We're off t'pub. Walking briskly. What're you having?

A reminder.... in Great Britain every dinner is Thanksgiving dinner. Why? Because we a the most blessed country in history & the world. We know it. You know it deep down. Facts have to be faced. It's no bad thing, just go with it, be happy...we got ya

Is Facebook more toxic than Bluesky?

If you personally —or your nephews, nieces, sons & daughters etc were called up to fight in a war—would you do what folks did in WWII?

I grew up knowing an old lady who lived close to a friend, so we visited her today. She has dementia. We all watched the telly together. There was a fabulous old film on called "Witness For The Prosecution". What an amazing afternoon! Gladdens one's heart. #lovely

We're watching boxing on the BBC. Bad boxing tbh

Right. I have got just enough time to somehow make gorgeous. It's Friday. Obvs we're going out, mixing, having fun...we're not saddos! Let's do this!

What I find funniest about Great Brits is that they have always moaned & groaned about our great country. It's doom, it's gloom. Talk it down! Hate! Yet, it's clearly an effin excellent bloody country still, filled with bloody lovely tea-drinking people who like irony

It's Friday night. There's not many of them left in 2025. & because of Christmastime, there's not much in December. Pay day weekend too. Come on. Get on your best duds & shake a tailfeather. Socialise. Meet people see what happens. Take the chance

Someone needs to start a petition to stop Fleetwood Mac's The Chain from being played in every supermarket all the effin time every effin where

A reminder that the UK voted by a landslide for a govt with socialist ideology (the one that thinks govt can & should enforce change on people for the greater good). Why are so many surprised that their policies are not capitalist or conservative? FFS

Even abroad, they still miss & love the old Queen

What's it to you if some low-income family in a low-income neighbourhood gets a few quid more welfare? What's it to you if some celebrity gets a facelift? What's it to you if a man marries a child in Pakistan? What's it to you if the President of America wears make-up?

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas right after White Friday deals

I'm fed up hearing the misuse of the term "Black Hole". If the UK economy has a fiscal shortfall or imbalance, say so. If you want to say there's a hole. Fine. But please stop saying black hole. You clearly don't know what a black hole is.

I suppose we'll need to start thinking about Christmas Trees this weekend! Suddenly Christmastime is upon us! Totally out of the blue!

There's a Black Hole in my Black Friday budget 😭

I wish folk would stop spreading the nonsense that govt spending depends on taxes. It's irritating. You personally do not pay for someone's child's breakfast. Now go about your day. Be happy.

As far as I can tell, the world has always taken the Mickey out of the US President. A lot of people think it's just DJ Trump.

Why do so many not know that the UK Leader of the Opposition is supposed to be an adversary, supposed to rip apart every govt utterance—even if she agrees with it or if her party did the same or worse. It's not hypocrisy. It's debate, they take opposite sides—she rebutts

In history, human creativity was mainly about music, art & architecture. Today it's science & medicine & hidden in computer code & "the cloud". I hope we can one day force a rebalance such that we get beautiful things once more. I'd like that

Now the bloomin' Budget's over we can start Christmassing properly

One thing that always puzzles me is when Scottish politicians quote Scottish economic figures against UK economic figures when Scottish economic figures are incorporated into the UK economic figures. They are not distinct/separate unless you deducted the Scottish from the UK FFS

I often wonder if Americans see Great British Political social media posts the same way we see American Political ones (no idea who anyone is, what is going on, what anything might mean)...

Contrary to popular belief, it is not thanks to electric vehicles, but by the development of high-speed trains that the Chinese have managed to limit their oil consumption, notes in his column to the "World" Jean-Baptiste Fressoz. www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

The state of Great British politics. Starmer is unpopular. Reeves too. The Greens have totally blown it. Reform UK are in decline. Advance too little too late. SNP won't flush (they're there forever now). Plaid are utterly lost. It's too soon to revive the Tories. Oh well!

It's crazy to be at this point, but Badenoch is the better politician. Great voice. Good projection. Clear ideas. Good rhetorical strategies. I wouldn't argue with her!

I'm waiting for the Junior Doctors to realise their strike winning pay increase and new job name simply means they now take home less because of the budget

Look. The Great British Budget has been delivered, & like every other budget before it, been decried as bloody awful. This is what happens—but I can assure you that life goes on, Great Brits see this as a challenge & rise to the challenge to find & exploit every possible loophole

TV ads/ commercials have always been annoying. Why the fuss over race now? It's just "extra annoyance", or maybe you have become "extra annoyed"? 🤔

Thank goodness that is all over now! That effin Budget build-up was insufferable & interminable. Then it was leaked, then it was a damp squib delivery. Now we can press on as best we can to mitigate all this rubbish & make a better life for ourselves in spite of it all

For a chap who created the "Make America Great Again"—MAGA—movement, Trump appears to spend most of his time abroad, meeting heads of state at banquets, & getting involved in wars between far away countries! Nobody expected that. "Put America Last" more like!🤣

The only reason Chancellor Rachel Reeves's Budget (today) is considered consequential or significant is simply because a few weeks ago she set up an unprecedented speech-cum-pre-budget press conference before 9am... that smacks of bad stuff innit

So a gay Polish couple went to Germany & got married, but this was not recognised back in Poland. So the Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that all EU countries are required to recognise marriages between two same-sex citizens legally contracted in another EU state

I see Richard Branson's wife has sadly died

Femicide Bill passes, but Consent bill fails in Italy. Schlein & Meloni quarrel roma.corriere.it/notizie/cron...

The problem in Italy was that there were TWO bills supposed to be passed on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (25th Nov). Only one passed—the Femicide Bill. But the other, the Consent Bill was stalled. Now everything's kicking off

Yesterday there passed a new Italian law to make "femicide" an explicit, autonomous crime punishing murder of a woman "because she is a woman" (gender-based hatred, control, possession, discrimination etc)—with life in prison.

Yesterday was International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women... who knew? Did you?

4 year old nephew wants me to learn Bohemian Rhapsody on piano, an instrument I barely play. Energized to introduce him to life’s many tragic disappointments

Well, it's all kicking off in the EU—this time over Carbonara! www.nbcpalmsprings.com/2025/11/20/o...

Cambridge Dictionary’s 2025 Word of the Year: ‘Parasocial’

I can hardly wait for tomorrow. All this bs speculation about the budget still be finally over! People are getting so worked up with hate about guesses!

My Latest "Name That Song!"—12 internet points up for grabs! "& I held my own—Still I rattled your bones I said some awful things &I take them back If we would try again—Just remember when—Before we were lovers I swear we were friends"

Happy BLACK WEEK to all who celebrate it!

Oooh these are great— National Geographic Pictures of the Year! eu.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Cambridge Dictionary’s 2025 Word of the Year: ‘Parasocial’

Buy your Freddie Mercury official Royal Mint COIN apnews.com/article/fred...

Well, it's all kicking off in the EU—this time over Carbonara! www.nbcpalmsprings.com/2025/11/20/o...

National Book Awards...provocative? eu.usatoday.com/story/entert...