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Keir Starmer says he was sent to Downing Street to do a job* and he will not quite until he has finished that job**. *destroy the Labour party **destroying the Labour party

Not sure David Lammy's "you don't change the pilot mid-flight" survives contact with FAA regulations

I don't want to go to Chelsea

i wrote about Marvel's 1991 Double Dragon series, which adapted the video game into a dystopian nightmare world of ball-busting, tentacles, and karate wizards. it also features what might be the most bizarre twist i've ever seen in a comic 1900hotdog.com/2026/05/punc...

GameStop’s CEO struggles to answer the question of how his company worth $12B can afford to buy eBay for $56B. This is amazing television.

Prime with ads. Just how Kubrick intended.

Max is YOLO today

Local politics

Having an extension built. Builder told me not to use the toilet in the next hour because they were disconnecting the downpipe. Said OK, but instantly forgot. Half an hour later I peed on my builders.

In the beginning, the gaps between British food discourse were lasting 24 days, then 12, then 6, then every 2 days. The last post, on whether catfish and chips was antisemitic, was a day. In 4 days, we could be seeing a new topic every 8 hours. We should witness a double discourse within 7 days.

Are you still after election leaflets @stephenkb.bsky.social ? Reform seem unclear what their priorities are

@guitarmoog.bsky.social you may be the only person I know of who would appreciate my son's 14th birthday present

Michael Sheen to do each round table in character as a different Michael Sheen character

If you're not in the UK and wondering what all the chat about Lincolnshire is about today, it basically boils down to "he's 28 until he turns 29" Which doesn't make any more sense to you, I imagine, but I promise it's accurate

Listening to Low and after every song I think "god this is an incredible band" but even in that context OMG Death of a Salesman

This is a superb piece of writing on chasing a dream, fighting an eating disorder and eventually finding yourself. Even if you know nothing about racing, read this piece by Finnish F1 driver Valtteri Bottas. You won't regret it. www.theplayerstribune.com/valtteri-bot...

Bet they missed this out of the Michael Jackson film x

Deeply annoying to discover that Rich is right and that stainless steek frying pans are in fact great.

C'mon guys, don't make me mute Bagel ffs

Currently in the Louvre. A great time to find out my shoes are very squeaky on these floors.

It's today, today!

When the Louvre says watch out for scam clone sites you should believe them and ideally you should see this warning before you end up on the scam site

Paris has fallen

Booking a doctor's appointment, I feel that I would be unlikely to go to the GP for one of these options.

If anyone thinks that only the UK's Office for Budget Responsibility could have been so silly as to do this: www.theregister.com/2026/04/22/a...

This is an incredible tweet.

Well I don't know what your family talk about at the dinner table, but I just had to Google when Vajazzling became popular to determine whether or not this was before Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents.

As it's 10 years since Prince died (and the world went to hell), please enjoy this pic of Ed Miliband photoshopped into the Lovesexy album cover

The staff at Sainsburys Waterloo station take forever to come over and approve my regular train tinnie purchases. One day I surreptitiously filmed one of the staff entering their login details to the system and now I enjoy logging in and approving my own alcohol purchases.

“If you’ve come here expecting not to be shocked and offended, well, you’ve come to wrong dentistry school” I cackle, as I pull up the slide saying “do teeth make you Homosexual?”

So on the downside of this weekend a bird shat on me, but on the positive side I bought a new guitar amp so who can truly say if it was good or bad?

Sadiq Khan's London

The Guardian is doing the Onion headlines again

I met Andy Kershaw once at a do. We fell into a conversation about BBC management stupidity. He said that the suits didn't understand the power of the BBC and the respect in which it was held globally. He said he'd once been without his passport at a border post somewhere in Africa.

Ah, love a second shower of the day because a bird shat down my neck

I have added some new options to the Clock, which will either help/hinder your disgust/understanding to taste/predisposition.

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While all the parties are demeaning themselves pandering to local NIMBYism here, the Greens' idea that we should only have artisan hand-knitted lactose-free solar power is especially demeaning to a party that purports to make environmentalism its core tenet.

Are shoplifting and Solar farms good or bad? There is literally no way to know.

You could argue about solar farms on Bluesky dot com or you could just read this over and over again

Ok, my dad got me the most appropriate shirt ever

Hoping to lean on my parasocial relationships here for tips on Paris restaurants for next weekend. Where would YOU recommend two middle aged men take their 80 year old, hard of hearing mother, not too far from Notre Dame? @stevenhseggie.bsky.social @columnist.bsky.social any suggestions?

The Truman Show, but a guy who think he’s been working as a human rights lawyer realises his entire life has actually been an election broadcast on behalf of the Labour Party.

Marketer: You get that photo of a cat with our cat food? Photographer: Sure did boss, real fuckin angry just like you asked. Marketer: what