That is A LOT of botox

"We're one of the few political parties to have suspended more officials than we've elected"

hold my beer, hemingway

"Good lord what is going on over there?"

A fun fact is that Pierre is actually the French equivalent of "Kemi"

"New phone houthis?"

I do remember saying "as much as Labour are struggling, at least the era of deliberate performative cruelty is over" and yet...

Ayatollah Khameini, I'm not asking for a lot

"I'm actually also from the middle east, well, Nottingham." - Jokes that worked better in my head than in a meeting with Dubai colleagues

"I don't like clapping". "I don't like any part of south London". #totp

It's to distinguish them from non-biological females, which are gentler on sensitive skin and delicate fabric but don't necessarily break down the toughest stains.

All else aside, Hannah Spencer won by over 4000 votes! She outpolled Goodwin by nearly 50%! It is ridiculous we're even discussing family voting as a factor.

Quotes like that do sometimes make me wonder if Reform actually have any plans for moving beyond their current poll ratings.

To be fair to Nige, the police being the usual suspects of covering up crime isn't wrong, it's just it usually requires police to have committed said crime too?

Like I've said, it's not like I'm all-in on some demand that trans women should be allowed to compete in the Olympics. But I thought given that only one trans woman had ever even qualified (and didn't even come close to winning), the exiting policy seemed to have things about right. But...

Been invited to a McBusted tribute act and, in the spirit of not being the grumpy sod I am, I went over their music and I am genuinely astonished Busted agreed to that collaboration given how little McFly bring to the party.

The think I find fascinating about her is given her obvious contempt for children why she picked this career.

"the good news is that we have found a relatively cheap and easy way to prevent the cast from going through puberty. the bad news is that not everybody in this room is going to like it".

Just as a note, this is an excerpt from a Dara O'Briain routine from about a decade ago youtube.com/shorts/Zt2s9...

Never mind that, what about the clowns?

This is a ridiculous analysis from Mr Peston on so many levels.

Crawlin' back to you...

Headlines direct from Boxing Day

More evidence for my "maybe Reform are just bad people?" Thesis

Horrible news for your dad

What's great is that Morgan doesn't actually say the thing they claim he said in the first bullet point, the handler does, because they've gotten Belgrave Street and Belgrave Road mixed up. The sort of thing that might happen if you have just been mugged...

Jodorowsky's Harry Potter

In this way, Emerald Fennell really did capture the book by making something that unwatchable

It's increasingly obvious that the US doesn't actually have a plan or a particular interest in ending things, and indeed is carelessly escalating with random strikes against ostensible allies.

I do think "Did Morgan McSweeney arranged for his phone to be stolen in October 2025 to avoid a request from March 2026 to hand over his messages that were primarily released in February 2026?" does have an obvious answer, but that's why I'm not Leader of the Opposition.

The kids go through puberty at some point between Season 1 airing and Season 3 filming, at least two of the actors playing teachers die, Ron is entirely bald by the time they release the Order of the Phoenix.

If it takes you two days I'm not really sure you should be running it, really.

I once rented a house where the landlord had illegally converted the garage to be his bedsit, and in trying to defend "why are you going in and out of the garage in the night?" both inadvertently revealed this, and also that technically the contract was invalid as he'd got the house number wrong.

Everything from his hair to his name screams bit part in a BBC miniseries where they can't name the real DG.

If I were to be mean, I would point out that Badenoch visibly believes that her policies will produce good outcomes because they are her policies, regardless of whether those outcomes make any sense for what she proposes.

Malcolm Offord yet another piece of evidence in my longstanding theory that Reform are just bad people.

"You have to realise, we don't investigate any of these thefts."

you see dubious political chicanery, I see admirable proof that the Met doesn't discriminate when it comes to its abject failure to investigate phone theft, even if the phone in question was being used to run the government

"The Iranians have taken JD Vance hostage, the White House have offered to negotiate on the strict condition that they keep him."

Have the white working class considered how this is going to play in left behind towns with the hero voters?

The Rest is Nursery

I don't think it gets conveyed enough that the stated policy platform of GCs is that everyone should be as miserable and friendless as them.

Do you think they sell these for humans?

A lot of journalists have privately said to me that they really think Kemi has improved

I think ultimately, it was a mistake for her to spend the last 18 months backpacking through the Andes without a phone, rather than being Culture Secretary.

Fundamentally, this is why I am relatively bullish on Labour's re-election: - Reform have hit their cap - There's a strong anti-reform vote - Tories are useless - Modest improvements will be enough Crucially, for the counterfactual, they just don't seem bothered by the latter...

The people yearn for double liberalism.

After a brief and disillusioning career in politics D.S. Nandy returns to her hometown to tackle the growing threat of Mancunian gangs and the greater threat of becoming a connurbation in the new ITV drama "The Pier."

Snap back to reality, Ope, there goes gravity, Ope, there goes Nandy, She choked, She's so mad, But she won't, Give up that easy