This morning I’ve seen Olly Robbins’s appearance before the select committee described as ‘box office’, while a commentator flagged up another key political moment with the words ‘bring the popcorn’.

That’s one of our main problems right there.

I'm sure the word 'brutal' has several meanings, but I'm not entirely convinced that is one of them.

What a fucking nutter.

Well, he had the chance....

Is the flame emoji objective or subjective?

You cannot provide clearance to someone who has failed vetting and not think to tell anyone.

You just can't.

Everything else is subsidiary to the above.

This is my analogy...

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They put padding on jail cells now?

They have probably read 'Anti-Fragile'.

That's clearly magic.

Take that, Froggy! 🐸

What an idiot.

But we all know why he's done it (check your Facebook later...).

Genius.

I think there's a lot of bots and malicious foreign accounts on their that a) are responsible for much of what you've said and b) have helped imbed the culture in others using the site.

In the widest possible panoramic field, this does all fit into the Labour-Right 'you need to be a cunt to succeed' world-view.

No but surely government ministers have to correct the record at the earliest possible opportunity.

From “The Simpsons” house genius John Swartzwelder, interviewed in The New Yorker by Mike Sacks

We're getting like Italy in the 1970s.

I'm not a massive fan personally but I think Yvette Cooper would do a decent job.

Surely May, while having some redeeming characteristics, was every bit as bad at politics as Starmer?

It's also a song about death and the meaning of life (and a banger of a Jacques Brel tune too).

If England RU have won a kickable penalty and I say 'they should kick to the corner' and they subsequently lose the line out on their own through I don't get to say 'they should have taken the 3 points' afterwards, do I?

I just dont.

Yes, but I still can't ignore the fact that 'everyone' (that counts) said it was a good appointment at the time.

I guess Mark Rutte was never president.

Trump's lies last Friday and then the unfolding events ahead of markets reopening today aren't even up for much of a debate.

This Life was peak 1990s student TV watching
But Common as Muck even more so.

Maybe they're racist shits too?

Lovely place.... with many great pubs! 🙂

Totally dezerbed.

No, they know its in Hertfordshire they just want to put Londoners first.