Good luck with the Rapture everyone.

Imagine if I ran this poll: "Should Labour be allowed to run in the next General Election?" A) If they stop stealing bicycles. B) If they agree to follow the law. C) If they admit they stole the last chocolate digestive. D) Without pre-conditions. What result would you expect?

Tomorrow’s stand up 6.30 comedy, a phrase guaranteed to reduce fans of #TheArchers to a gibbering mess.

By the banks of the silvery Mersey.

@radiobeartime.com Time to chonk. www.youtube.com/live/73-Eekd...

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/s... Heidi Klum Oktoberfest sounds like the kind of thing we very much need in these troubled times.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/b... Nothing matches Captain Underpants, not Austen, not Lawrence, none of the Brontes can hold a candle. Stick with what you know.

After the draw, at least Arsenal won’t be sitting below Spurs when the Rapture comes on Tuesday.

Honours even then. One apiece in the tossing of the Trossards.

Ha-ha-ha-Haaland.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wale... They don’t write headlines like this anymore

“A demonstration of the toxic melding of the inchoateness of popular discontent, the inability of the left to speak to working-class grievances and the venomous malevolence of the far right that shapes so much of politics.” My ‪@theobserveruk.bsky.social column: observer.co.uk/news/columni...

The Serenity of Arne Slot. His team holding onto a one-goal lead, Arne Slot was a study in calm. observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes... Now I am hungry… the BBC website front page recipes are far more appalling than the news.

I read this and am no wiser about what Burnham stands for and what he would do in power. www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

The Scarlet Pimpernel and a cup of tea on a wet Saturday afternoon. Orczy and Korda how much more British can you be… 😘

Poor Owen Jones. A rounding error in the history of left wing factionalism.

I do like the design. Juche at its very best.

My heart stopped banging but I didn’t. #TheArchers

I dream that one day our sidewalks will be as wide as our vehicles.

Funny old world when the Daily Star splashes what was potentially the most consequential line from that presser. Even the FT went with Trump bloviating on the armed forces and immigration.

Total silliness, but amusing that Arsenal are still resolutely stuck in second place no matter what the measure - aside of course from Arteta’s magic three year rolling average. www.nytimes.com/athletic/663...

You give off a typical Korean man vibe is a very good insult. www.bbc.com/news/article...

player.bfi.org.uk/subscription... What a very, very peculiar film.

We should have Front Row before #TheArchers instead of the comedy. Write in!

The night is young and so are we. #TheArchers

So grandad what did you do in the great fight against fascism in the 2020s? Got the hump and purged the traitors on the left.

Nice to see you Mr President.

The Guardian, playing it for comic effect these days. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Gotta get them rays.

The Spectator now lurching towards fascism by analogy, including an interview with Andrew Tate (they’ll regret that). Of course, the Weimar comparison is daft. There’s no interesting culture for a start.

My memories of Labour in Liverpool last time round (as an outsider) are of a disconsolate looking queue in the rain and Lewis’s being mobbed by chaps in lanyards.

This NYT correction did make me smile. Did France complain? A correction was made on Sept. 18, 2025: An earlier version of this article referred incorrectly to the U.S.-British relationship. Britain is one of America’s oldest allies, not its oldest ally.

Out!

Worried about the carbon footprint from your flight? Don’t be, the gate shuttle bus is electric! #greenwash

STOP Jim! #TheArchers

Loving Melania entering her Grim Reaper mode. Just needs a scythe!

Strange and harrowing must be his story; frightful the storm which embraced the gallant vessel on its course, and wrecked it - thus!

A Israeli soldier who was attached to the GHF "relief" operation, and was ordered to shoot at the crowd: "The officers would shout at me: take them down, take them down. I shot 50-60 bullets per day, I stopped counting the kills. I have no idea how many people I killed, lots. Children". Haaretz.

My latest on the Irish presidential race. Unsurprisingly, Conor McGregor won't be on the ballot. By submitting now, he avoids what would have been his first real political test: seeking a nomination from Dublin City Council. He never bothered to come back to Ireland before throwing in the towel.

Danny Kruger, regicide in waiting. “The reformers of the 11th and the 16th centuries, the Puritans in the 17th century, the Evangelicals in the 19th century all brought this country back from the edge…”

‘Estimates for Wednesday’s turnout, nationwide, were between 190,000 and 250,000. The government deployed 80,000 gendarmes and police, roughly one for every three demonstrators.’ Jeremy Harding on the protests in France, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...

Serves: 2 greedy people 👏🥣

Right…. Tár. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

If you’re an Archer, you’re ‘troubled’. If you’re a Grundy you are jailed. #TheArchers

Astonishing corruption www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

Bob the cat and I are scanning the Lewis’s catalogue as we freeze together…

Titter.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Austen liked nothing more than a few bevvies on a night out with her mates at the Spoons. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Monday morning re-up: so much of the talk about European troops in Ukraine is, frankly, performative bluster. What might real security guarantees look like?