Excellent bank holiday second hand bookshop find in Leicester (which is not the north).

This was one of our most read stories this weekend. Quite a lot of comments too 🫣

Correct opinions from How To Spend It.

Tuesday will be Fucking Power Plant Day, and Fucking Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing Fucking like it! ! ! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy Fucking bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! you Fucking Fucks

Every time the NASA live stream shows Artemis I hear the Red Dwarf theme. www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK...

If you see this, I implore you to post a picture from whatever device you’re using with no explanation.

So, how did the cops nick you? Car chase? Shoot out? Honeytrap? No. I er ... I was ... um ... attending the hearing of three other suspects at Westminster Magistrtates' Court

More from that Murderous Scissor Sisters session later, but first The Manslaughering Fall

Police and politicians must stop shoplifting, a company that puts £9 billion of goods where they can just be picked up and carried out of the shop because that drives more sales and requires fewer staff than having them behind the counter has confirmed.

Why yes, I will take the other side of your short bet on bike manufacturers.

Made it, Pa! Top of the world!

'The fruity spread' and 'the breakfast favourite'. Second helpings of @secondmentions.bsky.social

Counterpoint: Tourism, but all the worst people.

Another piece of the hangover after eating at San Genaro even though I didn't drink wine puzzle falls into place. (but also why it tasted so nice)

Email from my hairdresser: 'this innovative ritual uses a Japanese sabre technique to gently stimulate the scalp while cutting the hair'

And I'm the head of decommissioning at at Sizewell Q nuclear fusion power station.

Splashing with a CCB story. 10/10 no notes.

Oh, God. Is it bins?

We may allow ourselves a brief period of rejoicing; but lettuce not forget for a moment the toil and efforts that lie ahead ...

"Peace with Honor," the people who think the US could have won the Vietnam war if only the politicians hadn't held the military back have announced.

Nothing says wrong 'un like asking your barber for a Boris Jorgen

I love a bit of familiarity in my regular haunts. But intrusive curiousity was one of the things that really put me off Jamie's Italian. Couldn't work out if it was box ticking (which is what everything else about JI felt like) or an effort to secure a decent tip. www.ft.com/content/3546...

If you see this post a concert photo you took

The thing that the mainstream media are ignoring is in fact on the home page of every mainstream media website.

£1,000 a month on groceries tho?

Are they lost in time... like Tannhausers in rain?

FT Mag: Ukrainian photographer Igor Chekachov’s visual diary.

I see the puns have got out of the top field over at the Economist.

IIR the captain of the Santísima Trinidad said something similar off Cape St. Vincent.

The Wyndham has great boxes but I'd feel underdressed in anything less than full regency fop.

The last thing you see before the universe explodes

The joint I'm about to roll requires a craftsman. It can utilise up to 12 tobacco leaves and it is called a Crispin Blunt.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION IN THIS BATTER

The year is 2027, Following US airstrikes on Nuuk, Denmark closes the GIUK gap to shipping.

If you've ever been to a Gordon Ramsey restaurant and been a bit, shall we say, underwhelmed, then have we got a review for you.

No prizes for guessing which of these people was sent out with a set of talking points they were not to diverge from regardless.

Markgraf shurely? Ed.

Quite excited to discover we have a slime mold in the compost heap - AKA the vomit of a troll cat if you're a Scandinavian pagan. 😼😼

Railway that won't go to the north won't be fast either, it has emerged. www.thetimes.com/business/com...

Shahed drones / the buzzing Russian threat @secondmentions.bsky.social

National AInsurance, anyone?

This is fine gif

Aged well

Is it, in between Pugh, Pugh and Barney McGrew and Dibble, and Grubb?

If you read one thing about the Iran war today ...

That dreadful Bob Dylan Santa song.

Did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts? Hot ashes for trees? Hot air for a cool breeze? Cold comfort for change? Did you exchange A walk-on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?

“The French were incredibly helpful” as.ft.com/r/e5545a7e-2...

Calling the last of the *checks notes* ancient Brittons 'foreign' is a bit rich.

had to read this to make sure they aren't talking about *literally* uniting ketchup and mayo, because that would be extremely, flagrantly, outrageously wrong www.ft.com/content/e7e6...