If your mate introduced you to his new gf & seemed really in love but you noticed "she" was a murmuration of starlings hovering in the shape of a woman, would you tell him

Sorry but the pig's head detail is soooo high camp..

If people can get a mortgage, they will. The developers feel like they can count on that one broadly. But if they're seeing a surge in costs to get things together to make a development happen (higher NI! limits on visas!), at the same time as a lower approval environment, they're gonna opt to pause

Their transmission mechanism is also through day-to-day spending, it's not an either or! It's the fact they have a chilling effect in general that means it can be broadly counted on to produce the desired outcome on inflation. Erdoğan tried looking through the telescope the wrong way round on this

there is not a lack of demand for housing in the UK, there is a general backdrop of increases in input costs and supply which means developers are inclined to put plans on pause in the hope that something gives soon enough to make the economics add up for them (e.g. lower labour costs)

it's painful but I think seeing the interest rates as the problem here, rather than a shitshow that just has to be grimaced through as the only thing that does eventually iron out the drivers of inflation, has it the wrong way around

that isn't why housebuilding rates have plummeted

Think it’s also as basic as: the government has got a *really* horrible intray. Is it helpful, or unhelpful, to navigate that with a PM who is having to take time explaining why his Mandelson pick was good, or is that a draining distraction?

geri halliwell was murdered and replaced by the government after it's raining men

put your tail between your legs, accept you've probably lost and are gonna have to accept a shite tradeoff because you overestimated yourself, let the rest of the world start to pick up the pieces and get on with what you've fucking left us with, pay the toll and fuck off

why do we have to endure another three years of this thick fucking narcissist

god are we really doing this news cycle again. this is so boring

I'm genuinely not sure I've ever felt so close as I feel right now to understanding what this moment truly felt like

open.spotify.com/track/04o2ES...

URGENT PSA FOR MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN: A NEW MADONNA SONG IS OCCURRING IN MAJOR CITIES ACROSS THE WEST. PLEASE CONSULT STREAMING SUBSCRIPTIONS AND INFORM THE OFFLINE

Agnetha Kjörsvik - Hero (demo for Charlotte Perrelli) YouTube video by SwedishStereo2

shoutout to the demo version, which features backing vocalists higher in the mix repeating lines of the chorus shouting them like they're going into the last charge at gay Minas Tirith youtu.be/PoLWZaNIIZg?...

it's honestly one of the most dramatic sounds ever created

Charlotte Perrelli - Hero YouTube video by CPerrelliVEVO

this is the sound of charging into the most important battle you will ever face in your life (and losing) youtu.be/76f7etXkFZc?...

for example, the greatest song ever recorded is 'Hero' by Charlotte Perrelli: a song w objectively utterly meaningless + trite lyrics on surface reading, but which unmistakably conveys the do-or-die urgency of a woman staring into the chill wind of a botched facelift in her 40s like it's Revelations

What's happening specifically in Februarys in post-growth era UK....

Is it me, or is it weird that the economy grew by 0.5% (uncommonly large monthly growth & outside the usual trend) in February both this year and last year?

JD Vance wearing a white button-up shirt. It looks like it's a size too small for him.

"pope should stay out of politics." brother you need to stay out of a size medium

impossible to hedge, lots of incremental microdosed potemkin market upside opportunities in the meantime for traders to scoop pacman-like, as the entire market landslips towards the "well if that happens we're all boned so does it really matter if we call it right?" outcome

preparing for the summer of sex with a spring of sultriness

WINNER'S PERFORMANCE: Loreen - Tattoo ✨ | Sweden 🇸🇪 | Eurovision 2023 YouTube video by Eurovision Song Contest

The last chorus of this... youtu.be/Vul5zgC5Yvg?...

Chicane feat. Maire Brennan - Saltwater - TOTP - 4 June 1999 YouTube video by Shadow TV Network 2

R.I.P. to Enya's sister this morning. A woman who did much for the Northern Irish tourism board youtu.be/IMByiqEv3SE?...

gay groupchats have ACTIVATED

I hope he doesn’t mind me saying this but Scottish Labour losing *Duncan Hothersall* should be triggering some kind of emergency alarm in Scotlab HQ.

Spring... truly the most fergalicious of all the seasons

Hearing the Pope is weak on lipstick flavour lime crime. More as we get it