I think Miliband plays Nick Robinson better than any other politician: polite and playful, coquettish almost. And he always manages to make his point. One of Labour's greatest assets.

Stan and Hilda, Coronation Street set, 1968, photo by Sefton Samuels.

Is Richard Tice’s picture AI-manipulated? Here are five giveaways Experts and social media detectives take a closer look at Reform deputy leader’s image of an apparent campaign event

"The photographer is real," say scrupulously honest Reform.

In which case, their supporters have 6 fingers, can perform levitation, and are campaigning to "Get Stuppence Out."

Stick to tax evasion, Tice. You're absolutely nailing that.

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A bampot writes.

A picture of a rather dilapidated copy of "The picture of Dorian Gray" There is visible water damage to the cover and the plastic cover is yellowing. Obviously, not evident from the picture but there is a truly foul musty smell emanating from it!

Last week, a gentleman returned this rather dilapidated copy of this famous book to us after 50 years. He had found it in his attic!
Presumably this means there is a pristine copy somewhere in our libraries....

Me too!

Sorry I meant the 100 questions churning over the same theme - I get that is important in a parliamentary sense - but it certainly isn't the burning issue of the day for voters, and the day-after-day coverage has become wearisome...

Listening to the Starmer statement re Mandelson affair from the other room and the major takeaway is how overwhelmingly mundane it all is in the great scheme of things...

Please make Preston North End great again, Mr Zadan.

Trying to guess the author... Hugh Walpole?

Haha

Haha

My eyes, my eyes! And Southampton and LEICESTER?

Haha. Glasgow and Scotland generally is a white noise soundtrack of effing, jeffing, cussing and swearing.... I just refuse to believe Sheffield is top!

Glasgow EIGHTH? No way. Should be way fucking higher than that.

Pipe down, Nick Robinson... #R4today

Ossoff: "How does American politics really work? It's coin operated. Money goes in, favors come out. It's been running on secret money, corporate money, billionaire money ... all of this gave rise to a depraved president who exploits this rot to empower and enrich himself"

A reminder that we did this.

(And had to pay Mirror Group Newspapers for the copyright of the text, one of the finest rights payments I’ve ever approved.)

Started / Going

Gives me hope.

This looks a good telly pick next week 'Mint' BBC 1 Monday. I'm a sucker for a yearning young love love story set in Scotland so I'm hoping for 'Gregory's Girl' with gangland villains thrown in. Loyle Carner, too.

Shouldn't this be, I don't know, a positive news story for our media...?

If you'd like to go back to the prosperity of the 1950s, Tax the rich and corporations, as they should be taxed, support Unions for fair wages & vote Liberal.
With thanks to Jeff Tiedrich for the quote.

Come to Cumbernauld #GregorysGirl

Poet and singer, Ivor Cutler.

Debut album 'Who Tore Your Trousers?' released in 1961.

Recorded 22 sessions for the John Peel Show on Radio One.

❤️

Carrying the country on his back? The man can barely carry a coherent thought through a full sentence without stopping for a side quest about windmills.

Rejoin is coming Customs union is a distraction. Only full membership offers a compelling vision of Britain's future.

Rejoin is coming: Talk of the customs union and single market is a distraction. Only full membership offers a compelling vision of Britain's future

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'Fleeing' hahaha

Wonderful pic.