Alasdair MacDonald

Aah, thank you!

The Duke?

I think his supporters are going to get it sooner rather than later, although it’s been a long time coming.

Probably both. I’d major on the asshole though.

My branch is sadly lacking in such entertainment.

“Duncan and Brady” was doing the rounds a few decades earlier…
“He had a mean look right there in his eye, to shoot somebody just to see him die”.

Republicans made a bet by sticking with Trump on the Epstein files fiasco. That bet is a losing one, and these new emails are signaling collection time…

It’s a Laffer minute……

Yes. That’s probably right. Just my age weighing heavily on me…..! 🙂

That makes as much sense to me as anything my mechanic tells me.

So I just get my news from the papers (Guardian subscription, FT from my “former staff” university log-on). I haven’t watched TV news for a long time, even though I have always rated Channel Four news). It’s an age thing……😐

I’m now in the position (on balance, fortunate, I think) that the only thing I can do while listening to music or speech radio is drive, and I don’t do much of that any more. I can’t read with music on in the background even. So I just have to focus on one or the other.

Some in the Labour Party have gone bonkers.

Erm, you don’t have to be elderly to have a hip replacement.

And not the Fiery Frenchman?

Does he have six fingers?

Musk: “Please don’t poke me with that sharp stick!”

Not sure the change of name would have helped in Vietnam. He’s such a prick.

I stopped listening to Today a few years ago. I can just about manage PM, but the hectoring first thing in the morning just put me in a bad mood for the rest of the day.

A squirrel with its arms crossed, sitting on a tree branch.

the lady that filled the bird feeder was two hours late and chester was starting to get pissed

A crew of six men line up to climb into a Lancaster bomber, against a sunset sky.

My father flew in Lancasters in the second world war. He’s the last man in this picture drawn by my uncle. These men had more courage than I can imagine. They fought a war against fascism and against genocide. WE MUST NOT FORGET.

China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity

Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China."

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Whole fucking thing makes me sick to my stomach. An abject fucking liar, a man who lies as easily as he fucking breathes, threatening an organisation which strives for truthfulness. And plastic patriots like the Mail and Farage urging him on. Jackels.

Ofwat says off-shore payments to Yorkshire Water boss do not flout bonus ban Campaigners have slammed Ofwat after the water regulator found that the undisclosed off-shore payment of £660,000 to Yorkshire Water boss Nicola Shaw did not flout the Government’s bonus ban rule.

Yorkshire Water flouted director pay rules, secretly handed £660k bonus through offshore parent company.

Regulator OFWAT says that is OK, govt quiet.

Law is just a paper tiger. Abuses continue. Customers fleeced.

Let customers vote on exec pay.
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The truth about impartiality at the BBC And the hysteria of the current "crisis"

The truth about impartiality at the BBC
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
A really interesting read from Lewis Goodall.

Trump has executed six more civilians in a small boat. The death toll now stands at 76.

Last night, Dick Tice launched Students4Reform (See what they did there, the scamps? They replaced "for" WITH THE NUMBER).

It will be led by Matt Goodwin, a man in his mid-forties, and it looked exactly like you imagine. ~AA

The key is to raise taxes enough to actually be able to do something with it, beyond placating the OBR and bond markets

Notable that the supposedly “patriotic” wing of British politics wants to destroy / defund almost all of our national institutions