Post-Conquest kings were styled 'x, son of y'. This became a problem after 1327 when a third consecutive Edward became king, so people began to distinguish them as first, second and third.

The sentence "I helped prevent Jeremy Corbyn from leading us through a period of national crisis" always seems to omit "and ensured that, instead, Boris Johnson would."

It's the writers who count - giving actors awards is like handing Michelin Stars to waiters.

Wiki has just led me to this VERY unexpected story about Alan Carr and Lionel Blair

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england...

BREAKING! Reform UK's (sole) candidate for Brixton Windrush ward in Lambeth is named as Oliver Cromwell Khan. Yeah, right.

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

Did he train at Sandhurst?

List of UK politicians/political figures who have declared support for Trump:
• Boris Johnson
• Liz Truss
• Suella Braverman
• Andrea Jenkyns
• Jacob Rees-Mogg
• Nigel Farage
• Lord Frost
• John Hayes
• Robert Jenrick
• Sammy Wilson
• Ian Paisley
• Jake Berry
• Kwasi Kwarteng
• Tim Montgomerie

As I say, I just think I'd get bored pretty much immediately.

I do get the stories about astronauts who come back mentally transformed by seeing how we are bit a tiny speck in the majesty of creation but at the same time I feel the same when I visit one of those Tescos that has two floors.

"I have been in Formula 1 long enough to know who has good intentions and who has bad intentions."

I thought much the same when he opened up the steering in turn five at Catalunya last year.

bsky.app/profile/race...

#F1

Nelson Muntz’s home town?

2/ "We're price taker and not a price maker"

"There is one lesson from this crisis, and only one lesson"

"We need homegrown clean power that we can control"

"We cannot keep being on this fossil fuel roller coaster"

Thank you for the clear explanation
@Ed_Miliband"
x.com/implausibleb...

Surely I’m not the only one who thinks this whenever they see a map of The Strait Of Hormuz on the news?

Nigel Farage managing to fly in the face of the idea that smoking makes people look cooler.

William Shatner is 95.
Here’s what was going through his mind as he boldly went where a small group of people went before.
Humble & haunting.

here in Lincs, we like solar because it doesn't pollute the groundwater, it's quiet, it bring more hedges and more wildlife, it does not bring more traffic like housing estates, the principal land use competitor. The Guardian inexplicably talking up the wrong 'uns

I put a bottle of Thatchers cider in my fridge yesterday, and when I woke up this morning, the milk that was next to it had disappeared.

Congratulations to Me, a Kamala Harris Voter, Who Got Exactly What I Voted For “Trump’s best foreign policy? Not starting any wars… He has my support in 2024 because I know he won’t recklessly send Americans to fight overseas....

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/con...

Discworld QOTD, from Guards! Guards!

"‘I believe you find life such a problem because you think that there are the good people and the bad people,’ said [Vetinari]. ‘You’re wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.’"

I'm having fun

Paul "Mackerel" McCartney singing his classic hit, The Strait of Hormuz

🎶
Strait of Hormuz
Missiles flying out to the sea
My desire is oil shipped straight to us
Oh, Strait of Hormuz

War have I mongered, price hikes have I seen
Distracting the folks from the files of Epstein
With that dead nonce I was *not* in cahoots
As it takes a harsh toll on the Strait of Hormuz
🎶

The words ‘force majure’ will be thrown around quite liberally, I suspect.

Feels not impossible that all 4 will be off.

Can imagine them going 4th October and 20th December.

*blinks*

Easy: The answer to winning wars is to take away any reason your enemy would have to stop fighting, while not going so far as to halt all of their ability to do so (because you’re so generous of course)

Then they stop fighting and give you everything you want because you’re so strong!

Problem is that the word 'think' is absolutely what Donald Trump does not - cannot - do.