We are at a point where the vice-President can claim that one of the most widely used and tested medications is "useless" because disregard for science is seen as a virtue.

It's the most wonderful time of the year 🍺🔥

Happy Fenton Day to all who celebrate. Jesus Christ, fourteen years. youtu.be/3GRSbr0EYYU

A stable squad that has barely changed over 3 matches, with the occasional rotation up front. Wales could learn a thing or two about how to manage a small pool of players to get the best results

Oh mate.

I don't know about you, but if, like me, you like odd shaped balls, there aren't really many reasons to move away from the sofa much this weekend.

Gen Y and Gen Z parents skulling energy drinks every day perchance?

Wes Streeting looks like Pinocchio if, instead of becoming a real boy, he’d turned into an Assistant Manager at a branch of Currys.

I think this may be the most unhinged things he's ever said. I swear by brufen, esp those liquidy red magical thingies you get from the pound shop

You know who I think would make an awesome 16th Doctor? Emma Thompson. #DoctorWho

I don't know about you, but if, like me, you like odd shaped balls, there aren't really many reasons to move away from the sofa much this weekend.

Maurice Glasman, founder of Blue Labour, on Newsnight, when talking about the government: “I don’t want it to be a progressive force, we’ve got to be a strong patriotic force” When asked what he meant by ‘progressive’: “It’s a way of looking at the world, where men are women..” Now we know…

Pensioners today grew up in the age of Ceefax, the Commodore 64, the all-in-one hifi, satellite TV, catalogue shops, iPods and Facebook. Believe me, over-outraged boomers, they can easily handle mobile banking, digital boarding passes and other imaginary barriers to societal participation

HELVETE!!

I get the feeling that as soon as Starmer heard it was Streeting that was orchestrating the plot against him he immediately relaxed, knowing he had nothing to worry about.

They really don't seem to make earpads like they used to, going for form over function; esp if you're a glasses wearer and two spots on the cuffs are frequently under pressure - and wear - from two metal rods. Fortunately most are swappable with cheap, but oddly more durable, Chinese replacements

Where I spend quite a good deal of my CPH trips. www.beernews.se/articles/dan...

Dear Britain: Your polls look very "European" and NOW would be a really really really really really really really good time to switch to PR. ➡️ RFM: 26% | 170 (+74) 🟥 LAB: 19% | 124 (-110) 🟦 CON: 18% | 118 (-38) 🟩 GRN: 15% | 98 (+55) 🟧 LDM: 14% | 91 (+10) 🟨 SNP: 3% | 19 (+2) 🔲 PLC: 2% | 12 (+7)

Pressbyrån: If WHSmith was actually good. I wholeheartedly agree

"The problem with socialism is that eventually you don't know what you've done with other people's money."

And there we have it. The mere fact that this sort of headline exists is proof that sportswashing is working.

Simple answer.

Decency 2-0 Flagshaggers

STOP TRYING TO BE REFORM LITE THEN ASSHOLE

Also, like a lot of BBC News folk, you're conflating the BBC with BBC News. One is a worthy organisation that produces great stuff, and the other is a right wing cesspit allowing people like Chris Mason to steal a living.

Is that really something to be proud of? That a nation that would elect Trump in a heartbeat thinks the BBC is trustworthy?

Have discovered I have more stroopwafel available than I thought. Possibly enough to get to Xmas. Pleasing.

Nearly a decade of the right wing takeover of the BBC and its News department, zero admonishments for its overt bias against anything remotely centrist or progressive. One slight edit of a Trump speech and bang, two massive heads roll. Ridiculous.

There really is little point playing the rest of the Autumn Internationals. Will save a lot of time, effort, money and misery if we just say Wales 10-26 Japan Wales 3-74 New Zealand Wales 0-98 South Africa and just be done with it.

How hard is that ground?

SA would put 100 on us if they brought their full strength team.

you realise how insanely stupid you sound when you say stuff like this? at this point reform are basically a labour party think-tank. labour are adopting all of their policies. if you support labour you support the politics of reform.

Don't be racist, don't be transphobic and don't drop bombs on children. These are simple solutions but Labour fail even these simple tests.

I do like that the WRU have put giant arrows on the pitch showing the Welsh team where they need to actually score, and also where they need to actually defend.

Today was a mistake. Not the rugby game, that was great, proper grassroots oldschool stuff. But the 12-mile round walk has absolutely killed me, my body is crying out for a rest after a fairly intense autumn so far.

Tis the season lads 🍺🔥

A month of rugby Twickenham Richmond Trelleborg Caerleon

The nicest thing about being in 🇩🇰🇸🇪 last week, apart from the clean air, good transport, friendly, safe people, good beer and food and of course Sweden battering Lithuania was, LNER aside, I was completely cut off from all UK news for 48 hours and it was so liberating and unstressful.

Was sat in a pub in Copenhagen last Sunday, and this track came on in the background. And I was like - that's the SNCF station jingle. www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1v7...

Look, I hate the Dodgers as much as any decent baseball fan but his missus is from LA, he was invited by the LA owner and they live a stone's throw up the coast. He is not obligated to wear a Toronto cap - Toronto is not the national baseball team of Canada. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

My attempts at humour in the Local Area Facebook Group are being met with a stonewall silence. No likes, no emojis, nothing. Po-faced bastards wouldn't know wit if it hit them in the face.

I notice a lot of people are posting about sandwich guy being acquitted which, whichever way you slice it, is good news.

Had three items from the Tesco Xmas meal deal range today It's started.

It's very hard to take a side in this Joey Barton v Jeremy Vine thing. On one side you've got a tired old increasingly irrelevant has-been who resorts to social media to stir up resentment, bad feeling and discord by spouting ill-thought-out polarised platitudes; and on the other side is Joey Barton

I must be one of the few idiots in the world who, on Bonfire Night, managed to actually burn himself on an oven tray while making dinner.

Knowing FIFA, they will award it to Joey Barton

Oh one final piece of feedback on the weekend? easyJet. Basically Ryanair with slightly posher seats and less scratchcards. Would fly again.