it will never not be funny that a load of weird far-right people are super into being cosplay catholics but have never really thought about what it is that catholics actually believe. Pastor aeternus is right there!

sounds like Martin Lewis has been reading about Harold Wilson's list of "little things that mean a lot". And given that Starmer named Wilson as his favourite Labour PM, Starmer should probably do this as well.

My "I'm not hopeless and I know how to add up" t-shirt etc etc

33 years after the original apocryphal incident the specter of guacamole still haunts the depiction of a typical Labour party activist

ok this is all good but we accidentally watched episode 2 of Alien Earth instead of watching episode 1 of Alien Earth and kept waiting for a bit of explanation as to who everyone was and eventually assumed that the director was trying not to insult their audience's intelligence

Lots of people angry about this but worth bearing in mind that Bella Sankey represents a council where Labour lost a seat to the Greens less than 2 weeks ago, in a city where two out of the three seats are likely to have the Greens as the main challenger at the next election.

This graph from today's Telegraph seems to have mislaid three of the last four elections. I would be intrigued to know whether adding them would create quite the same narrative.

Once again thinking of the house up the road from me that had this NO2ID sign in their window consistently from 2005 until about two years ago, and who is now presumably kicking themselves for not hanging on to it for a bit longer.

Filing this poll in my "Very Liberal Democrat Polling" folder, along with the poll where they wanted to remove the head of state & replace them with the Queen, and the one where they were asked to design their ideal House of Commons and didn't even make themselves the largest party.

my child was trying to eat an orange in one bite and I muttered something about Stephen Milligan and he asked what I was on about and I thankfully managed to duck giving too many details of the tragic auto-erotic-asphyxiation death of a Tory MP in the 1990s

ended up on the Sonic the Hedgehog wikipedia article and there's some wild bits of trivia on there

obviously everyone remembers the "bloody difficult woman" line about May but another striking part of Ken Clarke's hot mic moment was talking about Gove & saying "I think with Michael as prime minister we’d go to war with at least three countries at once."

Every now and again you see someone on here who almost entirely posts reactionary talking points & starts banging on about how it's only on BSky they're considered to be a conservative and they are actually a wet liberal. Oh do they not think you're a weirdo on the nazi website owned by a racist?

Found this copy of the Mirror a few months ago whilst sorting out various old boxes of things. Sixteen years is a long time in politics.

inner steel

things could be worse you could be liz truss who has just posted a photo on instagram titled "celebrating 50 years of the laffer curve"

in a very "don't create the torment nexus" way this is essentially taking the plot of one of Julian Barnes's funniest satirical novels and making it happen in reality.

was making a convoluted and silly joke with a friend about how Tony Blair and Bart Simpson are the same person and ended up putting together this uncanny BlairBart moodboard

it's quite funny that one group of people are going around saying "please Labour can we have a few social democratic policies as a treat" & meanwhile another group are howling "MAO HAS BEEN REBORN"

Any Westminster number-crunchers up for shortlisting who the onion-vomiting-MP is? What % of the 2024 intake represent a seat they grew up in and seem like someone who can't handle their onions?

for anyone getting their a-level results today remember that Kemi Badenoch got two Bs and a D and then successfully became leader of the Conservative party

for anyone getting their a-level results today remember that David Miliband got two Bs and two Ds and then failed to become leader of the Labour party

this is right i generally do not want to associate with people who tend to think that my wife and child should not be welcome to live in the country they were born in, no I do not despise these people but we're not going to hang out

was looking up reviews of our local pub and saw someone had given it a very unfair 1* review but I looked at their other reviews and I'm fascinated by this guy, particularly this 2* review of burger king

wild times in the local paper today

thank you to @ava.foxfort.net for reminding me of this painting I did of the miliband brothers on the top deck of a bus with a rubiks cube and a dead fish

Liam Fox watching someone play the bassoon.

one of the ways you can wind up some of the most annoying people in the world is when someone drops in a quote from 1984 or Animal Farm you can ask them why they are still going on about childrens books and that maybe they should read a book for grown ups

someone made a post on our local facebook group about wanting to kill all the local squirrels because they keep eating his bulbs and I'm very disappointed that so few of my neighbours are versed in niche Jo Swinson lore

not going to reshare the best tv show thing because a) almost all of the ones they ask you to exclude because they're *too good* are terrible and b) this is a silly question because the best tv show of all time is clearly the X Files

hundreds of alarmed QTs for a story that says in its first paragraph that Labour are not planning on banning VPNs and which relies on a story by Guido about something Sarah Champion said in 2022

one of my favourite local blue plaques is this one which adorns this ridiculous 1960s hotel on the seafront, which was very much not where Dickens wrote Bleak House but the original hotel burned down so they had to stick the blue plaque on the Holiday Inn anyway

"you can't marry" (but you could until the government changed it in 2023) "you can't buy cigarettes" (but you could until the government changed it in 2007) "you can't serve in a combat role" (but you could have done at 17 between 1948 and 1963) Everything is different from everything else john

Britain faces a simple and inescapable choice – stability and strong Government with me, or destroying Brontë country with Ed Miliband.

the 2029 pitch being "vote for change by putting half of Truss's cabinet in power again" may not be the winning strategy you'd be looking for

It has to be Grant Stayton III (played by the greatly underrated Edward Herrmann) saying "I can't hear you, Tea Rose, I'm shooting skeet!" from problematic-but-pitch-perfect memory-loss kidnap romcom Overboard (1987) whenever you can't hear what someone is saying.

just did it again but it was whatsapping a picture of stoned sadiq to a consultant. Truly a lesson to double-check what goes in which chat.

sunday roast in the pub. If I go to the pub on a sunday I would like to drink a nice pint of beer and not be surrounded by the overwhelming aroma of gravy let alone spend the best part of £20 on a heap of overcooked things.

turned out my (very offline) partner had no idea about any details of the Captain Tom Foundation furore and I very much enjoyed updating her about the destruction of the Captain Tom Memorial Spa (among other things) yesterday

all this Glastonbury chat has reminded me that I went to go see Nick Clegg at Glastonbury in 2009 and have just found this picture from his talk. I am somewhere in this audience but I'm also a big fan of some of the expressions of the people in the front row.

This is from "The Goblin And The Grocer" by Hans Christian Andersen. The goblin loves the grocer because he gets free porridge, but then he peeps into the room of the student who lives upstairs and sees him reading an old book of poems. When the grocers burns down the goblin rescues the book

a baby seagull got stuck in the tiny outdoor area out the back of the office and I had to feed it with tinned fish every day until eventually it was big enough to fly and then we captured it in a box and released it on the seafront. used to have post-it notes on my desk saying "PLEASE FEED BIRD"

We watched Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) yesterday and about two thirds through there's an auction where the bad guys sell off the dinosaurs they've kidnapped but the dinos are going for about £10m each and it strikes me as being pretty cheap for an unique and endangered creature

"I'm a complete coke addict. Um, I mean, a coca cola addict."

"bluesky is an echo chamber" actually thats not true, we have people who sneer at the article about wet pubs and we have people who make fun of the people sneering at the article about wet pubs, all human life is here

good to see the Daily Telegraph is focusing on the issues that really matter in this country

despite all this computer game chat the only game I play these days is bubble bobble which is the best two player game of all time and my child really likes it despite the fact that it was made 39 years ago

Street Fighter 2: British Politics Edition.

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