Well whaddayaknow ! 90+ % of the articles in the press, on TV and online filled with confident predictions of what would be in the budget turned out to be complete bollocks, written to fill empty space, with zero insight or understanding.

All those journalists - led by Kuenssberg and Peston - who cheer-led Boris Johnson into Number 10 should be hanging their heads in shame today, and retiring tomorrow.

Latest in “my flabber remains totally ungasted news” 'Toxic' No 10 culture harmed Covid response, inquiry finds www.bbc.com/news/article...

I wish I knew what I did so wrong in a previous incarnation to deserve coming back as a Scotland rugby fan.

In the spring I put up a feeder with sunflower hearts in an attempt to encourage goldfinches to my back yard. Over the summer I had a pair visit regularly, then 3 young joined them later. Now I get a flock emptying the feeder every day. The greedy little swine are eating me out of house & home.

Why? Just why ?

Watched “A House of Dynamite” Quite good but I just couldn’t get over the crazy plot device where an ICBM’s destination could be calculated, but not its point of origin !

I would have someone check that the explosive bolts holding the tail on have been made safe 😮

On the SkyHistory channel at 8pm tonight. Bone Detectives : Secrets from beyond the………What ? 😬

Oh you sweet, innocent child !

Not the WRWC (yet) but a fantastic day of rugby none the less. www.flickr.com/gp/16645532@...

Happy “stale old white men on TV moaning that Halloween is only an American export, day” Congrats to Giles Brandreth for getting that particular bollox out first this year.

Laura Kuennsberg is plodding through a shit Laura Kuennsberg impression on TV right now and even that is rapidly slaloming downhill into crap parody. She’s on about donkeys now ffs ! 😂😂😂

What a day at WRWC2025 finals. Appetiser and main course.

48 hours from now I will be heading to Twickenham for finals day at he WRWC2025, yipppeeeeee !

Another Sunday photographing some rugby. www.flickr.com/gp/16645532@...

This wasn't what I had in mind when I heard there was a show coming called The Celebrity Traitors.

Photos from NEXV v USA Collegiate Rugby Women at Kingston park. www.flickr.com/gp/16645532@...

Not a bad crop of grapes for a Tyneside back yard ! We only planted the vine so it would hide the outside plumbing.

This, absolutely this. We should be ashamed.

Bit of a change from the WRWC in Dublin in 2017 where the matches were played on University pitches in front of crowds of a few hundred !

Leaving for Sunderland shortly. I’ll be spending a few hours in the fan zone with friends before watching Eng v USA at WRWC2025. Been looking forward to this for so long.

No. No you didn’t.

Some photos of tonight’s rugby match between NEXV v USA Collegiate Women. www.flickr.com/gp/16645532@...

That’s the Women’s rugby starting again so I was out with my camera. Durham County Summer Social 10’s www.flickr.com/gp/16645532@...

If you like your misinformed scaremongering to be lurid, over the top and filled with unconnected and irrelevant historical facts, this will be right up your alley. 😡

I saw the Meta prompt under the post in the first photo and just knew it would be worth clicking. 😂😂😂

Getting older I really miss not having the appetite for enormous meals any more. Holidaying in Las Vegas and I’m only ordering an “appetiser” for each meal and I swear I’m still putting on weight.* * OK, the beers** may also be a factor. ** and the occasional cocktail.

Sorry, pardon, what ! 😳

Just finished reading Nick Harkaway’s “Titanium Noir” and I can’t remember the last time I enjoyed a sci-fi / detective story so much.

Since it's #DanHannanDay let's run through the "brain of Brexit's" 5 greatest moments since 2016. First up The One Where Dan Predicted Independence Day in 2025

Happy Daniel Hannan day to all who celebrate the publication of this 100% accurate* prediction of post-Brexit Britain. *accuracy may be less than 100%, your mileage may vary www.reaction.life/p/britain-lo...

I feed small birds in my back yard. 2 fat wood pigeons would arrive & hoover all the food up. Initially I could scare them away from the window but they became blasé and even running out at them stopped working. Now I have a nest & 2 chicks in my grapevine. Wood pigeons: fat feathery piss-takers 😡

I have a joke about Tantalus, you’ll never get it.

I have a joke about Theseus, it’s amazing.

I was paid £5 for a joke about Jason, I was fleeced !

I have a joke about Oedipus, his mum’s gonna love it.

Are you busy ?

Wow 😮 ! And all done in six months ! helsing.ai/newsroom/hel...

Photos of Durham County Women v Cheshire in Gill Burns trophy L2 www.flickr.com/gp/16645532@...

Priti Patel on GMB obviously thinks we are all still idiots and are gullible enough to keep believing the most outrageous lies. Once started she just spewed them out continually at high speed to avoid interruption and she wasn’t challenged on a single one. 😡

My photos from today’s match. Durham County Women v Notts/Lincs/Derby flic.kr/s/aHBqjCeGKL

Pointless totally bottling the “Characters in Viz magazine” question 😂😂😂

Heading off shortly for a mega day of (non-participatory) rugby and (enthusiastically participatory) drinking at Durham City Rugby Club. Pray for me. 🙏

My photos from the Durham County Women’s Cup Final www.flickr.com/gp/16645532@...

In the 80’s I saw every film shown in the city of Glasgow for years (excluding the ones at the dodgy cinema on Sauchiehall St.). Over the years I fell out of love with the cinema, dropping to maybe one visit a year lately. I watched SINNERS last night and, damn, if only more films were this good !

Photos from busy Sunday, part 1 www.flickr.com/gp/16645532@...

My back yard is haunted by a feathery ghost.

This clip is 100% on point for the UK too.