BookSky wouldn't exist without my underpants and I think that's nice.

If you test positive for #HIV, treatment is highly effective, and most can expect to live a long, healthy life. Early diagnosis can be lifesaving, so please get tested regularly if you’re sexually active. Visit the NHS website to check your options: https://t.co/rvJOa6bo28 https://t.co/TxoVjMSA1n

Truly wonderful ❤️

Billy Bragg has started a ‘reclaim the lampposts’ campaign and is happy to supply these stickers for you to attach to lampposts with flags on. If you want to call the Xenophobes out then send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Billy Bragg at Bragg Office PO Box 6830, Bridport DT6 9BH

LoLLllllllzzzzz

The Guardian in full Dick Emery mode 😳

I just said “hey labubu” in a yogi bear voice and my kids don’t appreciate my brilliance at all

Football with friends That’ll do 💙💙 #itfc

The Arrival of the Jarrow Marchers in London, Viewed from an Interior, by Thomas Cantrell Dugdale, 1880-1952 (Museum of the Home).

The Jarrow Crusade, in which 200 unemployed men marched to London calling for government intervention to restore jobs, began on this day 1936. Unsuccessful at the time, but helped to shape postwar attitudes to employment and social justice.

Emma John being very good and very depressing: www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...

Chelsea's coach charging down the touchline to join the celebrating players? Buttock-clenchingly embarrassing. There are clubs as bad or worse than Chelsea, but as Terry Collier pointed out 50 years ago, they epitomise everything awful about modern football.

I disagree with Labour about many things, but I wouldn’t let Owen Jones anywhere near me, so fair play. Owen Jones on why it’s still always - Always! - about him: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

So Labour are going to lift the two child benefit cap. Wonderful, obviously. But why - after you said in opposition it was evil - go through a year of pain when you say it's too expensive to junk, before junking it, and thus getting slammed again for being weak? Extraordinarily bad politicking.

My comfort read at times of stress. First read the original volume in (I think) early 1980, read each of them so often, but despite the welcome familiarity every time it's a treat. Douglas Adams was a great writer.

Dear parents - Yes you can give your sick child paracetamol if they’re >3 months old. It’s an excellent painkiller. It brings down a high temperature. It’s one of the safest drugs available. You are right to want to soothe your child’s distress. Evidence supports your good parenting. Be confident.

While working at the office, I often put one arm of my glasses in my mouth and let them hang there, just to make me feel like Roy Scheider when he was reading the book sbout sharks in "Jaws". I'm 65.

Or if journalists actually asked questions? And kept asking them until there was an answer. For example: without the ECHR, who will be responsible for overseeing the safeguarding the rights of the vulnerable? In care settings? Those without capacity? Those under Section?

I don’t generally agree with The Guardian’s right-wing conscience, but I think he’s gloomily nailed this: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Things not to talk about over dinner: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Apparently this was “an error of judgement” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

7 September 1902 | A Polish Jew, Trajtel Szklarz, was born in Siedlce. He emigrated to France. He arrived at #Auschwitz on 23 July 1942 in a transport of 827 Jews deported from Angers. He perished in the camp on 26 August 1942.

We’ve all been there…:

If I’m being honest, I’m feeling pretty crap about my small business. It’s so bloody difficult at the moment with rising costs, US tariffs, Brexit nonsense and the threat of AI. Please have a look at what I do and repost to spread the word gailmyerscough.co.uk

There's an interesting clash between the main thrust of this article: the party has professionalised, it's ready for government, and the actual content of the conference: health spokesperson claiming the covid vaccine gave the king cancer.

7 September 1900 | A Polish Jewish woman, Elisabeth Simenauer, was born in Urbanowice. In August 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz from Sosnowiec ghetto. She did not survive.

Crying as I type . . .

There will be a national conspiracy theory alert at 3pm this afternoon.

We're supposed to change the filters in our water-jug every six months. We're still on the second filter. It's been twenty-eight years.

I hate dresses and the idea of wearing a white wedding dress and then binning it struck me as horribly wasteful. Husband and I agreed to get married in jeans and t-shirts. Turns out, you can get tailored jeans for much less than a ghastly dress. Worn then for six years so far.

Bethel looks in good nick, finally. If he'd played early season county cricket he'd presumably have been in this form by mid-May which would've been good.

Matt is also a pleasant-mannered, kind and extremely amusing conversationalist, so you'll enjoy chatting to him about what you're looking for before you leave him to get on with it. Not a deal-maker, I imagine, but still.

Brilliant thread on how societies create their own truths without them being true, and an object lesson in not being daft enough to think that them being objective fact or not makes much difference either way. Oh that either extreme could acknowledge what that means…

Britain's rapid decarbonisation of electricity supply is a rare success story here. But virtually nobody talks about it and our shitty newspapers attack #NetZero everyday!

Work classified! I am an extremely experienced, versatile and funny writer who’s available to work on your TV show,radio show, speech you name it! My website is here with my beautifully formed CV www.mathew-owen.co.uk - have a look and please share. DM me if you have the work👍 cheers.

Nick Knight aka Nightie on comms informs us that: "The top of off stump is now the top of leg stump." Cricket commentary as metaphysical philosophy.

I assumed this was a joke, but no. Carting round the world bits of his body - his pericardium! - to wow the faithful. How incredibly fucking mediaeval: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Here’s one I wrote many moons ago

Everyday life in Scarborough.

1.Reads The Telegraph 2.Reads The Telegraph 3.Reads The Telegraph 4.Reads The Telegraph 5.Reads The Telegraph 6.Reads The Telegraph 7.Reads The Telegraph

For some reason have never got a photo at my home parkrun in gorgeous East Park. Remedied that.

For the people a few decades ago who decided buying candles and setting fire to them was a better way to illuminate their homes than flicking the light switch.

Hard no, I reckon. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

When Labour in the future say you have to vote for them to stop Reform – remember there are countless reasons that argument is equal parts absurd and offensive. But 26th August 2025 should stand out for their complete capitulation to the right. Absolutely shameful.

A bit of proper morning Marina: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Solidarity with Pleistocene Action.

Heart attack football has arrived at last #hcafc

‘Cause I’m the king of wishful thinking…’