I keep looking at this post but cannot bring myself to click on the link.
Even just starting to think about it brings me to tears

Looked away from the cricket when Curran fell. Nee Zealand's game

Err...what happened?

Well...she may be right that Charlotte embodies the new Conservative party with her 1.8% vote share...

Someone please drug-test Badenoch.
Every single utterance shows her to be completely unhinged & disconnected from reality

Apparently the only "sensible candidate" was the Conservative one...that got ~700 votes.
98% of the electorate disagree with her assessment

I'm trying to work out where all the increases came from. It would help Labour to know what percentage of their vote went Green & what percentage went Reform (I suspect a 70/30 split)

Conservative & LibDem vote transference fairly obvious

Burnham would have got 2nd (& damaged himself politically in the process)

To say he would have won demonstrates either wishful thinking or a clear misunderstanding of the situation

Goodwin complaining about "woke progressives"
So ...people who are aware of the issues others face, have empathy, & would like to improve things are a problem?
Well, only if you don't have a shred of humanity in you

Yeah, that was a great mechanism that I'm surprised hasn't been used more.
Have to keep an eye on this

Harold Goodwinson: a statement.

‘We are losing our country. A coalition of feudalists and woke Frenchmen came together to dominate the battlefield. I don’t think they beat us, I think the archers were told to shoot arrows in my face.’

I'm not arguing about local or otherwise & it is NOT "BS"

If I think the top person on the party list is a complete cunt & should be nowhere near politics, my only hope for that to happen is if they get 0 seats.
Irrespective of what I think about that party generally

I am very much against a party list as then I cannot prevent a particular individual being elected.
FPTP at least allows me that nominal choice regarding 1 individual

Ideally there's some form of PR that gives the voters a aay about 'who' as well as in what numbers

Is it a gift?
I would argue not but I think that's an area for debate.

Clarity around this, & many other areas, is certainly needed

That 12.9g of sugar per biscuit.....
I'm not sure they're a 1-a-day thing. Think I'd best steer clear

Given the local elections were, at the time, postponed so as to avoid unnecessary cost, allowing Burnham to run would have undermined that argument.

The stupid move was to then unpostpone them

Trump to address a changed America at vital moment for his presidency Few of Donald Trump’s speeches to Congress have had as much riding on them as the one on Tuesday night.

Reading this article, it talks about Trump's great achievements but some of his ambitions being "thwarted by the public and key institutions"

And, you know, by being ILLEGAL

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Have 2, 1 is on the shopping list.
Wasn't aware of the King John one so that's now been added

It's going to need a lot of them....it just won't die

According to Badenoch, arresting people & bringing them to justice is "weak".....

"Badenoch says Mandelson's arrest is 'defining moment of Starmer's premiership'"

Well, yes. Action is being taken irrespective of who the person is.
Remind me again how many arrests there were regarding Covid era fraud?

No problem with 1300
1200 tricky
1100 I found easier to read & pronounce (starting to learn OE) but the vocabulary isn't up to it yet

How far back in time can you understand English? An experiment in language change

If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.

It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.

www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

After a thoroughly worthwhile visit to Hitchin Museum & their Grew Up In The 80s exhibition,
tonight I introduced my children to the first Bill & Ted film
They had a most excellent time

This post, & many of the comments, crack me up

Given the way the second game is going, on top of the first....
Italy to hammer France?

I see the usual crowd are out calling for Borthwick to go.
The same ones that were very quiet over the past year during the 12 match winning run

Probably one of those that considers themselves Christian....but has no actual clue what's in the book..or the teachings

And now....?

This song popped into my head earlier... can't think why..
youtu.be/biHJ6S91xBY?...

I heard it described as "unprecedented" & just laughed

I see this year's AQA resource pack is up to their normal standard.