“No you’re a bumhole” “Yes”

The important and long lasting impact the war is having on fertiliser costs

"Reform does not need to win diverse urban seats outright to reshape the political landscape. It only needs to normalise the idea that losses there are somehow suspect. Once that logic takes hold, any unfavourable result can be reframed as a problem with the electorate rather than the message."

🧵 of highlighted #MECFS and #LongCovid research papers being discussed this week on the Science for ME forum. 2 - 8 Mar 2026

I for one am shocked that both of the main pro independence parties in Scotland appear to have been incapable of running their own finances. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

So Farage’s special relationship with Trump is looking a bit damaged then huh It sounds like he travelled to see the Mad King at his Florida court but found the king was too busy to spend any time with his jester

Seriously America you put these idiots in charge and won’t remove them even though they are doing this. We got Liz truss out quicker than a lettuce can wilt a tiny bit . Muppets

She’s got a spreadsheet She’s checking it twice And we’re going to find out Who tweets just like Tice

If you’re going to tolerate adults wearing baseball caps with suits as normal in public life, this is what it’s going to lead to.

The war against Iran is very plainly not just a war against an enemy. It’s a pretext to propagandise on all fronts, from the glorification of violence to the contempt for Europe. It gives Trump the one thing he can’t do without, attention.

We’ve got Farage, Tice, Badenoch and Blair criticising Starmer for not being fully behind Trump and bombing Iran Then Polanski and Sultana criticising him because he is behind Trump and bombing Iran Starmer has fucked a lot up but this lot are all equally disingenuous and out for themselves

Badenoch’s War Cabinet?

She had a rant about 'Rachel from customer complaints' just delivering the spring statement as if the world hadn't changed. She argued for Rishi Sunak, who did the same thing in his first budget, to be prime minister *three times*: !

I see Zack Polanski is back to his disingenuous, dishonest point scoring. I think that Zack will discover that most of the public believe that Starmer's approach is the correct one. Starmer has said the attack is illegal, albeit very diplomatically but he has done so.

<wakes up, checks commodity prices, gets the big boy coffee mug out, and puts on the correct trading attire>

The markets, they are very sick.

Oxymoron, noun, a US right wing media pundit off their tits on opioids

Trump told me that the Ayatollah was close to collecting all the horcruxes and had to be stopped

Trump told me that the Ayatollah was close to filling up his loyalty card for the mar a lago coffee shop and had to be stopped

There’s a lot of good Tiny Desk Concerts. This one has blown my mind a little, even if you just listen to the first song, just do, fucking hell

Can confirm this is still a masterpiece, and I still had something in my eye at the end, but Anton Walbrook’s line about the gangsters putting the decent people in prison lands a little differently now

I would like to know how many of you are familiar with skijoring? "What if we did water skiing but like, on snow, and instead of boats we shall pull participants using...horses? And do this on the cramped mainstreets of small towns throughout the west?" (Obsessed, @dylanpkane.bsky.social)

Of all the complaints against Starmer, the most absurd is that it's "weak" to have a Cabinet that doesn't just rubber-stamp what The Leader wants on questions of war & peace. I'd take Cabinet govt - in which ministers kick the tyres of big decisions - over the kneel-and-obey model of Farage any day

This is a really powerful tool. Clear and concise, easy to share and communicate. SO WHY AREN’T WE ALREADY SICK OF HEARING LABOUR SAYING “CHILCOT CHECKLIST”? Either Labour have again done the right thing without explaining it well, or this is a post hoc fitting of sensible strategy to actions.

didn't not do a double take at that illustration, let me tell you

Oxymoron, noun, a US right wing media pundit off their tits on opioids

Finally some good news for Andy Burnham

Hitting desalination plants is so bad. Not just evil but strategically incomprehensible. Without desalination 75% of the entire population of the Middle East will be refugees. Israel and Kuwait depend on desalination for 90% of their water and other Middle East states aren’t far behind.

In an attempt to gain popularity on Bluesky the US administration is rebranding the war as operation Epic Furry

Every headline featuring this guy is a variant of “Tony Blair: I’ve Learned Nothing”

“I went to the doctor, guess what he told me. Guess what he told me” You have General Paresis caused by a prior Syphilis infection?

Make Turnberry Gyrate Again!

I missed this last week. Looks like some lenders sniffing around after other failures found some more failures Possibly nothing, possibly not a great sign for what’s lurking and what may come if the 💩 hits the 🪭 more widely

Starmer must be so upset that the people hated by a majority of the British Public are all coming out to criticise him and support something else hated by the British public It could have been really good for him… if it wasn’t for, well, everything else

Operation Hit And Run

Do Badenoch, Farage, the right wing media and Blair think that 8% of the public is going to come around to the idea of war? Do they think things are going to get better, that Trump claiming victory means anything, or the many negative impacts on voters aren’t going to be noticed? Brain rot the lot

Blair is probably the best prime minister of my lifetime, and almost certainly the worst former prime minister of my lifetime.

Make Turnberry Gyrate Again!

There's probably a limit to how many times I can repost this but let's find out. "Hero voters" were always "economically insecure & wouldn't rule out voting Labour", not "may have voted for Jim Callaghan but haven't considered Labour since"

Ruin a drink with one word Tommy Robinson’s Barley Water

Tonight’s musical selection. Because you are all… Loved - Four Tet

A brilliant and well investigated piece showing how the cons work…https://washingtonian.com/2026/02/12/how-elon-musks-sci-fi-hyperloop-failed/

This is very good... although I think I'd want to add further scrutiny of social conservatism, which gets confused with "anti-immigration".

Chris knows Let’s hope people leading the party start listening to this and the work of other people who actually understand the electorate like @profjanegreen.bsky.social

Building on my General Election Prediction App, I thought it might be fun to build an app that allows you to look at UK constituencies in a bunch of cool ways. So this app doesn't turn polls into seats. It looks at seats as they are. livedataoxford.shinyapps.io/Constituency... Quick thread 1/n

4pm today on BBC Radio 4 Extra it’s the repeat of my adaptation of Iain M. Banks’ The State of the Art, with Sir Antony Sher as the ship. So proud of this amazing production by @nadiamolinari.bsky.social

*uncrunches your nuts*