If you have a strong opinion on Meghan Markle, you get your Internet cut off.

AI has all but shut down the routes to proving yourself via grunt work in so many industries. All the best juniors I trained came in via that way. They didn’t have the social connections or money to position themselves for the success they proved more than capable of, AI is gutting social mobility

John Kerry ordered a $4 Yuengling instead of a $3 Coors Light & our political media spent months tarring him as an out of touch elitist

Not once in the 80s, 90s or 00s do I recall a politician urging the public to embrace email, mobile phones, texting, two factor authentication, online banking, air fryers, or to replace all their cassette collection with a CD collection.

So forgive me if I smell a rat.

I always feel like he hates making an argument because he's a lawyer. Never say anything that might back you into a corner.

It's the classic Mel Gibson and Jesus meme where Mel is on set in normal clothes casually chatting to a very bloody Jesus (for those of you who don't know it).

Mel Gibson pictured with his doctor in 2004

Accusing the Pope (the POPE) of fighting for peace is like the wonderful moment when some mad right wing person accused the Archbishop of Canterbury of 'virtue signalling'. THAT'S THE ENTIRE JOB.

The Last Supper.

"I'd like to gavel in today's board meeting of the American Medical Association...."

Shop sign that reads “The Jerk Valley of London”. Yes, jerk cooking is delicious.

Clapham rebranding just dropped.

One of my son's friends calls me Mrs Andrew's Mum which I find very endearing.

Whereas the arrival of kids in our family meant that my in laws went from First Name to Grandad or Granny. We barely use their names at all any more.

Yep, me too. My kids still do it, actually, especially for godparents.

The world's smallest victory - I have managed to persuade The Bird Seed Man at our local park to stop leaving piles of bird seed on the ground under the feeders. My dog was chomping through pounds of the stuff every day - bad for dogs, bad for birds. But no longer! I live to serve the dog.

"mental illness used to be the ups and downs of life"

No, mental illness used to be your mum taking to her bed for 20 years with what were euphemistically called "nerves".

This says much more about the landlady than it does about the MP.

And if he HADN’T been looking at his phone she would have bitched that he wasn’t working hard enough.

Leaflet of three candidates, white blokes with limited hair, all in glasses. --- **GATESHEAD IS BROKEN. VOTE REFORM UK TO FIX IT** Introducing your Reform UK candidates for Low Fell leaflet text: **ATKINSON, John** Reform UK John has lived in Low Fell for 30+ years. His background is in civil engineering, policing, teaching and transport. He wants to bring back a sense of community, listen to residents' concerns and focus on local issues such as crime, roads and streets, and better services. --- **HENDERSON, Iain** Reform UK Iain has lived and worked in Gateshead all his life. Now retired, he wants to give something back to the borough. With a positive outlook, Iain is looking forward to making a real difference to the lives of the residents of Low Fell and to working closely with them. --- **MURRAY, Arthur** Reform UK Arthur has owned several businesses for many years. He has lived locally for 50 years and employs local staff, servicing the northeast and Scotland. His priorities are to see the ward and area prospering once again, caring for the old and infirm and maintaining our parks and open spaces. ---

This Reform leaflet from three Gateshead candidates looks like a timelapse of the same person

My daughter has just started a First Post Uni Job in the public sector and is being paid £24k. It’s shockingly low for what is quite a complex skilled job, even given that she lives in a cheaper area (aka Not London).

Told my wife to have dinner ready at 6 or I'll obliterate her entire civilization. So anyway, she now charges me a fee to use the bathroom that used to be free, and I didn't get any dinner, but I'm pretty sure I won that exchange.

I lol'd at this.😆

"Magataotao" on Twitter writes: "I am Catholic. This👇is not my Pope." Attached is a video of the Pope saying that we should search for peace and reject war. A community note under their tweet says: "You are not a Catholic if you do not accept the Pope, but rather a schismatic. Canon 751: “Schism is the refusal of submission to the Supreme Pontiff,” ie. the Pope. https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iuris-canonici/eng/documents/cic_lib3-cann747-755_en.html"

first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note

Kate Bush being interviewed, her chin rests on her hand as she looks to the side. a timer reads - 06:02:36:02 caption reads “Kate Bush takes a ten second pause to absorb a thought”

me too

The dog accessories and the colour coded snacks were v good for the Norwich/Ipswich derby - shame that the football was so dire.

CHARLES MOORE NOTEBOOK You often hear of people being "trapped in poverty", but it is also possible to be trapped in wealth. This is David Cameron's fate.

Happy tenth anniversary to this absolute masterpiece of an opening paragraph in the Daily Telegraph.

"We tried trickle-down economics and it just didn't work!" they wailed, "Why must we have so much money?"

Our cat Tilly sitting in front of the tv with her paw on the screen where the parachutes for Artemis II are open

Tilly ‘helping’ Artemis II to splashdown safely

Schools are like "hey lock up your cell phones they're too damaging to the learning process. now please open up your lying plagiarism machine and start generating content"

I hear you, it’s ridiculous. We don’t even eat meat or barely any dairy and it still costs so much.

A McDonald’s where the sign has been reduced to McDo.

There is no McTry.