Car horns and chanting even in the LTN

Son runs out of the house to go and celebrate on Holloway Road…luckily the big exams are not tomorrow.

Hosted Monocle on Sunday with @terrystiastny.bsky.social and @charleshecker.bsky.social, plus Monocle's Eurovision Desk Chief @feap.bsky.social and our editorial director Tyler Brûlé on what last night might mean for Bulgaria. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

All I’m saying is that if I could finish even a Henry James sentence my number would be a good bit higher.

Josh Simons majority in Makerfield in 2024 was 5,399 over Reform.

James Cleverly doing the lord's work here

Wes Streeting has told allies that he is preparing to resign and trigger a leadership contest as soon as tomorrow | ✍️ Aubrey Allegretti and Patrick Maguire

That truce didn’t last long:

State Procession in vision while listening to a 1996 dance music mix on 6 Music. Recommend.

Particularly looking forward to the part of proceedings this morning where ministers and shadow ministers process across central lobby in polite conversation. 👀

One more for the time to go camp:

Jess Phillips: the desire not to have an argument means we rarely make an argument’.

Darren Jones on Times Radio: the PM is ‘listening’ to colleagues and ‘it is for the PM to decide what he may or may not want to do in the future”. Very much not ‘he’s staying whatever’.

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Another Labour MP for the list:

I don’t even care about football but the stress it is giving me…

PS: The origin of the expression is also interesting (I had to look it up!): a real (or wooden cut-out) of a horse for a hunter to hide behind while shooting at birds.

#OTD in 1941 Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess, parachuted into a field south of Glasgow, ending a bizarre mission to broker an Anglo-German peace. In episode 5 of History's Devils, I break down the "mystery" of Hess's flight and explain what really happened ⬇️ 🗃 open.spotify.com/episode/5MGU...

Parliament was bombed during the Blitz 85 years ago today. After fire broke out, efforts were focused on saving the 13th c. Westminster Hall, sacrificing the Commons Chamber. Find out more about the bombing and rebuilding in this #HistParl article from Connie Jeffery.

Falco I can forgive but not this #totp

Final Islington results: Labour 32, Greens 19. Labour hold but big increase for Greens. Previously Labour 44, Inds 4, Greens 3.

At Times Radio we have spreadsheets and snacks at the ready:

Had to be done…Otto, in a spirit of impartiality, was equally friendly to both tellers. #dogsatpollingstations

‘You can never go home again. Altman, but I guess you can shop there.’ #grossepointeblank

‘It was just as if everyone had swelled’. Grosse Pointe Blank, still excellent, introducing it to the next generation.

Vanity Fair describes the jumper as ‘a nod to’ the jumper. It is clearly THE SAME jumper and that’s the point. #thedevilwearsprada2

Ew this is just creepy #totp

Those shoulder pads need their own show #totp

There is only one Otto dog and mine is the ORIGINAL and BEST. Not this interloper.

If you’re utterly at a loss for anything to watch on tv, Cagney and Lacey is on Amazon Prime. I started at season 2 when they have the proper theme tune and the new Cagney.

My Spotify recommendations get curiouser and curiouser:

No quizzes on tonight, only snooker. Is Points of View still a thing for me to complain to?

Last few days to buy Believable Lies for only 99p on Kindle! (Peonies not included). Less than a coffee or an ice cream! And more drinking than even in present-day Westminster.

Apropos of Westminster drinking culture, just going to reshare this about WW2:

Thanks to @patrickmaguire.bsky.social I’m now going to have ‘Oliver’s Army’ stuck in my head all day.

You know who’d have failed their vetting? These guys. But despite drink problems, affairs and being inveterate liars, they managed to run Britain’s dark propaganda operations during WW2:

Head of Mission opportunity for Matthew Doyle?! (Robbins just now)

That jacket! My eyes! #universitychallenge

The political equivalent of watching tv and saying ‘what was he in, dear, do you remember that programme we used to watch?’

This isn’t the furious that was promised. More like hesitant and flicking through file notes.

Ava, we think the same. ‘I was going to slowly develop a relationship with him over the course of years and then eventually ask him to read my script and he was going to love it.’ #Hacks

Olly Robbins broke Bluesky. Definitely him.

Perhaps fortunately, the hippos are not in fact on cocaine:

Heard this on 6 music the other day and I was instantly back in the college bar #totp

Oh god I think I had this single #totp #youngones

‘It is impossible to imagine what England might have been like to-day if the monkey had dropped him.’ #skystorians is the Cromwell and the monkey story remotely true?

A propos of nothing in particular

Have you heard, it’s in the stars, next July we collide with Mars #highsociety