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We've got bread truthers now

🎒 UK parliament returns this morning, and Keir Starmer’s government is getting into the back-to-school spirit with education- and childcare-related announcements. But many Labour MPs are anxious to see the reshuffle they want from a government flatlining in the polls. London Playbook dives in 👇

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Episode 2, Season 6 Inspiral Carpets, Life @LlSTENlNG_PARTY podcast, ready for your ears right now t.co/hUX3CqHKf8 @inspiralcarpets.bsky.social

Summer is over — and we appear to be heading into an autumn of discontent as both France and Poland’s prime ministers find themselves frantically navigating tricky domestic politics. Brussels Playbook explains 👇

The reason this is important is because viewers / readers are looking for clues re: wants & needs in your opening beats, so they can predict behaviour. Failing to give data on money and stability will make them guess, and if their guess is wrong they can’t read the story properly, may feel betrayed.

"You're not going to engage with yet another long thread on the same topic, so I just made up your responses for you." Gee. Thanks.

Doubts have surfaced over Kemi Badenoch’s claim to have been offered a place at a prestigious US medical school at 16, with admissions staff unable to recall the proposal and the university not providing the course. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Fewer consultants in private hospital system is driving premium hikes

Le socialisme, espoir d’une partie du bloc central, avec une peur commune: la dissolution. A découvrir dans Playbook Paris concocté par Anthony Lattier 👇

About 622 people were killed and more than 1,500 injured in an earthquake that struck eastern Afghanistan, authorities have said

The epicenter of the 6.0 magnitude temblor struck near the Afghan-Pakistan border, and the death toll is expected to rise.

More than 600 killed in Afghanistan earthquake, Taliban interior ministry says

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 ANIMATED on YouTube and Spotify... 🔫WW1: THE MIRACLE ON THE MARNE🔫 With France teetering on the brink of collapse, the French launched a desperate counter-offensive against the advancing Germans. Known as the Miracle on the Marne, this clash turned the tide of the First World War.

Norway has agreed to buy five new British warships in a deal worth £10bn. Defence Secretary John Healey says the deal "deepens our strategic partnership" with Norway news.sky.com/story/norway...

Another day, another utterly shameful cruelty against refugees announced. Recognised refugees - so people granted the long term right to stay in the UK because they have escaped real danger - will face new barriers to reuniting with spouses & children safely in the UK #r4todat

Today’s Big 45 @greatesthitsuk.bsky.social

It’s been another bumper year for my haters

The Tánaiste has described threats made against his family as "despicable" and that threatening children "is a line no decent society should tolerate being crossed."

Say it again, and again, and again. They are not "illegal immigrants". -seeking asylum is legal and has been since 1951. This legally trumps all arguments of “but they arrived by illegal means”. That’s just a fact. That’s why you don’t see asylum seekers arrested & charged. Our MSM must do better.

Farage is whipping up anger against the ECHR with false claims. As The Bear brilliantly writes: “The ECHR [is] the foundation that protects you from your own government.” That's why leaving the ECHR would be a Really Bad Idea.

✍️ Atlantic circulation collapse could come sooner than expected Brian McHugh interviews Professor Sybren Drijfhout, lead author of the new report, who explains why cutting carbon dioxide emissions to net zero is becoming even more urgent to prevent AMOC collapse and climate disaster.

Love when people get tattoos with specific subculture meanings without realising that’s what it is, just saw someone with an upside-down pineapple tattoo who is going to find out that they’re going to attract a lot of swingers on their honeymoon

New @therestpolitics.bsky.social LEADING with Norway PM Jonas Gahr Store - on relations with U.K. post Brexit, and Trump Term 2 (with the tricky issue of the Nobel!) Plus how Norway built its wealth fund and switched to tech, and more. Nice guy and very smart alastaircampbell.org/2025/09/151-...

Indonesian authorities ramped up security after six people were killed in unrest over perks for politicians that escalated into violent anger against the nation's police force.

A man has been arrested after he drove his car into the gates of the Russian consulate in Sydney, Australian police said.

Bram, Fionnuala and Marty are among 21 new names for the upcoming storm season in Ireland.

Dublin City Council has said it is considering how to respond to the erection of tricolours on lampposts in communities across the city, which are believed to be part of a campaign by anti-immigration groups.

The Central Bank's controversial authorisation of documentation issued to investors in Israeli bonds expires today.

China's President Xi Jinping has criticised "bullying behaviour" in the world order as he gathered Eurasian leaders for a showpiece summit aimed at putting China front and centre of regional relations.

Hundreds of people are feared dead and injured after a magnitude 6 earthquake struck Afghanistan's northeastern province of Kunar, authorities said, as rescuers combed the rubble of homes in a search for survivors.

Hundreds feared dead after quake hits Afghanistan as rescuers struggle to reach remote areas - follow live

Ukraine-Russia war latest: Europe has ‘pretty precise’ plan to send troops to Ukraine; Zelensky vows revenge

“They took away our land, our language, and our religion; but they could never harness our tongues...” ― Brendan Behan

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Bert

By the way, this wasn’t even the most offensive heckle I had this week, on Thursday someone in the audience went “are you from Doncaster?” and I had to say “That’s the most offensive thing anyone’s ever said to me, and I look like this”

Wrestlers are the best in the world at working with a crowd. They play the audience like an instrument. Comedians and world leaders have got nothing on them.

rewatching Desperate Housewives for the first time since it came out on TV and it's.....so fun? Bree having to pick a "serious" safe word as Rex talks her through what BDSM entails and her saying "Palestine"? flawless television

Watching a video about the Pika, and the narrator said that they eat up to 180 times their body weight over winter. I did the calculations, that’s nearly 2 tonnes if I attempted that. Honestly, I’m willing to give it a go this year

Watching a video about the Pika, and the narrator said that they eat up to 180 times their body weight over winter. I did the calculations, that’s nearky 2 tonnes if I attempted that. Honestly, I’m willing to give it a go this year

Is Rudy Giuliani so poor he’s taking money to advertise Coyote Vs ACME?

Went out four times with a man. Slept with him twice. But hadn't shared a meal as our dates were just drinks. After I saw him eat, I had to break it off. He hunched over the table and shoveled an entire plate of pasta into his mouth in 90 seconds. It was gross to witness.

absolute peak of that was a few years ago when I was sleeping REALLY badly so got some sleeping pills then I ended up getting so anxious about the sleeping pills making my heart stop in my sleep (??) that'd I'd just lie there, wide awake, panicking the human brain! a flawless machine!

I, personally, have no further questions about Giuliani's statement I think it was crystal clear actually

love that being anxious makes you bad at sleeping and sleeping bad makes you feel anxious, whoever came up with that really nailed it

The proliferation of super-white, straight teeth really spoils television or movies set in the past. Just how did that 15th century peasant get them that straight on a diet of offal and crap bread?

sunset, Devon

Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey will tomorrow table a motion in Parliament in an attempt to force the Government to publish legal advice it has received on potential breaches of international law in the Israel-Gaza conflict

Pornography is terrible here. It is the law to wear a seat belt.

Just found out that Rudy Giuliani is in hospital after he got kicked in the anus and taint by a gang of fast boys just moments after he saved five kittens from a tree. No further information at this point.

My wife broke her arm cycling. She asked me to help her with her markup tonight. I agreed and asked for her guidance. And now I know that the proper word is foundation and not grout.

I'm just not afraid of wasps. I've been stung by wasps before and honestly it was nbd. If one comes near you just smack it out of the air BUT always with an open palm.

bleak lol at this bit of timeline synchronicity

Increasingly finding that the main difference between me and my friends who have children is the quantity of posts about competitions to visit pumpkin farms/Santa's village shared on our respective Instagram stories

So, I've just watched 'The Thursday Murder Club' on Netflix, starring Pierce Brosnan, and I really think we ought to give him more credit now for his singing in Mamma Mia!

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland has recalled a batch of mixed leaves over the presence of listeria monocytogenes

Went to a vinyl fleamarket today. Each and every stall a clone of the last: Barclay James Harvest, Eagles, Supertramp, Dr Hook, Journey, Bread, Toto, Chicago. Finally found a stall with a jazz box: Barbra Streisand, Johnny Mathis, Dixieland 'favourites' played on a zither. I came home empty-handed.

also I'm sorry but it's just a less good version of my take, which is "ban tourism but keep immigration; if you think you'd like a place then fucking commit to it"

Next week, I'll be chatting about my new book 'Good Days, an A-Z of hope and happiness' at: Chorleywood Bookshop on Tuesday Sept 2 Shaw Theatre, King's Cross, London on Weds Sept 3 Sevenoaks Bookshop, on Thursday Sept 4 Toppings bookshop Bath,on Friday Sept 5 I hope to see you at one of these!

Next week, I'll be chatting about my new book 'Good Days, an A-Z of hope and happiness' at: Chorleywood Bookshop on Tuesday Sept 2 Shaw Theatre, King's Cross, London on Weds Sept 3 Sevenoaks Bookshop, on Thursday Sept 4 Toppings bookshop Bath,on Friday Sept 5 I hope to see you at one of these!

We have got three baby seagulls.

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On the night of August 30th 2025, Mayor Giuliani was adjusting a - slippery and defective - ornamental codpiece he'd been gifted by the Austrian ambassador, when he slipped and fell into Club L'Amore Gentleman's Club in Hoboken. It was at this point tha

I listened to a lot of Slayer while I was pregnant. Baby now has a schedule but won't go to sleep until she's heard Raining Blood.

Who among us hasn't had exactly this very specific, and not all unlikely, sequence of events happen to us every once in a while.

When you download ChatGPT.

In times of sadness angels wrap us in their comforting wings

A spokesperson for the 81-year-old former New York City mayor said Giuliani was assisting a domestic violence victim at the time of the crash.

Gardaí are investigating a threat made to Tánaiste Simon Harris and his family

When you download ChatGPT.

"No other Irish poets - writing either in verse or in music - have come within a Honda’s roar of Kavanagh and Morrison." - Paul Durcan (Magill, May 1988)

Up to 31mm of rain at Carron station in Burren County Clare but less than 1mm in parts of East. Showers still crossing the country and will continue tonight and into Monday. Risk of heavy rain Tuesday night has increased but worst looks to be overnight.

'“You said Britain is on the wrong track. Which of these moments, if any, do you think is most responsible for putting Britain on the wrong track?” ... by a long way, “the 2016 Brexit referendum” is the most damned cause of the apocalypse'

Monday tomorrow.

If the Treasury is the Slytherin of government departments, then MHCLG, DSIT, HMRC, and DfT are the Hufflepuffs. FCDO is Ravenclaw.

published my Guide To Reading More Books nearly exactly a year ago so I guess it's time to post it again youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/learning-h... [free to read!]

Monday tomorrow.

Au revoir Saint Malo. Merci.

Free online attendance at The Fantasy Summer School 2025, organised by the University of Oxford, and Bloomsbury Publishing, that brings together the expertise of scholars, publishers working with fantasy authors. Link here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/oxford-blo... Please share :)

Back in 1908, when Kenneth Grahame published 'Wind in the Willows', water voles were a common sight along the banks of Britain’s rivers. Today, after much predation by American mink introduced in the 1950s, water voles are one of the UK’s most endangered species... - but are now making a comeback!

Luas suspended in parts of Dublin city until end of November as bridge damaged in fire must be demolished www.independent.ie/irish-news/l...

The Luas operator has said the George's Dock Bridge, which was damaged in a fire, will be demolished and rebuilt, causing delays to passengers on the Red Line until the end of November

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"In December last year, Resolute 1850 Ltd was incorporated in the UK. With a thinktank soon to be launched and funds from MAGA, American Big Tech and the US religious right already pledged, it seeks to use Reform as a vessel to bring Project 2025-style policies to the UK."

"The myths are seductive, the reality is very different – without the ECHR your freedoms rest on whichever Home Secretary wakes up grumpy"

I made a dad joke yesterday and my son said “How are you married?” and we realised we’d hit on a strange paradox: How come dads haven’t died out naturally?

I was 30 miles from home when I realised there was a bee stuck in the car. I felt strangely guilty and drove all the way back home to let her out so she didn't get stranded with no hive.

Good grief - as if Douglas Carswell wasn't bad enough when he was in the UK. Trump's America has radicalised him further.

"Sludgy" Whoever wrote the audio descriptions for the new Led Zeppelin documentary on Netflix doesn't appear to like Led Zepp. Others said "band plays cacophonously", "Plant sings indistinctly" and "dissonant warbling". There were a couple more, but I can't find them now.

Guy shouted “fucking lesbian” as I walked to the microphone tonight, and before I had chance to compliment him on his power of observation the entire audience went “No! You need to leave.” To him and wouldn’t let me start until they’d physically thrown him out.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said he is mentally preparing for a long war in Ukraine — but wouldn’t be drawn on whether Berlin will deploy peacekeeping troops should there be a ceasefire.

Israel stepped up its assault on Gaza City over the weekend, killing at least 45 people and leveling residential buildings, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s security cabinet prepared to discuss plans to seize the city.

The Apple TV documentary using actors to lipsync the Maurice Grosse tapes is the single best Fortean-related TV series I’ve ever seen. You need to watch the whole run, but it goes from a classy sort of Most Haunted Premium to something really remarkable.

This is about him pooping himself to death and I can't wait to understand!

🧵 Frederic Leighton (1830-96) was an English painter & sculptor who rose to the heights of society & who was considered a great artist by his contemporaries. His reputation has declined since then, but has rightly undergone re-evaluation in recent years. [1]

You say you are setting up a D&D campaign set in a bustling city rich with political intrigue and Machiavellian-esque plots, and there is always one cunt that comes to the table wanting to play a Druid. Read the fucking room, Tom.