Yes.

Amazon are partnering with Comic Relief to sell their red noses. Last year Comic Relief raised £34 million which is how much Jeff Bezos makes in six hours. Dig deep everyone.

One minor point: I really hate the romanticisation of the Wars of the Roses and the English Civil War as ‘Roundheads and Cavaliers’. Two immensely brutal and incredibly bloody conflicts reduced to pretty symbols.

Wow, a collector's piece. Chris Mason seems to have written a positive article about Starmer. Can't be sure though, a lot of it's hard to read where tears have caused the ink to smudge. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Brilliant I don’t know who did this but it’s so good! #NUFC

It's like looking at the RSVPs to a Lord Mandelson birthday bash

"I have a report saying that he has unsightly scarring on his neck, a massive bruise on the back of his hand, massive cankles and his cognitive ability is massively impaired......no wait, that's not the Ayatollah's medical report"

the creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to stop doing culture wars about which one should go on the banknotes

Starmer to explain about the Mandelson affair today. Maybe he should use the Farage excuse of "I should not be expected to know about everything that happens in my party". Let's see if they let him get away with the 'big boy did it and ran away' excuse like they do for Farage.

Breaking news: Churchill to be removed from UK banknotes. In unrelated news: There are numerous reports across the UK of exploding gammon.

When Trump changed the name to the Dept of War, most of us (me included) still thought it was just silly posturing. When somebody tells you who they are the first time,...................

Farage announces that Reform will reduce car fuel duty by 5p per litre if elected. Farage does not announce that he is a fervent supporter of Donald Trump and his war that has caused the recent hike in petrol prices.

How the hell have people like Lammy, Mahmood, Reeves and Streeting ended up in the Labour Party? There's not even a pretence of anything left wing about them any more. www.ft.com/content/f809...

The same numpties who clutched their pearls at the prospect of the UK joining a European army are now having conniptions because we refuse to put our servicemen on the front line in Mango Mussolini's illegal war

Really glad that neither of my sons chose a career in the military because there is a significant rump of people in this country that would be shrieking for them to be sent into danger, to support an illegal war fomented by criminal leaders who are not our allies

Cricket was the name of the puppy that Kristi Noem murdered.

If I was @zackpolanski.bsky.social, I would be pointing out to the BBC that whatever model they use to justify giving Farage & his boot-lickers season tickets for every BBC show under the sun must surely now treat Green Party politicians in exactly the same way. Might even be one for the lawyers...

‘Mum. Look here! It’s another instalment from Isabel Oakeshott. Today she’s telling us how brave her au pair was in cooking the family’s Native lobster, roasted heritage carrots and buttermilk purée whilst being bombarded by enemy missiles…’

The latest YouGov poll 🔵 RefUK 23% 🟢 GRN 21%✅️ 🔴 LAB 16% 🔵 CON 16% 🟡 LDEM 14% ✳️ It isn't just Greens in relation to Labour that's important here. The positive campaign of the Greens has also weakened Ref/Con. For a long time, they were constantly on 48% together. Now Ref/Con are down to just 39%

"We called London a war zone and moved to Dubai by mistake"

The choice is stark. Reform are the party of foreign wars and high bills. The Greens want de-escalation and energy security through renewables. Solar and wind prices don't fluctuate when rogue US presidents launch illegal bombing campaigns.

Ooof

OK. Who gave Hegseth the keys to the drinks cupboard? To say in the same speech "This is America first" and "We will take care of our allies" Makes no sense whatsoever.

Islamophobic meme wars MAGA and UK offshoots in Reform desperately trying to connect Trump’s war against Iran with domestic British Muslim communities. But they are 85% Sunni and the 15% Shia is filled with Iranians who fled the Ayatollahs. It’s just racist ignorance, isn’t it?

Reform lost the Gorton & Denton by-election Reform candidate, Matt Goodwin, was beaten by the local plumber, and Green candidate Hannah Spencer She literally stopped the cock

Sooner or later Trump’s going to stop boasting about all the wars he's ended and start boasting about all the wars he's started instead.

The “why won’t this fucking drawer open” starter pack.

I haven't yet understood neo-liberal. They're not new and they're certainly not liberal.

Following the reports of the electoral disaster in Gorton and Denton, we have provided below a website that relatives of Chris Mason can contact for help. www.faragesockpuppet.tit

SOTU 2026

Drug deaths have risen every year for 13 years. That’s 13 years of a failed “war on drugs”. Labour should be looking at legalisation, control and regulation - not playing politics with people’s lives. This is a public health crisis. Treat it like one. Not a game.

They noticed!

I believe Farage's Reform Party is beginning to collapse for much the same reason that UKIP did. They struggle to assemble enough viable candidates who stand up to scrutiny when in the spotlight for any length of time. Goodwin is a prime example, a man parachuted in with no attachment to the area

I see the three dissenters on this SCOTUS ruling are the three utter shitehawks. That is of course a technical term.

Anyone watching Small Prophets? Unusual, gentle and beautiful ❤️

So faced with a winnable election in a previously safe Labour seat Nigel Farage picked: - A Tommy Robinson-backed oddball, with a history of racism and alleged sexual harassment - A holocaust-denying campaign manager who said he would "never touch a Jewish woman" Reform is not a serious operation

Let’s not pretend that Andrew’s activities are separate from his royal status. The whole concept of royalty is based on undeserved privilege, lack of accountability, luxury and hedonism, and the idea that others are beneath you, and can be used.

Received 2 identical letters this morning (20th Feb) confirming my hospital appointment for 16th February. Posted on 11th February. My mail seems to be delivered in batches once a week, rest of the days I get nothing. Postal system is a joke. Royal Mail should be renationalised

I wish it were true that "no one is above the law". But while the City of London acts as laundromat for the world's dirty money, as almost all fraud and waste crime go unprosecuted, as no one has gone to jail for the financial crash or the poisoning of our rivers, this is manifestly untrue.

I never understand why Christians don't get this.

"Debate Me"

Uncharacteristically mild wording from Ian but unerringly accurate as always.

The one thread that runs through the mindsets of people like Mandelson, when exposed in scandals They all believe they are victims of misfortune, rather than of their own greed and stupidity.

The myth of ‘Starmer the decent man, victim of rogues around him’ has some clear parallels with the equivalent myth of ‘Boris the decent chap, misled by Cummings (Iago) then Carrie (Lady Macbeth)’.

Yes, it should.

Imagine Mandelson is under a lot of stress right now so just as well his husband is a trained osteopath.

They want us working earlier and til we die to pay for their tax cuts for the rich. Supervillains.