I dislike Azuma trains. The seats were designed by a sadist. There’s a hard ridge under your arse @lner.co.uk

Britons are drinking less alcohol than before, as financial pressures, health concerns and an ageing population lead to cutbacks in consumption ft.trib.al/rad0Hny

Much as I love North Bar, it’s fucking stifling in here. It must be about 30C.

In North Bar listening to Funkadelic. This my happy place.

North Bar.

Lively in the Cumberland Arms tonight. In a good way.

A very unusual Wordle word today. 1,644 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

My first taste of revived Boddies was very good. It doesn’t taste like it did in the 80s, better, I would say. Not so austere. I am immensely pleased that such beers are making a comeback. Long overdue.

I despise condiment jars of this shape. They seem cunningly designed to prevent you conveniently extracting the last 10% of the condiment. I’m sure this isn’t an accident

Man of the people. The rich people.

Breaking. Liz Truss wins this year's FIFA Prize for Economics.

Juno Black by Twice Brewed is magnificent. Deserving of wider recognition.

I want to know how a schoolboy in 1980 (or thereabout) knew Hitler youth songs. It would have required a special effort to learn them. I want Farage grilled about this.

Immigrant/illegal immigrant/asylum seeker being used interchangeably with no one being called out for it. #bbcqt

Going back 45 years or so, how did a school kid learn Hitler youth songs?

Wes Streeting insists that NHS health records are not for sale. But handing them to a company like Palantir shatters any chance of public trust ⬇️ https://goodlaw.social/658abc

Pleasing symmetry. Wordle 1,627 4/6 ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩🟨🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

This bloody bus driver thinks he’s Fangio.

I’ve just invented “pseudo-sourdough”. I’m quite pleased with the term.

This from ChatGPT tickled me: Here are the translations/usage for “chutney” in the requested languages: • German: Chutney • French: chutney • Spanish: chutney • Italian: chutney

Anchor beers to be contract brewed www.thestreet.com/restaurants/...

Good grief.

I made chutney. It tasted beautiful at racking.

The Cumbrian fells dusted with snow are a handsome sight today.

Just some British patriots in Benidorm, taking over a street in Spain to shout in their own language about unwanted foreigners. It’s a blessing that they are too thick to understand irony.

Do the Germans have a word for the pain of yearning for the downfall of Elon Musk? If not, they need to work on it.

Good grief, Lee Anderson is a belligerent oaf. #bbcr4pm.

Hypocrisy is invisible to authoritarians.

Do the Germans have a word for the urge to hang on to an empty container as it may become useful? If they don’t, they need to work on it.

Dear everyone: please don’t buy me the new Piers Morgan book for Christmas.

I've just spent the last 90 minutes thinking today is Saturday.

Journalists: please stop using “exponential growth” to mean “large growth”. You remember doing compound interest at school? That is exactly what exponential growth is.

Final Version: 225 (!) UK-based politics academics signed our open letter warning anti-immigrant rhetoric will only embolden the far-right Text & signatories here - www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/starmer

Some are querying whether Andrew can renounce a dukedom without an Act of Parliament. But you can parse a duchy and he’s left outside. Good night.

A confused Daily Mail reader writes…

Carter had to give up his peanut farm.

I really want to enjoy “Blue Lights” but the production is so dark it looks like every scene is lit by candles. I’m starting to find this very irritating.

This is an attack on the rule of law.

Shameful that BBC World at One presenter uses “problem judges”.

I am pleased to live in a multicultural neighbourhood where I never see a Jenrick.

If you can't see how this will end, then you're not paying attention (not least to what's going on on the other side of the Atlantic).

Has Labour woken up? New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog analysing how Starmer’s Labour seems to be taking a firmer line with Reform and Brexitism, rattling Farage, but many ambiguities and contradictions remain: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/10/has-...

It is a source of great satisfaction that this sort of shite has largely died out.

It is a source of great satisfaction that this sort of shite has largely died out.

I got a text from an unknown number. I couldn’t resist.

A good turnout for the anti-far right rally in Newcastle today. About 3x the numbers the far right knuckle-draggers got last weekend.

Still brilliant. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... @timbassett.bsky.social

I’ll be furious that twat Thiel and his Palantirvhave anything to do with this.

What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...