Can anyone think of a good reason why there shouldn't be VAT on Private Healthcare?

After feeling smug ripping down a St George's flag on a motorway bridge on last week's bike ride, today's score was 3 Union Jacks (and getting honked at by a white van) on two different bridges. I'm going to keep track now.. #flags #reform

Is that actually a word? #Wordle 1,561 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟨⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Found a St George's flag on a bridge over a busy dual carriageway this morning. No one about so I ripped it down and got honked at by a few cars, either in favour of what I was doing or against, not sure. I respect a flag when I know who put it up and why, this one failed on both counts.

Satisfying streak on #phrazle. Always try for 3 goes, though don't always succeed..

So, no free speech then. BBC News - Trump says he will sue New York Times for $15bn www.bbc.com/news/article...

A friend just shares this about Saturday's hate march. #reform #march

There would have been many more arrests if they were holding "Palestine Action" signs. BBC News - Police hurt during Tommy Robinson's Unite the Kingdom rally in London - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

100-200 yards, single shot? Why wasn't this guy in Butler, Pennsylvania in July 2024?

Well let's see this drawing then

I hope those who complain about a BBC leftwing bias read this appallingly right wing biased piece: BBC News - Reform conference shows party's growing ambition like never before www.bbc.com/news/article...

Looks like a 560 day #duolingo French and Japanese streak is going to end. Like everyone I hate this "energy" change - you can effectively run out of hearts without making any mistakes. Really demoralizing. #changeitback

Why are Labour ministers held to much higher standards than Tories? If Rayner had to resign, why didn't about half the last Tory government? #rayner

I'm thinking "Pope at Easter" but maybe I'm being optimistic.. #trump people.com/donald-trump...

I can say with confidence I have never heard that phrase before. Nobody has ever applied it to me either 😆 Phrazle 1137: 3/6 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜ ⬜🟨🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟩🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle

Wondering if there's a German, or possibly Japanese word for the constant, slightly stressful feeling one experiences when watching a film with someone else holding the remote.

What's the betting that thanks to Trump's negotiating skills his attempts to get Putin to stop bombing Ukraine will result in the Russians regaining Alaska. #trump #putin #summit

I must have an email archive containing hundreds of old messages. Every so often I go to delete old emails and hit “archive” by mistake and they disappear. Where to I have no idea.

I'm quite sure Putin will run rings around Trump, who will give him anything he asks for and then claim some kind of amazing result, but we shall see. #ukraine #trump #putin

Good day so far.. #Worldle #1293 (06.08.2025) 1/6 (100%) 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉 Wordle 1,509 2/6 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #waffle1293 5/5 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⭐🟩⭐🟩 🟩🟩⭐🟩🟩 🟩⭐🟩⭐🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Roundle 1171 2/6 (London Subwaydle) 🟢⚪🟢 🟢🟢🟢 Phrazle 1103: 3/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle Connections Puzzle #787 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Now: semantle

#parenthood spiders. Jeepers.

That is not a word .. #wordle Wordle 1,497 4/6 🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Can someone do a "CEO caught in Kiss Cam at Coldplay" with with Trump and Epstein? Presumably the Cam will be the Wall St Journal. #trump #epstein

Never thought I'd side with Rupert Murdoch on anything and yet here we are. #trump #epstein

It may be just me, but every time I hear a news story starting with "The Queen", I immediately think "I thought she was dead".. #queen

This bill should be a lesson for the less-than-MAGA Republicans - you can't vote in favour to protect yourself while hoping someone else votes against. It doesn't work like that. You only defeat Trump (sorry, Miller) by opposition. #MAGA #PROJECT2025 #TRUMP

I couldn't play tennis in this heat. Mind you, I can't play tennis anyway. #wimbledon

#bobvylan has raised his profile considerably. I must admit rhyming -eff with -eth is a bit of a stretch but it hardly needs police involvement. #glasto #glastonbury

I know I’m a bloke and not interested in fashion, but I never understand things like this. What happened to last year’s clothes? I recently bought some new duds and don’t expect to have to buy any more for several years. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sign the petition to Keir Starmer: Oppose Trump's war on Iran stoptrump.org.uk/petition-tru...

If #trump says he's open to "regime change" in Iran, can I say I'm open to #regimechange in Israel and the US.

Just been asked by YouGov if I support or oppose British forces being used to destroy Iranian drones or missiles being fired at Israel. Obviously I put "strongly oppose", since there wasn't an "I don't support anyone bombing anyone else" option. Results will be interesting. #israel #iran #peace

Is nobody considering regime change in Israel? That'll help.. BBC News - Israel's endgame may be regime change in Iran - but it's a gamble www.bbc.com/news/article...

Give blood. You get free biscuits and everything..

Hopefully this leads to the nationalisation of Thames. And the BBC getting a new sub given two paragraphs are repeated.. Thames Water's future in doubt after investor pulls out www.bbc.com/news/article...

As a philosophy major who adored symbolic logic courses, this may be my favorite cartoon ever.

It's taken me to the Cinecon episode of #thestudio and James Dean's Porsche but aren't all Matt's cars those of famous movie stars? Also, whenever there's food around nobody eats any of it (except when it's full of dr*gs, obviously). If you're not watching it, you should be..

Having sat through tonight’s marathon of mediocrity I don’t understand how Australia’s “Milkshake Man” didn’t get through #eurovision

#albania #eurovision is that a nipple?

#sweden #eurovision disappointingly not silly enough. Anyone seen Hundreds of Beavers (and if you haven’t, you should)?

#portugal #eurovision staging lacks ambition. Maybe they could have dressed up?

#Italy #eurovision love child of Gene Simmonds and Iggy Pop

#eurovision #finland are sticky out hips a thing now? Liking the Flash Gordon Mike stand though

#eurovision #latvia best so far and slightly creepy. Which is good

#iceland #eurovision Minecraft rave

#austria #eurovision Wilson!

#eurovision #uk not heard this before. Hopefully I won’t hear it again, it’s awful and changes genre every 4 bars..

#spain #eurovision interesting start, quickly becoming generic europop.

#estonia #eurovision. Well, that was crap. Someone once watched an Oasis video