The UK has relied on food imports since at least Napoleonic times. Unfortunately, the Brexiters were so busy obsessing over blue passports and the tax cuts they never stopped to work that one out.

Bravo M. le Président.

You wouldn't know it from much of the coverage but Reform are now seven points lower in the polls, on average, than they were six months ago

Drilling for more oil & gas in the North Sea won't lower bills, it won't make us more energy independent and it won't insulate us from price shocks. A Labour backslide on this would be a huge betrayal. Double down on renewables. Insulate every home. Lower bills, permanently.

omg, what an idea for an app. You put in a list of your enemies and it trawls the obits looking for an entry. It then pings you when one pops up.

What framing. The Pope is the Head of Christ’s Catholic Church on Earth. He does not need to hold back let he make some RW zealots who profess faith but don’t put it in action uncomfortable.

I don’t go in for conspiracy theories but if Putin did have dirt on Trump and needed someone utterly pliable to fuck up the West for him, it’s difficult to imagine that the outcomes would be any different.

The Polish PM gets Trump exactly right.

Nice to see they’ve given up on non prosaic names.

Going to substitute all my Greggs snacks for KNOX Hydration. Yeah. Being full of amino acids and electrolytes will make me the person I’ve always desired to be.

Tilly Norwood's coffin.

If Artemis is the first manned mission to the Moon in 50+ years, explain this

Loll’ed hard at this.

Naa mate, that’s just your life. Everyone else’s is okay. And most people’s families like them.

Or, counterproposal: We send Princess Anne to the US but tell her she's absolutely allowed to fuck people up.

This is frightening. Hopkins is bad enough without AI making false claims about what she’s said and done.

Starmer: Brexit has caused damage Also Starmer: which is why we are determined to make it work 🤡🤡

please for the love of god don't let these people put you off trying to get help if you're struggling, even if it isn't ADHD or autism getting seen and heard is really really good and useful, and no one needs to have a formal diagnosis for all the informal support out there

No one needs April Fool’s Day in a world of fake news.

My office assistant is back. (Am actually working - just removed the stuff from my desktop because, y’know, GDPR)

People just haven't tuned into how bad this could go for the EU and UK. Reality hasn't quite hit them yet.

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Stack-bottom plates you make the crockery world go round.

It’s true.

Books on baking banana bread available now 🍌 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

From the people who brought you being arrested and thrown in jail just for saying you’re English - losing your job for going down the pub with a few mates.

How terribly, terribly sad for them - discovering that those highly curated, impossibly perfect lives, built on the backs of modern slavery, might not be quite so comfortable after all. Ag shame.

This is absolutely spot on from Emily Thornberry 👏

There’s more evidence Donald Trump raped kids than there is evidence the 2020 election was stolen.

Good. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I suppose it’s good that the BBC doesn’t just shrug its shoulders when “the talent” goes off-piste but what is it with these guys - and it seems to be mostly men - just not behaving appropriately?

Why is it that I don’t get hungover on the day after a big party (didn’t drink too much but a very late night + 1 hour less sleep) but I get mine on the second day?

Listened last night to Lewis Goodall’s podcast about his attendance at CPAC and, rather frighteningly, it’s clear that MAGA will outlive Trump. Absolute lunatics who’ve swallowed lies, particularly around “Islamification” in Europe. Even when confronted with actual facts they still couldn’t be 1/2

wHAt iF tHeRE’s nO wINd Have you even been to Scotland? The sun can be splitting the sky for the 2 days a year when that happens and there’ll still be wind. Or we improve storage technologies. Or we have a mixture of renewables (including tidal) to cover all bases.

Reform tumbleweed

Future generations are going to be amazed by how much we knew about climate change and how many ways we found to keep pushing the use of fossil fuels. It’s seems unlikely they will look upon us fondly.

Watching Man United women v Man City. 10s of thousands in the ground. Both are managed by cis men. There have been no headlines. No complaints. A trans woman manages Sutton Utd, a side most have never heard of and who play in front of fewer than 100, and that's taking opportunity from cis women

No. Next question.

Posted without comment.

What’s wrong babe, you’ve hardly slept a wink in your meat chunk sheets?

Speaking as someone from Newcastle, this is not fair. Sunderland is a post industrial city largely left behind by New Labour but finally starting to see proper investment, hopefully in a way that improves lives. It’s notable that economically thriving communities don’t tend to back Reform.

Was Beyoncé not available this summer?

Is this a piss-take?

The only words I have are “Sweet Jesus”.

Why does Nigel Farage want to lift smoking bans? Not because - he cares about his constituents: he avoids #Clacton - he wants to save lives: tobacco kills 7 million+ people a year Because Reform UK Ltd 2025 party conference was sponsored by a massive Japanese tobacco company! #Don'tVoteReform

You wonder what these lickspittles wouldn’t do for daddy’s approbation? Where would they draw a line, what level of self humiliation would they not stoop to just to be noticed, and by being noticed have some chance that he might pardon them when he leaves whatever’s left of the White House?

Come on, let’s get you a chair. Nice comfy chair. Would you like your slippers on? How about the TV? Do you want your fleece on or off? Nurse, he’s sundowning again.