The Starmer Boom keeps on booming

Taste The Difference orange juice? How the other half live

There are pointless remakes, and then there’s this upcoming one where they have remade Kind Hearts and Coronets www.imdb.com/title/tt4357...

Jenrick wins battle with Farage over two-child benefit cap: Vows to also force people to prove they have mental illness before getting cash, and block those with some disorders from claiming at all. System would also be 'British only' www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

See also:

worst thing about uni students using AI for essays is that they don't even seem to be doing it so they can spend more time in the club, I'd have marginally more respect for them if their goal was to maximise their partying time, what are they even doing with the time AI frees up for them

Guess what? It's Beano Day! I've only written the Bash Street Kids for this issue, but it does include a steamed hams reference for all you Simpsons fans out there! Script by me, art by Shannon Gallant! Out now!

A liking for exotic coffee isn't a class signal in the UK. However, *thinking* that working class people prefer plain boring coffee is a very strong indicator that the speaker is upper middle class. No-one who actually has working class friends could be so deluded.

Can't beat Patsy's dreadful accent or her pluck here (though the English version is much better www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-PY...) www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8S8...

I’m so old that “bottom surgery” still means treatment for piles.

This, but it actually is.

Bless him. Greggs is great at making money from the appetites of the British public, if they are selling it, there’s demand. <wail> “oh why does my experience of the world not match my prejudices?”

Please pray for Matthew. He went into a Greggs and the staff held him down and forced him to drink a woke beverage.

Wednesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

Can confirm #Industry

she should have been allowed to kill one guy per season

Can confirm #Industry

I want to make a joke about us exporting our landfill for other countries to deal with but I fear only 3 people would get it. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...

Hello, running a half marathon at the end of the year for Alzheimer’s Research UK. Any and all donations gratefully received www.justgiving.com/page/duncan-...

Every so often I remember that Girls Aloud did a version of Can't Speak French in French and it makes me laugh every time.

Post a banger that isn’t in English www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhgP...

Post a banger that isn’t in English? *cracks knuckles* Ok, try this for starters. m.youtube.com/watch?v=iY9Y...

Casually scrolling Instagram, and a perfect example of "dangers of social media harm adults too"

Clearing out your grandfather's attic and wondering about all the Waffen SS memorabilia #TheTraitorsIreland

Apologies for bringing the "Wuthering Heights" discourse down to a base level, but having read a few interviews with Emerald Fennell it seems to me she got given tens of millions of pounds to put her teenage masturbatory fantasy on the big screen and I for one applaud her for it.

If there's one lesson from recent history it's that nothing bad ever happens after you're unreasonably rude to an FT journalist.

Another triumph for Goodwin's campaign. No doubt he'll continue to pretend he cares about anti-semitism. www.thejc.com/news/uk/matt...

Land of the free my a***

Giving Braverman the education brief is quite a choice for Reform. I was on an education commission with her once before she went completely mad and she knew absolutely nothing at all.

Is it more potholes? I mean I'm not an expert but that would be my guess. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Vintage quote in Tina Brown piece. After lunch with the-then Prince Andrew, Boris commented, “I’m the last person to be a republican, but fuck. If I ever have to spend another lunch like that, I soon will be.”

Watched the Blair docs. Here's the quote – from Cherie – that has stayed with me: “He is an amazing politician. As a husband and as a human being, that’s a different matter. But that’s really between me and him.” What does she *mean*? www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-t...

ahhhh my mate helped organise some of the Chinese gigs in that piece, totally fascinating, they explained that if you're the sort of band that's only going to be loved by 0.001% of the public but you apply that to a country of 1bn people then suddenly you've gone from the Brudenell to concert halls.

Gonna request Church House provide this decor for #Synod next time

I want to make a joke about us exporting our landfill for other countries to deal with but I fear only 3 people would get it. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...

I am, once again, reposting my only Wuthering Heights shitepost to cash in on all that sweet, sweet hate-watch brouhahattention.

#RecipeOfTheDay is, as it must be on Pancake Day, obviously enough, pancakes and, specifically, crêpes. These are the pancakes of my childhood and, furthermore, I have to eat them with just sugar and lemon juice. But that’s me: you go as wild as you want! www.nigella.com/recipes/crepes

Rev. Jesse Jackson, civil rights icon and two-time presidential candidate, dies at 84 www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar... @nbcnews.com

Beef stock? Is that like investing in gold bouillon?

Church historians now believe that St Pancake was not actually martyred by being flattened by a series of increasingly heavy weights, but rather was burnt alive in a giant pan. The former death is now attributed to Pseudo-Pancake the Areopagite, as attested in the Codex Libum of Nicomedia.

More essential castle journalism from me – featuring Raby Castle and Lord Barnard’s array of spare rooms containing cupboards of OE ties still covered in food, broken kettles, loos and computers and another full of generations of horsehair mattresses... bonkers www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/40fd676...

The Danes would like a word about a few centuries of casting for the role of Hamlet www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...

Now I'm not a fancy psephologist from the big city but it occurs to me that recruiting MPs from a party that's as popular as smallpox might not be the key to electoral success.

That's it, I'm calling the peak, sell everything 📉 www.ft.com/content/4252...

"The Green Party has a habit of supporting things in principle and opposing them in practice. It wants environmentally friendly transport, then opposes HS2. It wants clean energy, but opposes wind farms locally. It supports affordable housing, but opposes almost every building project it sees."

"A 25th anniversary 4K restoration of A Knight’s Tale opens in UK cinemas on 20 February." Oh God, book me in, it's not like I've done enough sobbing in the cinema this year. 😂

GUYS!!! WE'RE ON RADIO 2!!! WE MADE IT