We have always name-progressed our cats, often in the style of Brazilian footballers e.g. Arnold is regularly referred to as Arnaldo and Arnaldinho. This lead to the short form 'dinho and now just 'Dean' or ' The Dean'

Neighbour: "Did I hear you shouting 'Oxfam' out your back door the other day?" Me: "It's entirely possible. One of our cats is called Charles, and we started calling him Chaz, then Chazza, then Chazza Shop then Charity Shop then Oxfam Books And Music but sometimes we shorten that to just Oxfam."

In last night's and the previous game I thought he and the defence have been poor. Better sides would have (and will) punish us. I agree Pickford has in previous tournaments been great for us.

went down to the centrist convention. they’re all shaking and crying, I heard one guy say “I’m starting to think a better world IS possible.” the lady next to him slapped him in the face

Madueke must be pinching himself. How does such an ordinary player start for England? #EngGha

Did he post that on the official Labour account that is still running on X or his own Personal account that is still running on X?

Bragging about being the only president repeatedly asked to take a cognitive test… Right.

Chelsea and Man City in the FA Cup final. No other English clubs have systematically ignored, bent or broken the rules like both have done. In terms of trophies won, no other English clubs have been as successful over the past decade and a half either. The moral of the story - is that there is none.

Obscene.

Meanwhile…out in the real world Sam, we’re all kind of, you know, getting on with things. Modern media’s demand for daily outrage and drama is not daily life.

Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."

Currently dealing with a solicitors' firm whose every communication comes with the snazzy strapline "Life. Less complicated" I needed to make a payment to them and asked them to send their bank details. They've told me they're sending them by post. 🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️

Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:

i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry merry christmas xx

Being a British parent is so weird bc you're actually worried about paying the sky high rent/mortgage & getting GP appointments but the entire press keeps telling you you're worried there's a trans person or immigrant nearby & the vat on Eton means there'll only be two skiing holidays this year

my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing. they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors. their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen. their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.

Nigel Farage was a racist bully at school but Rachel Reeves won the wrong chess championship so who can say who is worse?

Before buying her Cornish home Menabilly, Daphne Du Maurier was told a mysterious woman in blue had been seen staring from a window. Writing in the same room years later, the author happened to look out of the window while wearing a blue smock - and wondered, had she been the ghost? #PhantomsFriday

🚨Christian children were told they'd "be Muslim by year 6"!🚨 😱Sounds outrageous? You know the drill… If it sounds outrageous and designed to trigger you into being angry with “other” people, then you need to do some 🪏 1/25 🧵

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Why is Keir Starmer obsessed with Nigel Farage?

Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins? He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions. So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?

Loath though he is to alienate floating racists, perhaps Starmer could rouse himself to condemn a violent fascist rally teeming with people who want him overthrown and/or killed

I'm old enough to remember when the Prime Minister felt it was important to give us a running commentary of his thoughts on the entire Glastonbury lineup

The problem with this ‘let’s weaken our commitment to the ECHR so as to fend off Farage’ plan is that when it doesn’t work, we end up with Farage *and* a weakened commitment to the ECHR at exactly the moment we need the ECHR the most.

Starmer is simultaneously detoxifying Reform and toxifying the Labour Party. I ask again, what is he playing at?

The UK has got to be the only country in the world that is politically held hostage by like 15 newspaper columnists that basically nobody reads

The defeatism I see every day bothers me. Learn from Ukrainians. Learn to dig in. I say this with love.

A 'block news from USA' button would be really good.

Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']: Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.

Supermarkets are a huge problem. They force farmers to sell to them at rock bottom prices, while hiking up prices for all us at the other end to astronomical levels. While supermarket profits soar, you know we’re just being pitched against one another by the rich again #r4today

The pet I’ll never forget: I lost my mum, career, livelihood and hope – but Bertie the cat was determined to fix me

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A brewing scandal. Usual suspects obtaining lucrative contracts they cannot deliver. No doubt Serco will be billing HMPPS for work that it is not delivering. And there are dangerous people out there not yet subject to the protective measures envisaged to manage the risk www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🔴The Powerful Interests Fighting Jeremy Clarkson’s Countryside Culture War to Avoid Inheritance Tax Lobby groups are whipping up fears about Labour’s inheritance tax reforms despite figures suggesting the vast majority of UK farms will be unaffected bylinetimes.com/2024/11/01/t...