What idiot put this sign in my view?

Off to a concert at the Southbank tonight and never seen this view before

This is a daft idea

The SNP should be allowed to implement it and be left to deal with its consequences

As if the BBC's reporting of its own investigation into fraudulent asylum cases couldn't get any worse, now Today is interviewing the idiotic Zia Yusuf, who is spreading complete falsehoods right now

A Bulleid light Pacific btw, West County Class

Victoria just now, with my dull service behind

D​r​ ​Paul Knapman, Westminster coroner whose inquests included the Marchioness riverboat disaster Among his inquests were the murdered WPC Yvonne Fletcher, the victims of the Harrods bombing and the deaths of Derek Nimmo and Paula Yates

I'd missed that Paul Knapman, former coroner for Westminster, had died
Attended a lot of his inquests. Always made sure press had whatever gruesome details available
Could be highhanded, & mess over the Marchioness didn't surprise me, but a significant presence

www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/9619156...

Trump and his beggars and hangers-on can’t get their head around the the Pope answers to God and not the whims of a narcissistic buffoon

In just minutes, two different glimpses of Britain

A young black girl rings for an ambulance & notifies station staff to an older man, slumped on the ground

Another older, wildly bearded man, opens the window on a train and shouts to a deserted platform ‘help the pensioners not people on boats’

What was so irritating is how they blamed migrants and immigration generally for the issue rather than what appears to be a criminal enterprise

PSA

Back in the days of Brexit there was this joke reply to the boast that we held all the cards:

"EU lays down a royal flush. UK looks at own cards: Mr Bun the Baker, Pikachu, a Shadowmage, a fireball spell, and the Fool"

Often (mis)attributed to me, it was by @johnnypixels.bsky.social

The Iran War, as it stands, will be seen as the moment the US dumped any international moral authority they might have previously had, probably for decades

They’re now a rogue state, an unreliable ally, a bully

Please enjoy my cartoon for Wednesday's Toronto Star

Iran ceasefire deal a partial win for Trump - but at a high cost The path to the two-week ceasefire with Iran may have fundamentally altered the way the rest of the world views the US.

This isn’t a ‘partial political victory for Trump’

He’s humiliated the United States and no it will take years to recover its reputation

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It’ll change in a day when he realises he’s shamed his whole nation and more violence is the only option

He should be in prison

Trump’s statements are so chaotic, contradictory and absurd that no one, not the US allies or enemies, can vaguely rely on him

He should be ostracised by all

A reminder that this is the same "unhinged" war and President the Daily Mail has spent weeks berating Keir Starmer for not joining and following

How totally absurd

UK signals it will not let US use British bases to attack Iranian infrastructure Downing Street reiterates that Iran conflict ‘isn’t our war’

UK signals it will not let US use British bases to attack Iranian infrastructure ft.trib.al/8UhS78z

This is the ultimate test for a constitutional order.

Either constitutional mechanisms are used to check and balance this, and remove him from office, or they are not.

For there can be no greater test for any constitution.

Penrith station looking lovely in the sunshine, a great stall on a platform and a depressing dose of modern life

Happy Easter!

Here in the Lakes Storm Dave, sorry Rodney, has blown itself out and all seems to be intact

Certainly does

My Met Office app says gusts up to 65

The winds of Storm Dave, sorry Rodney, are ferocious

Absolutely howling around us outside

Hoping we still have power tomorrow to cook an enormous piece of lamb we’ve got

I say this as someone brought up between Catholic and Protestant, and someone who genuinely believes in a higher power and all that. You cannot, by any measure, claim to follow the teachings of Christ and follow anything to do with Donald Trump and his administration.

Up in the Lake District and battened down the hatches for Storm Dave, sorry Rodney

BREAKING: “It is increasingly clear that as the world continues down this volatile path our long term national interest requires closer partnership with our allies in Europe and with the European Union.. Brexit did deep damage to our economy”
Prime minister Keir Starmer 👏

Happy Passover to all those celebrating in London and around the world.

As Mayor, I want to thank Jewish Londoners for your enormous contribution to our capital city.

The illusion and delusion of Matt Goodwin “MattGPT” is a nickname that will follow failed Reform candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election Matt Goodwin to his grave

On MattGPT and the future of bookishness