🟡 He literally said ~ " I state your name " 🤭🙃🤣🤭 Sundowning bigly 🐥

this would of course mean that it would become illegal for any European country to extradite Hamas terrorists

Study Finds Most Americans Can't Find Where They Are Being Deported On Map

If this BBC thing is what topples Starmer it will be Lisa Nandy that brought him down in the end and on the basis of 'since it's never good can it at least be funny' this is now what I'm hoping for

Sales of Look-In could vary dramatically from week to week, depending on a number of factors.

Incredible to think he said this in front of a shareholder’s meeting and they didn’t have him hospitalised.

I’m now getting worried about which aspect of British culture an American will encounter tomorrow…

In the opening scene of the next Bond film, he should be performatively reading a James Bond novel

"The US lost in Vietnam because it was too politically correct" is quite the take If only you'd napalmed some more villages, eh lads

i think it's very bad that "agentic disinformation network, agentic nation-state level black hat, agentic revenge porn at scale" all occurred and were funded before "AI PowerPoint slide deck creation that actually looks nice" got solved

Anyway, can confirm that North Northamptonshire council's Reform-led executive approved plans to double council tax on second homes today: www.politicshome.com/news/article...

The absolute worst thing, both as policy and politics, would be to break the manifesto commitment in a small way, while *also* doing silly revenue raisers:

You’ve all thought it

A free 30-day trial, you say? So the service is free for the next 30 days? So you don't need to take any payment details now - after all, you don't know yet if I'll choose to continue with a paid subscription! Just trying to save you a bit of possibly unnecessary admin!

BBC impartiality: A full list of all the British MEPs who appeared on BBC Question Time.

Filling out a banking form that asks for my occupation, and in what I am choosing to consider as a sign of the times, "journalist" is not a selectable option, but "cryptocurrency" is

"I chose to fly between 2 EU countries via a third country that is not in the EU and found out that this creates border issues when I didn't follow the signs written in my own language. I am very smart." onemileatatime.com/news/economi...

Police have named the couple they’re looking for in connection to a racist incident on the tube and they’re wealthy Trump supporters and founders of an “anti-woke” PR firm.

John Le Carre was right about the British establishment and how the alumni of the best schools will sell out their own country for status and money and in particular a desperate desire for American attention

I like this

Moffat has a treatment for everything. eg Stephen Moffat's The Resistible Rise of Nigel Farage

pfft don't even joke about that. he'll have treatments in a drawer.

Maybe they SHOULD let Moffat have a go - he got a go at Doctor Who and Sherlock Holmes after all , why not give him number 3 too?

Unless they faithfully remake the Fleming Bonds, complete with egg obsession and deranged politics then really what's the point? I want audiences to gasp as Bond eats an avocado or categorises the races

Mad dogs and Englishmen go out for a midday run.

This would be a really good time for a Panorama episode on the links between Trump, Epstein and Maxwell Just saying

Also bagpuss should be M, and professor yaffle Q

It's kind of wild how almost all politics in the UK is a demand for perfect systems that work 100% of the time and angry denunciations of systems that have redundancy or error checking as wasteful bureaucracy.

James Bond Michael Bond 🤝 Just Saying

You may have missed this gem yesterday. From which we learn that: 1. Betting shops are really good for the mental health of isolated people. 2. Most drug-takers are not a problem. 3. Kids put tuppence in slot machines in the hope of getting rich. 4. Farage probably has a gambling industry donor.

One of them is an alcoholic womaniser with a gambling problem and a thirst for violence, the other is James Bond.

the fun thing about the BBC story is that I can't actually read about it for more than couple of minutes at a time because it makes me feel too insane :)

in Planning terms, the failure to use the greenfield housing estates [for which Sleaford is a national champion] to leverage a single brownfield block is extraordinary and inexcusable

In the manner of Better Man, James Bond should be Paddington Bear BUT NO ONE SHOULD MENTION IT. This would lean into Paddington Bear as the being who escorts people to the afterlife, but in this scenario he would be being more proactive about it

The border between the well-off, red-trousered gentleman’s-entrance class whose forebears were not necessarily nobility as such, and the titled people who may be rich or broke but are ineffably posh regardless of circumstance, seems like a very hard one to cross.

This... just seems mad. The whole point of a register of interests is to allow it to be judged whether there are conflicts. If the information is hidden, the register has no value.

NO ONE CARES! No one cared when he turned into an australian for a movie and then back to the grumpy scotsman. No one cared when Judi Dench was still M even though that screwed the timeline. No one cares that Bons should now be in his nineties... We just want a fun spy movie.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that new housing estates in Lincs go on floodlands of South Holland never on the gigantic raised brownfields of Kesteven

Imagine praising a book in 2025 for being "sparse"? Look I enjoy sparse prose as much as the next, but we've been in a decades long Sparse Race of prose that you can increasingly just inhale like a delicate mousse and at some stage we will have to start making adjectives cool again

It’s difficult to underestimate the extra burden that this is placing on our public libraries. For example, on a daily basis library workers are now filling the in-person/human service gap that billion euro banking institutions have abdicated from to maximise their profit margins.

A man will be playing the trumpet in the office at 11.00 today.

Fool me once, shame on you.

Did anyone track down the wall of gammon nine I wonder and has anyone tracked down how many (if any) have died? Quite possibly none as they don't actually look that old

Prediction: The true unit of local government is going to end up being river catchment areas @celestialweasel.bsky.social @oldtrotter.bsky.social

Blind spots around never having been poor absolutely exist, even/especially in well-meaning liberals, but this isn't that: it's psychotic nonsense that nobody who had thought about the topic for more than 20 seconds could believe, no matter how out of touch their personal experience of wealth was

Interspersed with vintage filler music, like Theme from a Summer Place.

I think it should be a whole station - bin details read out by a bored sounding posh woman over ambient music

the next day at breakfast he goes 'I stayed up all night reading that book, and - there wasn't anything in it! there's no invasions or zombies or stuff, it's just about two people, and I couldn't put it down.' It was a genuinely transcendent experience for him.

Really hope that Zarah Sultana keeps a diary, because I really want future historians to be able to answer “what was she thinking, really?” not whatever hindsight nonsense she comes up with later.