Amateur

"Why does no one sell a sporran big enough for an iPhone?"

screaming (but obviously unsurprised) at Truss being the one the RCP most clearly respect

Gatsby turned out alright in the end, it is what preyed on Gatsby...

So, I think Rishi has the right combination of character traits to succeed, ambitious, hard working, diligent, but coupled that to a mad politics that he quite simply was too ideologically wedded to to avoid the inevitable collapse.

What I quite like about Sombr, in a way that a lot of his contemporaries don't quite succeed on, is that there's a twinkle of self awareness in his teenage yearning. He writes the sort of lyrics I would have used at 18 to try and get a quick snog round the back of school.

It's not just that he didn't do these things, it's that on most of them he actively resisted it or, in many cases, has worsened them. The 2027 and 2028 budgets are apocalyptic, his defence plan is unfunded, immigration and race relations are worse than ever, he suspended MPs over child poverty!

At present living standards are expected to be worse at the end of this Parliament than the start, there are 100,000 additional people who are unemployed, and we are about to enter a period of spending cuts across most departments, it's astonishing he doesn't grasp the electoral consequences of this

They recruited a player on LinkedIn!

Debating the work of Sombr

Trying to think which of my media tastes I'd actually lie about as a politician.

"Addressing very serious issues in Ireland" a personal favourite for: I'm not 100% sure what it is he did.

Oooo, they're reviving the Herbie franchise! That's fun

A story in three parts

the kelce bros tearfully disassembling their bunk bed

He is still just very obviously unaware of why he will not be Prime Minister in a month.

"Tom, he doesn't know who he is!" "Well tell him he's Ron Jeremy and get him back on."

They'll need to vary up their tactics, go deep, push hard, and try their best to finish in the box.

Maybe this from a wine cave on Lake Como, when I got asked to be a third by two separate couples.

I mean, firstly, it's 15%, not 25%, and secondly, how many of that 15% were actually plausible SNP voters given it is quite an extreme position, even amongst Christians!

Of course she's a "more of a comment than a question" person

Probably Harry Styles: Aperture? Although, honestly it's been a pretty disappointing year to date. Most of the big tracks are leftovers from last year, but this actually feels exciting and new for Harry. youtu.be/7sxVHYZ_PnA?...

At a certain point you have to hope you'd recognise that you had gone insane?

Can't be the only one breathing a sigh of relief that it was actually goat meat

I love street group chats, there's some local kids going door to door trying their luck by offering to do odd jobs, and now everyone is sharing ring door bell pictures to confirm if it's the same group of kids and asking what the scam might be.

Janitor: I had “got away with it” until intervention of interfering youths

They also hang monkeys.

Okay, crack's fingers Hawksmoor's Lunch Menu is £30 and is excellent, try the burger, honestly. Aline is £35 for the set menu and is incredibly good Lebanese food, except the fattoush which is fine. Bao, if you order as tapas and ignore the...well...Bao, is also very doable for £30 each.

Get the fava beans and a nice chianti

Yeah, relatedly, while I thought that “Your Party will not challenge the Greens, because they will have a more conservative social policy position”, I didn’t see coming “one of the people who doesn’t understand this is Zarah Sultana”.

It is "King in the North" not "King of the North."

Yeah, I do think this is the fundamental difference between Forbes and the obvious analogue, Tim Farron. She made it clear she would vote for policy based on her socially conservative beliefs!

Among the many hilarious things about Kate Forbes' comments at the Christofascist convention is the idea that she was all set to win the SNP leadership until she set out her views on gay marriage. She did it on the first day of her campaign! There was literally never a point that she was set to win.

Really good piece that gets to the fundamental issue with UK housing policy: - It is expensive, and so the funding is always backloaded. - It is oversubscribed, because we've injected multiple demand solutions to a supply problem. Neither of these are solvable solely through a council model.

Tbf this is a pretty spot on summary of me

Always fun to unpack what people have imagined my politics to be

What I find fun about this is how much it is an obvious ode to failure. Your keynote speakers are a man who took 5 goes to get into parliament and the UK's worst ever Prime Minister. Your first session is a failed MP and a woman who went to jail for incitement to racist violence.

This would work on a surprising percentage of this website

Immediately topped by "have you had a chance to digest our quote?" "I didn't get your quote..." "oh, it might have gone to spam."

Fascinated by my previous solicitor offering me both a first time buyers AND a returning customers discount...

*David Attenborough Voice*

Yes, but how much is that in Wales?

The widespread normalisation of the view that Muslims are just backwards, continues apace. This time you have, actual reactionary, Kate Forbes nodding along at the idea that Humza Yousaf is actually a secret conservative.

Persecuted once again, just for holding views out of step with the country I hope to govern.

I'd have a fiver on Shrimsley to finish the extra hot wings

"A once in a lifetime opportunity to own this historic property"

"Morgan, didn't you overrule all the advice that suggested he might be capable of doing this?"

One standard I will maintain for the rest of my days, in the face of general collapse, is that it is called Twitter. I refuse to indulge the sheer naffness of its new name. Not for any moral stance but purely aesthetically.

It's her first act as SoS for DCMS