Harry Rose

Been thinking about this as my 6 year old keeps asking me for my phone so he can look at football results and league tables on the BBC Sport app. I need to buy more papers so he can read the sports pages.

Me too. It was like a Python sketch.

Amazing vox pop on the 6 o’clock news. Woman buying fish in Waitrose: ‘I won’t buy mackerel if it’s being overfished’. Reporter: ‘But you’re buying it now’. Woman: ‘Well, it’s already dead’

As the analysis starts of the Gorton and Denton result, I wanted to flag some aspects that my experience yesterday suggests are being over or under-played

(Caveats - I went to Longsight, Gorton and Denton town centres and spoke to as many people as I could, but it was mostly during the working day)

They are and they're excellent.

Egg and Cornish Cruncher sandwich please. And that chocolate bar with the bits of pretzel in it.

Just popped in to a Lululemon shop as I was passing and...£68 for a basic gym t-shirt or £48 for a pair of shorts. Hard nope.

A faff? On the British railways?

You also wouldn't get reward points, which is meaningful for someone like me who commutes often. Still, what a shambles!

You mean I can use the ScotRail app to buy a ticket on a GWR train?

The plot thickens. Shocking, but not surprising, incompetence from a major rail operator.

This is the best argument yet for just using Trainline and sucking it up with the booking fee. For all its faults, can't imagine it just deleting all your tickets.

Slow handclap for GWR, which has managed to lose all pre-booked tickets in an app update, which means I'll be faffing around with PDFs at the ticket gates between now and mid-April.

Good thread

Absolutely. The system is already massively geared to putting women off opting for one. The hoops you have to jump through. You have to be really determined and basically insist.

The point about risk is also nonsense. Planned c-sections are pretty safe. It's the emergency ones, for obvious reasons, which are riskier (but still clearly a good thing in the circumstances!).

Have they said anything about non-EU retired people with ILR?

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Waste not want not

Free snacks and drinks though Tristan

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They can also fuck off with the "Well, this is awkward..." variation.

Been bugging me too. Heard a few saying 'Antonio' as well which is just sloppy.

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Nailed on Desert Island Discs pick.

I agree, the BBC should not have covered the events in Westminster yesterday and should have gone to *checks notes* a school in Middlesbrough instead

No student society is obliged to host anyone it doesn't wish to.

There is a free speech issue if other students, the SU or uni authorities seek to *stop* students inviting speakers - by getting the event cancelled or via thugs' veto.

TMK, neither of these occurred at Bangor.

That was quick

That moment when you realise that the guy in Industry and The Handmaid’s Tale is Lee from Hollyoaks.

I think it's Tuesday for the Saturday Times mag. I was at the printers on a Tuesday about a year ago and it was coming off the presses.