Surely there must have been a point at which someone said... 'Guys, we haven't actually got many tickets sold. Should we move to a smaller venue, if only so it looks busier on the pictures?'

Driving youngest child to dancing class earlier. I made some passing comment about the season and she suddenly starts belting out the absolute classic primary school banger 'Autumn days'. Unexpected, but I'm absolutely here for it. Defo getting on board with this Sunday morning sing along idea.

Not in a good way, judging by his expression.

Right.... but for which party?

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet. After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

It's really remarkable how the cowardice of politicians in utterly failing to for not only the economic benefits, but also the economic essentials of immigration is totally painting the country into a corner. The public really have no clue how much they should be careful what they wish for.

It's such an overlooked, or (under discussed) issue just how much the pensioners of today are absolutely screwing over their own children & grandchildren. Not just by being expensive while they've denied latter generations what they had, but also by blocking any route to easing the looming crisis.

This seems important.

This weekend's @theipaper.com cartoon

From an objective point of view it's going to be interesting to see how US military responds if sent to aggressively subdue US civilians. I mean... that's what the 2nd amendment is for, isn't it? Defending oneself against state over reach & tyranny. Subjectively it's pretty terrifying, obviously.

Erm... wow. It's almost like the Israeli Government is on some kind of dare to just absolutely torch the country's image abroad.

Zohran Mamdani: “If Netanyahu comes to deliver a speech at the United Nations General Assembly in New York next year while I am mayor, I will move to honor the ICC arrest warrant issued in The Hague against him — just as I would against Putin."

If you don’t like being called a racist, maybe don’t make a career of saying things that appeal to racists, don’t create a political party that keeps attracting racist candidates, don’t fawn over racist world leaders, and don’t make a convicted racist the guest of honour at your party conference.

Mad. The USA, the most ingrained military worshipping cultural landscape I can think of with decades of Hollywood pathos around all things 'noble warrior/veteran' suddenly has right wing media/politicians talking of 'woke generals'. It's like watching a country rapidly strip & burn its whole ethos

Rabble rouser in chief suddenly concerned about the imagined possibility of a rabble that doesn't agree with him being roused.

We just could have done with this like... 10+ months ago really, instead of all the time wasted cravenly pandering to them.

Had to be done

What's that? Ripping the arse out of Local Government and community support service budgets results in the costs landing elsewhere?

Love that Champagne has been downgraded to Chardonnay. Even the metropolitan elite is having to tighten its belt in Trump's economy.

I'm genuinely struggling to think of anything I'd want to watch less than this.

The pro-EU Party of Action & Solidarity has crushed the pro-Russia Patriotic Electoral Bloc in the Moldovan election. It won 51 seats - an outright majority. Moldova is now on a trajectory towards EU membership. A very bad night for Putin, who targeted Moldova with a wave of election propaganda.

Never ask a woman her age, a man his salary, or a conservative what the debt to GDP ratio was in 2019 before the pandemic spending was even a thing

Know the people who claim to be your friends.

Tapping the sign. This is an area of *huge* vulnerability for Reform in some key places.

Made a comment a few weeks ago about whether Reform might have gone too hard too fast and now they're years out from an election during which time all they can do to maintain the buzz is get ever more extreme which will just make them ever more tainted to the majority of the public.

A few years ago, my team looked at household sizes around the world. The household size experienced by the average person ranged from 2.7 people (in Germany) to 13.8 people (in Gambia). www.pewresearch.org/religion/201...

It's September and my youngest child has put on a Christmas film. Why is Netflix even giving this option?

Seeing as every IT department I've encountered hates dealing with iPhones why do companies still insist on having iPhones? Also anyone know how I explain to an iPhone that I'm not in Germany anymore and it needs to change the time back an hour?

I was actually contacted by a former Labour Councillor who defected to Greens asking if I'd consider supporting/standing and basically this was my response. I am in their general area of the political spectrum, but there's big questions they just don't seem to have credible answers to... like this.

Thank St Piran this is Newcastle. I saw this and thought Greggs opening a pub in the spiritual home of the proper pasty would be so insulting as to basically equate to a declaration of war. No idea who would win in a war between the Geordies and Cornwall, but pretty sure it would be brutal.

Netanyahu: "Would a country committing genocide plead with the civilian population that it is supposedly targeting to get out of harms way? Did the Nazis ask the Jews to leave? Of course not" Actually, encouraging Jews to emigrate is exactly what the Nazis did 1933-39. Ignorant of Jewish history.

The short journey from Manchester Airport to Manchester Piccadilly this evening has made me absurdly angry and frankly embarrassed about the absolute state this country is in. I know it's not the current Government's fault, but, I can absolutely see why they'd get the blame.

Just said 'good day' in such convincing German that the lady on the check in desk continued to converse with me in the same language until it became abundantly clear I had no idea what she was saying and had to confess it's the only bit I know other than counting to 10. Herr Gillie would be proud.

"Triple sabotage" - President Trump. The UN says the teleprompter belonged to the US delegation while the escalator safety mechanism might have been triggered by Trump's videographer. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Let's talk about Tylenol and pregnancy. Fundamentally, this is about making sure women do not get one ounce of relief, but it's also about criminalization. How long do you think it's going to be before they arrest someone for taking Tylenol during a pregnancy? We are going down that road.

This guy has perfected his Trump lip-syncs and I think this is the peak

In a hotel in Germany and the room does not have any tea & coffee. Is this normal over here? I thought tea&coffee making facilities were pretty much an international hotel room base line, but is it more a UK thing? Trying to remember if I've stayed somewhere without it before (exc self catering).

Ffs Donald. Don't make us side with pharmaceutical company.

Oh.... that thing I watched last night actually happened? I was hoping it was some kind of fever dream.

Is this real? Is what I'm watching actually happening?

This is just astonishingly surreal.

Sorry.... what the chuff am I watching the POTUS make an announcement about? This is just unhinged. Absolutely mental. Who on earth let this fucking idiot anywhere near any kind of... well, anything. Something about the Amish? What?

£8. 🤣

Evergreen.

This bus driver seems very excited that he's replacing a train. We've already had 2 separate passenger announcements we're only 1 minute into the journey.

If they're going this hard this far out from an election perhaps there's a chance they'll over egg it. Can't imagine there's really much of the public who want to kick out settled, legal immigrants. The more they show their face before actually getting into Government the better, I guess.

Nobody who is truly proud of a flag would attach it to a lamppost at half mast using cable ties.

This is really, deeply sinister, dark and to be blunt just absolutely fucking hideous.