Great analogy.

Good grief, Kilroy is 83!!!

If the answer is "Toby Young" you're asking a question that should get you sectioned.

Trying to imagine a aloof and distant Italian character they'd be needed for. Maybe a aging Contessa living alone in faded opulence, her palazzo full of dust sheets and memories.

I have questions

Amid all that's going on, I find it helpful to take some solace in two points: the sun is shining and Matt Goodwin is not an MP.

Take the good news where you can get it pals, this could have been Goodwin standing there (thank you Muslim family bloc vote 😜)

Problem with both the question and answer is that "do you join an insane pre-emptive war of choice" and "how do you deal with the consequences of an ally doing one of those without telling you, given your knowledge of WWI" are quite different questions and the second is generally the important one

Rockall is an interesting one there.

It would be good if a particular strand of punditry didn’t exaggerate the level of UK involvement by allowing use of certain bases for certain purposes. This isnt Op Desert Storm or Op Iraqi Freedom(Telic).

Sorry?

The current argument of the British right is that Muslims turned out in "blocs" with "family voting" to cast their ballots for a party led by a gay Jewish man, and this shows that multiculturalism has failed, voting is "sectarian" and we are in a crisis. Hmmmmmm.

I have to say, I am genuinely so happy. And most of all not for me. My daughter will turn 3 months on Sunday. She is my whole world. Raluca is an immigrant. According to Matt, this makes my daughter potentially not British. To be notionally represented by that man I would consider a genuine outrage

They will be a barrier to winning seats but they will attract enough support on the left to prevent Labour from winning.

If you’re having a bad day, if you’re struggling with something go or stuff just keeps going wrong, then just remember: Matt Goodwin is not an MP.

Oh dear. NHSE, NHS Supply Chain et al work hard to get a Zimmer Biomet bone cement product on stream to fill in for the shortages left by Heraeus and... computer says no.

This Jason Holder chap seems like he can bat a bit. One to watch, I'd say, could well go places. #WIvSA

Indeed, it’s not saloon bar racism or dog-whistling. These people’s starting point, the well from which all their politics is drawn, is racial nationalism and a hierarchy of races with whites at the top. It’s an evil against which civilised countries and people fight.

@zackpolanski.bsky.social why has your Urdu election advert got pictures of Keir shaking hands with the Indian PM? Doesn't feel relevant to Gorton and Denton. I can hear the dog whistle.

Just had the fact that Charles Moore pronounces "landscapes" as "land-skips" pushed to the front of my mind again. It is a fact that has not stopped rattling around my brain's hinterland for what feels like years now, after I heard him say it during a radio interview about the NT.

This post is the single best advert for the fact that proper local journalism matters. If Jim’s team hadn’t put the pieces together quickly, this wouldn’t have been stopped.

Oooh, do you think we could securitise these bundles of tariff refund claims and make Tariff Refund Claim Backed Securities before 2028, in time to have another crash 20-years on?

The difference between the KPop industry and the Korean People's Army is that the KPA is probably better fed and operates under more humane working conditions.

Baffled by the responses to this. Most people aren't political. A political person did something she (rightly!) considered to be rude and off-putting. That's made her less likely to vote for them? Totally normal behaviour.

"Actions speak louder than words" :D Yeah? A rule I've always lived by is how someone treats a member of service staff, someone working in a shop, a pub etc. If you're mean to them, I will assume you're a bad person.

Shameful. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor mentioned in the first and last paragraphs. The other eight are all about Starmer and Mandelson. Important though that episode was, perhaps a little wide of the mark this time? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/w...

Andrew's completely broke which raises the possibility that a Norfolk duty solicitor is currently having the strangest day of his / her life.

😅

America: well we must have extended immunity for the president because we inherited the principle of sovereign immunity from British legal tradition, and... Britain: *arrests the brother of the sovereign*

So if police had waited an extra day then the arrest would be the bad news being buried?

R v That Bloody Idiot I Can't Believe He Was Mummy's Favourite

Prisoner cell block HRH.

Interesting is see whether an unpaid trade envoy role will be a 'public office' for the purposes of Misconduct in Public Office. No more comments on this case from me now, and replies off.

Side point: it is literally Andrew Windsor’s birthday!

How to make pancakes the british way: Step 1: remember it's pancake day Step 2: work all day because you are a cog in the capitalism nightmare machine Step 3: Too tired to make pancakes Step 4: no pancakes for you

BBC coms not really working _that_ hard to keep the glee out of their voices and maintain professional balance. #AUSvSL

Notably hungover, I spilt a cup of coffee on a seat on the tube from Brixton one morning into work soaking the upholstery. Someone sat in it and got off at Victoria in consternation at their wet trousers. In Zahawi's vision of a safer and happier Britain, I'm in Belmarsh.

Drove one follower to what? Drink? I bet it's drink... Or maybe reconsider their life choices and turn off LinkedIn? Definitely the latter and then the former.

These are not just bins. They are Wybone bespoke recycling bins.

Lunchtime rain related music? Buddy Holly immediately springs to mind. youtu.be/lLeZof1wGps?...

I'm sorry, but That's Life! is not "the magazine that shaped America". It's the BBC telly juggernaut that shaped consumer regulation in the 80s.

Such is the ingrained assumption that Tories are bastards but competent, it can only be that they’re deliberately moving to fascism. Rather than being really really crap. This Lab government has shattered any such illusions that might have existed for them.

Starmer is firing the most senior civil servant, just as he was about to embark on overseeing compliance with the humble address requiring disclosure of lots of No 10 documents. If a Tory govt had done that we would be drowning in "we are on threshold of fascism" articles

The daft thing about Starmer is I think if he was honest about who he is - soft left, socially liberal, strong on law and order, believes in strong borders but also compassionate to those in need, leans left on the economy Labour members would be right behind him.

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

Even the dog doesn't want to be in this pic