Fact of the day: When Trump met Melania at a party in 1998 he was with his then girlfriend Celina Midelfart - and honestly, if you're British, it feels like the whole thing was scripted by Mike Myers...

Game’s gone.

David Nobbs comedy writing competition opens for a ninth year

back to work pals

10 years after he went to jail for procuring a child for prostitution.

The second interview on the blog is with @hypnogoria.bsky.social , the host of Britain's longest running podcast, Hypnogoria. #interview #hypnogoria #jimmoon buff.ly/OE3lU9W

A New York federal judge dismissed murder and weapons charges against alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione, a major blow to prosecutors that means Mangione no longer faces a possible death penalty if convicted reut.rs/45Fin56

Expect eldritch horrors to heat your home for science!

I'll take No Meaning please

Sorry to soil my timeline but this did make me laugh…you? Took me a moment… Greg Bovino was asked how he felt about his demotion today. "Well, obviously, I'm not happy", he replied. Someone in the crowd shouted back, "So which one are you?"

Since Amazon won't say where they scraped hundreds of thousands of CSAM images from last year, we can only assume it was by scraping the email account for the current US president, or chans 2 thru 8, either way it's basically the same thing

Joyce Grenfell (28th January 1972). "George, George …. don't do that."

B5 is now further in the past than TOS was when I started watching B5. Time to finally crumble to dust, I think.

ICE are the troopers sent out into the Ghorman riots. They’re meant to be bad at their jobs, undertrained, and simple idiots. They’re the excuse to crack down on the states.

To repeat myself - Andrew Wakefield should spend the rest of his life banged up in prison, the lying cunt

"I feel like I've come home," Suella Braverman tells assembled Reform UK voters. Funny thing - the word on the tip of their tongue, looking at her, is also 'repatriation'.

Hold the euphemisms but why is gravy for pork so difficult to find? Turkey Onion Meat Beef Chicken Lamb Vegetable All easy to find but pork ? No sirree

We’re just normal food, we’re just legal food

Inkle mixes archive-surfing and audio drama to create a surprisingly powerful story of obsession and a machine. Our TR-49 review: www.eurogamer.net/tr-49-review

🇩🇰🇺🇸 Clash Report: Danish MEP Anders Vistisen to Trump: "Let me put this in words you might understand: Mr. President, fuck off."

Thank goodness I'm not Angela Raynor, otherwise the press would have hounded me out of office.

🔥FOR ALL MANKIND SEASON 5 IS COMING ON MARCH 27 ON APPLETV 🔥

Trump has declared that the cause of the route on Wall Street is: Iceland. Yep, Iceland. It is way past 25th Amendment time.

It’s only been a year.

So Greenland's next move is to tell the US to pack up its base and shove off ?

When someone tries telling me I must not be a real Star Trek fan

This is brilliant from Labour! They have launched their Warm Homes Plan - the biggest home upgrade plan in British history. £15bn is available with 5 million homes expected to benefit from upgrades & lower bills. Any home is eligible, but with specific interventions for low income families. 1/5

NEW: NEW: Standards commissioner finds Nigel Farage committed seventeen breaches of MPs code of conduct. He failed to declare £333,000 in outside interests (more than 3x MPs annual salary)…

Pretty soon the UK will need to make a tough choice which side of the fence it wants to be on.

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

Speaker Mike Johnson of the US House of Representatives is meant to address Parliament here in London tomorrow as a representative of the US government. Really? Now? When the US is threatening war against NATO? Suely Starner must cancel this?

Trump Admin works for Russia - here is the proof: „Ukrainian intell services sent false strategic info to US intell services ... and observed that the information had been relayed to RUS and was used by RUS forces." Source: French newschannel LCI

Ahhh!! My book is launched! It's live on Amazon right now! https://amzn.to/4qrXnqO

Palantir, which Wes Streeting is giving your health care records to, and which Labour has given a contract for military analytics to, is working with ICE in the United States to work out who to raid. www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...

Come on, UK 🪂 …sign this pls😊

Holy shit, that’s just actual theft.

A drop of dream fuel - Robots of the Dawn by Chris Foss

🚨🇪🇺 Brexit WOW moment 🇪🇺🚨 The Brexitgraph Telegraph published a full-blown obituary for Brexit: 📉 GDP down 8% 📉 Investment down 18% 📉 Productivity down 4% 📉 Employment down 4% ❌ No trade benefits ❌ No regulatory freedom ❌ No upside whatsoever Do you agree it’s time to end Brexit?

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Holy moly

Trying to help the children with their gcse choices. You have the core 6 plus three options; Language or humanity choice 1 Can’t have 2 tech options or 2 art options Aces count as 1 Rituals and sacrifices will chose you as a 10th option UNO reverse is allowed

Have to say that 'Can You Keep a Secret?' is rather good. It makes me laugh and it has the great Mark Heap in it. 😍

Right? YouTube’s hit upon one hell of a scam this time.

Look, I’m doing a very poor job of telling people that I’m releasing new music so I’ve decided to double down and keep the fact I’m releasing new music (example attached) secret so I’d appreciate it if you did not mention the secret music to anyone. Thanks.

🔴Boris Johnson’s Radon Gas Filled Prison Deal to Cost Taxpayers £100 Million Full costs of the botched agreement to lease an unusable prison filled with poisonous gas from the Duchy of Cornwall, revealed for the first time bylinetimes.com/2026/01/07/b...

I’ve seen enough of 2026.

I understand the pressures on the BBC, but Radio 4's coverage of the Minneapolis shooting is an example of "bad balance". It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder". The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.

Clever folk doing clever things.