So Starmer to hang on for a few weeks then Labour, after considering women for a moment, appoint Mandelson as the next PM?

BRB, just telling my stockbroker to go big on Hot-Dog man memes

Trying to pay a final bill with EE. Every page of their website just directs you to their app, and every button on their app takes you out of the app and to the website, which tells you to install the app

I know I'm an old man yelling at clouds, but why do I need to download an app to change the address on my driving licence now?????

If you step back, it is truly extraordinary that so many people went to such great lengths and broke so many conventions and risked their political careers and the only outcome of all these efforts and risks was appointing a washed-up old spinner to an ambassadorial post

Annoyed that one my favourite bands remixed one of my favourite songs and I only found out 22 years after it came out www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv7x...

It's been a nice few days but there are 30 minutes of the Masters to go before Trump is going to switch over to Fox again

Narrator: "They did not stand for Viktor Orbán"

Hungary has chosen Europe. Europe has always chosen Hungary. A country reclaims its European path. The Union grows stronger.

Ukraine is about to get an awful lot of European money. No more Cunt's Veto. A potential turning point in the battle against Russian imperialism.

Live scenes from Trump's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWzD...

So Trump is blockading the strait that's already blockaded, destroying the mines that he said were already destroyed, and I presume he is correcting everyone to pronounce it Nu-cu-lar www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

So killing their spiritual leader, bombing an elementary school, threatening to wipe out their civilization, referring to it as a Christian holy war, and sending Mr. Personality Vance to negotiate didn’t get things resolved?

Disco Elysium vibes from a Scruton Cafe www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ap...

As Fury ring walks go that could have been a lot weirder

the chicago pope is over on twitter being christlike and everyone's biblesplaining him in the replies lol

This is what I'm worried about. It's hard to see Orban going gracefully.

Know this article is click bait but lets go for it. My top 10 greatest superhero movies of all time: Mr Freedom Superman 2 Batman Returns The Crow Blade Hellboy 2: the Golden Army Dredd Avegers Assemble Spiderman: Into the spiderverse Superman (2025)

Excellent reporting on the horrors Lebanon are seeing under the recent Israeli attacks www.ft.com/content/5501...

This might be a stupid query but does anyone know if there are issues with ships being at anchor for weeks around Hormuz? Do they have enough food and supplies for so long a delay? Are vessels able to restock? Can crew leave the vessel? Do crew get paid during the delays?

with everyone realizing that physical media triumphs over streaming, I would like the companies releasing new Walkman cassette players to consider the lovely minidisc

Amazon just emailed to say my Kindle is so old that I can no longer add any new books to it. This means my years long backlog of random daily deal buys might finally get looked at

The chances of Trump actually using a nuclear weapon against Iran are higher than zero. The only safeguard, if he were to give a launch order, would be STRATCOM officers in the chain of command refusing an order considered by them to be illegal. Not a very comforting thought.

Once again, Snake Plisken is on point.

Going off of US Bluesky tonight: 'The revolution will not be televised, it will not go better with coke, it might be awkward and we have to work early and we would have to drive there and once we get there the police might not be particularly helpful'

odd evening calmly watching the champions league quarter final while wondering if world war 3 might break out shortly afterwards

The eleven year old is walking around singing Cars And Girls by Prefab Sprout and I don't know if this means I am a brilliant parent or a terrible parent

While I'm ranting: it also pisses me off that news stories on the rescue of the F15 crew mention that lives were lost while emphasizing that they weren't American lives, as if people without US passports don't have hopes & dreams, and are loved by parents, siblings and children. God, I'm sick of it.

Kate Bush and her cover of Sexual Healing. It takes a song that is inherently ridiculous and doubles on that while still taking it really seriously

It's been a really long and strange week, so time to chill with a relaxing sound barh

The full report into our study into the use of restrictive practice on people living within dementia in hospital is now available: www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/hsdr/GJKF0714

Trump does not think strategically, historically, geographically, or even rationally. He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later. Allied leaders know that if they help him in the Gulf, he won't be grateful, or even remember www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The awkward feeling when you are happy to see your work in the paper but that paper is the Daily Mail www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic...

Our research on restrictive practice for older people and those living with dementia in today's Mirror www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/...

Our latest research on dementia, hospitals and containment is in the news today

Seeing a picture of yourself on the front page of a newspaper during the Monday morning school run is definitely an odd experience

Disappointing, but hopeful this means the studios are taking my proposed Pugwall reboot seriously now www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Is this now becoming a reverse Suez Crisis?

The irony of my broadband provider only letting me cancel via phonecall is 100% guaranteeing I am not staying with them

'You can compete but we might kill you' is not a great message from the next host of the World Cup and the Olympics. Thank for your attention etc

Looking to rent an apartment for a bit while I sort a house purchase and my god the state of 'luxury' apartments in the Midlands in 2026 is seriously depressing

If you enjoyed me getting too obsessed with a picture, you’ll also enjoy me getting too obsessed with a shitload of pictures. The Cheers titles, stared at too much. open.substack.com/pub/joelmorr...

Looking beyond the irony of taking Teaching staff off the Teachers pension scheme, this is an utterly gross move to find a loophole that shows how little the institution respects its staff

With Gorillaz now in Fortnite looking forward to the Bobby Womack and Mark E Smith skins

Me and the eldest did the my9games.com thing, not favourites, but about time and place. Annoyingly his list is better than mine

Did Robert Jenrick do some sort of monkey paw thing where he loses a kilo everytime he says something awful?

This is really really weird

Having one of those days where you wonder how a service as insanely bad as Evri is somehow legal

All this feels very much like Wag the Dog

Iran has two FIFA World Cup matches in LA and one in Seattle. The first is 107 days from now.