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Two things are simultaneously true: 1. The Iranian regime treats its people with extreme brutality and cruelty, and we should honour the citizens seeking to overthrow it. 2. A US attack on Iran would turn a crisis into a catastrophe.

An important reminder

Absolutely insane story about a middle-aged woman from Hertfordshire who got arrested, shackled, and detained by ICE and held in a prison for eight weeks.... while on holiday... with a valid tourist visa... as she tried to leave the country.

Nobody chooses to get born into monarchy, and for many royals it's miserable. A true gilded cage. Over and above the overwhelming case for a republic on democratic and constitutional grounds, there's that Andrew, however, is the very worst product of the system. Grasping, entitled, nasty, stupid.

This is absolute gold

Russia is using cold as a weapon of war. But Ukraine's resistance is remarkable. And Europe's solidarity remains as strong as ever. We are rebuilding Ukraine's energy grid and improving its protection. We are supporting Ukraine through this winter.

🚨VERY IMPORTANT! ON 16 MARCH PARLIAMENT WILL DEBATE A PETITION FOR BY-ELECTIONS TO BE TRIGGERED AUTOMATICALLY WHEN MP’S DEFECT CONTACT YOUR MP NOW and ask them to attend the debate and support this petition - let’s sort this out once and for all

Exactly what happened in Nazi Germany and occupied Europe

Why the Gorton and Denton by-election could be the moment when Nigel Farage's meteoric rise finally starts crashing down www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...

🚨 Cabinet Office investigating Labour Together and Josh Simons over campaign to smear journalists But...ministers overseeing inquiry have received £150,000+ from Labour think tank Experts and MPs demand 'full independent investigation' New on D4S: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-g... 🧵

Daughter's boyfriend asked my permission to ask her to marry him. I agreed on the condition he's wait until May. I'm getting my new motorbike in April and if he did it before then, my wife would make me divert the money to the wedding fund. He agreed. Top lad.

Imagine being amongst a clump of cunts you’re the one given the nickname The Cunt.

Jon Sopel to Robert Jenrick ⬇️ "You were a Remainer when David Cameron was PM. You were a Brexiteer when Boris was." "When the Tories are languishing in the polls, you’ve gone to the party that is leading in the polls."

Anyone watching Small Prophets? Unusual, gentle and beautiful ❤️

🔥 This is important. Please do have a read.

With Donald Trump's U-turn on the Chagos Islands deal reportedly because Keir Starmer refused the US permission to launch Iran strikes from RAF airbases in the UK, today's YouGov poll finds 58% of Britons back the PM's call yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

A Royal Reckoning. JonathanPie.com youtu.be/yiOvAgw4hwE?...

SO proud to hear the name of our quiz in the mouth of Michael Palin and the words of Mackenzie Crook. How lovely to exist in that universe. Small Prophets is wonderful.

EXCL: Matt Goodwin, Reform UK’s candidate in Gorton & Denton byelection, was accused by woman working at GB News of making inappropriate comments which she viewed as sexually harassing - story by @helenahorton.bsky.social & me www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Have asked ministers for months on my Sunday show as to whether the govt would remove Andrew from the line of succession. Was dismissed each time as unnecessary: “he’ll never be King.” Things have changed.

Doughnut French Toast is #RecipeOfTheDay and I couldn’t be happier about it! I don’t deny that this is just eggy bread with a good shake of sugar, but somehow it conveys essence of doughnut with each sugary bite. If you want to dip into some jam as you eat, feel free! www.nigella.com/recipes/doug...

Drank a full mug of tea by dunking biscuits in it until it ran out. One and a bit packs of digestives, supermarket own brand, just as good as McVitie's. Massive sense of achievement, don't know how I can ever top this moment.

Netflix, the leading suitor to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, said Friday that Paramount “continues to mislead stockholders and distract from the facts.”

Closer examination of the Epstein files provokes fresh questions about Reform UK treasurer Nick Candy and his brother Christian’s development of the One Hyde Park super-prime apartment block: messages within the latest release appear to contradict their tax-avoiding account of the project.

Someone's told him that writing In single lines Like this Is authoritative But if you do it all the time It's incredibly annoying And comes across like a racist haiku

"I'm just glad the Queen didn't have to see this" I wish she HAD seen it and THAT had been what killed her (instead of the deadly handshake of Liz Truss).

Ah yeah, remember the good old days when the only way into the 24-hour butcher's was via a trapdoor in the miniature phone box?

LUCY POWELL: 'Reform UK are no friends of working people in Manchester or anywhere else' www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Peak O'Neill

Out at 6:50 with #sophiefromromania as without the Prof we had a vast amount to do if I was to get to the #BrentfordFC game. At halftime wishing I’d had lie-in

Is a brutally honest revaluation of why Labour won in 2024 necessary to revive its fortunes? Great weekend read by @jessicaelgot.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Little surprises me nowadays. But this story still managed to shock me.

Whispers *he's going to give in the moment he loses*

L: Scoop in The Telegraph yesterday boasting: “The Telegraph has learnt that the King urged his mother, Elizabeth II, to veto the appointment but his warnings that it would end in disaster were ignored” R: Flunkey’s column from Eye 1668, three weeks ago. Stay ahead of the news; buy the Eye.

I’m sure the Sunday morning politics shows can’t wait to raise this with Reform UK's Treasury spokesperson Robert Jenrick when he does the interview round in the morning

Mayor of Greater Manchester @andyburnham.bsky.social calls on the voters of Gorton and Denton to back Labour in the by-election. “I see this by-election as a defining moment in British politics” www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

I don’t think watching stones sliding on ice should be this stressful.

Yeah. Because the dentist was the REAL victim in the senseless murder of Cecil the Lion.

Buster Gonad himself would be stunned into quivering silence by the scale and ambition of this enormous bollocks from Goodwin.

High Court costs are insanely high. Like, mind boggling high. The fact that this eejit can afford to keep this ridiculous circus on the road is wild, and clear evidence that the Burkes are being funded from elsewhere

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity Edvard Munch

I'm in Warrington Bank Quay. It's hard not to do the voice. youtu.be/56CE36ehg3Q?...

London, rain, bus, window

The BBC Sports website is so funny. Money? IN SPORTS!? Peter just blew this whole case WIDE open.

Only 36 new far-right British political parties til Christmas

I'm a sommelier and was trained to open a bottle of champagne silently. They taught us that it should be "as quiet as a lady's fart." Fuck that. I love the sound of a loud bottle pop so I open it as loudly as I can.

Celebrity literature is a cancer. Signing authors based on their fame rather than talent or creativity is just another modern concentration of wealth and power at the expense of everyone else.

London is unrivalled when it comes to museums. Many of the best are free to enter, so everyone can enjoy them. From iconic collections to celebrating hidden histories, our museums set the standard ⤵️

Over at the Winter Olympics a team were just a bit shit getting in to their bobsled at the beginning of their second run and the commentator yelled "OHHHHH MESSY LOAD!"

John Lennon: “I'm cynical about society, politics, newspapers, government. But I'm not cynical about life, love, goodness, death.”

Whilst doing my teacher training course I slept with an older married man, after meeting him in a club. I turned up on Monday for my first placement in a local primary school, and to my horror, he was the teacher there that I'd be shadowing.

Look everyone. If the sliding stones are just too stressful, switch to Channel 4 for a lovely trip to Rome. I’m there.

Nina Simone's birthday. Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter from It Is Finished (Live 1974). Drums/percussion on THIS though. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h-0...

Sorry, everyone, but since Andrew has been stripped of all his official titles, the correct way to refer to him now is using his Royal Protection Service nickname. I don’t make the rules.

'Can you produce any evidence of that? I've been looking for 40 years...' @matthew-wright.bsky.social asks caller Steve to justify claims that the Royal Family generates more money than they cost taxpayers.

Moved house eight years ago. My parents met the movers with the first load of stuff at the new place. They helpfully put all of the kitchen stuff in cupboards of their choosing. Did we ever rearrange those cupboards? Did we fuck.

Everyone called me Rodney at school because I looked like a younger Nicholas Lyndhurst. When they put on a musical version of his life story, I auditioned. I didn't get the part. My younger sister did.

It's now obvious we shouldn't let businessmen or rich people into positions of power. Duty becomes self-enrichment. Stewardship becomes exploitation. Policy becomes insider trading.

Good. "With several other major cases involving controversial uses of executive power, such as efforts to end birthright citizenship and to dismiss a Federal Reserve governor based on alleged improprieties, this may not be Trump's only setback in the coming months."

Before social media idiots were kept at arm's length, whether it be sporting opinions or politics, now decent conversation is polluted by thick cunts who haven't got a clue.

Me & Mr Bean flying the flag 😂

In Amsterdam, took magic truffles, went to a park, waited for them to kick in. Mate got nauseous and vomited before proper digestion. Woman's dog ate his sick. She looked at us in disgust, but imagine she'd have been even angrier when her dog eventually began tripping balls.

Anyone fancy a Lord Protector? One who would abolish the Lords as well as the royals? Read my pitch here! countbinface.substack.com/p/anyone-fan...

Don't know what's happened to England but this is a total shambles. Worst I've seen them play in a long time. Endless basic errors. Even from Ford.

🛺 No more rip-off fees 🛺 No more blaring music 🛺 More background checks and regulations for operators From October, pedicabs will be regulated by TfL. Raising standards for Londoners and visitors alike.

I think this is a correct response to Wuthering Heights. Everyone should read it once (or twice if you first read it as an impressionable teenager who only finished the first bit) but it's a deranged, claustrophobic fever dream of a novel that is far closer to Gothic horror than a romance.

In the sixth form photocopy room, I found a code that gave me unlimited free copying. In lesson, I overheard a teacher say to another that someone was using their code & what they had changed the new number to. Tried it & it worked, so continued to get endless free copying. Sorry

In times of increasing division, it’s important that all Londoners know they are valued and welcome in our city. With the National Lottery Community Fund, we’re creating a new network of community spaces across the capital. Find your nearest one: www.london.gov.uk/programmes-s...

Some of the flights are having their luggage screened wonder if we will - may have to unpack my cake tins.

This somehow might be the best game I've ever seen Jamison Gibson-Park play. And he's been one of the best 9s in the world for five years.

Come to Fesshole Live in 2026! Tickets on sale for Glasgow, Leicester, Luton, Leeds & Cambridge. Sweden Tour visits Malmö, Göteborg and Stockholm, and Anon Opin hits Leicester and Glasgow. Best of Fesshole, audience confessions, secret history & more: https://sites.google.com/view/fesshole

Trump is considering military strikes against Iran amid nuclear talks between the country and the U.S.

I work for an international company in a technical role, managed my way through the hiring process in the hope that I will pick up the technical aspects. Now in my fifth year there and still never learned a thing, always getting colleagues to do it, or other workarounds.

Welcome to my bank vole crib 👋🙂 Having bank voles near your woodland campsite is a good thing. In fact it’s the reason our campsite is where it is They live in shallow burrows, so will not choose waterlogged ground. And they like our sausage roll crumbs

BREAKING: President Trump has announced he will raise global tariffs from 10% to 15% on countries "many of which", he claims, have been "ripping off the US for decades"

-> Build your entire game around winning aerial contests -> Pick a winger who is dogshit in the air -> Wonder why the plan isn't working anymore

I am a tall, balding man, and I take great comfort in seeing other men who are also going bald. I sometimes wonder whether they've noticed yet, especially if they're only just starting to thin.

Deeply worrying. "Trump has attacked judges and weakened global safeguards. Someone needs to stand up to the US and stop the erosion of democracy."

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New post just out: "The signal and the noise" How media fragmentation is changing politics and what governments need to do to adapt. Or how do you get a message out when no one is reading papers or watching TV? (£/free trial) samf.substack.com/p/the-signal...

I used to work making porn videos, behind the cameras not in front of them. Trust me, there is nothing 'sexy' or 'exciting' about the industry. One of my colleagues summed it up best when he said "The only thing about this business that gives me a hard-on is the paycheck."

My job only exists because a senior person in the NYC head office had an idea, and it made its way onto a HR plan. I spend my days making PowerPoints to justify my existence, and I'm terrified that I won't be able to support my family when I'm found out

It’s not all doom and gloom. Humans have the capacity for repair and reparation www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Washington. Lincoln. T Roosevelt. FDR. Eisenhower. Kennedy…. “I can destroy…” God bless America…

I’m no expert, but I’m pretty sure that’s not how bobsleigh works.

Andy Farrell has been involved in both of Ireland’s biggest wins over England this century.

If you shag fourteen year old girls, you're a nonce, and that includes David Bowie whether his fans like it or not.

From cosplay Churchill to tragic Lord Palmerston tribute act.

Lisa Phillips, a survivor of Jeffrey Epstein, has called for a "thorough investigation" into the convicted US sex offender's connection with Ireland.

Toasted sourdough looks pretty but has no place on a full English breakfast. You nearly break your teeth on that crust. Standard white sliced or farmhouse wins every time.

Everytime Easter comes around and the wife and I get easter eggs, I've always smashed them up in the wrapper so Ii can just pour the pieces into a bowl when I open it. She gives me awful looks when she see's me smashing them against my head.

If Wales can become Not Shit for the back end of the tournament, this could legit be the best and most competitive Six Nations ever. Anyone can beat anyone!

Worked as a network admin of a school for a few years. You can absolutely bet I went rummaging through emails looking for juicy gossip. Didn't find any, felt guilty, revoked my own access and didn't do it again.

North of Bozeman, Montana, in the Bridger Mountains, Minarik Architecture recently completed a project for a client seeking a multigenerational home. "The house is oriented east-west along a single contour, parallel to the topography," Minarik points out.

Running is one of the easiest and cheapest ways to keep fit. A 5K averages around 40 minutes, most people can make that time. Get it done, clear your head, and go about your day feeling fitter and focused.

Really enjoying all the Belfast Mammies absolutely seething because they didn’t know K-pop was a genre and thought it was just K-pop Demon Hunters and took their kids to the big K-Pop forever tribute show. “My babies were crying! Absolutely heartbroken! We’ve been lied to”

Last night we saw Richard O'Sullivan in 'Never Say No' and tonight we may go to see Cilla Black.

With all crime solved, police in Lancaster turn their steely glare toward the criminal mastermind who is [checks notes] spray-painting dog poo pink like they’re some sort of faeces-driven Banksy.