With the fun added bonus that wealthy business dorks, belligerent wingnuts and retired racists are pretty much the only people Morgan McSweeney et al appear to regard as legitimate human beings who have opinions worth consideration.

#TheTraitors cast members as UK railway liveries. Stephen as an Avanti West Coast Class 805

and he didn’t even know the password to the Secret Seven clubhouse

More than a touch of @fakeshowbiznewsuk.bsky.social here www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

For clarity, this government has so far: - cancelled HS2 north of Birmingham (previous government hadn't actually done that formally) - cancelled electrification of the Midland Main Line - cancelled West Yorkshire mass transit - cancelled the trans-Pennine high speed line

the most used search engine regularly serving up nonsense fictions sounds bad, do you think as a species we'll do something about this or nah?

It seems that AI might really unleash a productivity and innovation revolution in the UK if we use it this way: we identify everyone who thinks it's a good idea to rely on AI, and fire them immediately.

the Liz Kendalls of this world love U-turning as much as they like selling the original shite - either way they get to present as executive sensibles with the correct approach

great, now Tony Blair is crying, you made Tony cry. Are you happy, Keir?

flat-out insulting

www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja... this stuff is insane and deeply childish. Saw the film yesterday and the protagonist is interesting and worth following for 2hrs; why should anyone ask for more than that? It’s not Sunday School or story time at nursery.

a reminder that the Episcopalians are *Anglicans*. God knows what the Catholic clergy are prepping for if this is the tenor. All strength to them.

true and substantive things resonate with human beings who reside in reality. More as we get it.

Fascinated by the process that resulted in this slogan for Anglepoise. They imagined their average customer walking into a lighting shop and asking if there was anything suitable for staving off existential terror?

love that Owen Cooper went to the Golden Globes dressed as a greige suburban house from Warrington

You know a functioning society might ask why the heir to Britain's largest fascist dynasty readily has the ear of the government and of the national broadcaster but whatever.

common sense economic consensus latest www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

DLR and Jubilee stations will surely be listed one day, but I honestly think that CW fans are unconsciously really into the granite paving (and the fact it’s swept clean)

It’s the fascist mentality: there are people who matter, and there are people who need to have sense and respect fired into their heads, at point blank range. Note how there’s no other explanation for it *that rings true*, that explains the sheer bastard joy these swine take in all their cruelty.

ah no, like BBC staff attending Pride marches that would be too overtly ‘political‘

See also: every other underfunded regulator and non-departmental public body

Yet 2 billion people live with food insecurity AKA hunger

broke: go outside and feel how cold it is woke: use a fancy weather app bespoke: use data from the catflap to show how much less time Pudding has spent outdoors in the last 7 days since it went all nippy

had a run in the snow flurries, weird sort of thrill

the Labour right are horny for war and love a bit of realpolitik. But only in theory. The military Keynsianism now required to deal with actually existing geopolitics is beyond them. I think it’s the Keynsianism bit.

Of course the ENTIRE PREMISE of modernity is that we've found an alternative to the law of the strong That this is why the world is infinitely richer, freer, more peaceful than it was four hundred years ago But sure, might irreducibly makes right, why not

Guardian readers can help! By being the kind of slumlords that really care?

logging on

Sorry but slop is a great word to describe so much content, whether produced by AI or not

see, when I asked an AI to extract information from an article about London and it gave me a screed about Paris, a place and a word not mentioned once in the piece, I did think to myself that our anihilation might be on a slower track than feared www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I love this ‘Remembers’ programme strand on the BBC. Imagine if Jeanette didn’t remember her greatest hit, I think that would be a very different interview

“I reiterated my support for international law” I have shat my total disregard for international law through your letterbox, we will do and say nothing, fuck off. Every day of British politics is a new towering insult to the public, a new both-hands middle finger fuck you presented as a concession.

2026 evidently the year of a cyborg JMW Turner come to save us

Pudding is sleeping off his NYE but wishes everyone a happy 2026

I really love dogs in general but in the coming conflagration I’ll be nevertheless be joining the breakaway Cat Supremacist Guerrilla Brigade

It’s five years now we’ve been eschewing fireworks in favour of sunrises. Happy new year, folks.

i am losing my mind over this listing that staged a condemned philly trap house with AI

I can’t, the battle is lost on being excited ‘for’ something instead of ‘about’ it

heard Evan Davies on the radio yesterday say what media class usually struggle to articulate, that London nice house/comfortably off types in a certain age cohort do not exist in the same economic/political universe as huge swathes of the population and often can’t see past the end of their nose

confiscate these people’s wealth to cure their minds. It’s a wellbeing issue

What I would say about Joe Dromey is that I spoke to him as my local counsellor in Lewisham back in the day and all he could offer on the chronic flytipping problem was circular, airy talk and sharing my frustration. Plus ça change, Joe www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

car hire place for Xmas travel paid someone to check on return times at intervals on Boxing Day, a day they were CLOSED (and which had already cost me £40 extra for 'out of hours' return) so they could catch me out with late return on a car they couldn't even hire again that day. Grifters!

same

It’s the 23rd of #sketchpadvent. It’s a pre-construction model of Denys Lasdun’s National Theatre, taken from Michael Webb’s 1969 book Architecture in Britain Today

if David Walliams’ ghost writer passes an appropriately thorough investigation why not make their name public and reissue all the books?

great news

Be more Quaker.

jaw-dropping stuff, which in a sane world would lead to an intense media and party frenzy followed by her resignation within 48hrs