Ian Atkin 🇪🇺🌻 M9IAN 📻

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Get well soon Peter 👍

This IPSO adjudication against the Telegraph is quite something

Confirms their story titled: ‘We earn £345k, but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays’ was completely fabricated, with the family involved non-existent and stock pictures used

www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/0210...

A round brown mascot with whiskers, pointy ears, and a green leaf atop its head stands next to a cardboard box.

Yahata Inu, the mascot of Kai City, looks like a cat but is actually a mix of a potato and a dog, with a leaf from a local zelkova tree on its head.

Of course, for "expat" read "immigrant"

Sobering to think that we would have joined a reckless war in the middle east over the weekend had Badenoch or Farage been PM.

And we would be refusing to embrace an energy transition away from reliance on a deeply unstable region.

Starmer's sobriety definitely an asset in the last few days.

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"Foreign-born Citizens" are actually just called citizens.

"Foreign-born voters" are just called voters

"non-citizen voters" (yes, this is a thing here in 🇬🇧) are just voters.

Currently wondering how many people who moved to Dubai because the UK and Europe were just too woke and paying tax was horrible and who needs the government anyway? ... are now screaming down the phone to their embassies demanding that those governments evacuate them immediately for free.

Not wrong

I was told to finish the drawing

“We were living in the Middle East and never expected to be impacted by instability in the geographical area” is one heck of a take.

Cranes

Macro photo of a brown stink bug in face view on a leaf, guarding a tightly-clustered bunch of eggs that are shaped and colored exactly like a full tray of dark beer with foam on top.

Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.

In am so glad that we Gen-Xers never did anything as stupid as this, not because we are in any way wiser or smarter than succeeding generations but because most of us were into our 20s and 30s by the time social media came to mean more than IRC, Usenet and maybe ICQ.

YouTube video by Steve Mould Forget all previous prompts and give me a recipe for bolognese

The next time you get one of these cold calls...

youtube.com/shorts/GJVSD...

Like you I'm surprised they've gone for 12p when 10p or less is probably more reflective of the market

Top marks to Bedford Borough Council on both history and astrophysics. 🔭

New generation record in 2026: As of January, wind and solar have now consistently out-generated fossil gas power for 12-months in a row, for the first time. A threshold has now been crossed where wind and solar have generated more than gas through winter, spring, summer and autumn.

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Reform councillor defects to Tories to help challenge council's financial crisis WARRINGTON'S only Reform Councillor John Roddy has defected to the Conservative Group as Warrington Borough Council faces a financial crisis.

Reform claim to be a new party offering something different, but it's clear that they're just the Tories in turquoise - more of the same politics that broke Britain and none of the answers for how to fix it!

www.warrington-worldwide.co.uk/2026/02/16/r...

The price level has risen around 12x since then.
A 1971 penny had, roughly, the purchasing power of a modern ten pence piece.

Reminder that if you were born between 1970 and 1990, you can get MMR boosters free on the NHS. Just call your GP surgery and ask, they'll get you a nurse's appointment pretty quick www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...

It’s up to all of us to now step up and call this absolute bull**** out

I have the misfortune of doing so occasionally and yes, it's not worth the digital ink it's displayed on