For business owners, the important part of the new ECHR advice is this: 13.179: There is no type of official record or document in the UK which provides reliable evidence of sex. [...] Therefore, it is unlikely to be proportionate or practical to ask for further evidence of a person’s sex.

"Eeeeee these seats are available. Janet! JANET! They're available!" "We're all available Clare. I've never been more available. Available is my middle name." "Sarah's not! She's got that lad in Atkinson Street making her knickers frothy." Train journeys always get more entertaining at Newcastle.

If you're a writer, write "I waited" without saying it. "Looking back, it might not have even been that long. But on that day time stretched out cat-like in a sunspot. Whole ecosystems grew from amoebas to gargantuan beasts and great dense jungles, then died, withered, ossified. The phone pinged."

Waiting For Grogu

Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grub

what are the Six Genders? wrong answers only

Anyone not calling it a wesignation is a coward

Reading up on Tristan da Cunha given recent events and particularly enjoyed the Wodehousian fact that during a period of poor harvests in 1906 the Rev. and Mrs Barrow provided ministry and a harmonium, having been put ashore at a beach that became known as 'Down-Where-The-Minister-Landed-His-Things'

Catherine West is of course the MP for Perineum South. As this picture shows.

"We all knew she was being violently sick having read our messages about how Keir could put the DP into DPP."

Runs With No Nominees.

Call me a lone horse. No no no wait, a stalking wolf. Yes, that's it. I'm a stalking wolf.

US gifts Pope crystal football. Transparent, pointless and slippery when wet, Marco Rubio has been Secretary of State since January 2025.

New favourite shed

Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost. Some Of Them Have Just Forgotten What They Came In Here For.

That's a lot of city centre real estate being turned into concentration camps. I wonder if Reform have costed this deranged fascism up.

We hugely underestimate how cold, wet and hungry people in the past were a lot of the time and how difficult it was for most people to be dry and warm. (Archaeologist who has spent a decent chunk of my working life being cold and wet but nowhere near as much as a medieval peasant would've done)

I was going to make a joke about the word gerrymandering being invented by a guy called Gerry Mander but the actual etymology is even fucking weirder??

My biggest conspiracy theory is that telling working class people that engagement in the arts is a middle / upper class thing and to do so makes you a class traitor is a psyop to make them disengaged with themselves and the world and the beauty of being human, so that they accept worse treatment.

He'll get no help from the Royal Marines then.

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The electorate

Read this as midwife and thought the article might be about the medical ethics of immediate undiscussed intervention but sadly it was not.

You think prison overcrowding in England is bad now, just imagine what it'll be like tomorrow.

"In Church Hall if wet."

"Times scribbler too dim to understand how owning a second house makes her a second home owner" news

It says an enormous amount about the Royal Navy in the late Victorian period that they could essentially build HMS "Fuck That One Ship In Particular" as and when required.

He's already wearing the hot dog costume.

Very on brand for the IDF to attack a doctor.

strange these op-eds about women being too angry have all come out the last few days when during the same time there's also been a massive investigation published on an online rape academy with millions of viewers a month and none of them have bothered to even cover it, even as news

BBC News - Curlew crusader Matt Trevelyan embarks on Three Peaks challenge - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... You may not like it, but this is beak performance.

God forbid men have hobbies

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Hegseth quotes Pulp Fiction while Vance quotes Pope Fiction.

Trump here, apparently pardoning a lightly bearded Jeffrey Epstein as a bunch of angelic heavies turn up to drag him away to purgatory.

Alex: "So the task was to win an election in a country you've spent two decades securing all the media to make it support you" Greg: "Sounds easy. I mean, as long as you don't do something stupid like inviting the world's least popular sofa shagger to promote you" Alex: "Let's see how Victor did"

1 x Hungary.

Fuck yourself Victor.

Actually they said they had all the Khargs

Written a couple of novels based around mixing Scottish myths with historical events and unsure of next steps. They've both been read through by some folk who've enjoyed them. Is the traditional publishing route still an option? Or through a patreon or similar?

Stuck in the Dolgwms

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For a sea without tides the Med does have an impressive history of entirely avoidable maritime collisions.

Just looking up the Reform Party regional list for Edinburgh and the Lothians.

I keep coming back to this.

Five Pints? At lunchtime? Drink up, the world's about to end.

Israeli soldiers are detonating entire villages in South Lebanon while taking selfies. Ancient mosques, churches, cemeteries, schools, hospitals - all being obliterated by the genocidal regime www.instagram.com/reel/DWrg5xi...

This was of course painted at a time when the Post Office Tower was not included on maps due to its location being covered by the Official Secrets Act.

You clove to see it.