Unlike its members this group never gets old go.bsky.app/B5X2Tsg

Daughter told me a boy banged his head at school and got percussion

I would love it if he beat this

The school canteen has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever

I’ve had several pretty minor reasons to contact my doctors surgery in the past few weeks. The tech worked, it was quite efficient and I got good treatment. I feel like post pandemic chaos has ebbed somewhat.

Spending a lot of today sending folk messages and then about ten minutes later writing ‘oh err happy new year’

Cummerbund and vest is the look for 2026 apparently.

The man standing on the left of Boyzone looks like an ageing Maitre D’ at a restaurant serving a really rather well renowned Tournedos Rossini who particularly enjoys his role dishing up Crepe Suzette whenever the older lady customers order it.

Excellent to get the Everton 1995 FA cup song into the new year fireworks 💪

Reijnders scored either side of Christmas. Busy time for him.

CCHQ’s new Christmas screwball comedy

Didn’t we watch Goodfellas recently? Did we? Yeh, we watched it you know the one… ‘Oh the one with Joe Pasquale?’ ‘….’

Half Ma’am Half Brisket

Reijnders getting on the scoresheet just before Christmas I see

Implausibly … Supergrass

Florence and the machine was my guess, but I think she was probably early October (I have no idea who has been on Kimmel, Just a big fan of Florence)

Kajagoogoo 😉

Don’t google it. Name a British musical act that appeared on the Jimmy Kimmel show in September of this year. You will never guess it.

Just listened to a podcast - an interview with a well known author and academic (in his field at least) and at the end the presenter - also an academic read out a list of donors who had funded the guests ‘speaking fee’. That’s a new one on me.

With the Arsenal and Everton results today - a massive swing in the title race

The press conferences at the World Cup are going to be edgy - famously the only thing more sleazy than the British Tabloids are the Panama papers

This is what happens when you play your kids ‘Blueberry Hill’ by Fats Domino every time you give them blueberries.

👀👀👀👀

Absolutely hilarious

I did say he’d be gone by Christmas. And you all laughed.

My last job in my brief stay as adviser to the then shadow Home Secretary was to stay up til gone 1am writing amendments to the absurd bill which brought in Police and Crime Commissioners. All of which work a colleague then got the full benefit of after the reshuffle. I won’t miss them.

There’s a coffee shop near my office that offers a ‘mild’ coffee option, a ‘bold’ but charges £1 extra for the ‘balanced’ option no matter what it is. This is what polarisation looks like.

That Lloyds bank ad which estimates your age…. Yesterday it got me about right. Today, I’ve had a shave and done my hair. It’s knocked 10 Literally 10 years off me. Might be a while before age estimation tech is foolproof.

I think we all agree that Andrew shouldn’t be able to call himself Mountbatten either and should revert to Battenberg.

I thought absolutely nobody from the cabinet would have a chance in this election. This is an exceptional showing for Bridget. And the fact that both candidates were fairly moderate and the ‘leadership’ candidate nearly won a sign that the Labour has substantially changed from the late 2010s

In the last 24 hours I have been invited to speak to an event by post and had a large organisation ring my office landline to ask to for a ticket to one of our events. Hello 1993.

I saw @jim.londoncentric.media the evening he conducted this interview and he had the faraway look of someone who had seen things beyond normal comprehension. It doesn’t disappoint. Mafia Snails…. www.londoncentric.media/p/terry-ball...

If someone offers to serve me Pepsi products I will simply assume They want to get rid of me

This is a real marmalade dropper

How does World Economist Day inspire the next generation of economists? Well, first let us assume that economists are inspired by world economist day…

Feef Fife Fo Fum

What an absolute pleasure to join @roberthutton.co.uk and @duncanweldon.bsky.social on their podcast to talk films, the French resistance and the ultimate defeat of Nazis. open.spotify.com/episode/6JqG...

This was so much fun recording and just listening back to …. Thanks @roberthutton.co.uk and @duncanweldon.bsky.social for having me along!

This by @samfr.bsky.social is both thoughtful and thought provoking on why Labour still goes after its ‘reform curious’ voters despite it being hard. But some thoughts in response. 1/… open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/i...

When the global financial crisis hit my main reaction was ‘oh shit what happened after the 1929 crash…’ So as a Jew and a child of Holocaust survivors I don’t feel less safe these days because I haven’t felt safe for decades.

Chelsea beating Liverpool today sends a real message - you can’t just buy success in the Premier League. You need a team with a history, with a community spirit.

got fed up of paying for £ glasses and decided to go for Specsavers. Advertising works. Months later I am sat in something more overcrowded than a doctors waiting room, waiting for hours to see someone who can finally give me the glasses which were no cheaper than the last pair I bought elsewhere.

My Granny who I had met just once at that point and lived in South Africa sent me a VHS tape of this National Geographic documentary about Jane Goodall when I was maybe 6 years old. It had a profound impact on me and I watched it over and again. Thinking of both of them. youtu.be/Bp83FDSs-cg?...

‘I’ll cut the half time oranges, not the NHS’

Cutting the half time orange.

I was into fiscal rules before it was cool

All these people doing a Gold Standard apprenticeship …. We will have a huge number of experts in 1920s monetary policy.

Keir is on those frigates so often they’re going to need a bigger boat