The British media establishmentβs hangup regarding JK Rowling is the most clear-cut case of generational warfare going. If what was once the biggest series and the most beloved author in the world can fall out of fashion and respectability, what chance has any fifty-something opinion columnist got?
27.01.2026 09:26 β π 29 π 8 π¬ 1 π 0
With weather like this, her position was obviously no longer tenable.
27.01.2026 08:32 β π 13 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Carol Kirkwood, who loved weather and saying Goooood Morning, has left the BBC.
27.01.2026 08:24 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The Rest is Weather coming soon
27.01.2026 08:23 β π 162 π 21 π¬ 6 π 1
Yeah I'm a man in my 30's but I'm a WASPI too:
Wifes
Away
So
Pub
It is!
26.01.2026 22:11 β π 10 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
It's a real shame for the cover of Man's Best Friend that the music meant it was simply a Good not Great album.
26.01.2026 20:34 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Wouldn't be Only Connect without Liz Truss β€οΈ
26.01.2026 20:20 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Am absolutely fascinated by the idea of this and the idea of wanting to go to the cinema to see it and therefore have considered using my Cineworld card to see it but probably shouldn't right?
26.01.2026 20:02 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Feel like I've been passing it thinking "how on Earth is that still going" for a decade.
26.01.2026 19:51 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Vodka Revs going into administration, feels way overdue.
26.01.2026 19:33 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0
Christ finally a normal thing has happened in America.
26.01.2026 19:30 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Feels like the funniest tag line I've seen in ages
26.01.2026 18:59 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I'm very curious so based off that and that alone "gays".
26.01.2026 18:58 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
- and the Tories should be worried.
26.01.2026 18:57 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Which way Western Man?
26.01.2026 18:52 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
26.01.2026 18:01 β π 25 π 4 π¬ 2 π 0
Loved this book - can't recommend it enough! Fun, well sourced canter though the biggest (and some more misunderstood - some not) flops of the last hundred years.
26.01.2026 17:59 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Lord Frost praise for Braverman
Now THAT really would be a bonus for Badenoch. Probably too good to be true, though.
26.01.2026 17:42 β π 63 π 5 π¬ 12 π 3
It's all getting a bit Christopher Maloney
26.01.2026 17:25 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 2 π 2
Incredible
26.01.2026 16:15 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I want whatever the relieved people are on.
26.01.2026 16:10 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Nige has lost it.
26.01.2026 16:09 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Personally glad the Tories are relying on Andy Street to tell an obvious edgelord nutter the hard truth that they've gone too far this time! Now to take a big sip of coffee and browse Wikipedia to remind myself who Andy Street's life partner is....
26.01.2026 16:07 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
Me reading Chris Mason then Jac Larner
26.01.2026 16:03 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Read this cautiously but positively until this line oh god
26.01.2026 16:00 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
PLEASE
26.01.2026 15:54 β π 11 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Suella receiving her post this afternoon:
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I am resigning
26.01.2026 15:18 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Fun fact - the last three women bake-off judges have all been closely related to former Tory ministers who were also speechwriters for a PM.
Prue Leith - Danny Kruger (Cameron)
Caroline Waldegrave - William (Heath)
Nigella - Nigel (Macmillan + Douglas-Home)
26.01.2026 13:47 β π 268 π 47 π¬ 21 π 6
Oscar Mike Foxtrot Golf
26.01.2026 13:45 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
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