A special award for Jennie Formby for finding the worst possible reason on God's green earth to leave the Labour Party.

Should potholing be banned?

You'll only drive it underground.

Poor TrainyMcTrainFace.

Name our plushie competition Name our plushie and win an LNR goody bag including a brand-new train plush!

And now London Northwestern are asking commuters to give said plushie a name.

www.londonnorthwesternrailway.co.uk/competitions...

That would be good going for delivery of those trains, if they were only a day late!

Of course. I can’t unsee that now.

Absolutely. There’s even a cute little salamander nose pointing south, if you squint at it.

The Texas 2nd: York Outer, but on speed.

Ok, this is a definite step up from the large, plush London Northwestern Class 730 I saw at Northampton station on Saturday. And that wasn’t handing out free socks.

Indeed. A Conservative governor of Lancashire would never let Labour-leaning Morecambe and Lancaster each have their own seat!

In the river valley, per chance 🤔

Who am I to say, as someone who has never set foot in Louisiana, that this isn’t a close reflection of how the ties of community, economy and service provision pan out in that corner of the Pelican State?

Ironically true.

Agreed. I mean, I have views on Gavin Newsom, not all of them positive, but I can’t deny that by leading with the nose on the response to this, he may yet end up doing the wider world a great service.

Their Boundary Commission was the London Protocol of 1814.

Do I think the Boundary Commission for England (etc) is a perfect body? No. Do I think having something a bit like it is a near essential part of being a functioning representative democracy? Pretty much.

Compromise a little bit on space, and she can afford Bath.

I hate gerrymandering and find any system that allows it to happen in such a naked way incomprehensible. But I can't deny, given how this all started,that this outcome is very, very funny.

Depluralise a movie:

Crow on the Orient Express

that sound you just heard is Russia losing the war

Interesting, we’ve not had that response at all! And yes, I agree with you re good nights sleep for all…

You did better than me! I was slightly led astray by a stray S.

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Yeah, that Basingstoke guy should have been urgently turning down his boiler regardless of soaring energy prices.

You’d be able to see the reflection of the glass of cider in the sheen of the boiler if that was the case.

I love it when the Guardian publishes the overly-detailed stock photo captions in full. Obviously, I could already tell this was Basingstoke. The quality of the light is quite distinctive.

This is good news, so I won't make a cheap jibe about people only travelling the full 8 hours because you have to spend three hours stuck at Hamm (Westf).

One positive way of looking at it, I suppose.

Given Talgo’s recent history re delivery and reliability of trains, I’m not sure I’d announce to my potential foes that they were playing a vital role in national defence.

Ha, all the curled-bill birds together.

The idea that being able to diagnose the problems in your rival’s positions on various problems is the same as knowing how to solve those problems is a general one in British politics.