Badenoch shaping a 'obviously the Sun is a valued star but it would be shameful to hear Donald Trump accuse our nation of not supporting his darkness initiative" statement

I'd heard that Badenoch was bad on Today on Thursday but only just heard the interview and... god, she was bad bad. When asked about the warporn being pumped out by Hesgeth and the White House, her response was "ah, but we've sunk warships ourselves". And then she used the Belgrano as an example.

Every time we see this Marty Feldman book it reminds us of that time we stuck googly eyes on it but all that happened was it looked even more like Marty Feldman. 👀

Well. This is a pickle. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

New Drama this Sunday on BBC One: A group of women are captured as Singapore falls during the Second World War. Their captors make them join a New Jersey indie band on a backbreaking tour of scattered venues, subjecting them to uplifting choruses and unspeakable horrors. That's Yo La Tenko at 9pm.

I don't have enough "I'm sorry, what" left in me anymore

To be fair, if you're old enough to remember when the single was released, you're going to take any opportunity for a sit down when its presented

Channel 4 seem to have cooled their interest in the Paralympics quite a bit this time round, which is a shame. Crufts beating it out for airtime this weekend; they've moved Countdown an hour later next week but once it starts, that's it for the Paras for the day except for a short catch up at 6.30

This cover line sounds like something they'd stick lazily on the front of one of the unconvincing fake magazines Audrey's clients read in the Corrie hairdressers, not above the masthead on a real newspaper like The Guardian

"Travelodge, which offered the victim an "insulting" £30 refund, has apologised how the refund offer was handled but insisted staff followed security procedures correctly." Those security procedures in full were: asking him what the woman's name was www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

There are times I yearn for the days when there were huge swathes of the internet that was just people doing weird stuff for no apparent reason, and there are times I pretend I never even heard of this "internet" facefraped.blogspot.com/2013/03/joe-...

Seeing a lot of World Book Day posts but @shawndra-ra-ra-ra.bsky.social gave me a calendar that lists an official holiday for every day of the year and that tells me it's actually Cheese Doodle Day. So if your child hasn't gone to school dressed as a Wotsit, I'm afraid you've failed as a parent.

"And, for the first time ever on a political press event, a beautiful fountain"

I really really really don’t like this. Really really really really do not at all.

Can't help feeling if you're doing the speech at a farewell do for someone who has managed to get themselves defenestrated from a machine they built, you might not want to suggest they're good at strategy

Just discovered there was a very short-lived band in 1977 called Rodney Trotter's Egypt and surprised that never inspired a spin-off sitcom/travelogue for BBC One

THIIIISSSSS Bring on the immigrants, please! And let's all get together and encourage the racists to try claiming asylum in Hungary. GOOD LUCK, GUYS.

This is tangentially a Doctor Who story because the man it quotes did the suits for Matt Smith's Doctor. ('Reform try to drive Doctor Who's tailor out of business') www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The first rule of Pop Music Club is you never talk about Pop Music, talk about, pop music, shoobie doobie do wop, pop pop shoo wop Club.

Politics FACT: In the House of Commons, the Chief Whip is the one with a walnut on his head

So Badenoch is very angry we’re not joining in the war and also very angry the war is making fuel more expensive so it’s not clear what she actually wants

Amazing scenes: Trump making sure the oil can get out safely while US citizens are left to their own fates

Utter perfection

I feel they have misunderstood this expression:

Be really interested to know who are the public sector workers whose wage increases have been used to "benchmark" MP salaries a 5% uplift www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The Daily Telegraph, that beacon of journalism, that fearless ferreter against secrets and lies, has admitted that the 'five holiday' family was a load of bollocks but can't tell you how it came to publish it because, you know, it's a secret www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/0210...

This story, from @natezuke.bsky.social, is absolutely wild. A trans woman who never changed her gender marker was issued a letter invalidating her license. At the DMV they cut up her license, which had an "M" marker. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

How grim are things right now? The Guardian's politics blog is so busy with the war, it's had to get the business blog to cover the Spring Statement

Well, that explains the erratic delivery times.

Oh, NOW Putin's discovered international law

Green MP Ellie Chowns on the elections bill last night: "It is really quite extraordinary that the Thailand-based crypto investor Christopher Harborne has been allowed to donate £9 million to Reform UK. I notice that its Members are still not here" (2/3rds of the way into the debate)

Wonder if they'll still brand it as Richard Osman's House Of Games, like with Taggart. I'd actually think Ross Kemp would be great doing this. Not even joking.

The interesting nugget in this sad story is that the stores that have yet to be rebranded as TG Jones do better than the ones that have been, and I get that - nobody wants to cringe as they walk past a fascia

No, no, you misunderstand. These are DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED rats in a sack. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Texas AG Ken Paxton has declared that it is illegal for mental health providers and therapists to treat trans youth. It means that trans youth will be denied access to any mental healthcare that isn't conversion therapy. Paxton also threatens parents of trans youth with child abuse investigations.

This - after a public consultation that came down c95% against corporate copyright theft - is a hearty move towards this government’s spineless purchased representatives needing to be hoofed in the crotch by us all, in a big queue until they get the message.

The Pentagon is hanging the White House out to dry. www.cnn.com/world/live-n...

This is really shameful of the OU; but I guess they'd already got a taste for capitulation with the Trans-hostile group they approved www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Hedge fund executive. Someone whose entire existence is about understanding the balance between risk and reward. Jesus.

Saturday: dead singer. Sunday: live singer.

Extremely Patcham posting: The key thing here is that this house would actually abut the Ghost Walk

Did we ever find out why Bez went to the Brits dressed as Supergran?

America with a lot of points to make up on Answersmash if they want to win the egg house

If you give a man a fish, please remember to tick the Gift Aid box if you're a UK tax payer and the government will add a couple of sardines to your donation.

If the rumours are true and the kids and social media consultation opens today, here are two things I think should be banned from social media: 1) AI bots 2) recommendations algorithms that optimise for time on site Firm regulation of both of these things is possible and auditable

This is only related in a sideways manner, but: the story of any small slice of humanity is the story of humanity, just boiled down and distilled. So: In 2020, we had a lot of conversations about harassment at SF/F conventions, and Isaac Asimov came up several times.

They rolled into town in a bathtub on wheels

Evergreen gag

Florida just cut off HIV meds for 16,000 people.

Oh, the Opera 20 year history of the web thing behind the glitterball looks really lovely. Nice change from launching with a message that it's somehow crammed more AI shit into the browser.