You know, I'm getting the impression this #MorganMcSweeney chappy may not be a genius after all.... BBC News - 'Head in hands': Labour ministers fume at No 10's self-inflicted chaos - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What a ridiculous man. What a ridiculous country to worship him. BBC News - Trump says he will take legal action against BBC over Panorama edit www.bbc.com/news/article...

Revelling in #HaymansWay from #STV - stunning, stirring north of #Scotland landscapes that leave you in awe and wonder. Genuinely beautiful television.

There's a bleak strand of #conservatism that relishes misery as virtue. They are very odd people. And if you *really* wanted to make your council more efficient you'd tell everyone to work from home and sell the offices. Being conservatives, to your mates probably. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Re #Trump and the BBC, threatening billion dollar suits is what this appalling man does, regularly. The BBC edits on Panorama *were* disgraceful. The BBC has apologised, heads have rolled. Probably more should. That ought to be an end to it. The idea his reputation is affected is laughable.

Yes the #Trump edits were wrong and frankly disgraceful journalism (they needn't have spliced, just made clear what the wouldbe dictator and anti-democrat meant, which was plain enough) but...the DG and Head of News sucking up to the Orange Idiot by *resigning*? Nuts.

Let me just say here how very, very much I loathe, hate, oppose and detest the #ASDA Christmas advert. Message ends...

Watching #TomHanks in #AManCalledOtto - which I missed when it first came out - and it is just brilliant, isn't it? The man's a brilliant actor.

Received with a bundle of minor prints was this tired old election poster from 1859 from one Thonas Hawkins. The line 'I smote the dogs of faction dumb' is wonderful.

Go to the BBC website - the big buddies of #Reform - and search for stories about the party. This is what you get. I haven't edited out anything. It isn't a party. It's a bad joke.

Any thoughts on who signed a pastel drawing like this in 1927? Struggling to read the name - likely a French artist or resident in France.

Brilliant little wine bar. Pure joy - good wine, good cheese, charcuterie, good quiet ambiance. And it is in #Venice. Joy multiplied. www.lasetevenezia.com

'A report from His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service said 262 prisoners in England and Wales were released in error between April 2024 and March 2025'. Good grief. www.bbc.com/news/article...

As a teenager I loved these and other #BryanMagee programmes - two #philosophers discussing complex, important ideas. No shouting. No intrusive graphics. No 'celebs'. No faux competition. We were trusted with difficulty. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002kx5p via @bbciplayer

The old 'keep them guessing' game - showing 'delayed' at the station but *actually* 'cancelled'. #Train companies, just stop lying.

Clearly #London is so crime free, with no white collar fraud, no corporate crime, no gang violence, no robbery and no thuggery that the authorities can deal with the *real* menace in our capital - the coffee dregs disposal fiends. www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...

Question about #AI: We know some #AItools 'hallucinate' sources, but could an #AIengine go further and cover tracks by creating those (erroneous) sources to 'make' something true?

Next year will be ten years away from that stupid #Brexit vote, and the thought that a Chancellor of the Exchequer saying this is at all controversial is nuts. BBC News - Chancellor says Brexit deal caused long-term damage to economy www.bbc.com/news/article...

#America, each day a new low from #Trump. Here's new low 187,698...How on earth can you stand this? BBC News - 'Have a great life!' Trump orders prison release of disgraced ex-lawmaker Santos www.bbc.com/news/article...

Col. Robert Goff...but did Robert Goff *really* make etchings of peacocks?

#Watercolour sketch with a tiny amount of pencil underdrawing attributed to #WilliamLeightonLeitch (1804-1883).

Victorian #watercolour by #AndrewBrandishHolte (1829-1907)

Annoys me every time I see it: 'While stocks last' or 'While stock lasts' but 'While stock last' is...grrrrr!

Watch the sleight of hand on immigration from the #rightwing. 1. It's not unreasonable to want to some controls on #immigration. 2. It's racist to want to have them based on the colour of someone's skin or to deport people for the same reason. How often does 1 slide into 2? Every d***ed time.

Astonished at the number of 25 year old Henriettas and Ruperts showing history video content on #Instagram, plainly convincing themselves at least they are the next #LucyWorsley.

Poster on a British train. #NewYork, I admire your gumption but 'Everything you love' for most of us doesn't include raiding our phones in case we've said naughty things about an ageing orange blob with a liar reflex. Brits are not going to the #BigApple until that thing goes.

Well of course she'd cut university places. She's competing on misery and hate with Farage. Source: Times Higher Education search.app/Qk6Ut

Nice to see long queues for #flu jabs in #Wokingham. There are fewer barking mad anti-science conspiracy nutters than the media portrays. #scienceworks.

Absurd. Update the National Security Act 2023 with a new definition of the crime of espionage as 'activity involving the passing of secret information by any individual to any foreign power'. www.bbc.com/news/article...

How on earth can protesting be 'un-British'? What, for goodness sake, does that even mean? The man's taken leave of his senses. He's aiming to alienate everyone. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The rape of the #countryside around #Wokingham continues as councils pursue the all too obvious plan of creating a massive Wokingham - #Bracknell conurbation. Horrid.

The most unnerving thing found lying about in my bathroom this morning...

What proportion of #ICE 'agents'(if they are indeed ICE and not #ProudBoys masked up) are female in these videos? Pretty much zero? #ToxicMasculinity field trip.

If #Lemsip made #icecream. @benandjerrys.bsky.social, this is a big thumbs down.

Screaming child on my train - high pitched, high volume - and the parents are making zero effort to stop it. I sense they don't know how...

The number of suggestions following in the comments on this show that @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com is absolutely on the money (excuse the pun) here. Small is beautiful - and, given #Starmer finds it difficult to do *anything* without annoying lots of people he can't afford to upset, sensible.

Certifiably insane. We all have to buy US chairs now? Look, I know he'll back down, forget, change it to 'tariffs on Sweden only' or go off on another mad 'invade X!' rant, but #America, you gave us this idiot. It's your job to get rid of him.

Well done the European team. Winning the #RyderCup despite the unsporting catcalls, shouting, hectoring noise from boisterous #MAGA -lite #US 'fans' is well deserved. Decency won. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/golf/a...

This ridiculous 'hey' thing as a greeting is now in almost every UK TV programme. Can we be clear - hay is cut dried animal food. It is not a way of saying hello.

After 14 long years of corrupt, headline-focused, anti-liberal policy ftom the #Tory party I wished #Labour well. But what's their programme? All fathers to be toolmakers? I don't get it: how can you be in opposition for 14 years and have nothing but knee-jerk policy? How?

Reading 'Sketches by Boz' again for the first time in years and finding #CharlesDickens is an insufferable pr**k. He scoffs at everyone, the pathetic little twerp. Creations based on real people, invented to make that pipsqueak look good. Yes, by gum he can write - but he's still a stuck up pr**k.

Watching #TheChelseaDetective: 'There's a pub where deaf people hangout...'. What, all of us?

Mr #Starmer, what do you stand for? Please tell me, because all I am getting is, 1. votes of ageing hate-fuelled curmudgeons 2. something unbelievably vague about growth and 'leading' stuff internationally 3. nice hair. *That's* what comes across.

Just scrolling here and seeing #Trump madness in detentions, indictments against people he doesn't like, purges, threats of sackings of people who don't like him and even changes to import rules to stop products he doesn't like. #Trump, you're insane.

These are just some of the dates predicted for the ending of the world, the Second Coming or #Rapture. You'd think they'd learn, wouldn't you? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

Reliving my teenage years and watching #AJPTaylor 's 'prepared but extemporary' TV lectures. For years I thought this was miraculous rather than a party trick. Still, it was the mode by which I revised my A Levels: genuinely extemporary lectures to myself! www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p009bhtp

Watching this rather good documentary about #PaulineBoty. Sixties #popart isn't really for me, but I've always thought of Boty as the cleverest, most original of artists. Such a loss for British art. Pauline Boty: I Am the Sixties: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0028nyw via @bbciplayer

#MI6, let's stop 'turning the other cheek' and start to 'do unto others as they would do unto you'. Let's use all means to disrupt this criminal state - from disinformation to cyberattacks, infrastructure disruption to jamming, traps to extortion, rumours to plants. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Look, it'll be #Russia - directly or indirectly via paid hackers - doing this so can we, for once, retaliate and snuff out their own systems? Just for once take the gloves off. BBC News - Heathrow cyber-attack: Delays after airport check-in system hit - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...