I just think if the government was to become this unpopular this quickly, they might as well have done it by increasing taxes on median+ earners.

I cannot believe that Sheffield people swear more than Glaswegians. (Source: am Glaswegian in Sheffield who has already sworn more than 23 times at my desk this morning.)

I read this story to my kids about a thousand times and I still identify deeply with their inability to stop eating all the cookies.

Going to ask J D Vance to come support the football team my son’s playing against next week

With all the anxiety currently about, it’s both refreshing and restorative to stumble on something interesting and unexpected. I never knew about these old pronouns. They suggest a subtly and intriguingly different view of social relationships. A nice start to the day! www.bbc.com/future/artic...

It's 20 yrs today that I was in a cafe on the shores of Loch Ness and my mate ordered a toasted teacake. The waitress asked my exasperated southern friend to clarify. "A teacake cut in half, grilled and buttered? Are you sure?' The Tunnocks that came out was like a horror from Doctor Who.

God, these lovely, peaceful morning hours in Europe before that stupid cunt wakes up.

It's a ghost! It's an alien! Don't look, Marion!

This is what I do when I'm not thinking about pockets 😁

The additional cost of ONE fossil fuel price spike on the scale of 2022 = the ENTIRE COST of Net Zero by 2050. We get precisely nothing in return for the first cost, and a whole new, more secure and cheaper energy system from the second one. #NoBrainer www.theccc.org.uk/2026/03/11/c...

Me, dumb and politically correct: Firing on unarmed ships or double-tap military strikes on schools are bad things.

Religious zealots always cherry-pick. I mean, just once, couldn't they notice that Satan in The Book of Revelation is typically characterised as an orange Beast who loves gold?

A special relationship is built on mutual love and respect. An abusive relationship is when your partner belittles you, gives nothing back, threatens you, keeps negatively comparing you to an ex partner and despite it all assumes you'll always be there for them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Fortunately my cat has murdered every songbird within a 500m radius of my house.

Love this. I just about managed 1200, but beyond that I was utterly lost. Fascinating how Germanic the word order becomes once you hit 1200. I need to go back and listen again to the brilliant History of English podcast.

I hope every rich nonce in the UK & beyond is brought down because three hours in a custody cell with no staff and vending machine coffee breaks Andrew like a dropped trifle

Post a banger not in English ‘Verstärker’ by Blumfeld. youtu.be/H6qtPaMX3d0?...

And never forget. These are asylum seekers. This is what the USA is doing to the most vulnerable people on the planet who we promised to protect.

From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X) "Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal? Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail… Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you. Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."

part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Left: Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, talking about liberty and freedom in the US in the UK parliament Right: ICE agents attacking a dancing fox

This year we're doing Whamutopia. Every time you hear Last Christmas you have to have a mulled wine at your earliest convenience and toast George Michael, because he was a lad

“It broke my heart, that was my savings towards a new car,” one woman who paid Milne tens of thousands of pounds told us. “He has just wiped me out.” Who is Andrew Milne - the solicitor sending "very aggressive" letters to Sheffield homeowners? www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

Okay @erinbiba.bsky.social I’ve been hanging on to this one for a while but I think tonight’s the night. It may not be true WeirdTok but it is genuinely joyous.

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

1/2 + TRAVEL PRINT COMPETITION+ Sun's out so we are giving away 4 travel prints to one lucky winner this weekend. Like, RP and most importantly sign up to our mailing list to enter. Link in the bio. The winner will be announced Mon AM.

@meandmybigmouth.bsky.social Hello! I followed you on Twitter way back in the days when it wasn’t monstrous - glad to see you on here!

If only there were half the outrage over Israeli soldiers shooting starving people queuing for food as there has been towards some rappers mouthing off at Glastonbury, we'd be in a very different place

In the light of on stage Glastonbury comments today: contextually, the IDF are genocidal maniacs.

i'm starting to see some scoldy posts pointing out that we are laughing about a fire on the deck of our sinking ship and i have to be honest once the ship started sinking i decided i would take the laughs where i found them

"You see, these Spice Girls, they challenged this man and said that if he wanted to be their lover they would have to get with their friends and....and....men have been under....this pressure....now.....since 1996. And I'm sad for them"

@pocketswomenuk.bsky.social Trip to London?

Reposting this for no particular reason. 👀

I’d seen photos of the pre-orders of @alexpheby.bsky.social’s Waterblack being posted out by @galleybeggars.bsky.social and wished I’d ordered it too. This just arrived. My memory is terrible.

is it too late to enter this at the Oscars for Best Picture

If you need to discipline your child by beating them, a smaller, weaker human who has grown up with *you* setting an example for their behaviour, who has relied on you for every aspect of their life, then you are a complete and utter failure as a father and a shit metaphor for leadership.

I'm assuming you have your own preferred news sources for keeping current with the ongoing appalling everything, so I'll aim to share things to put in the positive side on the scales. Here's an article about independent bookshops in Yorkshire. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If you didn’t spend hours trying to emulate this, what were you even doing with your teens?? youtu.be/VUtDwWp17tM?...

One for @ptwiddle.bsky.social.

So, let's try doing #duvetknowitschristmas here this evening? People are literally Driving Home For Christmas right now, which MIGHT JUST mean that they'll be sleeping somewhere unusual. 1/

Penelope, who loves cardboard more than anything else in the world. #proofofcat