Free the modern Godiva

This fucking court won’t let ANYTHING self-identify

Jayapal asks Epstein survivors in hearing room to stand and raise hands if they still haven't been able to meet with Bondi's DOJ. Every single one of them doe. Jayapal then gives Bondi an opportunity to apologize. She responds by trying to attack Jayapal and Merrick Garland but doesn't apologize.

I might play a drinking game the next time Tom does a tutoring session Macbeth! Shot! Great chain of being! Shot! "What does that mean to you?" Shot!

Well now, that’s a statistic: In 1956, 61% of girls and women aged 16-19 who married in Scotland were pregnant on their wedding days.

Say a rotisserie chicken costs....$10. For a realistic chance of owning a flat these Extremely Young Irresponsible People (some of them are like...45) would need a deposit of about....$50k. That's 5000 luxurious rotisserie chickens. Let the graduates with zero hope have a nice little treat.

More Gorton and Denton nonsense: Reform have cancelled a hustings because they were unable to get a private green room. #ManOfThePeople

I shaved my chest last night on a whim and it feels SO soft, I'm very divided on it. It's definitely shown my place in the itty bitty titty committee 😭

Oh fun a power surge just happened and knocked out everyone in Edgeley's burglar alarms

BREAKING | Starmer’s paedophile-linked peer and former comms chief quits Labour Party trib.al/B3DT9BW

Things are still surfacing. Plus six men whose names have been kept secret, for reasons not disclosed.

Getting really tired of "this is all a media concoction"... Starmer has the lowest approval rating of any PM in history bar Truss. Senior ministers are openly and unsubtly positioning. His Chief of Staff, Director of Comms and Cab Sec have all resigned on the same day. I mean come on...

Going from Amsterdam where almost everything works perfectly fine to the UK where very little works at all is really stark. Not a single drink vending machine I've passed since landing actually works. We don't seem to be able to do the basics right.

shot, chaser, post nut clarity

Even the LLMs are mocking Starmer.

He’s still a transphobic weasel who should not be trusted

Locked in? No sorry honey I'm locked out. Forgot me keys.

Morning. A reminder that the names will continue to change with regularity in UK politics until leaders realise that there are no easy solutions and that difficult choices have to be made and justified.

It pains me to admit, the Dutch are right about mayonnaise

I've found a bar where the wine is significantly cheaper than the beer so I'm going to be wine drunk tonight it seems

Only two of these vehicles are practical for Amsterdam

Manchester airport confiscated my corkscrew keyring. What am I going to do with that, have a silly little pinot?

You tell me.

What is the point of Keir Starmer staying as prime minister?

Um?

Wes Streeting wants people to forget. Never let him forget.

What a shit pour. I could do better half cut with my eyes closed and no hands.

Never ask for feedback on your writing if you don’t want feedback on your writing.

so crazy to me that a woman asked trump if he has any words for epstein's victims and he said "you as a young woman should smile more." it will go nowhere bc republicans refuse to hold trump accountable, but it's still pretty crazy.

Streeting says the PM is going for max transparency & will publish everything on Mandelsons appointment as ambassador, but then adds they will not release any info that [they say] compromises national security or undermine relations with other countries So not transparent at all

It's Elmo's birthday

The fact this little witch sold her soul for a knockoff green card and protection for her nonce husband is despicable and I hope she spends the rest of her life in irrelevance along with the barbs too brainless to bail years too late

I'm incredibly worried about reactionary responses to the Epstein files that do not target the powerful and instead make things worse for victims. Florida has already passed the death penalty for people who assault kids under 12. Evidence shows that makes kids less likely to report, harming victims

A plague of locusts spotted in the northern quarter

The powerful front page of the reformist newspaper Sazandegi features the names of 3,000 individuals who, according to government reports, were killed during the protests in Iran. #Iran #IranProtests2026

Very important and detailed peer-reviewed critique of the Sullivan Review.

I like to call this "doing a Biden". Pretending you're just another Joe Public who wants something to happen and not the leader of the nation with the power to make it happen

Hopefully it's not too unpopular opinion to think that public transport is vastly more important than anything to do with horses. Flipping boomers and nimbys who no doubt drive everywhere, get stuffed.

I've just realised I'm not working a full week this month. Gorgeous.

Um, no

"Newly released body camera footage of the fatal police shooting of Roberto Calvario Jr. in West Ridge late last year 'contradicts the narrative' put forth by the police department." "[T]he officers' actions — not Calvario's — 'posed a threat to the community.'" #Illinois #USA #Policing

These allegations are incredibly serious, it is now only right that the police investigate Peter Mandelson for potential misconduct in public office.

Abolish the Lords and the monarchy. How many times does the failure of these institutions need to be highlighted.

If only we could vote out people we don't like

I would just reiterate, that it seems unlikely that I, Just A Guy, A Regular Guy, knew more in-depth detail about Peter Mandelson's links to Jeffrey Epstein than the Prime Minister off the United Kingdom who was at the time considering appointing him as Ambassador to the United States.

Really not a good news week for the Labour Party. They promoted someone back into government roles that they knew was friends with a paedophile and had shared government info with that paedo. They made him a Lord. Additionally a former labour MP and mayor is arrested over yet more rape accusations

The amount of misogyny being directed at the Green Party's candidate in Gorton and Denton is genuinely shocking. I never expect good things from Reform louts but bloody hell.

Nobody in Britain pays any attention to Australian politics, but One Nation overtaking the Coalition in the polls has distinct parallels with Reform leading the Conservatives. Parties on the radical right are coming for centre right parties across the world... Poll via AFR / RedBridge Accent.