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The Thick of It. The Death of Stalin. Veep. The Hartlepool Spy. Epic Space. Broken English. Avenue 5. Unhinged. Guardian, Architects' Journal, whatever, Grandpa, STATE PENSIONER.

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The @ipso.co.uk ruling of Telegraph’s preposterous “We earn £345k but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays”, reveals the article to have been a fabrication. There is no such family as Al, Alexandra, Ali, Harry and Barry Moy. Glad to have acted as lead complainant on this.

03.03.2026 19:40 — 👍 397    🔁 125    💬 20    📌 14
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When you click the "beautify slide" AI feature in Google Slides.

NOT A JOKE

03.03.2026 14:02 — 👍 1433    🔁 325    💬 22    📌 91

yes

03.03.2026 19:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh, Rock The Casbah just came on and goodness ME how inappropriate.

03.03.2026 19:44 — 👍 43    🔁 0    💬 4    📌 0

I wrote and published these a lot quicker than ipso, too.

03.03.2026 19:14 — 👍 40    🔁 16    💬 2    📌 0
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Couldn't get it out of my head, so now it's on here.

03.03.2026 18:19 — 👍 204    🔁 81    💬 6    📌 1

What a great photo.

03.03.2026 19:18 — 👍 15    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

1. Y Viva Espana.

2. Mate, you're no SuperTed.

03.03.2026 18:59 — 👍 26    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
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US war on Iran: A tale of two Trump interviews As he continues to attack Iran, Donald Trump is babbling in public, working out what he thinks as he goes along. And there are journalists willing to help him with that.

“What’s behind the polite framing of ‘a variety of often inconsistent visions’ is a man babbling about a complex situation that he doesn’t understand nor care to understand.”

US war on Iran: A tale of two Trump interviews - @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/brokenbo...

03.03.2026 18:14 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
The Moon lies in the centre of this image, looking bigger than usual and orange in colour due to being close to the horizon. There is a sunset hue of faint blue and even fainter pink in the sky. In the foreground, framing the Moon, is the Victorian front gate of the Royal Observatory.

The Moon lies in the centre of this image, looking bigger than usual and orange in colour due to being close to the horizon. There is a sunset hue of faint blue and even fainter pink in the sky. In the foreground, framing the Moon, is the Victorian front gate of the Royal Observatory.

The #Moon is looking stunning through the front gates of the Royal Observatory Edinburgh this evening!

03.03.2026 18:37 — 👍 78    🔁 14    💬 1    📌 1
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An expat in Dubai has a startling revelation: the Stephen Collins cartoon Reality check …

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

03.03.2026 17:26 — 👍 1077    🔁 405    💬 30    📌 48

and Villiers St was so full of life...all the way down there to the park, happy days

03.03.2026 18:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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London landlord begins evictions ahead of new renters’ rights law Asif Aziz’s Criterion Capital owns several apartment blocks in capital as well as Trocadero centre in Piccadilly

Asif Aziz evictions story is going mainstream. Telegraph and Independent have covered in recent days. Now the FT has done a brilliant piece - including finding another property affected, where a Ukrainian refugee and their disabled son are being evicted by Aziz. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

03.03.2026 17:10 — 👍 153    🔁 71    💬 2    📌 3

I wish he would just fucking whatever, burst.

03.03.2026 17:10 — 👍 55    🔁 3    💬 7    📌 1

Remember when Charing Cross looked like this. Amazing jumble of enthusiastic Victoriana and pop-modernism. *tokes on fag, nods approvingly* Nice.

03.03.2026 16:39 — 👍 27    🔁 2    💬 4    📌 0

Oh I really wouldn't...

03.03.2026 16:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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.

Flann O'Brien reports:

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

03.03.2026 15:44 — 👍 40    🔁 6    💬 3    📌 4

Here's looking at you, saucy camellia. It IS something. It's not everything, but it is for this precise second.

03.03.2026 15:31 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

oh mate

03.03.2026 14:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

noice

03.03.2026 14:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

innit though. that sensation of warm sun on the face, why it's bloomin' marvellous, it is

03.03.2026 14:33 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

the most horrible noise this side of those old-fashioned football rattles

03.03.2026 14:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

another winter,fucked off, YES

03.03.2026 14:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Everything's shit, but I'm typing in the garden for the first time this year. Crocuses out, primula too, everything in the garden coiled like a whatever. Robin, dunnock, blackbird, wren, fucking jackdaws and magpies, ducks, stupid pigeons, hypnotising tits, the ordinary lot. Warm sun. Approved.

03.03.2026 14:05 — 👍 112    🔁 3    💬 7    📌 1

Well, a great deal to unconsciously think about there...

03.03.2026 12:51 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I'll seek it out, sceptically

03.03.2026 12:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

tells us an awful lot about the Sun

03.03.2026 12:37 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Well, that explains the erratic delivery times.

03.03.2026 11:47 — 👍 647    🔁 145    💬 9    📌 9

It's a crusade now then is it? Why is everyone in charge so fucking moronic, don't tell me I get it.

03.03.2026 08:43 — 👍 42    🔁 5    💬 3    📌 0
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I do love a ghost gable like this found near Ancoats in Manchester - but it's rarer still to find the intangible signs of the puff of smoke from the chimney...

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