Nick Barlow

Quick timeline cleanse for you. A walk by Nannycatch Beck in the western Lake District today.

"Hey Dad, could I use your new ballroom for storing some stuff I bought online?"

Think there might have been a couple of councillors already (though they might have been ones already kicked out of Reform, it's hard to keep track).

Every trans person is like "I knew something was up before I had the words to describe it and had to fight for this for years" and every transphobe is like "one conversation with a doctor could have convinced me to get the walrus surgery from the movie 'The Walrus'"

OK, we can now officially begin the "@500songspodcast.bsky.social is a CIA psyop" conspiracy theory.

"The CIA conspired to make me less cool than I was when I was 25" is the most succinct Gen X manifesto I've ever heard

"Hi Pierre, on behalf of all the press gathered here today for this, I have a question: what the fuck are you talking about?"

Looking at fuel prices and very glad that I got solar panels and batteries installed last year.

Greg: And the task was...?

Alex: Conquer the city.

Greg: And you?

Odysseus: Built a giant wooden horse.

Greg: And it's impressive. Completely fails the task.

Odysseus (suddenly looking very like Jason Mantzoukas): But does it, Greg? Does it?

Alex: There was a camera inside the horse.

That's a relegation six pointer now.

After Wolves beat Villa, I looked at the table and realised if we made that the first of ten straight wins to finish the season we might stay up...and we've just beaten Liverpool who were the highest position side we had in the last nine games.

To go back to my point from this morning, Lib Dems in 2003 were making opposing the American-led misadventure in the Middle East their main focus. Lib Dems today are doing this sort of populist twaddle instead.

I was expecting this sort of populist nonsense from the Tories or Reform. What happened to your commitment to green values?

He has a long track record of underwhelming.

Thinking back ot 02-05 when Charles Kennedy catalysed public opposition to a disastrous American-led war in the Middle East to make the Lib Dems a major force.
Remembering that the Lib Dems are now led by a man who spearheaded the ousting of Kennedy to replace him with Ming Campbell.

Added to Glasman’s unique way with words and the ‘what we did over the summer’ memo, the defining feature of Blue Labour appears to have been acting like macho, ‘deeds not words’ guys while writing flowery sixth form poetry in the guise of campaign strategy.

Gender critical folks also don't believe us when we tell them "sex-based rights" is an idea they themselves made up in just the last handful of years.

At least with Suez, Britain waited for Israel to attack Egypt before attempting to seize the canal.

Also rather Philip K Dick in the whole world ending up warped because the President got addicted to his own propaganda.

Just insert whichever US city will be hosting your version of the Nuremberg Tribunals.

And there we are, a new MP in place, probably surprising all the USians who had to wait for weeks for the Speaker to be bothered to swear in a new member of the opposition party.

Parliamentlive.tv House of Commons

Here from 2.30, I think parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...

Might watch Hannah Spencer taking her seat in the Commons just to see if you can hear Matt Goodwin wailing "should have been me" somewhere in the far distance.

They don't know it's their job yet, but somewhere out there Pete Hegseth's lawyer at his war crimes tribunal is watching his case for the defence get obliterated.

Every Hegseth speech feels odd until you realise you're not watching it in its proper place: as part of his war crimes trial at The Hague sometime in the 2030s.

I was thinking the other day that I hadn't seen anything from Mensch for a while and wondered if she'd maybe gone back to being vaguely sane. Oh well, there's that curiosity answered at least.

The Ones Who Request Evacuation From Omelas Because No One Told Them It Was In A Warzone

Cut to Levine organising a semi-celebrity choir to protest outside the US embassy.

The NYT style guide