I love letters to the 1922 time, it gets earlier each year, but it's something we can really rely on. Like letters to Santa

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

So, with Jane Goodall passing, I am reminded of a very fun incident where her institute sent a furious complaint over this cartoon on her behalf, only to have Goodall herself find it hilarious and go on to write the introduction to the collection it appeared in. A fantastic sense of humour.

Kemi Badenoch saying “the last time I checked, Northern Ireland did vote to leave” is so on-brand it hurts. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Did the Supreme Court ruling pass you by? Anything that claims to be a lawfully constituted single sex service provision or sport must be just that. Single sex. Because women & girls have human rights too.

Exactly — my question is why be this rich and still be an unctuous toady?

Lots of people asking about the Government's prospects for recovering the £120m from Barrowman/Mone/their companies Short answer: I don't know. I'm not an insolvency specialist. No clue how the £120m was paid out to them from PPE Medpro So I have no technical answer But...

Well, if many chimps are leaving tributes to Jane Goodall, then I suppose we will have to credit them with being at least 'fairly similar' to humans...

Kemi Badenoch boasted in July she was Britain's Javier Milei.... So she would be happy now joining the Argentine president in begging Trump for a $20bn financial bailout? Thought someone would have told her promising to turn Britain into Argentina was not a great idea. www.ft.com/content/7108...

Farage doesn't need to win the next election; he's already setting government policy.

Suck it up

Battle of the beige: Labour’s journey from big beasts to boring blokes Labour, despite its majority, feels timid and adrift - clinging to safety while lacking vision, confidence, and genuine personality northeastbylines.co.uk/news/opinion...

What has Yvette Cooper’s proscription of Palestine Action done to this country? Beyond absurd. It’s extreme authoritarianism. These police should be arresting rapists & crooks, not neglecting those duties to spend time arresting citizens standing against genocide. It undermines police and the law.

Andy Burnham on why he’s for rejoining the EU… …and why we need to call out Reform on Brexit. 👏👏👏👏

“Trans pupils must use toilets based on their biological sex” About time, girls have been avoiding drinking so they don’t have to run the gauntlet of a girl’s toilet full of lads. www.thetimes.com/article/93f6...

SCOOP / UPDATE — Disney saw more than 1.7 million total paid streaming cancelations during the period 9/17-9/23, a Disney source confirms to me. The total includes Disney+, Hulu and ESPN.

Just fuck off with this. How about start the conversation by highlighting how much immigrants contribute to the UK - not least by propping up the NHS and social care system! Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.

independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli... Nigel Farage is the ‘single greatest threat’ to UK livelihoods, says Rachel Reeves. Bet she never mentioned Brexit! How can you criticise the damage Farage will do to the country without criticising the damage he has already inflicted on us?

Well worth a watch. Thank you for sharing.

Getting mighty tired of the meme on here of “oh, it is just so difficult for the government to set the agenda”. The government (which literally employs thousands of press officers) is setting the agenda - it’s just that it is setting it on toxic ground it can’t win.

"I trust doctors over President Trump, frankly, on this. I've just got to be really clear about this: there is no evidence to link the use of paracetamol by pregnant women to autism in their children. None." @wesstreeting.bsky.social 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

ME ON A TRAIN: Oh no, I accidentally clicked a video with sound! Oh god, people heard a second of loud sound from my phone. I have torn the social contract. EVERYBODY ELSE ON TRAIN: Shit yeah, train time, time to watch the loudest TikToks

Back our petition now against Labour's Digital ID Plans: www.libdems.org.uk/nodigitalid

The scandal of using asylum seekers as cover to roll out digital IDs This is yet another policy disaster from Keir Starmer and Labour, we can just sit back and watch it unravel itself over the upcoming months

Keir Starmer’s Kevin Keegan moment  economist.com/britain/2025...

The Bullshit Asymmetry, also known as Brandolini's Law "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it" Cartoon by @sketchplanations.bsky.social

"You’ll notice that these quotes come from the Prime Minister’s official spokesperson. That’s because the actual Prime Minister is still missing, presumed shit."

Please, @theguardian.com, stop writing headlines that give credibility to Trump’s baseless medical misinformation. The way you’re reporting this makes you part of the problem.

Come in Keir Starmer, your time is up. Time to give someone with a vision, a plan or just a clue a go. Whatever his 'journey' here, Burnham is now saying *all* the right things and manages to do so whilst sounding like a human being. Perhaps key para: magazine.newstatesman.com/2025/09/24/e...

“When it comes to science I wouldn’t side with anybody” This would be a fine statement, science isn’t about people or sides but about the best evidence we currently have at any time The problem is Farage doesn’t like evidence either

I think the key problem here is a continuing assumption, in traditional media, that when the White House speaks on a major topic, this is a big news story. That model can't cope with a president with no regard for truth, who's in constant broadcast mode, & who veers around from one day to another.

Come in Keir Starmer, your time is up. Time to give someone with a vision, a plan or just a clue a go. Whatever his 'journey' here, Burnham is now saying *all* the right things and manages to do so whilst sounding like a human being. Perhaps key para: magazine.newstatesman.com/2025/09/24/e...

Without inherited wealth or the family name, these fellas would be stood at the side of the road shouting nonsense at passing traffic.

Donald Trump has said many terrible things today, but as a comedian I think his biggest sin was being booked for 15 mins and doing nearly an hour. Whoever was following him must have been spitting feathers…

French President walking to the UN but unable to get there because of Trump's motorcade seems like an apt metaphor for America's role now on the world stage

Critics say conditions should’ve been attached to Palestinian statehood. If so, perhaps we should also attach conditions to our recognition of Israel? Perhaps we shd de-recognize Israel until it stops killing, allows in aid, and itself accepts 2 state solution. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

From Rasmus Jarlov, chair of Denmark’s Defence Committee:

Happy Mini Budget Day for all those who celebrate. 🤦‍♀️

It just straightforwardly *insane* how much political chatter in the United Kingdom is about the next general election, an event that is a long way in the future, and how basically none of it is about 'uh, this policy agenda doesn't look adequate to the scale of the inherited problem'.

Just done my Xmas Ocado order. In September. Because that's normal.

I have defended the BBC again and again. No more.

It’s not complicated -Make it a welcoming environment not a hostile one for migrants -Invest in and talk up the sector rather than cutting funding and badmouthing students

Has no one told Keir Starmer that the Ming vase was dropped some time ago and smashed into a million pieces?

The problem is that the centre-left can't win every election. And trying can make them cautious, when they need to be bold. Really successful govts - Attlee, Thatcher, Blair - secure the things they believe in by forcing their opponents to change. But that requires a confident project of their own.

Proud to contribute frontline testimony to tonight's enraging @itvx.com documentary "The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money". Boris Johnson's govt squandered £8.7 billion on unusable PPE, while grifters like Michelle Mone made millions. Tonight, 10.15pm, ITV1. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Disney is no longer associated with magic and innocence in the minds of millions now. There are mistakes - and there is catastrophic cowardice that changes your brand identity. Boycott Disney.

Favourite 10 comedies in no particular order... Steptoe And Son Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? Fawlty Towers The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin Porridge Blackadder Yes Minister Peep Show Black Books Frasier

And yet, and yet, and yet, still such a widespread determination not to understand that you cannot protect something from Russia without being ready and willing to fight for it.

Just cancelled my Disney+ subscription! Never watched this jimmy bloke in my life but it's a nice opportunity to remind a large corporation that a massive proportion of their users are not twitter-brained fascists