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I've done My Week: Donald Trump (again) for tomorrow. My first draft genuinely had a joke about Trump thinking there were penguins in Greenland but I took it out because it seemed too stupid.

Good Bye, Donald!

Thinking about this again this morning, I realised the difference disposables made. I used terry nappies 50 years ago, which were boiled clean on the stove. Disposables were for days out. And I remember my mum sitting a baby nephew on a potty as soon as he could sit up. Pull-ups were unheard of.

I think witnessing Brexit as both insider & outsider had a profound effect on Mark Carney. His resolve in the face of the next stage of the attempted destabilisation of the West might even be described as a ‘Brexit benefit’!

Dear Snag Tights, Your gym leggings are great with their handy side pockets, but I do not buy new tights every day, in fact I never wear tights, so maybe a newsletter once a month would be better, or simply when you bring out a new product?

I kinda miss when amateur musicians were well, you know, a bit shit? It’s not like I’m any great shakes. What would be the effin point of AI generating some flawless mandolin videos? You want to see the crusty old instruments and the crusty old man playing them.

I took this photo a while back, Westminster Abbey reflected in a puddle on a rainy day

4yo: 'Can I go to school in my fleecy pyjamas today?' Me: 'No, not today.' 4yo: 'Do I have to wear my human form?' Me: 'Your uniform. That's right.'

News tonight that King Donald the Mad actually ordered an invasion of Greenland, and the generals told him to fuck off. Joint Special Operations Command got the directive, drew up invasion plans, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff said no. Will they say the same in Minnesota?

Vance on the economy, from earlier, just to show Trump doesn’t own stupidity: “You don't turn the Titanic around overnight.”

Thought the Green Party Political Broadcast rather short on actual policies and I don't like background music when someone is talking.

Good Moaning. I think Officer Crabtree speaks for us all. FICK TRIMP! #FuckTrump #AlloAllo Tees by Sillytees LINK ON MY PROFILE

Labour is investing £1.5 billion into our arts, museums, libraries & heritage sites over the next 5 years: 💷£760m – museums 🎭£425m – arts venues 🏛️£230m – heritage buildings 📚£27.5m – libraries ✅ Protecting venues ✅ Securing jobs ✅ Making culture accessible to everyone www.gov.uk/government/n...

JELLICOE EXPRESS! Orkney to London in under 24h: My morning ferry cancelled, a retimed afternoon ferry to Scrabster is due to sail at 14:00. Slightly iffy plans in place to reach Inverness just in time for tonight’s @CalSleeper, arriving London tomorrow morning. Will I make it?

Has Trump toppled fatally off the Davos stage yet 🤞

Breaking news Health Secretary Wes Streeting faces grilling by BBC local radio stations. ? What about the largest cut to waiting lists for 15 years? The fact I can get a GP appointment online? What a strange headline?

Everything about Building with Plants is so wild, e.g.: "a more conservative approach of bamboo supply [China] would divide the bamboo supply shown by a factor of 10, which would lead to the ability to supply HALF OF THE HOUSING DEMAND GLOBALLY." Only... journal-buildingscities.org/articles/10....

So much for German efficiency: Melitta deigned to respond to my query about availability of a replacement coffee pot after TEN DAYS whereas the one I ordered from a French third party 4 days ago is due to arrive today. Meanwhile, leggings from Scotland are due to arrive after 5 days. 📯☕👖

This week the government quietly published a 'Global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national security assessment': www.gov.uk/government/p... Meant to be out last year, but rumoured to be blocked by Number 10: www.theguardian.com/environment/... The judgements are stomach-churning

Can anyone recommend any BOOKS about growth in appetite after the end of menopause? GP said she'd send me info but it's just a badly designed, uninformative app, which I can hardly see. I'm hungry all the time. I like crunchy and spicey food. Protein doesn't satisfy.

This is why I believe that one of the kids is running for president in 2028. They believe they own the GOP and they want to keep the presidency in the family and continue profiting off of it.

Has anyone noticed how the Bermuda Triangle seems to have disappeared?

Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from just 32 fossil fuel firms, study shows - Critics accuse leading firms of sabotaging climate action but say data increasingly being used to hold them to account @influencemap.bsky.social #climatecrisis Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

please refer to your Davos phrasebook www.ft.com/content/ab4f...

Remember when the US polity ruptured and erupted when Biden got names wrong on set-piece occasions? That was nothing compared with Trump’s Davos speech.

me (bursting open my apartment window like ebenezer scrooge): you there, boy! did it happen? boy (gloomily): no sir

be nice it if carked it rn on live tv

"Hello, welcome to Morning Live where we spend an hour putting the fear of God into elderly folk about the scary world out there, full of online scammers just waiting to fleece you out of your life savings. We're basically Crimewatch UK but with pastel backgrounds & floral mugs on the tables."

CamThing. The Campaign For Real Things.

Robert Jenrick helpfully lists all the things he didn't do during his 10 years in government.

They get going early in Davos, Nick Robinson, partly because they're an hour ahead. #R4Today

Was in Albania in 2019, chatting to another Brit I mentioned how little graffiti there was in comparison to Corfu (where we were visiting from) & she said "hopefully we'll see a drop in graffiti in the UK now we've left the EU". No, me neither.

Every leaver really was voting for their own imaginary faraway tree Brexit eh.

Facebook reminds me that on this day in 2017 a woman turned to me in the veg section of Sainsbury's and said "hopefully now we've left the EU we can have loose carrots that aren't wet"

32 years ago. #TheDayToday www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/be...

Sky News still employing the best and the brightest I see.

It was on this date in 1978 that Enemy At The Door was first shown. The sometimes brutal and always saccarine-free look at Guernsey under Nazi occupation was shown at 7.30 on a Saturday on ITV. A slot now taken up by The Masked Singer.

Probably JPEG's I imagine. Just Penguins Enjoying Geography

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

Do you think the ‘Annie’ in ‘Smooth Criminal’ is the same ‘Annie’ who was cruelly told by Kid Creole that not only was he not her dad but also that she was ugly and that’s why Michael Jackson had to repeatedly ask if she was OK due of the long term emotional trauma caused by this?

Look, if he gives that speech, after that Davos, walks onto Airforce One and immediately dies it will probably be the funniest way for it to happen.

Netherlands should join and offer to host the first meeting at the exclusive, famous, gilded and very luxurious palace called "The Hague".

Maximize your harvest with the "Quick Crop" technique! 🥬🌱 Don't let bare soil go to waste. Sow fast-maturing spinach between slower rows of runner beans. By the time they need the extra space to fill out, the spinach is already on your plate! 🥗 Max your sq footage & boost productivity. 📈✨ #GYO

Rick Astley's boxing career was very short lived.

“Bright red baseball caps reading “Make America Go Away” have surged in popularity among Danes &Greenlanders, who have adopted them as symbol of resistance… The Danish writing on the hats, “Nu det Nuuk,” uses “Nuuk,” Greenland’s capital to play on an expression that roughly means “enough is enough”

They're called "Nu det Nuuk" hats. The originals can be found at tomato.eu. The proceeds goes to related charity. They are likely backlogged by eternity for obvious reasons. 😁: tomato.eu/vare/nu-det-...

are cracks in it, but I still believe in the long run, hasn't happened. He wanted to split Europe; it's more united than ever. He wanted to keep defense expenditure down; we're now all going to five percent. So, you know, things are not going his way.