Can confirm...in that I am fond of a coloured trew, know people called Barnaby, and I fucking love Tebay

Truth Coming Out Of Her Well To Shame Mankind - 2025.

Been saying this for years (Then again, did live in Oxford for years...). Everyone forgets those lovely Victorian buildings next to those equally lovely Georgian ones were a modern eyesore once & made conservative victorians spit with rage. Ditto the Georgian ones next to the Tudor ones &c &c

PJ O'Rourke on Jesse Jackson's skill as an orator

Advertise your account with a GIF.

Let's see your profile pic in its full-size glory. I mean, it basically does what it says on the tin. No amusing surprises, sadly

YIMBYs hate this one simple trick

Happy 12-year anniversary to my favourite broadcast subtitle mistake And a happy year of the whores to you all

-… then if you check table 6 it will tell you how many points you get for your age. Add those points to the ones from your Relatives-aboard cards and Family-elsewhere cards… -Um, Eric, the water's getting pretty high. -Then stop interrupting! Next, you'll need your dice and the saving throw chart.

“Darling, you know I love you?” “Yes!” “And you know how I’ve always regarded our relationship as wading through effluent, with very narrow time windows in which we can desperately grub through the muck to salvage remnants of our shared past?”

if toni braxton and bill hicks opened a restaurant together they could call it toni and bill’s

presumably we're talking doll's houses here

looks quite reminiscent of Eric Gi.. [gunshot]

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

My mother was always going to call her first son James. She used to paint, before I was born, and signed some of her paintings "James L Douglass". That said, had I been a girl, I would have been Julia.

I mean it certainly wasn't part of a CO-ORDINATED plot, I think the evidence of that is pretty prima facie

Everyone else: AAAGGHHH TEETH FALLING OUT!! SNAKE!! France: I should call her Greece: ooh hat

not sure why I used the past tense for this, he's still very much alive. Just doesn't dispense as much advice; mostly expresses concern about politics and updates on my brother's dog

fun fact: the big air snowboarding ramp at the winter olympics is only 5° steeper than the cheese rolling hill.

sure, but I am pretty sure the first response he got wasn't "this isn't a question, more of a comment...."

this bit I can attest to. Was a referee for a mate, their main 2 questions: - has he ever tried illegal drugs? - do you think he is secretly gay? with the VERY CUNNING follow-up - have YOU ever had sex with him? Just in case *I* was secretly gay as well AND had lied about #2. Machiavellian.

this is very good, and relevant arthursnell.substack.com/p/the-vettin...

well, aside from the fact this entire thing is about the fact Reform quite literally does want to go to Bangor University

BREAKING: releasing my texts with my wife they reveal :: the cat is very cute :: look at him, he's so cute :: That the cat HAS BEEN FED ALREADY DON'T BELIEVE HIS LIES

Why do these inspire such rage and hatred? I neither have nor want one, but this seems a bit extreme. Or is this one of those 'merkin things like how they either think takeaways are slavery or a human right?

"Tom, as I said, goes out directly east from 104. Dick goes north from the kitchen, and Harry goes out parallel to Tom from 105. If the goons find one, we'll move into the other."

You know how non-US intelligence agencies monitor pizza delivery in Washington DC for advance warnings? Well, has anyone checked in on Lectern Guy?

"look beyond Westminster" yes, Helene, but today is not that day

Just realised I have been doing the same, which - combined with what can only be described as distilled indifference to the superbowl - meant I had quite the mental image

"I mean really, it's in his own best interests. I'm just trying to help"

this time he has a four pack of stella

was just hit by a tidal wave of 90s nostalgia that has honestly taken my breath away

If you asked anyone to list my two biggest interests outside the media and politics.....

Um, you what now?

I hope you all managed to get to work this morning despite the heavy snowfall predicted for today by that high-quality purveyor of journalism... checks notes... MyLondon. www.mylondon.news/news/local-n...

Yes, I do live in north London, however did you guess?

The double sorwe of Troilus to tellen / That was the king Priamus sone of Troye / In lovinge, how his aventures fellen / Fro wo to wele, and after out of joye / My purpos is, er that I parte fro ye.

we gotta open the schools…or close down the schools. not sure. yikes

“I’ll be honest, we may struggle to get the FT”

I love the Winter Olympics so much more than the summer one. In summer they’re “we’ll run round and round handing each other a stick” whereas in winter it’s more “I will scream down an ice-slide on a tea tray at 200 miles an hour and if one thing goes even fractionally wrong I will die. Here goes!”

sounds like a euphemism, not gonna lie

that sound you can hear is the ghost of Sir Patrick Leigh Fermour sighing gently.

Given we already had a 'Tom Holland' and a 'Tom Hollander', I think we need a 'Tom Hollandest' rather than just churning out additional Tom Hollands

"via the media of synecdoche and the proverbial sausage" new invocation just dropped. Feel free to use in courtrooms, as a political slogan, as a battlecry, wedding vows &c

future anthropologists will believe that in the early c.21st there was Gascoigne the Harbinger and Paddington the psychopomp. Not sure who they will actually reaped your soul; Claudia Winkelman, probably

This would be a game changer. Also; goes double if you’ve already allotted a Scottish accent to another character…

In fairness, since about the 1950s, “lying” does appear to have the capacity to sometimes completely baffle some of our national vetters. Exceeded only by “lying, but in received pronunciation”

A bookshop that only sells works by a single, French, deeply problematic symbolist author, ranked by quality, called Maslow's Hierachy of Gides

the twist is, everyone is as high as a kite except Demetrius. It's not a comedy. Alt tagline: "If you put it all into the Bard, you get Ballard"