Idiotic. Fancy wrecking any chance of power sharing with Labour this far out from a GE. Question now is: would you work with Farage or Badenoch? Because if that’s a yes…

Hmmm not sure I like the sound of this

The confluence of the River Guadalaviar (Arabic origin meaning "White River") and the Alfambra River (also Arabic origin, meaning "red earth" due to its clay). Teruel, Aragón Via @pinosysembrados elsewhere.

Back to the 1970s.

Saying the quiet part out loud

You mean, Immigrant Jim moved his fortune to Monaco, thus denying our economy of the £4 billion he would otherwise have paid into British coffers. Such a patriot, eh?

Immigrant Jim.

My Bulgarian* ex-lodger complained about what he called a ‘foreign moment’ in the supermarket. I thought he was going to tell me about some racist British person but instead he moaned that the Polish woman ‘helping’ on the self-checkout couldn’t understand him when he asked for assistance. 😆

Babies as an antidote to women having intellectual and political lives is a tale as old as time, and anyone advocating for it is by definition a wrong 'un.

Chaos…

What a stupid timeline where we can be bombed and killed in our own homes for no reason, yet are forbidden from paying public tribute to slain athletes. This is not neutrality, this is silencing the victim.

Immigrant whose trophy team asset depends on immigrants has a problem with immigration.

And of course* the MU team is choc-a-bloc with boys born in Salford… *the fact that his numbers are way out notwithstanding

Words not deeds, eh?

Heard a lad earlier talking about ‘Belgian whistles’ “A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles” BELGIAN WHISTLES

All about something beginning with ‘S’ certainly, but that S doesn’t stand for Scotland.

mashallah he is gone, to celebrate I've made the piece I wrote last year about arguably the most embarrassing project I've ever worked on free to read: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/so-about-t...

Lord Mandelson in disgrace The new Private Eye is out now.

This! Labour’s leadership is being talked about as if it’s some kind of poisoned chalice. In reality it’s a chance to take over the first term of a government with a huge majority. It’s the political opportunity of a lifetime.

So true across so many professions and skillsets.

This happened to me last October. Every day since then feels like a gift, one that I am beyond lucky to receive. Hold tight to your mothers, lovelies: if only mine hadn’t slipped away so soon.

This sensitive celebration of Constable’s life and work is worth listening to. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Coals to Newcastle etc.

This first article describes a literal scandal, namely how thousands of newly-retired civil servants are having to wait months for their long-awaited pensions to be paid. 1/2 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Believe it or not, on Sunday in the northern hemisphere we will have finished the darkest 14 weeks of the year. The other 38 are basically OK for daylight. We are essentially through now.

*police investigating the property not depicted

5/5 PMs with approval ratings of measles isn't just a feature of failed leadership. It's Brexit Britain. There's no money for anything people want and were promised they would have, and no one can blame the people who got us into this mess because they got 52% of the vote (let alone reverse it).

A good moment to recall that bitcoins are a, if not the, central plank of Farage's economic policy. It's an order of magnitude madder than Trussonomics: www.cityam.com/farages-cryp...

Are we dropping the friendly bombs before? Or after?

The last two minutes of last night’s #newsnight should be required viewing for leaders everywhere. “It’s not ‘counting the men & women in the room’, it’s about a culture and how decisions are made.” True in Westminster. Equally true in workplaces across the country. Fury doesn’t come close.

Ailbhe Rea doing a sterling job of highlighting that Westminster is indeed but a microcosm of the outside world on #Newsnight. @pronouncedalva.bsky.social

Shape-shifting Farage on the BBC now, saying exactly the opposite of what he said at Mandelson’s appointment.

The FT, as it turns out, did not "all fuck off"...

It's a shameless shitshow for #10, no question. But expecting anything other than a politically motivated pile-on from this panel doesn't show much balance. #newsnight

Barry Gardiner’s triangulating on #Newsnight is reminding me of Blackadder.

SKB is spot-on on why* Andy Burnham not being selected for the Gorton and Denton byelection is, in fact, bad for him, bad for Labour and bad for the country as a whole. What a difference a week makes! *in retrospect

The rain in Spain … is falling principally in Andalucía.

Spose I’d better go and make the tea…

Continually amazes me that the men meeting Epstein were all "Wow what a cool guy" and most of the women were like "Holy shit get him away"

Excellent advice on why Europe needs to put real pressure on Russia if there is ever going to be a move towards a just (& therefore durable) peace.

Brexit was built on Epstein’s money

Next up: being back the workhouse.

Tivesse acontecido em Lisboa ou no Porto o que aconteceu em Leiria ou na Figueira, e, é garantido, teríamos vivido dias radicalmente diferentes 🇵🇹

Not entirely sure this is the best argument for the (checks notes) head of the Catholic Church to make... www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

The Labour Party needs to learn the phrase ‘due diligence’.

Reminded of the time that a BBC World Service presenter asked their guest how long there had been a Latino presence in Los Angeles and I yelled at my car stereo, “The name of the city is **LOS ANGELES**!”

I have just written ‘thank you’ to a bot. 🤦‍♀️

“Rees told the court he joined anti-Ulez groups because he was “bored” and looking for “a community”.” > in general, I would recommend that people lucky enough to retire at 60* should consider volunteering before resorting to domestic terrorism. *or even before

Nothing to see here. 😗