Little known fact: if nobody will pay £850,000 for your house, it's not worth £850,000.

Mad fact... 42% of Labour Prime Ministers have had to fire Peter Mandelson.

Should potholing be banned?

You'll only drive it underground.

A golden retriever has both paws up at a bank teller’s window.

“Are you the branch manager?”
“Yes I am, how can I help you?”
“I would like two branches, please.”
“How would you like that?”
“Two big sticks, four little sticks.”

I think what the MCU fails to get about Thor is that serious Thor is the funniest Thor. Nothing is funnier than Thor being played completely straight as a being of infinite majesty and power being sued for defamation by Howard the Duck and represented by She-Hulk.

Starmer’s self image is “I never lie, I always follow the rules”. Jeremy’s self image was “I have been an anti-racist all my life”. Look at the sniffy fury both of them display when their self-image is challenged. That inability to accept criticism and grow is their original sin.

this is a very dark accidental joke about foreign news priorities about Africa

Always wonder how people would see parliamentary set-pieces like the Foreign Affairs Committee hearing if they knew that there was a decent chance that in the committee room next door there is someone sitting in a 10x life size curlew suit.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth • O @SecWar X.com The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force. We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately. 08:21 • 4/21/26 • 251K Views 945 {] 1.7K 8.1K 316

h/t to @kriswernowsky.com for noticing that Hegseth made this announcement in front of a painting of GW crossing the Delaware with soldiers who, only a few months later, he would order to get inoculated.

Actually hysterically laughing at this. You get the feeling he's about to turn to Ed balls and said "I always did say he was a bit of a cunt, didn't I?"

FTA: "If current trends continue, even the Russian Northern Fleet at docked at Severomorsk will soon be vulnerable."

tfw about to lose the Northern Fleet after losing the Black Sea Fleet, to a country which, it always bears mentioning, has not had a navy since 2022

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The idea that being able to diagnose the problems in your rival’s positions on various problems is the same as knowing how to solve those problems is a general one in British politics.

Water companies should not be able to dodge fines.

While they hike bills, dump sewage in our waterways and fail to invest in vital infrastructure, you have to ask - just what is Ofwat doing?

I signed this letter calling for urgent action:

A young white plane mascot with rosy cheeks, a red neck scarf, and a blue pilot’s cap stands in front a digital sign saying “Kansai Airports”.

Kansai Airport's mascot is a young plane named Sorayan.

Tweet by Martina Navratilova. "Predator. That is how he should register. A sexual predator…" quote-tweeting a tweet by "Biology Rules OK" about Dr. Beth Upton, a trans woman

This tweet is highly defamatory and Martina Navratilova should be fired from BBC Sport for it.

It demonstrates an horrendous level of hatred for a trans woman (who was cleared of all wrongdoing in a recent tribunal) because she is a trans woman.

Secretary of War Pete Hegs... # © • 39m The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force. We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately.

Make this make sense.

I always thought Sun Tzu's "Art of War" was a little simplistic and obvious but it turns out yes, you do literally need to tell the Secretary of War "you need to feed your troops and keep them from being wiped out by preventable diseases"

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I'll be honest with you, people don't like Keir on the door but it's not over this Mandelson thing. They don't like him personally

Great news boss, this Mandelson stuff isn’t cutting through on the doorstep because they already think you’re a cunt

2025 Politico headline: Trump on Texas redistricting: ‘We are entitled to 5 more seats’

John Gramlich skeet quoting Trump in NYT today: Trump: “I don’t know if you know what gerrymandering is, but it’s not good.”

A sowing/reaping for the ages

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At a conference with the SFO:

Pattiserie Valerie collapsed in 2018, they charged them in 2023, the first court date was 2026, this was then delayed by the defence requesting more time, so they now won't see court until 2028.

10 years.

For context, SBF was prosecuted for FTX within 12 months.

Lords fair enough. But privy counsellor is the constitutional basis upon which a lot of people, ministers, opposition leader, see material that is fundamental to their work.

It’s not a ‘they’re an ok person because they’ve been made a PC’ it’s ’we are legally able to because they are PC’

There is a crow. You should pay more attention.

It says an enormous amount about the Royal Navy in the late Victorian period that they could essentially build HMS "Fuck That One Ship In Particular" as and when required.

People I expected in likes/replies:

- Steve
- wonderful LGBT+ people
- that one former judge

People I did not expect:

- furries
- comic book artists
- Brits salty that this means they will never rejoin EU

“I miss the days when students used to borrow actual books from the university library” 🙄

A golden retriever lying on a floral carpet with a toy sword in its mouth

"Mom, can we get Dark Souls?"

"We have Dark Souls at home"

Dark Souls at home:

Govt policy dictating that everyone over 16 needs to use a smartphone to prove who they are, while also saying smartphones need to be banned in schools feels like something of a policy mis-step. Also, looking forward to DfE updating guidance so that all homework isn't set through apps