I mean, we knew this was coming. The heavy hints before the election were clearly Labour blowing smoke up our arses.

Meh, I’ve looked worse.

If Labour had a spine, a windfall tax would get this money back. But they don’t.

I adore how prop designers in soaps have all, universally, never seen a newspaper before and have no idea what one looks like.

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

First objective of this stay complete (Tomáš, 24). Now it’s just tomorrow’s wedding to get through.

Hotel TV is locked down, which is logical for them but should be accompanied by a plan to retune Freeview occasionally. Or indeed ever. This one’s last retune was c2022, judging by the channel list.

Corporate but functional.

*enters hotel room, immediately engays it*

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals. Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’. What, Michelle? 🧵

Network Rail hi-vis is pleasingly flattering on the bums of the track workers.

Train 3 of 3 is very purple, rattles like pill bottle and goes to all the places I’ve never heard of like Tutbury and Carlton before terminating at Newark Castle, which is both the worst Newark and the worst castle.

Now at Crewe awaiting my Derby train. Big cloud of diesel fumes enveloping the place.

Oh, these? Ya, organic and GMO free, I bought them from goblin men and they’re delicious.

I’m on a train with four young activists returning from the Labour conference. They’re very well-spoken and passionate and… they know *nothing*. They’re constantly asking each other obvious and easy questions about politics and life and getting the answers profoundly wrong.

Train 1 of 3.

(solemnly) You've had mail.

Well, to be honest, I didn’t suspect anything sinister in your Growlr message until you mentioned it not being sinister.

Call me a prude if you want to, but I do think it's really weird to use your conference speech to list your favourite wanking euphemisms

Rude.

Wedding hat.

academy award contending tiktok

Launch night of the new BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 2. Kenneth Horne takes us through what you can expect from the two new networks. Music edited out - in places, literally with scissors at the time, we were kids. Also gone is the Michael Parkinson sports monologue. Sorry.

Cozying up to fascists never ends well. If anyone should know that, it should be the ADL.

Chris Spargo's latest video, about the Ordnance Survey, is great, and not just because hubba hubba Science Museum expert man. But a lot because of him, yes.

Tried on my kilt for Thursday's straight wedding (I'm fine with it, but why do they feel the need to be so public about it?) and... well, today was day one of two days of only having Slimfast for dinner.

I finally cleaned up my messy cablework

The White House Deputy Press Secretary looked at this graph and thought "those grey bars are totally fine, everyone will understand that only the yellow ones are a problem".

We have hit 80,000 members 💚 📈 And we’re only growing, join the movement 👉 join.greenparty.org.uk

And with that, Project Look-out is over (except for my husband doing the actual posting part over the coming 4 days) and I WILL NEVER POST ANYTHING AGAIN.*

Please, you're the Guardian, the home of cultural snobbery. It never went away.

Could someone at the BBC please put a shilling in the Genome meter?

My shower gives a very slight hint that this is a gay household.

I know I kill watches, so this is ultimately a waste of £110, but I’m now the owner of a secondhand Apple Watch 6.

First they came for George Galloway, and I said nothing because it’s George Galloway I mean seriously it’s George Galloway how can you be bothered to be bothered about that.

"Baird grabbed the startled William Taynton and hustled him upstairs." I BET YOU DID BAIRD YOU DIRTY OLD BOLLOCKS. I BET YOU FUCKING DID.

Blanco’d my come-fuck-me boots against the straight wedding (hate the sin, love the sinner) I’m going to in Derby next week.

How... How sexy is he ?

👇

Having not got on with the first series of BBC Three's Juice, I still watched the second. And it was marvellous. Funny, sexy, lovely. And a great and poignant ending.

Yes sir we're chanting "Release the Earhart Files"

Watching YT and one of the ads was an AI deep fake news report about Kier Starmer being attacked in public. So you know all those announcements about YT being all over banning AI is absolute bollocks.

The kids get it.

Why mandatory digital ID cards - a policy no one voted for - are an attack on civil liberties, won’t tackle irregular employment and will only play into Reform’s hands: 👇🏽

One million people have already signed a petition against ID cards. If we’re serious about rebuilding trust, this is the last place to start. It's like deciding to become a pacifist and then walking into your roughest local pub and knocking everyone's pints out of their hands.

“Think back to your childhood. Do you remember when the anxiety started?"

Leaving aside the stupendous costs of this nonsense, the immediate way it will be abused by the police – because it WILL be abused by the police – is that they will use it to stop and intimidate non-white, non-straight and non-cis people.

A little blog about how Merseyrail has finally got maps on the trains, but unfortunately, they're hopeless. www.merseytart.com/2025/09/be-c...