Oh, you want the Transport Minister to make more transport happen, and the Minister of Investment to create more investment, but as soon as the Homelessness Minister starts increasing homelessness...

Is a match official wearing a Ralph Lauren Polo branded blazer rather than a Fred Perry branded blazer the tennis equivalent of going into Marks and Spencer and shouting ‘Woolworths’?

Begging companies to employ people with knowledge of internet lore

If you want to know how important pronouns are, try misgendering the invisible friend of a mad evangelical

I filled in a terrible form, so you don’t have to. And then wrote about it. www.bigtown.star-one.org.uk/localgov-dig...

Is Marlon Brando in Heat?

People's opinions all blended together and shaped into a nutritious sentence? Soylent Meaning.

News item right now about Jim Moir’s (Vic Reeves) major exhibition of his bird paintings he’s done over the years. I wonder if the caption cards will include information about how he cooked them and how tasty they were? (IYKYK)

If you’re one of those people who enjoys reading Hansard as a leisure activity, I offer the excerpt in the House of Lords yesterday where they had a nice chat about their £9,000,000 new front door. hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2025-0...

So that’s my latest platter now available on Bandcamp and in all the streaming platforms. The purpose of it is to be 93 minutes of Drones and Ambient Sounds which if played on shuffle might help with sleep, so that’s what I decided to call it. thewintervalconspiracy.bandcamp.com/album/93-min...

Oh, Canada.

LAPD when they think nobody is watching

Why doesn’t the UK Government simply re-nationalise Thames Water whilst it has the opportunity to, since the Labour Party is supposed to be the party of public ownership of critical strategic infrastructure? ground.news/article/tham...

Do you run a motel? Is it always full? Is it so busy you need to add a new room every time a new guest checks in? Have i got the contractor for you

Anyways, if you're looking for a modern chamber ensemble arrangement of some Gregorian plainchant to listen to whilst you wait for the Doctor Who finale, The Winterval Conspiracy has got your back www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3ny...

Well that’s a great start to Mayor Richard ‘taking back control’ of the region’s buses and no mistake — an 8.6% price hike from next week after the 7% price hike in January. Bastard Tories. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

That’s not the rule and you know it.

Viet

I don’t know what show B is watching on her phone in bed right now but I’ve just entered the room to hear a character say ‘I wish I had my own bunker’. Same, mate, I thought, same.

This is what the wider Doctor Who RTD2 arc looks like at this point now

Waiting to see whether petrol-bombing the prime minister’s front door is the most despicable act of despicable people or legitimate protest that only harmed property, depending on who it turns out is responsible.

Another home — and in this instance, a family pet killed horribly — destroyed by a faulty lithium battery. Maybe it’s time there was a bit more regulation around them than ‘advice’ from the fire service to ‘use them properly’. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What’s local government actually for anyway? www.bigtown.star-one.org.uk/localgov-dig...

The reason behind the Spanish blackout. 😇

Breaking news: councils already ‘have the auditors in’

... And that's a remarkably satisfying post.

A film by Peter Greenaway

I’m srsly done with the BBC News scammy clickbait site now. It’s *nine hours* since the claim stated in the headline was debunked and the BBC is still implying it is fact. GBeebies is probably a more reliable news source now.

It’s obscene that any school uniform should consist of anything other than generic items which can be bought in any children’s clothes shop. The tie and the badge to be sewn on to the blazer should be provided by the school. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Should the information be useful to folks, you can buy UK RADAR scheme keys from Amazon — amzn.eu/d/c64YF3i Sometimes you might want to stand your ground and assert your rights, and sometimes you might simply want to have a piss.

99% of caviar is shit

Anybody fancy a petition to have K2-18b renamed Solaris? ‘Dr Subir Sarkar, a lecturer in astrophysics at Cardiff University and part of the research team, said the research suggests K2-18b could have an ocean which could be potentially full of life’ ground.news/article/webb...

So I see the BBC News website has gone full Reach Plc with its scammy misleading clickbait headlines. No, the UK has *not* ‘banned EU meat and cheese’ — it’s introduced restrictions on what people coming back from holiday can bring in with their luggage. Very different.

Since it’s unlikely I’ll rack up the 100,000 subscribers necessary to get a YouTube silver play button, I thought it would be amusing to make myself a wooden play button. In the course of looking up the exact format of the buttons, I discover that custom ‘creator’s awards’ are indeed a Thing.

If you want your houses to play sport against each other it's easier with four - two games of two houses and then the winners play each other.

Why do schools which have the house system all seem to have four houses? Why seemingly never five or three?

Just done a quick walk around the garden wearing a pair of sandals I think Nancy Sinatra would approve of

I’m still surprised that British Telecom Installation Training Services didn’t go down the same path.

The important thing to remember is that the Financial Times rarely spins or lies, because it’s not in the interests of its core readership to be presented with spin or lie

Saying "Doomsday Clock or regular?" when someone asks what time it is

Given the privatised British Telecom was renamed BT, and the privatised British Leyland was renamed BL, I’m surprised when They privatised British Steel they didn’t follow suit and rename it BS.

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

I'd really appreciate any thoughts on how to publicise this. It'd be excellent if the post below could get some shares from folks with lots of followers. @eddavey.libdems.org.uk @mitchbenn.bsky.social @dxw.com @dominiccampbell.bsky.social @jamestplunkett.bsky.social @annadent.bsky.social

Now there's a protest sign you don't see often.

Okeydoke, I’m calling it — today is #LawnmowerDay2025

Wouldn’t it be funny if the rest of the world agreed to lower tariffs between each other and imposed minimum 10% tariffs on the USA? The Trumpazoids want to isolate their country from the rest of the world order — fine, let’s isolate them.

A quick check of Webbs of Wychbold’s opening times before we go out there, the fact that it’s #1 of three nightlife spots in Droitwich tells you everything you need to know about the buzzing nightlife in Droitwich

After many years of pondering this question, after adding them to our dinner just I’ve finally realised how mushrooms / fungi — who are not plants — should be referred to as: ‘Decided they didn’t want to be animals after all’