I forgot to get the cheese muffins out of the freezer, but did take a large Costco red velvet cupcake (fucking massive cup!) out of said same freezer, so I guess that’s breakfast today!

I did not enjoy battling with dithering golf fans on my morning commute on the train this morning. They’re all clones of each other, all wearing shorts and polo shirts. Failing miserably to stick a Merseyrail ticket through the barrier. We have Tap&Go now!

On Tuesday I was honoured to travel down to Parliament to be with Hillsborough families and campaigners on the historic day that a new Hillsborough Law passed through the House of Commons This film shows what we witnessed as history was made

I’m quite enjoying the fact that I don’t have to pay any attention to football and can still know exactly what is going on in the World Cup.

I am the BEST mummy on the planet. After abusing my eldest daughter’s Doc Martens discount, she told me her phone battery is expanding and may explode. Cue mummy dashing to Tesco Mobile, adding a new line & phone to my Family plan, and dashing back to Docs to deliver it to her.

I haven’t watched any games, and I really don’t care HOWEVER this is an abomination of an idea. It’s FOOTBALL not American Football. Bellends.

Burnham knocking it out of the park #HillsboroughLaw

I’m reading Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram’s book at the moment. When they’d managed to get a debate on Hillsborough through a parliamentary online petition, Christopher Chope tried to railroad it off with his pathetic objection habit. What an absolute prick he is.

Nigel Farage has sent an email to Reform UK supporters tonight saying “we don’t know whether there were any political motives” behind Ann Widdecombe’s murder. But police have already ruled that out, saying there was “no information” to suggest the murder was “politically motivated”.

I mean, sure, if you’re a fan of it, but there’s a time and a place.

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Oh. Anyway….

So they're all taking this really well

What will actually be really, really funny is Farage ending up with a lower number of votes cast vs the 24 GE & a much lower majority because of votes being spread across Count Binface, Looza Fox and Piers Corbyn, and on top of that, a much lower turnout.

Honest Bob Jenrick is sitting in for @mrjamesob.bsky.social today. Regular listeners could probably have some fun with him…. Not sure I can stomach listening to him whine about “The Establishment”

RULE BRITANNIA!!

“Spend a month campaigning with a bin” God bless you British politics

There is something truly poetic about the whiniest UK politician on the planet to be humiliated by all major parties (and Restore), leaving him to fight his own by-election against the intergalactic lord, Count Binface. I absolutely love it. Moments like this make you proud to be British.

Confirming that the Green Party will not stand in Clacton at this by-election, Green Party Leader Zack Polanski said, “This is a desperate stunt from a desperate politician whose lifetime of grifting is finally catching up with him”

I’m imagining a scenario here where Farage has another hissy fit because the “establishment” won’t stand candidates, so he doesn’t actually resign, meaning he’s still subject to the Standards scrutiny OR he does still resign and obvs wins, still under investigation. Either way, he’s fucked himself 🤣

Britain is an insane little island, and yet still manages to come up with potentially hilarious scenarios. The People vs The Establishment stunt may well end up being Count Binface vs Nigel Farage. I am so here for it if that’s what happens.

Britain. Despite everything, still got it.

I am confused. I thought when Josh Simons quit as an MP to call an unnecessary by-election it was a huge waste of taxpayer funds and an insult to voters?

Have checked and parliamentary prodecure nerds seem pretty sure: if Farage resigned, triggered a by-election, and won, the old investigations could all resume. So unless they're wrong (and I don't think they are), there's no procedural get-out-of-jail card here.

Will that remove him from parliamentary scrutiny? Saw something in the Graun that suggests otherwise?

MPs have been murdered. • Jo Cox • David Amess One by a far right extremist, the other by a religious extremist. Neither were Nigel-fascist-wannabe-Farrage.

A hopeful moment then when LBC dropped the sound for a second

Yes Farridge, you are a crook. Now fuck off

I don’t want grifting leaders, thanks. Cunt

Oh fuck off Farridge, whiny little twat

God he's such a whining crybaby

Me today hearing of another timetabling review 🙄

Thank you @sturdyalex.bsky.social for the grin and share of Woolton Picture House 🥰 @pimlicat.bsky.social I live just down the road from Woolton, so when you’re next up this way, I’ll take you round the village 😁

My sister has now spent 2 days working out which rooms are which in the completely remodelled downstairs. Some odd choices made, in our opinion!

My sister found our childhood home in Silverstone on AirBnB - just under £6k for Grand Prix week! Mum moved in 2011, and the house has been completely remodelled. So weird!

LJMU researchers have helped discover a surprisingly calm "cradle" for newborn stars at the centre of the Milky Way. The findings offer new insights into the earliest stages of star formation and how our own Sun may have formed. Read more: www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/new...

Says the man who broke it with Brexit

Burnham acknowledges the importance of UK Higher Education and the fact that university isn’t for everyone. To me, that seems like a shift to BOTH/AND thinking, rather than EITHER/OR thinking.

Listening to a couple of clips of Farage being interviewed, and I can see why he went into hiding. Not crowned himself in any glory, and I hope that it has a good old negative affect on his popularity.

Another normal day on normal island

I did 32 hours of overtime during May (inc the early May bank holiday), necessary OT because of being a whole FT body down. I made the mistake today of calculating how much of that overtime was lost to PAYE, NI and my pension contributions 😭😭

Why do some utter bellends let fireworks off in broad daylight? What is the point!

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I just don’t think this is the answer. Social media *algorithms* are harmful, and not just to young people (see all the self-radicalised old people), but this just ain’t it.

The fact that we’ve had both staff and student comms sent out today about this does just go to show how seriously the community is taking this. Liverpool prides itself on being a welcoming, inclusive and progressive city (and it is) but we have to acknowledge that this 👇🏻 is also “who we are”.

English commentators need to stop analysing Northern Ireland through an English lens! When you see anti-immigrant riots in Belfast, Ballymena or Larne and immediately reach for "Britain's far-right problem", you're missing half the story. This isn't just racism. It's loyalist terrorism. 1/

X and Elon Musk has been a threat to public order for nearly two years. The government has taken no action.

I’m watching Years and Years again. Gets more real every time I watch it.

I’m sick of right wing headbangers (batshit Reform woman on LBC/Simon Marks show at the moment) using “DEI”. That’s not a thing in the UK.