Mad fact... 42% of Labour Prime Ministers have had to fire Peter Mandelson.

hello mutuals

"one careful owner; some scorch marks"

Area warlord fails to understand what the number one killer of soldiers has been in history

Death in Vegas; it’s still a no from me, ever since never being able to make it through their first album without being bored to death

Cilla Black's entire music career came about from her blackmailing Brian Epstein and demanding support in exchange for not outing him.

So… how are the obvious implications of this particular this handled? (Other than by making it a very strong taboo to not ask the immediate next question of course)

Henry I arranged for the hunting accident that killed William Rufus

The box: the Temu version

Sad news indeed

Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices

Without comment retirement.fidelity.co.uk/news-insight...

Quite a nice day out really

Trying to decide whether i liked this or not overall; there is a lot to admire in it and the characterisation of lost teenage girls in late 90s Tokyo drifting around the edge of society legitimate and criminal and there is a real heft in the ending when it finally comes, but it’s quite flat in >

We are deeply saddened by the passing of Lord Robert Skidelsky, an eminent economic historian & author of the award-winning 3-volume biography of J. M. Keynes. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends at this very sad time. #econsky

There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses. oh... wait.

I’m not sure if this is an appropriate tweet but In the sixties some of the models shaved their minges. I always thought it was a turn off I always liked women to look ‘au naturel’

Quite startling the number of people in replies only just now finding this out

Oh no. Well there’s one reading easy to remember

Interesting snippet in the latest Londoncentric

Not unconnected with the zeal of the repentant convert iyam

#taxnerdery www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKS... What a sadly retrograde decision in Orsted on capital allowances which has produced the frankly ridiculous outcome that significant genuine costs for the benefit of the business get no tax relief whatsoever.

@msleedy.bsky.social even got a video of it too

In retrospect, having gone to a private school in one of these other towns explains a lot about the kids from Halifax in my class

🎶 Papal reign, paaaapal reign 🎶

"you're bringing logic to a vibe fight" is never a good comment to hear in a discussion on tax policy.

I was in the US when they picked Leo and it was nuts, wall to wall coverage that was basically acting like the US now had de facto control of the Catholic Church

If Trump wants to make sure that he doesn't lose too many right-wing Catholics after attacking the pope, but also make sure he keeps his anti-Catholic base happy, his simple solution is launching an attack on the Jesuits.

An interesting commonality between the modern Chinese Communist Party and the American Republican Party is that both affect to believe in universal jurisidiction over Chinese/Americans wherever they may be

Hit me up @realfollowers.bsky.social

Having checked up the refs for this www.theguardian.com/film/2023/ja... here is the man himself saying it. Boom boom!

Bin it.

Oh just fuck off. And that’s swearing.

On an ADHD support group meeting Lads. Hang on I think they’re saying something important to me

heartwarming video of astronaut Christina Koch greeting her dog for the first time after returning from space. the pup can be seen snarling, back arched, before scampering to its word buttons and pressing "IMPOSTOR" repeatedly, then "FALSE. SKIN. FALSE. SKIN." several times

Ah, Viz

who would have thought that this guy would have gone on to [checks notes] help a key global ally lose a critical election in a historic landslide after [checks notes] completely failing as a lead negotiator in high stakes ceasefire talks with global consequences, [flips card] in the same weekend

You know, Agincourt is an interesting battle. The archaeology says it can't have happened where the sources very clearly say it did, and I haven't seen anyone who can reconcile the two. Either the selected site doesn't fit our best eyewitness source, or the archaeology refutes it.

Via @duncanweldon.bsky.social the unexpected later career of the actor who played Pitt the Younger in Blackadder III who now… is a professional Pitt www.historypitt.co.uk/about-1

I hope he doesn’t mind me saying this but Scottish Labour losing *Duncan Hothersall* should be triggering some kind of emergency alarm in Scotlab HQ.

Don the pain glove in his memory, people

ridiculous people can still be very very dangerous.

For the avoidance of doubt, following the publication of the explicitly transphobic Scottish Labour manifesto this morning, I will not be campaigning for any Scottish Labour candidates in the upcoming election, and I will not be voting Scottish Labour either. #NoVotesLabourInMay #TransRightsNow

www.jgauction.com/auction/257-... for those of you; you know who you are.

Your Party's entire Scottish interim executive has resigned en masse, declaring it "over" and saying they will start a new party instead. Says Your Party is not a "serious attempt to unite the left" and "cannot recover."

Spotify’s algorithm reminding me that one of Devo’s most catchy songs musically is also now unplayable

Admire the opening quote in Diarmaid Macculloch’s Lower Than The Angels