James Goss

*they

98 per cent of Private Eye is great but

two cartoons,one showing a critic of Russian murdered in a newsroom. the other showing a critic of reform beaten up in a newsroom.

Not saying the Culture Bores cartoonist only has one joke, but.... here's issue 1666 and 1667 of Private Eye.

Last time she did this i was all braced with cardboard box and blankets and she just scuttled off to a cave.
Hoping the same this time cos oh god

The lengths @bigfinish.bsky.social are going to to publicise the final Torchwood release are insane

a cat who is 90 per cent belly

looking at the size of her, sudden fear i know why Street Cat's mum has suddenly become all docile and indoorsy.

An expat in Dubai has a startling revelation: the Stephen Collins cartoon Reality check …

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Garda who lent bike to man to receive over €250k damages A garda detective who was suspended for more than three years for giving a man a loan of a bicycle during the Covid-19 pandemic is to receive over €250,000 in damages.

www.rte.ie/news/courts/...

A truly bonkers story of begrudgery

why is my life basically one long cursed risk assessment?

two guys one jackhammer

Builders have arrived to try and fix the leak from hotel next door and it started well, then we all went oh and now they're digging up the marble floor of a hotel room.

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Modella Capital, the British private equity firm who bought high street arm of WHSmith just last June, is reported to be planning to close "scores" of shops.

https://downthetubes.net/tg-jones-stores-closures-ahead/

Between Brewdog, Labour and Dubai eating it, a very specific type of guy is having the worst time and they absolutely deserve it.

I'm very much enjoying that Holborn & St Pancras always field excellent Green Party candidates and us voters will get the chance to do something hilarious in 2028.

This is what intrigued me. The opening chapters were so vague about the setting i wondered if we were abroad, but by the time we reach the hat shops we can only be in one place

ooh

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Davros

"Hiiii, I'm the Great Healer, CEO of Tranquil Repose and I'm so pleased to be testing The Big Arch, our new human product, for my lunch today. Oh, that is a lot of product. İ don't know how to hold it.... *nibbles*"

The Widow Of Bath by Margot Bennett. A smuggling gang, a war-criminal barman, a mysterious judge. Sort of Graham Greene and PG Wodehouse doing a postwar seaside spy thriller.
#britishlibrarycrimeclassics

Me: "she's your mother"

Street Cat: "you let her in"

While it's been cold, mother of Street Cat has also come in at night, sleeping in a tiny "don't mind me, dear" dot on the sofa.

Last two nights she's moved to sleep on the bed. Again, a "don't mind me, dear" dot at the bottom of the bed.

Street Cat is quietly seething.

i know, i know, i know. i keep running up and down them.

snowy valley lit up gently

i do not hate my view at night

endless snowy rocks

And i can now enjoy my view

very handsome stairs

And here's the new stairs, made by the Olympic kickboxing champion of Afghanistan.

a very very plain staircase that cannot be safe

Goodbye old staircase. Every time i climbed you you took my ankles.

İNFİNİTE CATS

(if this were twitter I'd be spending the evening explaining why he refuses to he caught etc etc.)

a mangy black and white boy cat in the sun

the old boy cat with two broken legs chilling on the terrace.
He seems to have an alright life.

Honestly the collective national level of disdain for Brits living in Dubai on all my social media platforms today really is bringing the UK together as one in a way that's hard to achieve in the modern era.

a Street Cat eyeing up a white cat on a sunny snowy road

Dropped some laundry off and bumped into Squeaks the Street Cat actually Street Catting.
Felt like Mum turning up to embarrass her child at school.