Do you remember how we all think Streeting is way worse than Starmer? Do you remember how if Starmer goes then Streeting might get in? Once again, cos Goldfish, do we remember how we absolutely hate Palantir loving, transphobic, extremely Tory Wes Streeting? Do we?

No 10 denies meeting with Streeting, says he just popped over for a poo while he was out and about

Still in bed, still ill, possibly less ill than I was. Good Omens S3 then.

"Oi, Keir you slag, I'm the leader now!" "Fuck off you toilet!" "I'll fucking do you, Starmer!" "Come on then, soft lad!" <Streeting starts taking jacket off> <Starmer pulls Streeting's jacket down, trapping his arms> <Starmer headbutts Streeting> "Jog yourself on. I'm the daddy of Labour!"

There was a block in your toilet Dave But I fixed it now

The Moxx of Balhoon has arrived in Downing Steet

OK, anyone out there in the market for an INCREDIBLE book for roughly 8-12 year olds? I have just read The Deep Dark by Zohra Nabi and it blew my socks off. Imagine the Buffy episode Reptile Boy but set in Victorian london, exploring colonialism and capitalism, with magical music too. #KidLitUK

I am NOT someone who usually likes victorian-set fantasy MG. So often it operates in a fake Englandland space that doesn't explore the horrors of the era, or only picks some of them (eg treatment of children but not colonialism). But this? THIS IS AWESOME.

It really did predict the future

I wonder if perhaps next time, some effort could be made in to perhaps making it funny

Listen to Robin. She knows.

I might be a terrible chef but I've fucked more hot dinners than you've had women, SIR

Bambos Charalambous Bambos Charalambous PRESSURE! PUSHING DOWN ON MEEEE PUSHING DOWN ON YOU UNDER PRESSURE

Oh, that's Joseph Green, minister responsible for sugar levels in food. Quite frankly, not the most important person right now....

Posh, Baby, Sporty, Ginger and Scary have just gone in to Downing Street

Biggles, Algy, Bertie and Ginger have just gone in to Downing Street

Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart has just gone in to Downing Street

Man, this is such a nihilistic take. Forget Lord of the Rings. My kids have watched The Wizard of Oz. The Godfather. Planet of the Apes. TONS of classics that are quite a bit older than 30 years, and they’ve enjoyed and appreciated them all.

In my high school speech and drama class, we had to write a review of a TV show or movie. As a complete #DoctorWho geek, I picked "Curse of Fernic," simply to give myself an excuse to rewatch it and gush about it for far, far too long. Kind of like the last week on here....

Starting to find Paul Fleming slightly embarrassing. (Niche Equity content)

I've bought a number of fab LP record disc vinyl platters from @bigfinish.bsky.social in order to heal my soul, do you think it will work?

In my Inbox this morning: 4 garbage AI requests, including one from Mary Shelley, who is, apparently, a big fan... 😂

If Rory is cold, they're cold. Bring them inside.

YouTube surfing in bed and The Rest is Politics has cropped up. Rory Stewart is in his house in a jumper and a Doctor Whoish coat like Withnail, you can almost imagine him slathered in Deep Heat beneath all (not SEXUALLY, SHUT UP, NOT SEXUALLY)

"Doable barkers"

Came across this thread over breakfast. This really is a fascinating article

Those candidates for the next Labour Leader

Wes Streeting has the aura of someone who definitely goes out on week one of The Apprentice.

People have asked me about the magic system in Merynthia's Master and Zeynep & Kawtar and I'm very happy to elaborate I think of something "cool" for "magic" to "do" and then I "write it down"

I reckon I could have kicked my way out of that Wicker Man

Make a band out of two others U2Unlimited

It’s nothing to do with whether it’s fair to Starmer or not. It’s to do with destabilising the country both at home and in our relationships abroad at a critical time for the world. And the fact that nobody is an obvious candidate and we could end up with someone completely unelectable.

Aha!

Still alive? Yes. Better? No :(

Is this about up the arse

The leadership battle makes me hate what Labour have become even more. They're full on Tory, power hungry incompetence in every way. Just shut up, accept you're disliked and fix the fucking pot holes. No one wants another leadership battle.

Fwiw, I think Starmer should stay and not be insipidly shit on almost every domestic matter and stop alienating his core vote who've almost all fucked off to the Greens, rather than be replaced by Captain Scarlett, Wes Streeting or Angela Raynor, even if I would let her rail me in to next Thursday.

I've been British just over five years now, I have seen four PMs so far in that time

We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Dustin Gee

Good but also heh heh heh, "back door"

Recording studio engineer here. The most annoying thing in sessions? People constantly nodding along to the music like a dashboard dog. We get it. You hear the beat. Stop it.

Beware, for the night is dark and full of compression artifacts

I recently binged Game of Thrones. Watching it all in one go so close together, you really notice the picture quality get dingier and the dialogue more muffled as the seasons progress. It's like watching the consensed enshitification of TV production over the course of the 2010s.

Just googled "Sexy Nazis" to find an amusing picture for a cutting bit of satire and found this, which is fair enough

We are incredibly sad to hear that RSC Honorary Associate Artist Michael Pennington passed away at the age of 82 yesterday. A Shakespearean to his very bones, Michael’s long & distinguished career with us spanned an astonishing 50 years. Our thoughts go to all those who knew him.

He was only with us 49yrs, but what an imprint & impact this dude made. I’ll never be able to thank him enough for Hitchhiker’s. DOUGLAS ADAMS was born 74yrs ago today.

Thinking about Doctor Who stories set not too far back in the past. If they were made today, with the same gap between setting and broadcast The Gunfighters would be set in 1941, Pyramids of Mars in 1962, Black Orchid in 1969, Delta and the Bannermen in 1998, and Remembrance of the Daleks in 2001.

Ah, autism