there's a competitive victimhood in British politics. voters can only be seen as worthy if they are 'left behind', so everyone has to claim that status

My kingdom for an “you’re very lucky to have disposable income and being middle class is great” MP.

Bill Paxton’s response to “you’re American”? Of “no sir. I’m from Kentucky” remains one of my favourite lines in film. Terrific film.

London’s “worst mass eviction in recent history” is underway; hundreds of households across London told to get out of their homes this week by the same landlord, ahead of the renters rights act. The landlord? Billionaire Asif Aziz’s Criterion Capital. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

Nicolas Cage pretending to be John Travolata impersonating Nicolas Cage. Absolute nonsense film. No piece of scenery left unchewed. Huge fun.

If somewhere like this does exist, it obviously votes for the Liberal Democrats now anyway

Yet the findings are consistent with those from other contexts. New homes are occupied by those on relatively high incomes, but initiate moving chains that involve households with progressively lower incomes & homes at lower rents. Households generally move to larger homes.

The Supreme Court:

Would love to see a compilation of these types of proclamations throughout history. “Spinning Jenny to put 60% out of work” etc.

Well there's a graph for you.

Leaving my quite negative feelings on the monarchy aside though I think it is very funny how much Charles /hates/ Andrew

I know he’s out in the summer anyway, but I Don’t think it’s sustainable for Oliver Glasner to stay until then really www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

The Rise of Skywalker. Could identify many moments in it that filled me with rage. But it was when they “killed” Chewbacca, but it turned out to be an identical ship nearby that was destroyed, and he was still alive.

Andrew's completely broke which raises the possibility that a Norfolk duty solicitor is currently having the strangest day of his / her life.

I’m not a betting man, but if I remember rightly they were predicting a Remain win until about 3am on the night of the Brexit vote, and the same with Trump/Biden for the former in 2020.

Imagine being asked to provide capital in a scheme called “Equity for Punks” though. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Can’t believe Steve Reed now doesn’t want to fix potholes or solve social care

Restored Peatlands Could Become Carbon Sinks Within Decades eos.org/articles/res...

Pancake expert here. The annual rush to harvest pancakes on a single day has extremely deleterious effects on the local pancake ecosystem. By all means pick a few pancakes for your own use, but please leave some on the bush so that it can recover in its own time.

I am shocked, shocked, that a now privatised company is prioritising profitable parcels. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Look if you want to vote for them, just vote for them. Don’t need to dress it up like this.

Feeling less confident about the ability to rid us of these signs and stickers after seeing one for London 2012 at London Bridge www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05...

An utter tragedy. Science solved this problem, but a bunch of charlatans fucked everything up and brought it back

Think there is a basic argument for legal gambling as a buffer against an illegal industry. But the 24/7, always online, algorithmically incentivised, permanently advertised addiction machine is just causing huge social ills.

Have The Labour Party simply considered governing well rather than pinning hopes on people with very little experience or vision?

I’d like to meet the person who designed the Croydon Tramlink platforms

Amazing how they decided to take The Mandalorian from a fun adventure of the week style show to this. Terrible decision.

Knowledge of ICE and their activities is not what “America Brain” is.

I wish we had France’s problem of too much abundant clean energy.

They also chose to box themselves in with silly tax pledges before the election which they try to get around. Absolutely very little need for any of it:

Poor Jonathan Pine #thenightmamager

Tony Pulis cultural victory

Starting a rewatch of Schitts Creek

Fantastic campaign, with Christoper Eccleston, to end gambling ads. It's sooo notable how many adverts for gambling there are every where you look - television, YouTube, social media, everywhere Ruining families and it doesn't have to be this way www.instagram.com/reel/DUIMYiP...

Thoughts on this mess. 🧵👇 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The WASPI campaign is one which from the branding sounds potentially quite reasonable. Then you look into the actual details of it and you veey much realise it is not www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I would once again like to apologise for doubting this Champions League mega group stage. It’s amazing.

Christian Bale gives an incredible performance in a very sub par film overall

Nigella to GBBO is, and will be, the best piece of business in the January transfer window

It's the Ship of Theseus but all the original parts are being used to build a second, crappier ship.

It’s amazing how many statements from the government sound like they’re from the end of a long-dying one which is out of ideas. Not one which was elected in 2024.

Stalin notorious for making sure you could walk to the shops

Welcome to Romford, now in Zone 15, where the buses have been halved in frequency (and end at 8pm) and no-one gets a Freedom Pass.

Why do they keep moving from room to room in the castle? If i sat in one of those comfy chairs I’d never get up #thetraitors

Right so James has the shield then #thetraitors

Still a final round of matches etc. etc. but it is amazing how 5/8 teams in the automatic qualification spots are English ones #championsleague

Petition for immediate banishment for anyone in the next series who says “I just don’t know why I’m still here” #thetraitors

It’s just code for going against the most obvious answer. Then you can pretend you’re some sort of sooth sayer if you’re right, and there’s little downside if you’re wrong.

It’s Interesting how games such as #thetraitors generate their own lexicon