Important to remember that Khan and Starmer are very old friends.
01.03.2026 13:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Important to remember that Khan and Starmer are very old friends.
01.03.2026 13:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yes indeed: the non-compliance kind…
01.03.2026 10:49 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Given the spate of bisyllabic new parties, second-born is founding ‘Refuse UK’
28.02.2026 19:51 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0And I'm not saying I'm available, but I gather that Maecenas is no longer with us...
28.02.2026 11:49 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0As this is still rolling, I will say one thing about Yuja Wang; I don't know a practising musician who wouldn't feel honoured to even get a reply from her.
28.02.2026 11:48 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Happy Birthday Sig. Rossini!
28.02.2026 10:58 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0It was on here - con't fin d it now, so may have only been a commentator.
28.02.2026 10:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The tourists don't care how much of Gloucestershire or the Highlands they own; but they'd be well pissed-off if the soldiers, and (ahem) the musicians disappeared.
28.02.2026 10:47 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0They've confirmed that we didn't let the US use our bases.
28.02.2026 10:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
My Royal Funding Proposal (prompted by @thenewsagents.co.uk):
Stripped-back-Scandi Royal Family BUT... with a massive (transparent, ring-fenced) budget for blisteringly good state occasions: Make the wedding, coronations, pageants BIG but under the control of HM Impresario.
When my kids were tiny and I was struggling with pushchairs etc; it was the young Muslim boys of East London who could be guaranteed to stand up and help.
28.02.2026 07:23 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Men studying a dragon
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It is indicative that the Prosper group of one-nation tories are almost entirely outside Parliament now.
27.02.2026 20:53 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Though slightly squiffed by the absence of a centre-right/CDU equivalent (or at least one that is admitting to being such).
27.02.2026 13:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My only experience of this was in 2024 - my stepfather had just had a stroke and was extremely frail; but no force on earth was going to make the returning officer let one of us in the booth with him.
27.02.2026 10:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Just spotted that the openly racist candidate for Tommy Robinson's "Advance UK" was beaten by the Monster Raving Looney Party.
27.02.2026 10:00 — 👍 632 🔁 91 💬 28 📌 15I'm a tolerant woman and I don't generally rail against the language morphing and changing, but please, in Britain we say "poo". Not the awful American "poop". Thank you for your attention to this important matter.
27.02.2026 08:50 — 👍 113 🔁 11 💬 17 📌 1Particularly tiresome form a party that wants to restore the patriarchal family unit…
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This is quite astonishing. Not even that close in the end. The safest Labour seat overturned, and the Tories on under 2%.
27.02.2026 07:54 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Very sad news.
26.02.2026 20:25 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Wow. That moved fast.
26.02.2026 15:52 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0More awful news from the knife-ridden Caliphate…
26.02.2026 15:51 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Well let's see if they win Gorton and Denton on 27% first....
26.02.2026 09:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0An entire Ring Cycle was inspired by these stations
25.02.2026 22:02 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Bro struggling with the difference between illicit and illegal…
25.02.2026 20:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Lisa Nandy’s mum gets it….
25.02.2026 20:14 — 👍 103 🔁 23 💬 2 📌 1
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25.02.2026 20:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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