Had to nip to the Samsung store to get my headphones fixed and they're in the middle of a BTS event so I am surrounded by screaming teens queuing for a photo booth and exceptionally loud K-Pop and I think this may be hell?

So, it is Ed.

Big week for England, the USA and Portugal proving you can still do it with 10 men.

these myths about ageing are so corrosive to society, "your brain doesn't finish developing until you're 25!", "a 19 year old and a 22 year old is a problematic age gap!", "7 year olds can't have a bottle and half of rosé with a meal" It's ridiculous

You might not like it, but this, this is what peak posting looks like.

"Just look at Keir" she added

This is so unrealistic. Nobody will ever open Copilot.

Jordan Henderson didn’t play and has somehow been yellow carded and stretchered off.

Big burnham strikes again

7 more minutes of two dumb bitches telling each other exactly

The thing about watching England, is that it is miserable in all the best ways.

Love everything Kelly Cates is wearing, also keep thinking “did you have to come straight from the opera to the football?”

Norway and Haaland is like if Portugal and Ronaldo was played at full speed.

Sorry, they called the documentary what?

Programme aired on 20 December 2025, but the initial legal letter was sent first to ITV, then inexplicably rerouted via Channel 4 before finally being dumped in the Costa outside BBC Broadcasting House.

Kemi's inability to capitalise on Reform capping out should really alert the men in grey suits they've backed a loser.

To cycle back to this, and the loose way my brain works, by contrast despite being PG part of the charm of Olivia Dean is that her music is genuinely sexy. There is an actual sensual charm to the way she delivers "There's no need to hide if you're into me 'Cause I'm into you quite intimately."

God bless the people who think they won't be woken up either way

Poser

Didn't realise David Byrne was that old

"Offers between 350,000 and 425,000"

That's what you get when you try and form another mercenary group to march on Moscow...

Was joking with a friend about the sanctioned status of Russian oligarch and insurance mascot, Alexander Orlov, and solemnly said "Alexander Orlov has been assassinated by the FSB" and the woman at the next table made a genuinely sad noise and pouted.

Love the implication that if we end up facing France then they'll stop selling baguettes for the day.

I do think UK politics would improve dramatically if we could get politicians to accept that the apprenticeship structure isn't suitably for large chunks of the labour market.

"I've sold Brexits to Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook, and it sure put them on the map".

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.