Harry Enten: 56% oppose Trump's ballroom. Just 28% support. I'm going to put 28% in some perspective. Americans who believe in ghosts comes in at 39%. How about telepathy? That comes in at 29%. The new White House ballroom comes in below both of those.

it’s worth reading every word of this brilliant, excoriating column by Fraser Nelson

"In the UK we called it 'Boss Cat' because we had a cat food brand called 'Top Cat' which, of course, was problematic for a publicly-funded BBC. However, it was lost on nobody that, whatever it was called, it was basically just Sergeant Bilko with cats, and that is what unites our countries today."

Many years ago, when I had far fewer followers, I asked the universe for help identifying a panel I clipped from a comic during our first trip to the UK in 1977, but had no luck. Being a romantic, I carried it in my wallet until it was in tatters, and would love to replace it. Can you ID the comic?

🐰🇮🇷 Close the Strait! 🦆🇺🇸 Open the Strait! 🐰🇮🇷 Close the Strait! 🦆🇺🇸 Open the Strait! 🐰🇮🇷 Open the Strait! 🤭 🦆🇺🇸 Close the Strait! 🐰🇮🇷 Open the Strait! 🦆🇺🇸 Close the Strait! Look, I say we're closing the Strait, and that's final! Don't try to talk me out of it! 🤡

Those sneaky shits

Times are tough so I've put a load more of my children up for sale. Mixed media original drawings in pencil, biro, marker, pastel and ink on heavy craft paper. www.ebay.co.uk/usr/happytoast

Currently watching an episode of The Maya Mysteries - a spin-off from Space 1999 featuring that cosmic princess of outer space who can turn into animals. Catherine Schell and Leslie Nielsen starred in this dreadful ITC pot-boiler that even G**** A******* had his name removed from it. Utter bilge.

OK for fun: top funniest tweet ever? I am torn between "moon's haunted" and "Denise I was at your wedding."

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

Reposting this because I spent ages drawing Rick's dance moves, filling in the background, layering the mic and Morty, animating his eyes, etc etc

Equally good.

William Shatner is 95. Here’s what was going through his mind as he boldly went where a small group of people went before. Humble & haunting.

Finally, if you ever wake up from a coma and you aren't sure what time of year it is, here is a helpful calendar👇 We are right on schedule this year!🤣🙄 18/

Just had this flagged with me. This is disgusting. If Kemi Badenoch had one ounce of leadership in her, she would condemn this. I don’t want any faux sadness from her or Nick Timothy when one of us is hurt or worse. This is how low the Conservative Party have sunk.

I see Question Time has reached its inevitable endgame. It was bound to happen.

#BrokenNews: Jesus Tragedy

I know it won't make any difference to his voters, who pay no attention to what's actually going on, and think foresight is for pussies and consequences can be wished away. But if Farage was PM, we'd now be in a moronic, illegal war he demanded we join 2 days ago, and now thinks is a disaster.

cheers sportsmoat (no longer works for Spurs fans)

His legendary speech at the private girls' school prize giving:

The scorn John Davidson has received is disgraceful. He has Tourette's. The words he used are abhorrent. He didn't mean to say them. It's clear many of those criticising him don't understand that.

In case you missed it, last weekend I posted an article on my Doctor Who blog about how Terry Nation used the illness which would later kill him in one of his Daleks short stories. Find it here: thehiddenplanet.substack.com/p/terry-nati...

and you won't be able to see that that's what's happening. the park should not be full of broken glass. you can't just ban children from the play area and call the problem solved. 1) they now have no play area 2) everyone else is still getting cut to ribbons

I CAN’T NOT POST THIS NOW

Good piece in today’s #Observer: “Labour may have cut migration too far” & “it could cost us billions”. Migration isn’t the UK’s problem. It’s the (Brexit-ravaged) economy, stupid, & cutting migration will cause tax rises. Shame on Starmer for being so cravenly spooked by Reform.

Three years ago we made an early News Agents on the student loan scandal and the sky high marginal tax rates it creates. Three years on, govts since have made it all worse still. We’ve made a special follow up, centred on our listeners own experiences. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

BREAKING: “Enough already” - Statement just posted by Steve Rotheram Mayor of the Liverpool City Region on X

On this day, 2 years ago. I sat in bed and said to myself, 'Why haven't you finally made that compilation of Jim McDonald from Coronation Street, absolutely battering people to Motörhead? So I did.' Enjoy! It will forever be my greatest contribution to society.

SHOCK: UK Studio Goes SILENT After USA🇺🇸 Rant 😳 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWPO...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Rebrand as BBC Views, then you can drop the act. “Here’s what people are saying. The facts? Sorry, you’ll need a news service for that, we just do gossip.”

I found a petition to ban smart glasses in public spaces that needs a bit of a boost, if anyone else feels strongly about this: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

There aren't any penguins in Greenland, but there are other animals.

one of the best things ever

The mother of British veteran Ben Parkinson is not mincing her words about Donald Trump insulting NATO forces in Afghanistan 👀 absolutely nails him

This petition is just shy of the 100k signatures needed for the government to consider it for debate. Please consider signing and sharing to help get it over the line.

Happy 92nd birthday, Tom Baker! 🎁 #DoctorWho #FourthDoctor

Duckduckgo has a survey for pro/anti-AI and I cackled so hard at the (current) results https://voteyesornoai.com

100% this!👇

Telling isn't it that all the "protect our girls" people are still on X despite what Grok is doing.

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social.

When I get a like & a re-post.