In a rare moment of practicing what I preach I've just switched my mobile deal from O2 (£13 a month) to Sky Mobile (£6 a month) following the advice here: www.which.co.uk/news/article...

11 days apart. Brutal.

Ah, rubbish news. If you get a chance watch him doing 'many rivers to cross' on Jools Holland on youtube. Jaw-droppingly good.

Australia are going to win this, aren’t they? The optimism on TMS seems a bit much.

Minor gripe: documentaries/podcasts that still use that annoying bird whistley chirp noise over the top of segments about tweets or twitter.

From the new issue of Which?, we put AI to the test, asking tools 40 health, legal, personal finance and consumer rights questions and rating the responses. www.which.co.uk/news/article...

Maybe this message would land better if water companies weren't charging through the nose and wasting 19% of water through leaks?

JUST NAME IT A DIFFERENT THING THAT'S AN ACTUAL PHRASE

Is Bristol England's most unequal city? For the first time in 6 years, the Government has divided up England into 33,755 neighbourhoods & ranked them based on wealth, health, jobs etc A few parts of Bristol are in the top 0.3%, some in the bottom 0.6% www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

🏉👖🩳 Fabulous Joe Marler interview in @thetimes.com Including this gem about his hatred of trousers…

Stewart Lee's let himself go.

Brilliant coverage of the BBC story on the World at One.

Inspired by The Jase's video, I realised that the Mr Blobby song also works quite well with the John Lewis advert. But then it took a dark turn...

A 34-year-old as a politician: My god he's like a baby. It's like they just elected an infant to be their mayor. A 34-year-old as an athlete: You have to admire the bravery of him attempting that dunk, knowing full well the grim reaper is right behind him.

I don't see how Cat can win from here. It must have been obvious that the producers wouldn't have chosen three men to be traitors. David surely would have had that thought.

It’s shocking that the NHS spends almost as much on clinical negligence claims related to maternity care as it does on maternity care itself - my piece for @theobserveruk.bsky.social on the crisis in maternity services and how to fix it observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

"I just had a pleasant drink at the bar with my favourite film director, David." "Cronenberg?" "No, we both had Strongbow." "David Lean?" "He didn't need to, there were stools. So yeah, me and David Lynch had a pleasant time."

Good to see the comments under this are absolutely scathing (against The Times for running the story).

This is when going to football comes into its own. Warm coat, Guinness, Bovril, pie. 3rd round of the Cup. Marvelous.

Love a curveball cover splash

First glance reaction: when did NME put Richard Madeley on the cover?

Can we stop with the 'barbs'? Strange journalese that seems to have become the default for politicians saying mean things about each other. No one says 'barbs' in real life.

Colin from Accounts is magnificent TV.

It would be nice if the Tory party could clarify if it wants to deport my 72 year old mum.

This is basically my dream job, so no shade towards the business pages from me, but as a former PM wouldn't you hold out for, you know, the main comment pages? I guess Business gives him more scope to be nerdy.

I am once again imploring the sauerkraut people to realise that it isn't possible to consume your massive jars 'within 2 days'. Even a large family of 'kraut obsessives would struggle.

Next time somebody asks me what Bluesky is like, I'll send them this

Co-op are banging out world class cheap frozen pizzas. Should be an absolute staple on the kids birthday party circuit.

I've been blaming memes for this, and I think it fits. A lot of the angriest people out there aren't actually consuming news, they're consuming news-flavored content, and the content is a funhouse mirror version of reality that they're mistaking for being real.

My kids are absolutely obsessed with Gold by Spandau Ballet.

feels a bit weird that we keep having these stories about individual cyber attacks but without anyone really joining the dots and going "okay, shall we maybe talk about this as a major global story"

As they should.

Commissioned a hotshot new columnist to write about bins.

2025 will be be remembered for the triumphant return of the best British band of the 90s. Really can't get enough of the new Suede album.

The new Suede album is properly good.

Anyone else manage to mow the lawn today?

This month's cover story is getting some press today. We bought convincing high-end fakes on online marketplaces and tested some, took others apart. Some just didn't work, others were dangerous. Read the investigation here: www.which.co.uk/news/article...

6.3 inches. Smaller, but definitely not small.

Bluesky isn’t perfect but at least its owner isn’t demanding violent insurrection in the UK from thousands of miles away

Great pic choice and headline.

Bravo @jacobfuredi.bsky.social and @pressgazette.co.uk @charlottetobitt.bsky.social for rumbling this. Doesn't reflect brilliantly on the magazine industry, sadly. pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...

Train guard just referred to ‘refreshment opportunities’ available from the snack trolley.

Annual moan that the 5th biggest football league in Europe started in England yesterday and the Sunday Times sent one reporter to one game.

Bloody hell, that was good.

I mean, if you're going to do a poll on swearing, don't be prissy twats and use asterisks, FFS.

Test cricket

The cricket.

Guardian Brain is a really stupid thing: this is the conclusion to a piece about the best fans. Fans are great! But AC is also great, and really isn't burning the planet as so much of the grid - especially in summer - is solar/renewables.

Bizarre discussion on the radio likening air condition to passive smoking because it accounts for 3% of CO2 emissions. But: we don’t moralise turning heating on in winter, and heating accounts for 15% of emissions. If aircon is intrinsically immoral, so are radiators.