Cameron: Nobodies stupid enough to vote for 🦄 May: You voted for 🦄 and 🦄 you shall get De Pfeffle: I've seen them Truss: 🦄 Maths Sunak: Lesson learned, plain vanilla 🦄 only Starmer: I don't believe in 🦄 but I'm here to fight for those of you who do

Quietly utterly damning - but also entirely exposing how absurd the govts red lines are on tax. There is no way you can nickle and dime your way to the spending increase needed here. You need a broad based tax rise. And no one in politics can confront that.

The pledge not to raise general taxation is basically this government’s original sin and a synecdoche of everything that’s wrong with it - timid, and forced into a series of unpalatable, harmful and unpleasant manoeuvres that please literally nobody because of its timidity.

On a flight and infotainment system didn’t work so was preparing for a raw dog but I’d listened to music already. Settled on the idea of a weak dog. Infotainment system got fixed. Felt a sense of inadequacy as Id not even achieved a weak dog.

Bristol is a poor man’s Glasgow

Met a colleague and a shitty thing had happened to them with a close friend dying and you know I just didn’t know what to say. I said “it’s ok to not be ok”. Sometimes having a spoon fed line is no bad thing. You don’t realise until you need it.

I did not believe Eurovision could do the football equivalent of going to penalties. Thank fuck.

Jonny has two Apples he’s selling for £1, if he lowers the price how many Apples does he have? This should be your frame of reference when thinking about fuel prices

You may not like hearing this but actually free on-street car parking is objectively a ridiculous idea when you think about it for a second. Imagine if I plonked literally any other bulky item of personal property in front of my house and expected it to not require permission or payment!

"As his post goes on, his language gets older. 100 years older with each jump. The spelling changes. The grammar changes. Words you know are replaced by unfamiliar words" Fascinating. So how far back in time can YOU go?

I have been sent a pair of AirPods. My wife wouldn’t even entertain the lightest of opinions on this topic, German you see, so I have been sending a near stream of consciousness to my sister to the point she has asked, begged even, me to stop. I did no such thing. 🧵

You see the thing is, America just doesn’t have the juice anymore

We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?

Unpopular opinion: 1)What is happening in America is hugely concerning. 2) It is in both Britain‘s and Europe's interest to work closely together. 3) Neither Brits nor Europeans can afford to openly break with the US right now. 4) Making the most of that impossible situation is very hard.

Bear with me, I anticipate your disagreement. There is a clear pattern to the advice given to those who want to press back against rising racism. What it boils down to is that if you point out that racism is often being dressed up as “legitimate concerns” you will alienate people. /1

Tickets tend not to sell out, take your time

Dogs on a cargobike for world bicycle day.

The open goal that is an unashamedly positive case for immigration and a cure all against the bad faith grifters, but sure let’s keep pandering to them probably work out fine

This was always going to happen because segregating sport by sex has always made complete sense in competition. The trouble is so many people got both biological fact and legal advice very, very wrong and abused and bullied anyone who dared to point it out..

These are *all* things the US could do unilaterally: recognition of territories, commitment not to admit Ukraine to NATO, sanctions lifting, and economic normalisation. Zelensky isn't the barrier. Huge implications for Europe if US moves this forward unilaterally

NEW: Big moment unfolding at the Supreme Court in the history of trans rights in the UK. They’ve ruled unanimously that sex and woman definitions in Equality Act 2010 refer to biological women only. Judgment being explained.

Having watched the world burn for several different reasons over the last few decades I’ve reached the point where I can watch this latest one with a degree of calm fascination, like one would watch a film

Recognizing the advantage of harnessing the bike-train combination, since 2017 Swiss railways has offered 1,600 guarded places below Zurich Station. The "Velostation" offers a repair service, cargo bike parking, electric bike charging, lockers, and (e- and cargo-) bike rentals for last mile travel.

I am a commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission. Earlier today, the president attempted to illegally fire me. This is corruption, plain and simple. I will see the president in court. My full statement:

Watching Jurassic Park, where a computer nerd with a debt problem and delusions of grandeur tears down all the safety systems, with no understanding of the consequences, so he can better facilitate his planned espionage and theft.

Days like today I do feel deeply privileged to live in such a lovely part of the world

Four more years of this doomscrolling bullshit.

Plastic brackets to offset wall and roof for continuous insulation. The ones shown here are for blown-in insulation, but InSoFast also makes brackets for rigid insulation.

Washing line AND rotary airer now all full with THREE washes. I know I've pushed it too far and will have angered the Rain Gods but today was not a day for caution.

First wash of the year hung outside, the times they are a change'in

Why does Canada, the larger country, not simply eat the United States

French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

Silver lining: Now the pigeons have up ended the board and shat all over it we can put to bed all that 5D chess shite

By suspending all military aid to Ukraine, Donald Trump has humiliated the people who pretended he was a reliable ally only in search of peace. The UK and Europe must seize frozen Russian assets to resist Putin’s unjust and savage war.

"Lithuania, when we were occupied in 1945, we had sustainable peace. There was no front line. Nobody was shooting. But there was no Lithuania." @glandsbergis.bsky.social

"The only thing that matters now, is to gather the political will to disentangle our continent from an unreliable and dangerous partner - and gain the time to do that safely. We have to bite the inside of our cheek, smile sweetly and say 'yes dear', while preparing our escape."

Tricky interview that he actually handled well. It's a really tight spot, and reality is Europe is defensively so degraded they really do need to keep the US at the table. As Starmer said, "Europe has to start with a European coalition of the willing" and right now that is mostly the UK and France.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer 👏

Proud to be British this evening.

Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people. Be strong, be brave, be fearless. You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy. We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.

Glory to Ukraine.

my powerful and eloquent rebrand of the 15 minute city.

If you’re siding with Vladimir Putin, you’re wrong.

Unexpected Koyaanisqatsi in London Bridge station this am

This man can cook