So I think in terms of stone cold classics, it’s obviously Blair (you just miss Final Fantasy VII but you do get Goldeneye, Ocarina of Time, Quake II, Theme Hospital in the first year alone) but I’m genuinely thinking about the best Premier for “games I actually play”.

Next come Ken and Brian Farnett, from Friern Barnet, with their unique take on shit leadership challenges.

Don't siege Liverpool, take it immediately.

The thing about Trump is that he really did seem sprightlier and more with-it than Biden (he seemed younger than his age) but he really has noticeably fallen off a cliff this year.

Barnsley did something rather innovative by going "you know that old, outdated shopping centre that's seen most of the shops leave, why don't we turn that into something that people actually want, like an outpatients and diagnostics clinic?"

Not a bad start as Mondays go, got a free flat white, and I made a lycra lout fall off his bike whilst he was running a red light.

This is just the Dutch Foreign Minister which is great because his vibes are, entirely without any shade, "Dutch Foreign Minister".

[KEIR STARMER OPENS HIS EYES AS THE RETURN BY DEATH NOISE PLAYS] He looks around. He recognises the interior of Mary Foy’s office. It’s just after 9PM. Some takeaway boxes are on the table. A staffer hands him a bottle of Cobra. “Beer, Sir Keir?”

We need to stop with this old Mass Effect discourse and begin the new one which is that it's INSANE they've never made a fucking visual novel for it, it'd take PENNIES and they'd make SO MUCH MONEY, Bioware, give me, like, 20,000 dollars, I will make it back for you TEN FOLD

This demonstrably isn’t what a paper candidate is (very much aimed at the Greens, not Emma). Finsbury Park was clearly a winnable seat for them? A paper candidate is standing for the LibDems in Merthyr Tydfil. Not one where you’re already the second party in a ward demographically optimised for you!

okay fair play this is class www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0lr...

What I love about this is that it’s not even good AI slop? It’s just bargain basement Grok bollocks.

I really respect that you actually can have Stalking Horse candidates for the Labour leadership (but that term is never used) but you can't have them for the Tory leadership (but that term is always used).

Frieren Barnet.

Andy Burnham can, as it happens, run in two upcoming by-elections for Arbroath and for Aberdeen South.

RIP BOZO

At pub.

Think it was a bit weird that they didn’t go with an equestrian statue for Brenda, frankly. One thing people know about her is she liked dogs, horses and then, people.

I’ll leave when I’m good and ready.

OH HE’S GOT A FLAG BUT IT’S FLAPPING OVER HIS EYES SO HE CAN’T SEE HE’S ABOUT TO FALL OFF THE PLINTH IT’S A SATIRE ABOUT THE BLINDNESS OF NATIONALISM CAUSING SELF-HARM THAT’S CLEVER IT’S LIKE TOLSTOY

It's Piccolo Day everyone!

And yet when I said this to the barista at the café named after him I was told to leave and was subsequently deported from Budapest. Once again it’s one rule for the Oxbridge elites and another rule for us.

Jackie Weaver has been appointed Parish Council Tsar

I'm hearing Bosnia-Herzegovina are sending peacekeepers

Jack Straw sitting by his phone with a Big Peroni.

We can now go live to the MetLife stadium to meet @nutedawn.bsky.social, who is in a Cybertrunk ankle-deep in his own piss.

Again, there's a lot of stuff that the other Anglophone Counties do that we don't - Robson Rotation is the done thing in Australia.

no

YVONNE RIDLEY?!

I do firmly believe that this is one of the most important parts of democracy in These Isles and we should cherish it. A sitting Minister going down to third standing next to a person dressed as a gannet keeps our politicians from thinking too much of themselves.

Fantastic LibDem Name of the Week. Council Candidate for Penistone West ward, Barnsley MBC: Florentine Bootha-King

Right, hear me out here. Prime Minister Torcuil Crichton

Hearing rumours that Lutfur Rahman's team are “worried” and reckon Susan Hall “may have got this”.

I think lost in all the effortlessly irritating “Normal Island” discourse is that the UK does have a pretty normal European political landscape. It just doesn’t have a normal electoral system.

This is the one thing we didn't want to happen.

The Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila on Radio 3 which Because I Am Like This I associate just as much with Liberal PPBs from the 1970s as I do the theme to Cabin Pressure.

At the risk of sounding like Dan Hannan six years ago, this is a disease that we do very much know about.

People like the President of France used to get invited to this.

Failed legal challenges have delayed major infrastructure projects like new roads and power stations by a collective 32 years. Labour recently changed the law to cut the time it takes to throw out anti-infrastructure lawsuits. And it's working. www.samdumitriu.com/p/the-planni...

Now we've got airport drinking discourse on the TL I cannot pass up any opportunity to share this again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE4I...

it’s that time again

Thursday is Polling Day.

My theory of the 2020 Dem Primaries is that Biden won because he was the only candidate who wasn’t running from the premise that the Obama Administration had been a failure.

People (rightly) note the "That's John Fasharnoo" bit but I do think using The Rite of Spring is the thing that elevates it to fine art.

If you like this kind of thing (and I do and you should) this is the kind of thing you will LOVE!