This is great, generally, but if I'm reading it correctly, then the only bit of Ferry Road left as 30 mph is where the social housing is and FFS 🙄

Made a meal for tonight's dinner I've been making since I made it with my mum's Spong Mincer when I was four and managed to miss out one of the key ingredients (an onion) 🙄 (It's Delia Smith's rissoles from her Complete Cookery Course, if you're wondering)

An absolute kicker at the end of this excellent @theifs.bsky.social summary - the increase in the Income Tax Personal Allowance (a tax cut) led to poverty increasing! ifs.org.uk/articles/why...

The tit-bit about TRAC in here (I'm almost tempted to hunt out the report to check if this is the case) - I reckon it's because we're so horrifically bad at accurately estimating the time we'll spend on any task

This whole Streeting vs Starmer story is such a Westminster bubble inanity from a bored media class that has gotten addicted to toppling governments and abdicated any responsibility for what they're actually meant to be doing in a healthy society

*stands to attention for the national anthem of Gaylandia* We left church after our marriage to this being played by a small band 😁🌈

A leftie dilemma - do I give my support to the picket line outside our friendly neighbourhood arms manufacturer? 🤔

Given I knew 20-year-old Wes Streeting, I really don't think I'll be able to cope if he ends up as PM

Local Housing Allowance rates have been realigned to market rents in just two of the last 13 years. Current Government policy is for them to remain frozen . This risks a record 'affordability gap' opening between LHA rates and the 30th percentile of local rents. ➡️ buff.ly/gJR1hmO

Emily Maitlis brags about her, Deb Cohen, and Hannah Barnes getting the Tavistock GIDS service shut down. What she doesn't talk about is how Newsnight journalists manufactured outrage and concocted "scandals" based on unethical journalism - which they were called out for, but tried to hide... 🔥🧵

Just utterly depressed myself looking-up spend-per student in Scotland in schools vs. uni. We're a band 6 subject, so we get £5.6k a year for an UG student. IFS suggests we spend £10.1k a year on a pupil in school 💀 Figures aren't comparable, as we'd have to add REG to our number, but still...

Yet again, can we talk about how the SNP's desperate desire to avoid bad headlines over rural school closures means that local authorities have no means to organise rural schooling strategically, to the detriment of pupils? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

4.77 million people what The Wheel? Truly, what is wrong with people?!

Feeling very sore - had it off all night with a divorced guy. "Coming" back tonight - has to climb in through the window. Feeling very shaky.

Put a bit too much coffee in the cafetiere this morning...

The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think. New piece from me. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

So true. But then MORE THINGS arrive to get done. And that's just rude.

Turned to BBC 1 and wondered if I was going to get an interesting biopic about how Montagu Burton created a made to measure tailoring empire, but alas....

Tonight's dinner was another cracker from Meera Sodha. Delicious and simple. I prepped the veg and dressing yesterday so it took 20 minutes to cook: www.theguardian.com/food/article...

Ok, so they've got Chris Patten on PM and it's brilliant 😆

I cannot be f**ked engaging with BBC News today. They played a clip of a politician who owes his success to disproportionate appearances on Question Time saying the BBC were institutionally biased. I could hear the screams of pain as irony died a slow and horrible death...

This is the sort of WhatsApp message my mum sends me these days

I fancied listening to something about real existing socialism on my walk into town just now, so I searched BBC Sounds for "GDR". They're getting their archives on there now, so I found the gem from February 1989 - Profile asking whether Honecker had lost his touch! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

same people who deny the validity of trans identities insist on calling boats “she” this is known as “assigned female at berth”

54% is technically a majority, I suppose 🙄🤦🏻‍♂️ www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Can we organise an international conference of wine glass manufacturers and dishwasher manufacturers so that they can coordinate to make their respective products compatible with one another?

This could work for lower league Scottish football.

Notes passing bandwagon. Don't mind if I do...

bluesky branding refresh unveiled

Where is Nikita's hand?! #Strictly

I'd never heard of the Edmund Fitzgerald but this year it's ALL over my socials 🤷🏻‍♂️

Watching Star Wars and heavily empathising with C3PO when he said "we're just made to suffer"

Well, that was quite exciting

I'm in the room while The Witcher is being watched and it is truly terrible

Watching The Traitors on Gogglebox is almost as good as watching it!

Awww, poor Stephen Gately 😢 #TOTP

Today at work I managed to make one of my problems someone else's problem. And that was great.

Celebrity Traitors was SO good. A proper tonic for the soul

Guessing the weather was bad for the ceremonial pouches #TheTraitors

I'm behind! But... LISTEN TO JOE!!!!

“It broke my heart, that was my savings towards a new car,” one woman who paid Milne tens of thousands of pounds told us. “He has just wiped me out.” Who is Andrew Milne - the solicitor sending "very aggressive" letters to Sheffield homeowners? www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...

Now, my train arrives in Edinburgh at 21:15. Do I try to watch 10 minutes of the Traitors before I get home, or just wait?

*love* how this obit of Pauline Collins describes Shirley Valentine's husband as "insensitive". FFS www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The slightly posh M&S salads used to make a good light train meal. I'm currently staring at a plastic tub with a flake of salmon and a lot of cucumber

I'd wondered this too, and now I have the answer thanks to the replies

Listening to Lilly Allen's album given everyone is raving about it, and I just find her voice very, very irritating

I'm on the train back from two days in London for the launch of our Centre for Collaboration in Community Connectedness and a logic modelling workshop today. I'm tired, but excited and inspired. It was at Toynbee Hall and this quote on the wall seemed apt c4.ac.uk

BBC news in "stop only reporting criminal justice stories when they involve non-UK nationals challenge"

I'm joining the @garethdennis.uk "I hate the seats on IETs club" - the filling on my seat has worn away so much I have a bar digging into my bum, and the back rest is pressing into my back and pops in such a way it feels like someone is kicking my back

I'm delivering a Very Serious webinar about LGBTQ+ people and housing next week, and I agreed to do it as I knew I had a lot of material pulled together for an undergrad lecture I did last year. Looking back at the lecture slides, they are Very Unserious, but so good they're getting reused 😁