Paul Kavanagh

Hellish annoying, that. Had it with my last car, and it's a huge pain when the flat tyre isn't at your house.

I feel your pain. Today I got some marking up done, and started one (1) mortice. Admittedly, making the workbench visible beforehand was most of the work.

I know he probably doesn't, but I like to imagine that Dan drops into a broad Cockney accent just for swearing.

I love everything about that scene. Wilder's delivery and Little's reaction are just perfect.

I feel like that's going to need a retraction somewhere down the line. Voter fraud in the UK has repeatedly been found to be so rare as to be insignificant. To do it on the scale that would be needed for a result like the one last week would require impossible organisation. Lying fuckers.

I can state right now he'll never be PM. Nobody likes him, especially the public, so he won't have support to be leader before the next GE: at which, he will lose his seat. He got a 500-odd majority so in any non-eject-the-Tories race he's toast. I do hope he's noticed this.

To mangle a phrase from Patrick O'Brian, he is an equivocating bastad, and I will have none of him.

I'm bitterly disappointed with Starmer, and my expectations weren't that high to begin with. He doesn't even have any discernable convictions to have courage in, which I suppose is the only bonus of being such a miserable coward.

For all his undoubted faults, Thompson was (for me) one of the best diagnosticians of the US malaise. The other being Frank Zappa.

I mean, a while back I went out leafleting with one of the local Labour MPs, a nice fella who'd been a well-regarded councillor for years. They do exist. I wish the hierarchy would listen to them more.

Yeah, I heard literally nothing about her: which gave me the impression she was reading strictly from the script. I think the most telling thing for me in the 2024 GE was that bright, charismatic guy in Clacton who got stood down by the leadership for no good reason. He should have fought it.

The "stick a normal human up for election" idea seems to have worked well, be nice to see more of that

He's *really* fucked now. Even if he manages to wriggle into the leadership, his tiny majority is going to get monstered at the next GE.
Still keep agreeing with the late great Dawn Foster's opinion of him.

Ah, he just wishes he could throw Nigella around like that.

Extraordinary generosity on your part, referring to Kuenssberg as a journalist.

I just got ridiculously stoned before going into Aldi, wish me luck and a lack of surfboards for sale

Channel Diogenes and go for it 👍

I'm in Germany and this burger is genuinely excellent. It's much bigger than a Big Mac. I have two kids who love a Happy Meal, and if this is on the menu it's now my go-to order. Not much of McD's fan generally but this knocks it out of the park.

Also somewhere to keep my tape measure. Important.

A pair of black work trousers with grey patches on the knees and pockets. There are a lot of pockets, six on the front alone

Getting a pair of these, even the pockets have pockets

I agree, but if they do try to get him on he's going to get both barrels from every other panel member and half the audience, and I think he might not like the prospect much.

Fair enough, yeah. I don't think this is necessarily the best measure to be slamming through on the quick, the Cabinet generally seems to have a bit of an odd set of priorities to use that majority for.

I'm aware that it's a highly contentious issue, and that oversight is generally a good thing. However, the three I mentioned aren't doing that. They're gaming the issue: doing the exact opposite of treating it with "seriousness and rigour". Instead they're obviously acting in cynical bad faith.

In this instance, it's a particular bunch of dickheads including Hannan, Moylan and Fox. They're deliberately shitcanning it by asking a thousand pointless questions with the intent of running out the clock. So yes, it's childish bullshit and not knowledgeable scrutiny.

That's working, now try your lights

*smokes kipper*

I figure a human has taken the time and effort to make it, out of community spirit, so they're fine. I can cope with twee if it's heartfelt.

My wife's called Fiona, wish me luck

Peter Mandelson talking to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor

"I bagsy the top bunk"