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Trump shows off his new Lincoln bathroom, in a desperate attempt to show he hasn't lost his marbles

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This is Mick Barton, the cost-cutting Deform leader of Nottinghamshire Council.

He's planning to spend £75k on flags on lampposts across the county because it will “provide a feel good factor”.

Not SEND services, not youth clubs, not even pot holes.

Deform are not safe with your money.

The Caerphilly narrative is already skewed.

If Reform win it's because they got "their" voters out.

If Plaid win it's because of borrowed votes not really earned.

Kemi Badenoch speaks to Thatcher voters, MP Victoria Atkins says - BBC News Victoria Atkins MP says the Conservative leader appeals to those who voted for the party in 1979.

Margaret Thatcher won her last election 38 years ago.

BBC4 is repeating Bryan Magee's series The Great Philosophers Good news. BBC4 is repeating Bryan Magee's 1987 television series The Great Philosophers . The first three programmes – on Plato, Aristotle ...

This is just the sort of television that they don't make any more - there's now a strong aversion to "talking heads". But if the heads are interesting enough, there is nothing more riveting. #philsky

Jenrick entertains the #ToryPartyConference with his well-known Shari Lewis impersonation

Are you using a Rick roller?

Dame Andrea Jenkyns sashays onto the stage in a sequin catsuit and belts out ‘Insomniac’.

Cos nothing says ‘serious politics’ like peacocking through a power ballad.

To be fair her sequins are brighter than the policy agenda

But Jane Macdonald can rest easy

So can Old Macdonald

BREAKING

Andrea Jenkyns welcomes Nadine Dorries to Reform

More than fifty private schools shut since Labour put VAT on fees Department for Education defends ending tax breaks for independent institutions, after parents lost a legal battle at the High Court this year — view map

The headline here should say:

"Number of private schools increases by 35 - showing fears of an exodus to be unfounded".

(The increase is mentioned way down the article.)

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Amazing how Trump’s ball he hit into the deep rough just magically pops out of his caddie’s pocket and they all just play it off like Trump just hit it there. 29 time Club Champion! bsky.app/profile/patr...

Tom Lehrer 🧵 ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

RIP Tom Lehrer and thanks.

I trust the GOP will honour your memory by continuing to peddle an old dope.

At least he had both hands on the table.

#Oklahoma

I guess they thought we weren’t enough of a laughingstock to the rest of the world already.

Having been braced for all the "How Losing Hamilton Is An Absolute Disaster For Labour" hot takes, I'm having to make do with all the "How Winning Hamilton Is An Absolute Disaster For Labour" hot takes instead.

"Charles Henry John Benedict Crofton Chetwynd Chetwynd-Talbot, you come here this minute."

"Gee, Mom's sure mad with me: she's using my full name."

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If patronising his voters was the way to defeat Nigel Farage, we'd have seen him off long ago.

Latest turnout figure for today's Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority Mayoral election.

As of 4pm 9.87% of the Peterborough electorate have voted.

Polling stations close at 10pm.

#PeterboroughElections2025 #PboroElections2025

The pre-ordained interest in Thursday's batch of elections is how much more the vote of the two main parties fragments. But they will require very careful interpretation, because of patchy coverage, low turnout - and with little bearing on a general election that will not take place until 2029!

Lindsey Graham needs a little less is-the-pope-a-catholic and a little more does-a-bear-sh*t-in-the-woods

Lindsey Graham sold his soul the day John McClain died

And he died hard

"We only need to look at Pierre Poilievre and the Canadian Conservatives to see what is possible." Robert Jenrick, last summer

Jack Vettriano's later work was surprisingly dark.