Mark Cruise

Stockard Channing was 33 when she played Rizzo in Grease

Millie Bobbie Brown (for example) is 21, playing someone who is about 16. It's not a huge stretch. Compare it to the actors in say, Sex Education, Derry Girls etc

I like how that was the unrealistic thing, rather than y'know....the Upside Down, the mind flayer, Demogorgons, psychic powers...

And what? They've now banded together to try and form a new party. I don't imagine anyone who voted for them minds at all. Danny Kruger defected to Reform recently too if that's the thing that bothers you (I know it's not really)

She's been an MP for as long as 2 of the other MPs on there. She is also the joint leader of a party with 6 MPs. More than either Reform or the Greens.

Three from the right and one from the left.
No Lib Dems, No Greens.

3 from the right, 1 from the left

I was today years old when I found out that Americans who are called or nicknamed 'Trip', it's because they are the third person in their family line with the name Charles Smith or Joseph Hartley or whatever.

What can I say, we like Metal Mickeys

Yeeesh, I do not agree with the many positive reviews of GDTs Frankenstein.....

I don't like Lammy specially, but he's a Harvard graduate, a qualified Solicitor, an MP for 25 years, held 5 junior cabinet positions, plus significant shadow positions before his positions in this government. He seems at the very least, qualified and experienced.

My favourite is "he beat the wrap"

No mention of CFCs, lead in paint and petrol, people smoking everywhere all the time etc etc

Tell Piers Morgan, Kier Starmer and Osama Bin Laden that

Tell you what, this Norovirus has knocked me on my ASS.

Newsom strikes me as very effective communicator who isnt actually massively progressive. Is that the case? Might he tack more left?

Appreciate the insight. Would be astounded if Tucker or DonJr got the nod, but I should probably stop thinking crazy things won't happen

I'm entirely an external observer on this, but the next US General election is going to be Vance v Newsom, right?

That's not Mamdani, and it's really just white men with no degree

It was good fun I thought

He's not obliged to come up with detail or policies yet, as we are not close to an election. Instead he is successfully winning over the left wing and progressive voters that Labour gladly abandoned.

Hi @sciencemuseum.org.uk my 18yo daughter attended a Halloween function for students with you tonight. Can you tell me why they confiscated a left wing newspaper from her? Maybe also why when she went to get it back, she was escorted from the building? Would they have confiscated the FT or Mail?

Yes Private Eye. The big worry is people arriving by dinghy, not Billionaires controlling the media, a far right political party riding high in the polls, Gaza being flattened in a genocide etc etc

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I think the "yes" answered the question. It IS different here.
The Greens are not funded by or any way connected to Russia. There is a strong link between Putin's Russia and the Reform Party though, which sadly hasn't stopped them doing well in recent polls

I have a very bad feeling about this...

Indeed it does!

What a welcome!