So the Quintuple dream is over. I’ll tell the children

If betting shops are the ‘heart of the community’, it sounds like letting people gamble alone at home on their phones is encouraging loneliness and should be banned then.

For the sake of Palace’s ridiculous number of games in a short space of time, I’d like to thank the person who decided the League Cup should go straight to Penalties

Some of the biggest "winners" of congestion pricing are drivers, who enjoy much faster commutes because there is less congestion. Part of the reason these schemes become popular after being implemented is many drivers realize paying the fee is a great exchange for less traffic!

Nothing to give you confidence in a film like the trailer going “hey! remember these characters from other, better, films?”

It is genuinely devastating when Alexander comes out with the “By Grabthar's hammer, by the Sons of Warvan, you shall be avenged!" When quellek is dying in his arms,

Italian man stopped at Swiss border by customs www.swissinfo.ch/eng/various/...

The great thing about FPTP is how it moderates everyone and keeps those more extreme parties away from power

This piece is billed as ‘father of girls thinks misogyny lessons are unnecessary’ but right at the end he actually asks the girls he is confidently speaking on behalf of and they…disagree. Amazing. www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...

1. Homes within walking distance of train stations well-connected to jobs will be allowed so long as they have a minimum density of 50 homes per hectare. This also applies across the green belt! This will have a huge impact:

The universality is one of the BBC’s most defining principles. Replace it with ads and it is lost forever.

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

As a director, Rob Reiner released these five movies all in a row 1986 Stand by Me 1987 The Princess Bride 1989 When Harry Met Sally… 1990 Misery 1992 A Few Good Men All remarkable and vastly different films, showing extraordinary range and talent

my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides

Not disputing this isn’t true. But there doesn’t seem to be much engagement with why it might be the case. If more people did Higher Level Apprenticeships then the premium would erode too.

This sounds quite difficult to administer. At least the US isn’t due to host any major international sporting events attracting fans from dozens of countries any time soon. news.sky.com/story/us-pla...

Excellent news. Next step - return to County Hall

Netflix, which rarely carries a single movie from before 1980, wants you to know how thrilled they are to acquire that classic piece of franchise IP, Casablanca

Even more horrified now that someone has pointed out that Netflix will own the Dune films www.ft.com/content/6532...

Can’t believe Netflix are doing all this just to keep hold of the rights to Friends

The King has commanded that the Greater London Authority (GLA) shall be allowed to use the coat of arms that once belonged to its predecessor, the GLC. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/the...

Feels like draws against teams closer to the top haven’t cost Arsenal the title previously. It’s been draws vs those closer to mid / bottom of the table that have. They’ve beaten Palace, Fulham and West Ham recently, for instance.

Crystal Palace Everyman when Ben said he’s from “between Streatham Hill and West Norwood" in Twisters

And did absolutely nothing to stop them.

Rachel Reeves

Huge fan of how Shirley is continually showing she’s a competent member of the group despite everyone else thinking she’s losing it in slow horses.

Incredible scenes if this is true www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar...

I can never work out if certain films are good, or if being in the cinema is just a wonderful experience that fools the brain into enjoying things.

Not only has he never looked at Don Jr. or Eric like this, he’s never been so happy to bask in JD Vance’s presence either. He looks giddy. JOYFUL even. Is Zohran a witch

The BBC Scotland commentary for Kenny McLean’s halfway line goal is glorious. Stuff of dreams. 🔥 Congratulations #Scotland, see you at the World Cup.

What the hell were they doing for the TWO YEARS it was obvious they were going to win with a massive majority?

Yep, why not score a goal from your own half in the 98th minute?

Imagine having a thumping majority in parliament and deciding to use it for something as squalid as this.

Wow, he looks just like him!

Excellent news. Amazing they’ve left this kind of money on the table so far really. A victory for devolution www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

I beg of you: please read the plot summary of this film en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Luc...

well this is how I spent 5 minutes of my precious weekend

"Thank Heavens Reeves froze the thresholds," says the median voter in 2029 as they walk past the derelict sports centre and down the empty high street to cast their vote.

So when it burns down due to neglect, how many current MPs will put out statements saying how shocked they are despite the obvious warnings?

The only margin Labour are currently at is the marginal of survival. By focusing on a few tactically important constituencies they are missing the overall strategy - govern well, govern clearly, and in the broad interest of your overall voting base. n/n benansell.substack.com/p/labour-at-...

Obviously he could stand in another seat in theory etc. but erm…

My last word on the matter

Cool kid.

I don’t think anyone assumes it will solve all their problems. But at least you have the opportunity to solve them, even if you get it wrong, rather than some distant freeholder doing it www.ft.com/content/6993...

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

I’d always wondered why no one had ever published a full, detailed map of the 1960s plan to turn London into a giant web of US-style urban motorways…. It turns even the politicians and designers didn’t make one at the time. It just didn’t exist. Until now.

My annual post about how the Morning Star reported the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 hatfulofhistory.com/2014/11/07/h...