I mean it seems we can't even get a consistent line on whether they're even going to turn up in Islamabad

If the US knew they were going to end up bogged down negotiating with inchoate factions within its state apparatus maybe they'd have thought twice about wiping out the entirety of Iran's leadership

via Dom Cumming's latest Substack. What a tiresome dickhead

Iran sabotaging the West by forcing bored left leaning office workers to stop posting on Bluesky and transfer their angst about the state of the world onto their colleagues, company infrastructure.

Currently cooking rice in beef stock for part of the 12 year old's pack lunch tomorrow and wondering if I've taken the challenge of making her interesting things to eat too far.

Just got a Wes Streeting fronted YouTube ad telling me Britain is turning a corner

One legged blindfolded is only 2 hours 21 minutes which sounds more achievable until you close your eyes while standing on one foot.

As part of my current physiotherapy I have to stand on one leg on a wobbly cushion every day. As I find it so easy I've been progressively making it a longer and longer period. Anyway the world record is apparently 76 hours and 40 minutes which just raises a whole bunch of questions.

We're at the stage of the scandal where no 10 wanting Mandelson appointed as quickly as possible is reported as yet more damning evidence. Do feel we'll look back on this period in a few months and struggle to explain what all the hysteria was about.

I think most of this is me taking out that order with the egg lady at the farm round the corner where she delivers me 30 eggs a fortnight. I'm drowning in them. Please help.

Torsten

"The result will be the same - It already is!"

So the goal the US are fighting for has already been achieved yet they fight on to achieve it still!

I think whatever happens with the situation in the Strait of Hormuz is going to have a bigger impact on the UK than whatever happens with Keir Starmer's leadership.

Won't he just pay Isabel Oakeshott to gather a bunch of single sourced gossip about you and then stick his name on the cover?

Listening to an interview with Damon Albarn and my opinion of him isn't helped by the fact that he has similar vocal characteristics as Harry Enfield doing Kevin the Teenager

Why would you brief this out?
Unless perhaps it's a desperate warning as the PM has been up all night drinking and has just left for Parliament on foot carrying an axe

We only do it because it makes the gilt market jealous

BBC News loves using the phrase "under pressure". One of those phrases that sounds informative and newsy but is largely meaningless.

A victory arch without a victory to celebrate. Just a celebration of generic victory.

Yep, we have all built second kitchens and erected 12 foot pieces of granite in the garden with the 2015 Labour election pledges engraved on them and await the coming of the mansion tax as was prophesised

Trump-like Leadership in German History w/Chris Clark: Part 1 – Kaiser Wilhelm II? 238

David Runciman talked to Chris Clark about exactly this on on his podcast:
www.ppfideas.com/episodes/tru...

I haven't looked at the polling data but my sense is the tide noticeably started to turn on Reform and Farage about the same time Jenrick and Braverman defected.

Academic publishing is just a euphemism for a psychological experiment of producing books that cover a reader's interests exactly and then seeing how likely they are to spend £135 on them.
When I'm PM for the day I'm banning the entire practice or SNP price capping them at £20

I think I'd have left that photo out of the story. Could be almost anyone with dark hair, glasses and a pair of y-fronts on his head

The photo makes it looks like this was all part of his devious plan

Line chart of reported cervical cancer deaths per 100,000 women in the United Kingdom from 1950 to 2021 where the rate falls from about 8.6 deaths per 100,000 in 1950 to about 1.7 in 2021, an approximately 80% decline.

Death rates for cervical cancer in the United Kingdom have fallen by 80% since 1950—

Cervical cancer death rates among women in the United Kingdom have fallen by around 80% since 1950. You can see this reduction in the chart.

This progress happened for a couple of key reasons.

One who's recently divorced the mother of his child?

Isn't it on of those KDP print on demand books which means Waterstones can't stock it?

Did Jeremy Bentham write anything about the planning system?