you are *literally* the global hegemon get over it. also all cuisines are either elevated peasant food or borrowing your neighbour's elevated peasant food, and you can understand this if you go to a developing country where local haute cuisine is only newly emerging

Probably the one position that the RCP has continued to hold as they have migrated rightwards across the ideological spectrum is that humour is ideologically suspect.

The Conservative Party is not a retirement home for failed politicians. Some of their failed politicians have only just turned 30.

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The thought does occur that whilst Binface can't win Clacton, he can probably win the under 40s and perhaps on a good night then under 50s.

I really don’t think people are prepared for how much the Daddy thing creeps people out. I’ve told 5 people & every one has flinched when they realise I’m not joking

It's an unusual situation. Normally when a young person convicted of a crime of dishonesty calls a much younger person Daddy, the money travels in the opposite direction.

The prospect of a Reform victory is entirely too threatening to treat as a joke, but on the other hand without a serious prospect of beating Farage in Clacton, there are advantages to running a stand-up comedian against him if you just want to harm his reputation and make him look petulant.

I've got friends who've never been politically active before who are considering taking a week off to campaign for him. He's not likely to win, but he'll not be short of committed backers.

That's his story, but if I was Burnham I still wouldn't answer the door tonight.

This also makes Starmer look even more spineless on Greenland and the annexation threats than I initially thought he was.

Also - it's a very tedious thing that rich people do in London of going 'oh well yes I earn £150k but my wife works part and yes I live in a £1m house but it's what a teacher would have brought in the 1970s and we're really not that well off' - just SHUT UP

When something is so obviously a terrible idea, it is ok to just...say no thanks and ban it. We don't have to wait 15 years and then slowly ban if after a whole bunch of irreperable damage has been done to individuals and society.

Binface isn't going to beat Farage, but there is a decent chance he'll beat Lawrence Fox and that might actually be funnier.

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His whole thing is “oh, you think you’re better than me?” And like … yeah.

But this demonstrates the point. It is unfortunately normal for home teams and favourites to get the nod 8 times out of 10 in 6 out of 10 situations or 6 out of 10 in 4 out of 10 situations; it's not normal for the rules to be thrown out entirely on an ad hoc basis.

Imagining a few weeks where Chancellor Miliband keeps “accidentally” losing the Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead application form.

I do wonder if Restore not standing opens the space for another racist right party to stand instead and try to get in on the grift.

I don't think it makes sense for left of centre parties to stand in Clacton and there isn't a Martin Bell figure who could win it. I do think somebody should change their name by deed poll to Farage Is a Crook and put out leaflets across the constituency that are only just this side of libellous.

'ha any American candidate would wipe the floor in the UK elections!' *checks the news* One high-ranking US Senator is currently being Weekend-in-Bernie'd whilst another (liberal!) candidate with a nazi tattoo is dropping out, and it's *not* because of the nazi tattoo

So how long before Ronaldo demands that Portugal make him manager instead? And probably then picks himself.

as I walk through

Want the long read on the Lib Dem organiser who ended up doing graphs for Fox Weather.

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Act 1: Scene I Witch One: When will be meeting up bruv? When its slashing, and we’re dashing or with a bong? Witch two: When all is said and done. What they’re twatted, when they’re done. Witch Three: Sun down, and gundown. Witch One: Where’s the gaff? Witch Two: Up that hill, mind the Bill.

It looks like FIFA's climbdown will be to reimpose the suspension, but to make it too late for today's match (and if they win, also for the QFs.)

Because maybe You're gonna have to think of safety And after all There is an advertising wall

Jordan Henderson with 0 minutes played one yellow card and a broken arm might be the single greatest statline in WC history

What makes this an even better piece of shithousery is that it realises that you don't have to deny that the red card was deserved to make the point.

Many reasons why this is a dubious take, but the chief among them is that, despite what the Mexican Food Understander here seems to think, Mexicans do indeed eat black/ blood pudding. In fact, they’ll put them in a taco. A++ concept, would definitely order mexicanfoodmemories.co.uk/2017/01/20/t...

I can't believe taking the mexican chicken baguette off the greggs menu worked

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Gilberto Gil! keiser Pedro II! Machado de Assis! høvding Raoni! Os Mutantes! Jair Bolsonaro! Erling Lorentzen! Vi har slått dem alle sammen! Vi har slått dem alle sammen!

I like the way that it looks like Haaland can't be bothered to move and then suddenly he pulls something like that out of nowhere.

Definitely something amusing in Trump intervening to get the suspension of somebody his administration believes should not be a US citizen rescinded.

The major effect of altitude as I understand it is increasing fatigue, so England supporters should want frequent mid-match thunderstorms to delay things and give England time to recover, but on the other hand by 2am most of them will just want it to be over so they can sleep.

Given how they've played, it's pretty difficult for a neutral to want to support Belgium, but this is a good effort to accomplish that.

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This is why counterfactuals are important. America is wildly successful, and so you cannot point to much as an outright absolute failure of the constitution. But point to almost any point of American history and imagine having a modern parliamentary constitution then, and it would have helped.

To give VAR its due, if it hadn't existed that match would have lasted another 30 minutes.

I think blaming HS2 cost overruns on local NIMBYism misdiagnoses the situation. It wasn't the people of Great Missenden who Whitehall was appeasing, it was David Cameron's core supporters in the Commons who mostly represented Home Counties seats.

This piece could basically be summarised as, "I hate the Labour Party and everything it stands for, I believe that making it unhappy will magically generate growth."

Cape Verde will go down in history as the greatest World Cup team to never win a game

we are one day away from the funniest VAR offsides graphic ever

This is the kind of calculation I am here for.

This is one of the few things X has said post-Musk which is literally true