Niall Litchfield

The commentators could easily be believed to have said that. We had 'Chad the emotional support dog' for Kirsty and a mention of Canadia earlier on.

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Mo Salah will be looking for a new job soon...

Also. Welsh? Took some self control not to say yes.

Everyone who says this should be made to do a Bobsleigh run.

I bet the graph for the bottom 19 Americans would be even more crazy if the data were available. E.g. Miles Guo would be in the billions.

That's quite some history! "Since the initial fire, the site has remained closed to the public aside from a brief attempt by the Sharks Ski Club to hold sessions in May 2012, which were stopped when the ski lift motors and power ancillaries were stolen." is darkly amusing as well.

As Ronald Reagan said, "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and have you considered bobsleigh."

France are fantastic to watch. #6Nations #WalesVsFrance

Screenshot of earlier context in which Plastic Jesus hypothesised that CA might a) continue to allow mail in votes in the 26 midterm, Trump then voids CA results. and then Hooligan NY suggests CA would immediately secede.

Nobody, especially not me, is saying that secession can't happen. History would suggest it is inevitable. It's about timescales. Plastic suggests that Trump might void all CA results based on mail in voting and Hooligan suggests immediate secession follows. I don't buy it. This is not hard.

If the Greens are anti-Putin why do they wish to pull out of NATO?

Not really. I'm assuming that the US will have the same constitution in a year from now. If the US wants to enable constitutional secession then I think that takes a set of circumstances that aren't currently there.

Of course. No argument with that. It's the idea that an executive order or similar banning mail in voting would result in secession that I think is for the birds.

How will that be accomplished? So far as I can tell there is no mechanism today, and it would absolutely go to SCOTUS.

Brilliant Social Media from @rspb.bsky.social

Chart from stairs showing annual gambling revenue rising from 8.4bn in 2019 to 15.6bn in 2024.

I'm with you on the social I'll big time, but a chart that shows a big rise in one type of gambling may or may not be an awful chart. It depends on to what extent that is new demand. I think the picture is bad, but not as terrible as that graphic. This is total nominal take since 2010

Where's the fun in that? :(

Indeed. £589 is a hefty fee for the alternative certificate though.

That's about 7 million in England and Wales.

As for the Spectator quoting Julie Birchill on the AI sexual image generators "We have to teach girls to be tougher not men to be nicer".

To be honest I'm not sure Julie Birchill ever had much of a sense of shame anyway.

A lot of this it seems to me is about changing political identity. It *used* to be that left Vs right was broadly an economic/state capacity argument. Now it is much more of a cultural argument with the economics (apart from tax other people more) taking the back seat.

There's no money for social care, and that is a PM/Chancellor choice because they won't broaden the tax base.

I did not know that.

BBC News headlines: Education School caterers 'confident' of meat Missing children data 'worrying'

Happy 13th anniversary to this pair of matching news headlines.

Accounts posting online that they've joined the party isn't proof of your central argument that the media tried and failed to bring down a PM. What happened yesterday was a Labour party stramash largely as a result of Polling, the PMs decision making, and his party management.

Because teenagers and 'grab em by the pussy' didn't. That's a generous view of his apologists.

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

I suspect Trump is bargaining on election rigging...

Jacob Rees Mogg reclining on the government benches in the House of Commons

Let me be very clear....

Chart from Politico's Poll of Polls showing Labour voting intention falling from 45% on May 22nd to 34% on polling day.

Quite. Labour lost 11% (or one quarter of their previous steady polling) during the 24 election campaign.

Agree, so far as I can tell the law says that the promoter *is* liable subject only to a defense that they carried out due diligence which would seem not to be the case here.