I think that works better reframed as "We can lead a new technology which will help our entire economy prosper, and it removes our reliance on a volatile oil industry beholden to world events"

Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway,
a plaque on both your houses.

Starmer is a decent person who just doesn't have what it takes to do the job. That's the unglamorous truth. The trouble with building moralistic scaffolding around it, pretending he's The Devil just to make ourselves feel a bit better, is that after he's gone, what will remain is our own dishonesty.

Why did BBC Breakfast give Reform UK a special graphic? A small detail in a brief report sparks some big questions about what the national broadcaster is doing during the run up to local and national elections.

NEW | On an odd choice…

WHY DID BBC BREAKFAST GIVE REFORM UK A SPECIAL GRAPHIC?

A small detail in a brief report sparks some big questions about what the national broadcaster is doing during the run up to local and national elections.

brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/why-did-bb...

Gorgeous looking moggies. Also loving the Lego (?) artwork.

Feels like “failed vetting” is one of those phrases that ought to end anyone’s route through a recruitment process?

Like, if you have a job requiring that you vet people, successful vetting doesn’t seem to be a “nice to have”? Very much on the “Essential” list, possibly quite near the top of it?

Yes. These maps were genuine mind-changers for me. It is the sea from which all votality, trade, knowledge, and exchange radiate. The land is, effectively, just lucky enough to be around it. A x

Why have we coined "Popesplaining" when "Pontificating" is right there!?

Magnificent podcast episodes. The illustrated guide is great too... I bet whoever designed it is super-cool and that. 😄

(Those links all work, by the way, so you have a ready-made truly in-depth knowledge resource on the topic of Europa right at your fingertips)

ko-fi.com/podyssey

This looks ace and fascinating and is a timely reminder that human beings can actually be brilliantly productive and useful when they're not launching missiles at each other.

Hungarians chanting "Europa! Europa!" in celebration last night, did not go unnoticed.

As I explain, we keep trying to define what Europe ought to be, instead of understanding and defending *what it is*.

With a number of provisos, including that this is 'just' a single local council seat, that's still quite a remarkable set of numbers.

Quite something for the Jedward poster to be one of the most tasteful elements.

Glad Keir Starmer's Labour government is prioritising stopping musicians from performing. Wouldn't want them distracted from their complicity in Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people and an illegal war on Iran. What a pathetic excuse of a Prime Minister

Kanye West wrote a pro Hitler song called "Heil Hitler."

He sold T shirts with swastikas on them - and suggested that slavery was "a choice."

It's absolutely appropriate that he be banned from the UK and maybe Sultana should pick her battles more carefully.

This presumes that we've reached rock bottom and it won't continue to deteriorate in the same direction. Optimistic, weirdly.

Given the extremely privileged situation the narrator describes, and the fact that they have no idea why that woman said that to them, I suspect they have very little self-awareness.

I'm now thinking Charlotte Owen would be a very interesting guest to have on the show.

from tumblr user exeggcute: I need a polite and effective way to say "hey your heart is truly in the right place and your anger is often righteous but I think sometimes you’re getting recreationally mad about things that are frankly not worth the amount of energy you’re spending on them, and every time you do this you're driving yourself slightly more insane with nothing to show for it," and then I need a way to broadcast that message through a loudspeaker to roughly 30,000 people at once, and THEN I need a time machine to send that message to my past self lol. and maybe a second time machine in case past me tries to be clever and sabotage the version of me who comes through the first time machine

good post

I LOVE it.

Shows hs2 and hs1 not being connected despite terminating less than half a mile from each other

Preach

Not forgetting the classic phone keypad version in Short Circuit 2 when Michael McKean and Fisher Stevens were locked in a freezer and using pop songs as directions.

Needs to be referred to as Trumpflation at every opportunity. If you support Trump you support Trumpflation

The Labour Government should go all out on blaming Trump and Trump's supporters on the right like Reform and Tories for the prices rises, mortgage hikes and lost investment income we will all face as a consequence of this horror.

I regret opting for the Axl Rose sat-nav voice.

Keeps just saying, "Where do we go now? Where do we go?" over and over.

Confused immigration protesters at Julie Goodyear's old mansion Protesters falsely thought the former Coronation Street star's old home was going to house immigrants.

BET LYNCH MOB

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ooh, same results as you!

Any time soon they'll be embracing 15 minute cities

I done this. #humblebrag

Come and join this fab podcast community.

Here's the thing though... I absolutely loved The Wire, but you gave it a chance and very eloquently explained why it doesn't work for you. Surely that quashes the controversy of it?

(Today's chat does make me want to rewatch the whole thing though!)