And then there was one...

This won't be popular, but IMHO the UK government is right to resist calls to slash fuel duty (at least for motorists)... ⛽️

1⃣ higher prices are the least bad way to manage demand in the face of a supply shock

2⃣ petrol prices are still not particularly high in real terms 👇

Me too.

The Caveman’s Lament   me think about her when sun rises me think about her when sun sets me say to her how much me love her she tell me love invent not yet   me make cave all warm and cosy me lie bearskin on cave floor me play song of love on bone flute she choose cave of Tim next door   me no more go out hunt mammoth me throw spear too short or long me sit in cave me paint her picture  she say me got perspective wrong   me cook meal to show me love her — diplodocus with fried beans — she say food anachronistic me not know what this means   stone age mighty hard for lovers yet rub two flints look what you get small sparks lead to big inferno but she say love invent not yet homo unrequitus

To mark Valentine’s Day, here is what is believed to be the world’s oldest surviving love poem, written 1.5 million years ago by one of our earliest ancestors, homo unrequitus.

The arsehole previously known as Prince

Reform becoming the even Nastier Party

Listening to her I thought it sounded as if Michael Gove had taught her how to speak posh English

The Power of Poetry   with things falling apart and anarchy let loose,   it was only poetry, he found, which had any use,   so he reached for his copy   of The Complete Works of Yeats   and bludgeoned the President of the United States Brian Bilston

Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.

Yeh but how do you really feel.

So they’d toast time with bleach

Trump versus reality on the Chagos Islands:

1. UK is not ‘giving away’ the Chagos Islands. It is restoring them to Mauritius having split them off from the former colony when it became independent in 1965.
2. There is a very compelling reason: in 1965 the UN objected …

@channel4news.bsky.social why are you giving this trumpian woman air time who perpetuates his lies.

Beyond belief

Watching JD Vance since he entered politics has really made me understand the kind of person that led Dante to write about someone so monstrously amoral and treacherous that his soul could fall straight to Hell while still walking around alive and well.

Wouldn’t they be quail’s eggs?

The President’s Busy Holiday Donald Trump spent the past few weeks doubling down on foreign interventions.

FIFA peace prize winner Donald Trump may bomb 3 or 4 countries this week: Nigeria for Christmas, Venezuela now, Syria, considering Iran, Somalia
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Resolution   Having failed to keep A new year’s resolution for Pretty much ever, this year I resolve to Play it safe. The trick is to know Your limits. Keep it simple.   Now what I resolve to do is to Eschew a poetic form. Abstain from Writing an acrostic for a whole   Year. A resolution, I think, Easily done. Eminently achievable. A piece of cake. Oh, Rats. Brian Bilston

Poem with a subliminal message.

Happy New Year / З Новим роком! from the NOELREPORTS team!

Wishing you a peaceful, joyful, and healthy 2026. A year in which we want Russia to leave Ukraine, and Ukraine can be fully sovereign again, as it used to be.

We won’t stop reporting. Thank you for all your support.

NOEL & team 💛

As a child I wondered why the Lord’s Prayer was about some Father Whichart in heaven

POLL: Is Britain right to rejoin the Erasmus EU education scheme? Work on the UK joining Erasmus was announced as part of the Prime Minister's post-Brexit reset deal with Brussels in May. The UK left the scheme under Boris Johnson.

There's a poll on this page. You know what to do. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Keir Starmer needs to stand up for the BBC against Trump's outrageous $5bn lawsuit and protect licence fee payers from being hit in the pocket.

Trump wants to interfere in our democracy and undermine our national broadcaster. We cannot let him.

Met commissioner Mark Rowley says Trump talks 'complete nonsense' about crime in London - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Disappointing you give this odious criminal air time. Please call him out and that Russia has illegally invaded a democratic sovereign nation.

One has to read the article to appreciate your irony

Should be Their Party.

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This petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy already has over 26,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 this week.

Please sign and share 🙏

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Perhaps because there’s nothing to be grateful for in this plan.

Trump, according to JD Vance, can’t understand why Russians and Ukrainians aren’t trading, travelling or doing cultural exchanges instead of fighting.

Trump, JD Vance and the whole MAGA clan are completely detached from reality and have no clue about this war, at all.

Trump’s lawyer’s letter to the BBC: “Due to their salacious nature, the fabricated statements that were aired by the BBC…”
OED definition:
salacious / ▸ having or conveying undue or inappropriate interest in sexual matters.
Hmm.