If I was a multi-billionaire, I'd be so so different. Fleet of yachts? Sure! But I'd *deserve* them.

What's "astonishing" is that you're allowing the far-right talking points to insulate the "debate" from the facts of the case. #r4today

If I wear a kilt, I can wear a sgein dubh in my sock. If I also have an eight inch dirk in my breast pocket, I can be arrested Presumably exactly the same goes for Sikh dress, covered by similar legislation. Everyone suggesting a restriction on the latter should be asked about the former. #wato

Farage makes a genuine Freudian slip in his nasty wee racism: instead of saying, as you do when something is evidently true, "proof, if proof were needed", *he* says "proof, if ever there was any". Because of how he knows there isn't any. #wato

When I was a teenager our family went to an RSC production which had allocated a larger than normal number of kids' tickets. During a soliloquy, there was a cough then laughter. The principal broke character and (in very patronising tones) said what behaviour he expected. THAT ruined the play. #wato

Very glad to live in a country that's not at ceasefire with Israel.

Ah, so in New Jersey it's *not* only the roads around the MetLife stadium which are dangerous to use.

The sgian dubh enjoys similar protection to the kirpan. Reform should be pressed on whether they'd be banning both ceremonial knives, or just the Sikh one; and if they mean the latter, exactly what distinction they'll be relying on.

I've watched the wild video claiming that because the European Mind can't comprehend this, we're indulging in "white supremacy". But while I'm certain the walk is extremely dangerous, is it definitely illegal?

Canicuuuuuuuuuuule! Please can we have this word too, please. Heatwave is both boring and just inadequate. #bbcpm

With World War III in the wings, it's nice to see they're already thinking ahead to IV and V.

The dispersal of Babel was God's second great crime against humanity, His creation and his plaything, after the expulsion from Eden. Our putative crimes were a desire for knowledge, and to be close to Him. Our punishment was death, pain, labour, hatred, division, sorrow, incomprehension and war.

Ok, what's your most luxurious pen?

I regret to inform you that the Google CEO did not, in fact, say that humans are insufficiently evolved to understand AI.

Ants are descended from wasps 🤯

Whenever you think it's unfair that left and right are held to different standards, consider your own feelings about the nature of the two men, Alan Milburn and IDS.

Huge bang in the kitchen, a few seconds later a trickling sound. tbh all sounded a bit expensive. Exploded beer can.

The (only) reason you pardon then pay insurrectionists is if you're going to need insurrectionists again.

Always driving numbers down... if we want to make language tests "more stringent", let's ditch English. We could require C2 Navajo together with B1 Akkadian, that should sort us out. #wato

particularly from the 22sec mark you have to ask - is Ben-Gvir Harry Enfield's darkest creation?

What was sold for £500,000 was presumably a *bookmark* pointing to a single instance of the Charlie meme. #r4today

The EU at its best has always been about consolidating progressive political and cultural gains in Europe. That's how it has secured peace and prosperity. As with Spain, Portugal and Greece, and the post-2000 accession members, what will qualify us is the future we want, not a past, regressive vote

My first thought was that this was Mike judging very well engagement with GBN viewers. Then realised it's a GBN camera catching a better converation now than public service broadcasting managed – with the rarest of exceptions – from 2015 to 2020.

Ah, "inside the Beltway", what days those were. #bbcpm

Really love what they've done with the Guardian App. Reading a story now is simple: click a link, get told you're not allowed, open the site in a browser, try to find the story, read it there. Thanks, the Guardian, it really is fine work you've done and will definitely boost income.

This corkscrew in Poland is the most Polish corkscrew I've ever been handed. The missing bottle opener was an insult to Poles and has rightly been removed, and the tool still offers multiple ways of popping off a crown cap, (as does every other item in the area).

Israel's spent a fortune making sure a whole continent every year hopes one of us will keep them in second.

Reguonal voting is a species-level embarrassment.

I very very rarely feel any sympathy for Xi, but my god.

If it's really the case that Starmer, Streeting and Burnham are cooperating on this for the good of party and country... it's quite impressive and entirely uncharacteristic of how they've managed politics until now.

The Bluenited States seems to like this a lot, but it's just more proof they've got to the stage where even their committees can't deal in facts and nuance. When everything is partisan showboating and sniping, the public is left with no democratic control of any actual governing.

Technology changes the world so quickly: for example, it used to be the case you shouldn't punch someone if they were wearing glasses, whereas now...

When Marylebone–Oxford opened it was cheap and time-competitive with the Paddington trains. Now it's not very cheap and takes an age, all the time stopping at more and more places which I'm fairly certain don't even exist.

Realised I've been going to see the Breughels in Brussels for more than a tenth of the time most of them have existed. The older you get, the closer the past becomes.

When the tragedy of the end of the US is finally written, the inability of its fourth estate to call a spade a spade is going to feature pretty high. They'd examine his six-weeks-dead corpse and "find little sign of a pulse" and "a distinct malodor" "hint heavily towards a negative prognosis".

Including "crosseyed stereograph" in a Google Nano prompt more often than not gives good 3d results.

Petrol may hit £1.16 a litre

This Berlin hotel website offers major international languages, as well as the languages of every neighbouring country... save one. Pathetic.

Garage Wall Under Questionable Roof

Anyone want a milky splash?

This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb There is no point preparing for aliens ‘because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.’ 🤣 www.war.gov/medialink/uf...

If only they'd met sooner...

Gen X are now rather older than the Baby Boomers were when "OK, Boomer" made its 2009 debut. Cheery thought.

A loan shark advertising with a leprechaun seems a bit on the nose, but I don't think all his attributes have travelled.

Thought I'd ask

Do love a bored Jesus

Met a little wolf in the forest. Hope that made its day like it made mine

It's funny Dawkins asks "If Claudia is not conscious, then what the hell is consciousness for?" but only for the title of his shallow essay. Dawkins knows Claudia isn't a (1st-order) naturally selected entity, whereas the question of the survival value of subjective consciousness is very interesting

I'm not sure I've ever felt particularly defensive of "Britain", and I'm not now... but this is like being described by someone you've never met, however often they say they've shared a room with you www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...