@pimlicat.bsky.social Edinburgh to Glasow via Falkirk High takes 50 minutes with 5 stops. It is Leeds to Manchester that is absurdly slow.

I suspect the Duke of Pork would have been vetted for some of his roles in the Navy. #wato

i still think that the number of people arriving in small boats could be cut to zero with a sensible approach. #wato

There seems to ba a crackdown on 'inappropriate access' to medical records, but isn't it a Streeting policy that all our medical records would be available throughout the service? #wato

Reducing immigration is potentially a curse rather tha a blessing. #wato

The tribunal on the crime of aggression against Ukraine marks "the point of no return" in the search for justice, the country's foreign minister said on Friday. But the court will face limitations in bringing Putin to justice. t.co/VBUNDVNj7W #wato

@pimlicat.bsky.social @sturdyalex.bsky.social was the reference to pigs landing at Heathrow an allusion to Pink Floyd's Amimals cover?

Turns out that Trump's ballroom is indeed a bunker. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gkvy... #bbcpm

Just appalling #Israel bsky.app/profile/scot...

French foreign minister Jean-Noël Barrot said Britain would be met “with open arms” if it were to “come back to the single market, with all ​associated privileges ​and duties”. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m... #bbcpm

Finland’s Alexander Stubb concludes Brexit was “like amputating a leg without medical reason”. www.politico.eu/article/finl...

1. Number of stories about Trump buying and selling hundreds of millions of dollars in stocks in the first three months of 2026: CBS: 0 CNN: 0 Fox News: 0 NPR: 0 PBS: 0 Politico: 0 Semafor: 0 Business Insider: 0

After he came second to Josh Simmons in the general election, Kenyon began highlighting concerns about asylum seeker hostels and spreading false claims about their involvement in local crimes. bylinetimes.com/2026/05/20/r... #makerfieldbyelection

He'll have to go. #TheArchers

Wolfie wants us to putoduce dirty British oil. #wato #bbcpm

Is there anything about HMG that isn't terribly presented? #wato

As a country, we shouldn't be increasing production of oil in the North Sea. It will do nothing to deal with the short term issue, but would fail to secure the reduction in oil and gas we need to in the medium term. #wato

How many Tories are going to repeat the Trope that Andy Burham doesn't want to rejoin the EU? #PMQs

Burnham and Streeting have almost identical posiitions on EU membership: not no, but some time. #PMQs

If Jackdaw and Rosebank had been approved, they might have been giving us oil in 10 to 15 years, not now. #PMQs

Thatcher gave us "NEOW, NEOW, NEOW", Wolfie Badenoch now gives us "wrong, wrong, wrong". #PMQs

Shant Grapps: A former Conservative defence secretary has quit his job with a missile manufacturer over concerns he broke the rules governing the employment of former ministers. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #PMQs #wato

The conservatives have been standing up with Russia for a long time. #PMQs

The Tories have been accepting money from Russia for a long time. #PMQs

High energy prices came in under the Tories. #PMQs

🎵So I say thank you for the U-turn...🎶 #PMQs #wato

This year, five major countries (Ireland, Iceland, Spain, Slovenia and the Netherlands) boycotted Eurovision in protest, with Ireland’s main broadcaster not airing it, and Spain’s prime minister Pedro Sanchez posting that Spain is “on the right side of history”.

Archie.

Is deck.blue no longer working?

Oddly, we recently passed the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident and it seems to have had little coverage. #bbcpm

Forcing Farage to talk about Brexit every day of the 2029 election would push him into his weakest territory. inews.co.uk/opinion/forc... #bbcpm

Trump cycle.

If you are not remotely, why would you pray? #TheArchers

Is Carol Tregorran getting demented? #TheArchers

Am I right in recalling that 'Hezbollah' means 'the Party of God'? #wato

While the Labour government makes itself the story, there is potentially quite a lot of good news around. #wato

The Mal-Dives lives up to its name. #wato

Interestingly Muslim voters seem quite turned off my Labour. I wonder why? #wato

Labour were in government for 5 years in the 1970s after Heath had spend al the money on the 'grand projects'. #wato

I think the government's programme could 'deliver' but the political strategy is crass. Telling us that Reform are right but Labour will do it more kindly wiill only deliver a Reform misgovernment. #wato

Labour could have increased spending faster but for 'fiscal rules'. The could have used circumstancs to justify ditching the fiscal strait jacket. #wato

Hungary is showing us that there is a way back after Orbán. #wato

Authorities say a humpback whale found dead this week off a Danish island has been identified as the animal released two weeks ago in a spectacular and contentious rescue effort.