Don't approach him! He'll have leaflets!

Had to google this is discover there was some other song actually called that, and it's not the Peter Cook/Dudley Moore Goodbye-ee song (though the thought that the Cook/Moore song is the most popular funeral music has its attraction)

I think that's even better. There's a secret clique who get together and pretend they are showing TOTP from 1997. It's not even actually on - they've replaced it with Cash in The Attic.

I never watch it, but trying to work out what horrors are going on based on everyone's comments is a Friday night highlight

So nothing to do with Sutton specifically. It's a national poll of how people say they would vote if they thought their seat was a Lib Dem vs Conservative marginal.

What is the tactical voting landscape in February 2026? Significant numbers of Labour, Lib Dem and Green voters are prepared to vote tactically for each other, as well as the Conservatives, to stop Reform UK

Ah - it's from this -
yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

Hm. I am not aware of anything off the top of my head but I'll have a look. Last lot of elections it turned out to be people basing claims on Westminster MRPs.

Could also be someone shoving a YG poll through a seat projection thing

Score based ones - "super-selectives"- do end up with kids travelling from the other side of London and so forth (and it is beyond me what the benefit of that is beyond boosting the ego of the school leadership in getting high up league tables. Can't believe it helps the poor kids)

Some do, some don't (they are mostly academies so can set their own). There are ones that are almost all catchment area or distance based (closest kids who pass 11+ get in) and those that are mostly score based (highest 11+ scores get in). Some are a bit of a mix.

Lots of people are asking that.

Moon landings aren't real, nukes aren't real, covid isn't real. Have we established what things Delingpole DOES think are real? Is Belgium real? Is cheese real? Is Norfolk real?

Full marks for creativity to Umesh Kumar, who put in nomination papers to stand for Hounslow council in Heston East ward for the Lib Dems - and also to stand in Heston West ward for Reform UK. Unfortunately multiple candidacies aren't allowed these days, and he's been disqualified in both wards.

One of my oldest friends is a SOCO. I think the most glorious example he's given us is a burglary he attended where the burgular had got a taxi to the house he robbed, got it to wait while he robbed it, emerged with the loot, then got the taxi to take him back to his home address.

Yes - you're right. There's no change to the prompting in the main question.

Me too!

He's a former MP now of course, but saw David Evennett (Bexleyhealth and Crayford 2005-2024) pottering round Crayford Sainsburys when I did my shopping this morning. Took me a while to place him.

For context, what do you reckon Covid, the 2008 Financial Crisis, 1973 oil crisis would be on that scale

You're seriously underestimating my Easter chocolate eating capacity here. I could take that egg.

This seems to be veering towards the level of "should Home Secretary refuse visa as not being conducive to the public good" as "should Wireless cancel that"

Filing that under "things that should surprise absolutely no one ever"

A good thread (of course)... 🧵

That's gross. It's don't do antisemitism because it makes it harder to criticise Israel and support Palestine, as opposed to don't do antisemitism because it's racist & abhorrent in and of itself.

Oh come on Chaminda. If you don't know, I suspect you'll be able to guess it in one.

Though of course, we do already have a former Lib Dem MP who has joined ReformUK...

There's time yet

Hell, I can think of quite a few elected councillors who have been in both parties

(Oh, Guards Guards. Yeah, if you didn't like that skip them)

English, Terry Pratchett fan, sardonic humour, left wing-ish, leather jackets, maybe long hair, maybe folk music, Bill Bailey, real ale, usually middle age+. Warhammer adjacent. Likes swords but doesn't necessarily own one?

They are massively "man who wears a certain type of hat" (most perfectly described below)

But it does depend what book you started with. The first two are, frankly, a bit rubbish, so if you started there skip on a couple. If you've already done that, just pass - you aren't going to get on with them

Actually only a fortnight ago!

Jeez, that's fantastic bait. Must have doubled the block list