@mrjamesob.bsky.social Raymond Blanc's brown sauce recipe, and it's NOT behind a paywall. www.thetimes.com/life-style/l...

@mrjamesob.bsky.social How many nurses, speech therapists, and doctors working hard to save a deposit for the UK, take 6 month vacations in the UK? Very few, I suspect.

I might actually watch Eurovision this year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=niMK...

@mrjamesob.bsky.social If I'm not mistaken, Isabelle Oakshott has found herself in a war zone created by Western powers and is now seeking refuge.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social And I always thought it was Princess Anne who was the scoundrel after her speeding conviction.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social You have triggered a memory from about 1976 (in the middle of the brain drain) when the BBC early evening magazine program, Nationwide, reported that dry-stone wallers were earning £300 a week (which would be about £2000 now. At the time, I wanted to grow up to fix walls.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social In a single word, Mandelson has "Entitlement".

@tomswarbrick.bsky.social Twenty-six-year-old females are not 'girls'. They're usually known as 'women'. But 17-year-olds in the US might be considered to be 'girls'.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social If you want a fascinating insight into China, this is going to be a fascinating watch. It's a Dutch woman essentially riding a motorbike around the world, and she has just reached China (starting in the Uyghur region). www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ8G...

@mrjamesob.bsky.social In Switzerland, supermarkets can’t sell booze. Imagine the consequences for the nation’s health, and pub owners if the same was true here.

I think Trump is a secret listener of @mrjamesob.bsky.social - he just said “discombobulated”

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Stewards' enquiry on that previous caller. The United States Navy did attack the UK in 1778. www.whitehavenandwesternlakeland.co.uk/johnpauljone...

@mrjamesob.bsky.social How can you invade (and hold) a country with no roads?

Apparently, there are no-go areas in the UK, and we're all going to hell in a hand-cart. www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/2572906...

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Any chance of a roundup of Round Robin letters this year? We need to know if Tarquin’s rash is improving.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social The moon-bow was on Bluesky this morning

Bush was a terrible president but simply impossible to imagine a Republican saying this about Pelosi or anyone else today.

Which one is more English?

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

A bit more race-baiting by the Daily Express. My cousin's kids have a Bangladeshi father, and they would confuse this journalist by only being able to speak their native languages: Welsh and English.

‘He broke Britain then went to the US to talk about how broken we are. Well thanks a lot’. Emily Maitlis on Nigel Farage.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social In a survey in the 1990s, they asked a group of people what level of income a 'super-rate' of tax should start at. The follow-up question was, "What level of income do you expect to earn in your career?" And it was invariably lower.

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Headline of the Day:

This is the London I love www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@mrjamesob.bsky.social It appears that 'fighting age' Tommy Robinson is seeking asylum in another country. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Travelled up to the Smoke today. It really is becoming a cycling city, which fills me with joy. When I first arrived in London and rode a bike, it was considered an oddball activity. It was too hot to use the tube today, so I took the bus. Next time, I'll just use a Lime Bike.

EPIC response.

Same here.

Tell me again how women are too emotional to hold office... 🙄

Maybe I'm being unfair, but a trade deal in which the US raises tariffs on the UK and the UK lowers tariffs... ... feels a bit... one-sided

Quick reminder that those who fought in WW2 also built the welfare state, including the NHS. I think they’d be fairly unhappy with Reform’s plans.

This is a better use of AI than 99+% of corporate AI projects that I have seen... www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ8q...

In the 1980s Graydon Carter, then editor of Spy (a magazine that skewered NYC high society), pulled a stunt where they sent tiny cheques to the city’s rich to see who would cash them: $1.11, 64 cents, 13 cents. Two people, out of 58, cashed them all. You already know who one of them is.

Nighty night.

Who better to comment on bringing up children than someone who doesn't know how many he has?

Meanwhile in Lithuania on the same day. RIP American soldiers.

okay so he genuinely thinks that fentanyl smugglers have to pay tariffs lmfao

It's funny, because it's true.

Ukrainian's participating today in the St Patrick's Day Parade in #Dublin Ireland Photos: Embassy of #Ukraine to #Ireland Слава Україні, Slava Ukraini

They will return to a world that has changed so much in the last nine months it will be unrecognisable. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...