JoelTaylorhack

Since Maro Itoje’s debut I’ve thought he should be England rugby union captain

Thrilled he is now and he is a fine role model for all

Brilliant fellow

MND stole this singer’s voice. Technology has helped give it back Patrick Darling had to quit his folk band as the disease took hold. Now he has released a song using his voice cloned from recordings of old practice sessions

As someone who is about to help a family member start voicebanking next week, this is a beautiful, inspiring, piece

www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

A very good point, re Sir Jim Ratcliffe

Where would Manchester United be without all their immigrants?

UK being ‘colonised by immigrants’, says Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe Britain’s seventh-richest man, who vocally backed Brexit then moved to tax-free Monaco, also hits out at people on benefits

Who would have guessed Sir Jim Ratcliffe would be this pleasant?

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

What on earth does ‘Tropical Ice’ mean?

Tobacco companies used to be good at advertising

I can just feel the sympathy surge towards this driver

Re-upping this for the Monday crowd... I think my favourite, most revealing detail is that the guy seems to not realise he's in trouble because London Centric's reporting didn't hit anything like his view counts, so therefore it can't really matter.

What a thug

Despite claiming otherwise, this hysterical piece is full of sneering snobbery and historical idiocy

Ofcom under fire after refusing to investigate ‘misleading’ GB News Trump interview US president not challenged over false claims climate change is ‘hoax’ and parts of London have sharia law

Ofcom, yet again, showing off how immensely inept they are

www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

he's certainly on the edge and, in many ways, it might be better for Labour if he did

But I suspect he'll cling on for now

He may stay to take responsibility for a poor local elections showing

Perhaps counterintuitively, I think Anas Sarwar's intervention has helped Starmer's chances of survival in the short term

It's forced cabinet ministers out to back the PM and considering no one has paid much attention to Sarwar before, why should they bother now?

definitely not my type

When Starmer resigns - as he surely must very soon - @number10cat.bsky.social will have outlasted six prime ministers

Crossing a road near Victoria when a chap, who looks and sounds like a European tourist, approaches and says

'You look interesting, can I have your number and maybe we can got for a walk and chat later?'

Er, no

Wallet? Check
Phone? Check

Somehow ended up here

In a scratch choir, performing Mozart’s Requiem

If every Republican elected official does not condemn the truth social post of Trump they should be seen as likewise racist sacks of shit and will be shunned in history.

Poorly

Or not reported at all yet which is pretty unforgivable

Guardian has it right

Yes, already it’s being poorly reported

But it’s there

It mustn’t be ignored & his supporters should be challenged

Part of me is quite pleased Trump has shared that Obama video

It confirms him as a massive racist & exposes anyone who still supports him as racist apologists

There is just no excuse

Every time I go on the old bird site now - sadly for work reasons - I feel sullied

"party of the future" - fucking hell, I don't want to go there

Both horrendously bleak and bitterly callous

This is unbelievable. By which I don’t mean that I don’t believe it, just that I think it’s beyond the scope of what should be considered doable.

Dropped into a pub briefly last night and a landlord was putting up a notice advertising a Valentine's Night Karaoke event

I told the landlord he was asking for trouble and it strikes me as being a terrible concept, almost as bad as thinking seeing the Wuthering Heights film that evening

Corin Redgrave was very pleasant when I met him too. And Julie Christie, extremely down to earth

Instead of conferring titles, gongs and baubles and then demanding those titles, gongs and baubles be removed…

…perhaps as a modern, mature polity we should have far fewer titles, gongs and baubles in the first place.

Confidence in Trump Dips, and Fewer Now Say They Support His Policies and Plans Only 27% of Americans say they support all or most of Trump's policies – down since last year, with the change coming entirely among Republicans.

How do 21% of Americans think Trump behaves "ethically" in office?

How on earth is that possible?

www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...

With Mandelson, there’s never any clues

Like Zahawi or Farage