Watching three British people smile and nod along as someone talks about a 7ft tall pink monster that dominated British tv to a horrified American is the most perfect thing a chat show can give us

Josh Widdecombe explaining Mr Blobby to Dan Levy has entirely justified Claudia Winkelman getting a second series

was just thinking earlier about how hard The Apprentice works these days to have some kind of viral moment by stupid candidates set up to fail in stupid tasks, and yet nothing will ever be as magical as Saira and James and the wolf fleece in the series one home shopping task

I’m sorry. What the fuck is that ad???

I imagine Wes Streeting is spending this weekend trying to find out how much support he has to make a run for Prime Minister. Apparently the answer he will find is 'not much' and that makes me happy for him and his weekend.

I feel like it should be easier to find out about the local council election candidates?

you don't need me to tell you this, but this is *poetry*

A colleague didn’t recognise me in my glasses so I tried to joke “I’m Clark Kent” but accidentally declared “I’m Ken Clarke”

Worth remembering this government was elected with zero enthusiasm on the promise of dull competence

Please enjoy this amazing freeze frame from Liara’s bathtub incident last night

Loath as I am to say anything positive about Thames Water, I contacted them this morning about non-urgent problem and they were round within a couple of hours, so I take my hat off to them for that

FFS. Nothing takes me out of a film faster than failure to even do the most basic research. The Statue of Liberty is on an ISLAND. It is not buried in a jaunty angle in the sand.

“Alright spooks, you’re up. We’ve announced our guy, he’s not as corrupt as he looks, istg. Or is he? That’s your job LOL. Anyway are you gonna make us all look stupid now or no”

just clicked on a link which took me to a website which asked me to sign in which redirected me to the app which redirected me back to the website which landed me on a different article to the one I wanted to read in the first place I am so *tired*

of all the New Yorker’s stylistic quirks I think “bio-pic” might be my least favourite

Rarely prouder to be a Green

going full “ich nichten lichten” here

Absolutely dying at: "She’s from Eastbourne (which, she says, is closer to Europe)" - we are cooking today

I'm owed reparations. no not for the colonies, for the columnists

Bingo, it's remarkable how for instance Theresa May's position on trans rights is now seen by the centrist lot as radical simply because of how they've shifted with right wing opinion

With all media chasing the Guardian investigative team's scoop on Mandelson failing vetting , only one paper's lobby team is trying to weaken the story with excuses for Starmer - and it's The Guardian

[foreign office 2025] CIVIL SERVANT: Prime Minister we have news on Mandelson's vetting, it turns out- STARMER: no don't tell me, I want it to be a surprise when the scandal comes out in 8 months' time CIVIL SERVANT: I really insis- STARMER: god forbid we have any MYSTERY in our lives any more

Like this website is bad, but it doesn't have a big enough userbase to be THAT bad.

The thing about a life long civil servant - and one who has made their name in diplomacy - is that temperamentally they’re rule breakers. Mavericks. Not afraid to bend the law to get a result.

This is an impressive line to take in that a) it might well be a lie, b) even if it's true it still sounds like it's a lie, and c) any possible circumstance in which it is true would actually be more damning than the alternative

who’s your favourite biblical vers?

Why would civil servants overrule their own processes to wave through a political appointee, unless they were told to do so by politicians? #r4today

Wow is this really what we were trying to load all day? Couldn't wait to see this?

Asking the forbidden question

Having been through DV a long time ago, the output is not a simple recommendation it is quite an involved file that details *redacted* and now holding a moderately senior compliance role I am astonished that the defence is "I didn't read the report." I cannot emphasise how sacked I'd be.

trying to post through it rn

On the website having the time of my life reading a bunch of posts. They're all just out of frame, loading fine.

"fundamentally at odds with family and community life in what is a residential neighbourhood" it’s directly underneath Charing Cross station you absolute tosser

plumber says i already reached my yearly amount of shits and have to upgrade to toilet+

this is going well

Bravo BBC; Bravo

currently waiting in for someone who said “I’ll be there in about half an hour” nearly two hours ago, and wondering at what point my “that’s fine, I’ll be home” can legitimately be deemed expired?

JD Vance must have visited the Bluesky servers

Was then asked about sex toys and said he wanted the ground to open up and somebody to shoot him and I don't think someone who acts like an embarrassed teen should be in charge of the health service when the subject of sex comes up.

Caught the tail end of Streeting on Nick Ferrari talking about dedicated spaces in hospitals for trans people

Obviously there's a lot more going on and much bigger issues with transphobia but a part of it is people encountering the mildest philosophical problem, realising things aren't nearly as clear cut and obvious as they thought and absolutely losing their shit.

The BBC could be putting THIS on the front page of their website, instead of blaming "migrants" for the assholes who exploit them.

Jail for people at the gym who hang their coats on apparatus they aren’t even using. There’s a locker room! It’s free!!

Ironically the BBC stumbled on a really important story: Desperate asylum seekers being forced to turn to fraudulent fee-charging “advisors” to navigate a system that is intentionally impossibly baroque and from which all sources of free advice have been removed. But no: they chose Fake Gay Panic.

It’s genuinely staggering how little substance there is to today’s instalment of the BBC’s attempt to create a national crisis out of a few unproven allegations of immigration fraud 1/

For the second day, the BBC are running a story that presents itself as providing evidence of endemic abuse of the asylum system based on seemingly a single encounter with someone who is neither a lawyer nor a registered immigration adviser. Words fail. This is reprehensibly irresponsible.

going to do an undercover investigation of all the bad and illegal things BBC journalists are telling people, see how they like it

Revealing that the Guardian apparently couldn't actually find any examples of the ruling having "changed lives" positively. Those quoted in support simply express political agreement with it rather than being able to point to any tangible life benefit, in contrast to those quoted in opposition.