The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary

A safe route would be a way of providing control. #wato

Trump defends Saudi crown prince over Khashoggi killing The de facto Saudi ruler was branded a pariah in 2018 after the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. Now, U.S.-Saudi relations are approaching a high point.

Just so we're clear: President Donald Trump on Tuesday defended Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over the killing of Washington Post opinion columnist Jamal Khashoggi, saying "things happen.” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu

[Scene is MCcDONALDS PICKUP POINT but for the most part we can only see the close up faces of tha CUSTOMER and the McDONALDS EMPLOYEE at the serving point]. 1 CUSTOMER: Hi - I’m afraid this isn’t what I ordered 2 McDONALDS EMPLOYEE: Number 187? CUSTOMER: Yes 3 CUSTOMER: Maybe I pressed the wrong thing? I just ordered one strawberry milkshake. 4 EMPLOYEE: Oh - yeah sorry 5 EMPLOYEE: The milkshake machine’s not working. 6 EMPLOYEE: The only flavours we can do are vanilla, banana, and Labour Leader Pretending to be Nigel Farage. 7 CUSTOMER: Is that a new flavour? EMPLOYEE: Yeah 8 [We now see that the employee has placed a gigantic milkshake cup on the counter] EMPLOYEE: If you look inside, there’s a Labour leader pretending to be Nigel Farage. 9 [Customer looks inside the cup] 10 [Show Keir Starmer dressed as Nigel Farage inside the cup] CUSTOMER: So there is 11 CUSTOMER: Is that something people want, then? EMPLOYEE: No! No, not at all. 12 EMPLOYEE: It just keeps happening when we press banana. [ends]

why can they not just fix it

Post hoc ergo proper hoc - can we please disentangle failed asylum seekers having children and not being sent home from the reason people have children - do we really believe that’s the main reason they are having them? Really?? #r4Today

Can someone ask the government minister why giving people a legal route to enter the country to claim asylum would not serve as a disincentive to getting on a dangerous boat? Why do we think refugees care about their children less than us, ffs? #r4Today

Alf Dubs describing the Home Secretary using children as an immigration weapon as shabby. And the rest, Alf! 👏 #r4Today

We should stop the boats because it's dangerous, and we should stop the scapegoating of immigrants because it's wrong and cruel.

Controlled migration is good for the country, helps build our economy and diversity strengthens our communities. (1/6) 🧵

Ridiculously irritated - am listening to a The Rest is Politics episode on Vance and Rory Stewart has just described mithril as “a kind of dwarfish armour” - ffs! But am also mortally embarrassed by my inner nerd.

Very much sniggering at @mrjamesob.bsky.social describing Andrew Mountbatten Windsor as “the man formerly known as as Prince”…

Well, that isn’t exactly what I said now, is it?

Tbh that sounds about right.

Lovely. 👏👏👏

🔥 Excellent from Lisa Nandy!

"I've seen this before. When I was growing up in Manchester, my dad used to debate with Enoch Powell."

"What you're doing is trying to create fear and distrust and division, because that's the only way that you and your friends can thrive."

She’s right. She *deliberately* hacked into Harriet Harman’s website, whereas Rachel Reeves is accused of obtaining a license late by accident. I assume that’s what she means, given Badenoch is widely known for her thoughtfulness and her self-awareness.

Racist incidents against UK nurses surge by 55% Royal College of Nursing calls on government to stop using anti-migrant rhetoric, which it says emboldens racist behaviour

The Farage Factor.
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Ugh DPD the delivery service that (am guessing) sits in a warm warehouse sending “sorry we missed you” messages to everyone sitting at home waiting for deliveries and then makes you schlep to their collection point while charging their customer for deliveries they never make. 🙄 not a bad work model!

Yesterday this blog sought to make sense of the decision to drop the Chinese Spying prosecutions on the information then available, and averred that both the positions of the government and the Crown Prosecution Service did not make sense. Now the government has published three witness statements, the picture now changes. The government’s position now makes sense, and the CPS looks as if it made at least one serious mistake and possibly another.

NEW

What the Chinese spying case witness statements reveal

The Crown Prosecution Service appears to have made at least one serious error, while the government's position now makes sense

By me

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INCREDIBLE clip.

<Richard Holden MP shouts like an angry man in a pub>

Lisa Nandy: "Can you calm down a bit, mate? You're shouting like an angry man in a pub."

Richard Holden: "That's not fair."

<continues to shout like an angry man in a pub>

Timeline cleanse

I think my cleaner may have gone a little nuts…

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

Punching down as usual 😒

Mel Stride on #r4Today saying the proposed Tory welfare cuts are “considered and principled” - good to know they’ve really thought about how to focus on the poorest people to make them poorer and that’s a conservative principle! Nice to see them doubling down on the horror of the last 14 years!

A Chip in the wild:

It really is, despite the creepy nun mannequins. Nuns alone - quite creepsville. Nun mannequins (sans hands and feet in some cases) - 😱

Cancles in history….

Well that escalated quickly…

Well, that’s not at all creepy….

The roofs of Beaune and the little men that crawl down them…