!

Royal visit goes ahead despite shooting The new Private Eye is out now.

The du Maurier Festival is a really great event, with lots to interest everyone - du Maurier fans and others. Have a look at their website to see what else is on. But do make sure you get a ticket for Lord Ricketts' appearance!

Can't help thinking that the State Visit to Washington is just what Starmer needs. Sending The King to fend off Trump's inanities is a wonderful opportunity to show just how unfailingly acute the PM's judgement is...

As a former career diplomat, I am biased. But my sense is that few political ambassadorial appointments have been triumphs. That said, I can quite see why the PM would want in Washington someone who could win Trump's confidence - and given how much Trump and Mandelson have in common, I can see

A Cornish sunrise

A reminder, the security services advised Theresa May Johnson was a security risk before she appointed him Foreign Secretary, they advised against giving Lebedev a peerage, he got one, Johnson misled (lied to you and me) about what he knew about Pincher when he made him Deputy Chief Whip.

I can see the appeal of making political capital out of the latest Mandelson information, and I have no particular affection for Starmer (at least until I look at the potential alternatives - from any party!). But if I was PM, could I not reasonably assume that I would not need to ask for

Cartoon by Ben Jennings @bjennings90.bsky.social

If I was Marine Le Pen, I would tell Vance and co to stay well away from France for the next year.

Imagine trusting science to bring astronauts to the moon and back but not trusting science to develop safe vaccines.

I hope the Nobel Peace Prize committee is on standby. He just ended another war.

Good morning Wulferhampton have at terrific Tuesday you talented twonks

In 4 days, the Artemis II crew will be farther from King Donald the Mad than anyone has ever been before. Lucky, lucky bastards!

Beautiful moon this morning!

Only 952 days until the next US Presidential election...

Slept in my Grumpy Old Git T-shirt last night and woke up ...

To The United States of America: When your President & his staff don’t know how to spell the word ‘which’ on a missive as important as this then you know you’ve elected a bit of a dick. 😊

Too many people are too polite to say this. But holding mass rituals in public places is an act of domination. The druids are taking over.

🇫🇷 / 🇺🇸… encore une fois le grand Charles, par sa vision, avait plusieurs longueurs, et même plusieurs décennies, d’avance ! #DeGaulle

Now, if I have this right, FIFA is threatening to penalise Iran for not coming to the World Cup in the US – the nation that bombed the bejeezus out of them and murdered their head of state? And that would be the same FIFA that gave the head of state of the country that bombed Iran a "Peace Prize"?

Last time I posted a photo of Mevagissey, it flooded within 24 hours!

It looks as if some combination of the markets, MAGA and munitions shortages in the Gulf will bring Trump to declare victory in the coming days. There will be no regime change or unconditional surrender. It will leave a deeply damaged but not a different Iran. An Iran who will want revenge one day.