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You'd think with all the bug fixes and performance improvements some apps get they would work at the speed of light and never hang!

Last quote possibly surpassed by, "Your man will get fit down here, there's enough room to get Philips ego through ." No idea who Philip is!

Quote of the day, "I'm supposed to be playing cricket, but I would rather watch the Lancaster." )it was doing a fly past).

Starmer's coming U-turn on PIPs reminds us of the virtues of a parliamentary system If Keir Starmer backs down on his planned cuts to Personal Independence Payments, he will be attacked for being weak and making a U-turn, bu...

He has put forward a policy that does not command a majority in the House of Commons, so he has found that he can't get it through. This ought to happen more often.

the absolute Lord Charles curveball of that last sentence…

Oh

Wonders vaguely how much it costs the NHS from people getting out of bed! Pointless to report as doing anything has a risk, exercise has massive benefits. I dread to think how much football costs......

The UK indulges in a festival of sweating........ #itstoohot 🙂

I would like phones to have an anti-mithering mode.

So you could temporarily stop someone calling/messaging you when they are being annoying.

The messages are there when you cancel the mode, hidden when it's on.

This made me smile..... Smart too.

Oh to be in England in summertime.....

Important information if the fates are causing you trouble.

Man in Norway wakes to find huge container ship in garden Johan Helberg says he was

There's probably a stop the boats joke in here somewhere.....

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Did some anti-burgling today, had to drop someone's dog off at their house, whilst they were out!

If you ever get near Leics/Northants the dog and I would be happy to join you.

Was it at a certain arts venue as rumoured in the past?

Is it possible that authors these days could write fiction books about something else other than writers? There seems to be an awful lot of them......

BREAKING: Trump confirmed he’s going to accept the $400 million luxury Boeing 747-8 jet from Qatar, claiming it’s not corruption because it’s done “in a very public and transparent transaction.”

Open bribery is still bribery, even if you tweet about it.

Our new report: local political parties are renting out office space to MPs — who claim the cost on expenses.

But in most cases, they pay no tax on that income — or on rent from local businesses.

We reviewed 630 sets of accounts. What we found is a systemic failure. 🧵

- I want things to be different - *smashes everything* - oh no

I think about this comic at least once a week

What they don't get is that most local council services are statutory, so you cannot stop. (You can minimise).

So, who else is pretending it's cold enough to have the heating on, but ignoring that fact and just being a bit cold!

Flying the flag for VE is great. At the very least, fly it the right way up!

'I want Brexit, I hate Europe'. 'I don't want an Indian trade deal, I hate the world'. Next: 'I hate the EU reset'; 'I hate the US trade deal'. And so on and on and on until we are all covered in cobwebs.

Why if you tell someone you aren't free to do something until the afternoon do they then ask you if you can do it in the morning? Aaargh.

Convicted Russian spies attended Brexit event in Parliament Bulgarians Orlin Roussev, Biser Dzhambazov and Katrin Ivanova attended an event in the Palace of Westminster, the BBC finds.

Well now.

Line chart showing the change in the child mortality rate from 1991 to 2023 for Ethiopia, Gambia, Afghanistan, the European Union (27), Japan, and high-income countries as a group. The child mortality rate has more than halved in all of these regions.

Child mortality rates have plummeted in the last 30 years in low-income countries, such as Ethiopia, Gambia, and Afghanistan.

And in most rich countries, too, child mortality has more than halved — progress that we rarely hear about.

Reform UK have just said they will BAN the #Lancashire Rose from being flown over, on or in council buildings.

Lancashire is now a Reform UK controlled English council.

Reform UK have just said they will BAN the #Durham flag from being flown over, on or in council buildings.

Durham Council is now a Reform UK controlled English council.

English Bluebell.....