Contrarianism is a heck of a drug.

My mother, the biggest Star Wars fan I know, is finally watching Andor and I’m getting live messages every 5 minutes. Lovely stuff.

Well worth a watch IMO - addresses outright the 'gag reflex' many (especially the Left) feel when we're told about the need to help young white men in developed economies. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw1x...

One upside of Brexit for older generations is that they made it just that little bit harder for young people to leave the monetary milking parlour. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

England fans very much 'can I surprise you? I actually love drop kicking' today.

A woman in her 60s came up to me at the market in Arundel this morning to say that I looked like her husband when he was younger. She then proceeded to say ‘I wouldn’t let him leave the bedroom’, tapped me on the shoulder and walked off. Is there a helpline I can ring?

There's something within the inner workings of a microphone that transforms my stridently hyper-masculine, alpha tones into fay, ageing Michael Gambon.

There's a sound logic that no decent landlord has anything to worry about with this legislation, which is why in the UK there has been total outrage all over LinkedIn and the radio airways about it.

Can 48% sue 52%?

A rising trend among younger journalists is to contact you between 15.00-16.00 on any given to request a bespoke data set, a spokesperson call, and a case study for an article they're publishing... tomorrow at 9.00am. I want to help, but it's just largely impossible.

If I see a penny go to the WASPi women

Let’s be honest, both Reeves and Starmer were spooked this week, in part I suspect because they know they’re going down as one of the worst Labour pairings. Rather than fix the long-term issues they’re going to try and curry short-term favour with a nation & press that loathe them.

They've been banging on this Tory black hole, well, what was the point if you're not going to do anything to fix it?

I'm not saying my Transplant clinic are completely useless when it comes to booking, but they just rang me up to say they'd like to see me before January on either Monday morning at 6am or on the 24th December.

It's a morbidly fascinating story. I recall a few years ago the Russians were offering bounties for Somali pirates to anyone who fancied a go at amateur murderin'. Is there a Dark Web TUI that organises this stuff? www.bbc.com/news/article...

This kind of sentiment has everything to do with being young, doesn’t it? By no metric were the 70s a prosperous decade. It’s why you should never strike up a conversation with someone else’s group of friends in a pub, because they’ll go on about their school/ University years incessantly.

I jettisoned my Gilt pension funds last week; the first sensible financial decision I ever made it seems.

This is going to be the Republican line isn't it? To make a plea to the dark hearts of men - ''well, wouldn't you? She's pretty much an adult'' to debase everyone as part of the get out clause. Laws are for other people.

Nuremberg is a pretty 6/10 film (it's the script that needs a solid going over), but it features a decent scene where Michael Shannon takes Pope Pius XII to task. The Eichmann Show was far better on this subject matter.

I hear it was Trans.

This is not helping with my 'not all prominent British Right-wingers secretly crave open racism in their hearts' case.

PR emails along the lines of 'has our CEO ever said anything complimentary about Trump, Thiel, Gates etc' will absolutely be going out this morning

I think some of you might be missing a key recreational South American element to the way these emails have been written.

"Our master brewers have spent many months refining the recipe to ensure the taste remains unmistakably Foster's - crisp, balanced, and refreshing," the brewing giant said So they're still harvesting the piss of stray dogs then?

''So you voted in a paedophile for President''

I think we're actually going to have to build The Raft prison from the Marvel comics lads.

'Introducing our new columnist'

Not NOTED WEIRDO Peter Thiel!

It's hard to stress that when I'm looking for great Cider, the last thing I want to see is some nicely designed branding that bears the hallmarks of being a plaything of a second son (Exhibit A-Left). Rather, I'm absolutely going to opt for the bloke who looks like he drinks his own supply (Right).

Hitler... ONLY HAD ONE BALL?

Bad time to be Venezuela

Genuinely hilarious, the leaked dossier couldn't get it right either.

Does Mike Johnson even know where he is this morning?

Quite a big deal alert. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...

The American public have voted overwhelmingly for a nonce as President. Let that fact rot with them for a few years.

I see your Da’ has broken up with his new girlfriend.

It’s here.

New Labour took away our beloved country sports.

From the newspaper who hailed Liz Truss as a conquering hero and praised her catastrophic, nation crippling budget a work of genius.

Lord Bamford of JCB & £6 Daylesford Carrots there. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I mean Gary Fairful's place was around in the late 90s, I'd argue that the area from Shoreditch to Bethnal Green really attracted the crowds around 2003-4 with the investment money arriving in 2009+.

Wes Streeting is like a Mormon Alan Carr.

Not a foot wrong.

Won £10.80 on the Euromillions lads.

*Googles 'apartments Valencia'*

If I were attacking the Government right now, I'd be far more focused on the 5 million unemployed figure, not to mention the fact that on the day the figures were released, the Government onboarded an Open AI shareholder (alleged) at a time where entry-level jobs are being wiped off the map.

Speaking to a chap from Plymouth who gets the St Malo ferry once a week and then a connecting train SNCF express to Paris, which admittedly sounds nicer than heading to Heathrow.

Reform as a party reminds me a lot of the SNP, an incredibly broad coalition of oddbods held together by a single issue (immigration/race in this instance), with almost no party message discipline outside of a staunchly Thatcherite HQ.