Today I found out that in the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, in real life Lionel Jefferies, who played grandad, was younger than Dick Van Dyke, who played his son!

Surely I’m not the only one who thinks this whenever they see a map of The Strait Of Hormuz on the news?

councillor 1,067 here

The idea for this video has been in my head for many years. Not quite sure what that says about me, but Tom Adams DFS Supercut, I set you free... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-bO...

😬 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Before smartphones, social media users would gather in hairdressing salons to have it streamed directly into their brains.

'That's not AI?! That's genuine?' @mrjamesob.bsky.social can't believe who Donald Trump sounds like in this Iran update.

You can just do Islamophobia on the cover of your magazine; it's so normalised now that you don't even have to worry

Darren Grimes used to be a nice woke LibDem young person before Vote Leave twisted him into what we see now. So there is always hope that one day he'll remember who he was and turn on them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbea... No evidence that Thomas Hedley Fairfax Harwood ever had any good qualities.

from 2019

I have deleted my original debunk of this story as it appears it is actually an amalgamation of 2 stories... (Don't let anyone tell you I'm not prepared to be corrected!!) So let's look at them individually: We'll start with the photo... So what's going on? 🧵1/12

Reform UK's Andrew Winston-Jones, #Senedd candidate for Bangor Aberconwwy. He likes the racist Voice of Wales on Facebook. Yep, the far-right organisation set up by convicted PPI call centre fraudster Dan Morgan and far-right activist Stan Robinson.

George is going to have some Grundy cider and be carted away, isn't he? #TheArchers

reform's leader in scotland becomes 1,066 for this spectacularly unfunny joke

scoop: Nigel Farage has abandoned plans for a Reform UK government to part-nationalise Britain’s utilities as the party adjusts to the country’s stretched public finances, although it is still considering using “strategic stakes” to fix broken markets www.ft.com/content/be4b...

I've only just realised that #OpenAI's logo is a stylised anal sphincter. Apologies for my childish but apposite observation so early in the morning. #sora

Biggest comeback of the year just dropped

🔴 NEW 🔴 Pro-oil Tory leader Kemi Badenoch accepted a £7,500 retreat from a major party donor who happens to chair an influential climate science denial group. 📝 @desmog.com story 👇

Big row developing between two of Reform's leading public figures:

"[W]hen you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab 'em by the power plant. You can do anything."

Oh the irony: Country that put backdoors into Cisco routers to spy on world bans foreign routers www.theregister.com/2026/03/24/f...

In which Charles Moore is triggered by the sight of black people in a National Trust advert.

I often think about how radically the public understanding of teenage girls and sex has changed. This is very much what I remember from my childhood, when the girls were often blamed. But grooming 12 year olds was always abuse, even if the establishment of the time didn’t care to see it that way.

Reform mayoral candidate likens Jewish community group to ‘Islamists on horseback’

#DR26 The U.S. democracy is currently in a much faster deterioration process than any other democracy in modern times. Within only one year, the USA’s score on the V-Dem Liberal Democracy index (LDI) has declined by 24 %, from 0.75 in 2024 to 0.57 in 2025. 🧵1(4) #Polisky #PoliSciSky #PolDataSky

I've set a smaller goal on ko-fi for now. I hate asking for money, but I guess it's this or bankruptcy so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

“Not only is it badly written, self-satisfied, and smug, it’s also filled with falsehoods and inventions... MattGPT is as bad for the intellectual ecosystem as ChatGPT is for the environment.” @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social reviews Matt Goodwin’s ‘Suicide of a Nation’ for @bylinetimes.bsky.social

So, about those Eid prayers in London... "What's the highest thing in Trafalgar Square?" "Nelson's column, innit?" "And the highest thing on the column?" "Nelson." "And on Nelson?" "His hat." "And the highest thing on his hat?" "That bit that sticks up." 1/8

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Exactly 5 minutes BEFORE Trump announced a 5-day delay in bombing Iranian power plants, someone purchased $1.5 billion worth of S&P futures in a single trade. Someone also sold $192 million in oil futures. Trump and/or his cronies are engaging in market manipulation and insider trading.

The oil crisis we created in the Strait of Hormuz only exacerbates the need to ween ourselves off fossil fuels and invest in renewable energy. Instead, Trump is burning a billion dollars to kill an offshore wind project that was already approved and force the company to invest in Texas oil

Poem of the day from the East Anglian Daily Times.

MP blasts Reform for ‘not bothering’ to show up to East Midlands growth debate Neither Richard Tice, Lee Anderson or Robert Jenrick attended the Westminster Hall meeting

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this photo leaves little to the imagination

This horrible story points up a difference between alleged and actual political extremists. Zack Polanski correctly says antisemitism is vile, and has no place here. Nigel Farage, with no evidence yet, whines about migrants, suggesting the attackers came from Iran... www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cz...

This is a great list of techniques for getting real information out of a Google search and avoiding AI slop and paid results. (One thing not included is that if you add "-ai" to a search, you block the AI summary) cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

from Fraser Nelson:

Horrific antisemitic hate crime perpetrated in London. Whoever decided to burn ambulances, I hope they find you and throw the book at you.

It is being reported on the ground in Cuba that everyone on a ventilator at this hospital died overnight. As a Cuban, I'm devastated.

I hope we're all enjoying the experience of living in the first 15 minutes of a 1980s docudrama the BBC is only allowed to air once.

BESSENT, one month ago today: “.. 2025 was about setting the table. 2026 is going to be a banquet for the American people. The economy is taking off.” @cnbc.com

Just heard somebody order fish and chips but with salad instead of chips Broken Britain

This is incredibly irresponsible journalism. You cannot write this headline without acknowledging all the times Elon Musk has promised to pay for things, then didn't. Let's take a stroll down memory lane. 🧵