I have had that since yesterday and had not noticed that…

A dot matrix sign in Bradford saying “Drug driving can cost you your licence, car, job & life.

An edition of the Springfield Shopper from the Simpsons, with the headline: “LOCAL MAN LOSES PANTS, LIFE Beaver Rescue Falls Short” Underneath are pictures of four beavers, one of which is facing the wrong way.

Thanks to Bradford Council for the Simpsons inspiration.

A Kindle showing the cover of Columbine by Dave Cullen.

10- This was not an easy or a comfortable read. But it was incredibly compelling. #BookSky📚💙 #BooksOf2026

#OnThisDay 1016 King Æthelred the Unready made an invaluable contribution to the English struggle against the Vikings by dropping dead.

Headline of the Day.

ULEZ also stopping at Barnet, and therefore not including Watford, is a good one.

Road to Canossa - Wikipedia

For context- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_to...

Can only be resolved by getting Trump to kneel in the snow at Canossa for three days and three nights, right?

Sir Humphrey Appleby: I'm aghast.
Bernard Woolley: So was I. I mean it's incredible we didn't know.
Sir Humphrey Appleby: I knew about it.
Bernard Woolley: Then why are you aghast?
Sir Humphrey Appleby: I'm aghast that it got out.

This is the finest ever episode of Yes Minister

The Kindle front cover of The Explorer and the Journalist, by Richard Evans

9- In late 1909, while the entire world was fawning over Frederick Cook, the first person to reach the North Pole, a British journalist who had gone to meet him was busy writing up a hunch; Cook was making the whole thing up… #BookSky📚💙 #BooksOf2026

The government, trying to get out of any situation involving Peter Mandelson:

You’ve persuaded me to give it a second go at some point!

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

JD Vance converted to catholicism less than six years ago and he's trying to lecture the pope on theology.

Impressive it was the same scientist doing it all that time…

The American delegation turned up?

Headline on Hollywood Reporter that reads ”Paddington 4, Escape From New York' Reboot in the Works”

I misread the headline as one movie and got very excited for a moment…

"ARE YOU THE BOY WHO MOWS MY LAWN?"

Pope Julius II, also known as the warrior Pope.

RC Bishop of Birmingham on R4: ‘No Pope would ever talk of war.’

*Pope Julius II, literally nicknamed, the warrior Pope, gazing round awkwardly.*

All of this will end with jd standing barefoot in the snow.

Devastated to have thought of this genius name and then came to the comments 😂

a group of people are sitting on a set of stairs and one of them is wearing a hat Alt: The People’s Front of Judea shouting ‘Splitter!’ at the Popular Front.

Other suggested names:

Official Your Party
Provisional Your Party
Continuity Your Party
Real Your Party
New Your Party
People’s Front of Your Party
Your Party People’s Front
Popular Front of Your Party

The extract from The Magic Lantern where Orban appears at Nagy’s reburial: “Yet the crowd, perhaps some 200,000 strong, is still quiet, subdued, when the last speaker takes the stand. 'Citizens!' cries the raven-haired Viktor Orbán of the Young Democrats. Forty years ago, although starting from Russian occupation and communist dictatorship, the Hungarian nation just once had a chance, and the strength and courage to try to realize the aims of 1848...' "We young people,' he went on, 'fail to understand a lot of things about the older generation... We do not understand that the very same party and government leaders who told us to learn from books falsifying the history of the revolution now vie with each other to touch these coffins as if they were lucky charms. We do not think there is any reason for us to be grateful”

I recently read The Magic Lantern and he just… appears, seemingly out of nowhere.

“The Pope! How many divisions has he got?”

Trump going full Stalin.

With of course the irony being that the bridge between all three is Orban, with his first major public role as ‘speaker everyone praised at Nagy’s 1989 reburial’…

Pour one out for the month Matt Goodwin is having