The irony here is that New Mills used to elect Lib Dem councillors back when Labour were winning overall control of Derbyshire - now Anne Clarke is one of only 3 Labour councillors. Little of what I thought I knew about elections 15 years ago is still true now.

Charing Cross Road, pedestrianised today. Glorious. Because whenever you take cars away, cities get better.

They are going to Thai the knot?

But you're not joining Bluesky though?

This an April Fools'?

So considerate of the snow in the UK to choose to come late in the evening on Saturday, and early in the morning on Sunday - so as to minimise the disruption caused.

But it is a good excuse to stop working for an hour.

Really coming down to the wire on this one.

To be honest - I much preferred his brother, especially in Cool Runnings.

America has itself it's very own Daniel Khalife.

when the shooter is named Luigi Mangione

It's not even called fall - I think you mean autumn.

This might be the most Daily Telegraph, Daily Telegraph article ever

It's a tricky award this year for the Spectator really. You see, Keir Starmer took his party from one of its worst results of all time to a landslide majority. Ed Davey multiplied his party's seats by a factor of 9. Nigel Farage put his party on the map in a way it hadn't been before. Who to pick

💨 That's like winning by 30 votes in a parliamentary election here in the UK.

I've actually just done some matrix multiplication on some scrap paper - and if the for/against breakdown within each party had remained the same, but the vote were held following the 2019 election rather than the 2024 one, the result would have been approximately 215 for and 394 against.

Says a lot that about 90% of the traffic I’m seeing on X right now is absolutely convinced the British govt is about to embark on a mass programme of state murder of the elderly and vulnerable. What was until recently the town square of politics has become the preserve of the bad, mad and deranged.

Unless it's a dystopian film about nuclear war?

My goodness, this headline is actually real.

I have sympathy. I remember being in Waterstones once and seeing a women at a table looking quite bored and a little bereft, needless to say no queue at this table. I think the industry has the same problem as others, people only get out of bed for superstars and don't appreciate the others.

John Prescott arriving in heaven

For those too young to remember John Prescott imagine Angela Rayner except she's male/overweight plus Starmer and Reeves are really good at politics but hate each other + she has to stop them fighting all the time.

Ayup.

😭

Is water still wet, or are we using that dry product now?

Have to say it's astonishing how Bluesky is growing and how nice it is to use...first app I go to I go on "the other place" intermittently....mainly just to wind up the wrong 'uns.... I do enjoy that Post something to get them going (too easy 👍🏼) and then don't read any of the comments 😂 Naughty

Narrator voice: “Little did he know…”

Isn't it supposed to be the other way around? Aren't we normally getting mad at the government for being economical with the truth? I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out some of them actually got paid to go.

Is Nutella woke?

You've got to hand it to them - these graffiti artists in #Stockport have a good sense of humour.

While we’re all complaining, can we add a Drafts section?

Do you know how dark Twitter has to be for *STEPHEN KING* to say it’s too dark

Does this account seem legit everyone? #tennis #atp #federer #sport #Switzerland

In my case - I'd just make it so that my code worked.

Here's a damming indictment of the two-tier pricing model employed by most UK supermarkets. 1/4

Hopefully some of us can get off at Southampton.

I apologise in advance for criticising #bluesky so soon - but re the UI is anyone else finding that the X function in the search bar doesn't do anything, and actually the only way to clear it is to backspace everything on your keyboard? #app #help

For my first ever post on here, I want to put on record just how refreshing it was to receive a notification that I had my first follower, and on closer inspection see that it was in fact a real human being, and not just a porn bot. That's what I appreciate.