Dan Tappin

Even before “no, tens of millions” (essentially the whole population, by the way!) are not about to support a revolution, if we had just had fourteen years of leadership by Nick Clegg, I would shut my damn mouth about how my ability to see the UK was on the verge of revolution made me a seer.

Among other things: Christian, who has been in government for 14 out of the last 15 years, and how many of the major decisions they made did you support?

All Tomorrow's Parsnips

A man with a spectacular 1970s mullet, wearing big wellies and a v-neck jumper over a T-shirt, looks at camera as he stands on a boat which is itself standing on the muddy bottom of an empty canal. He is holding up an enormous wooden plug on a long chunky chain

Today is the 47th anniversary of this clearly unimprovable photo, from a story so absurd that it shouldn’t be true, but is: the day a team of workers from British Waterways pulled the plug out of the Chesterfield Canal, and all the water emptied out

What's the calories of a metaphorical biscuit?

Are you at Upminster Court?

Are you in Epping?

Are you on the hill of Harrow on the Hill?

Are you at Heathrow?

I am now paying you my full attention 🤣

Where the X am I? You have 35 mins to work it out by asking yes/no questions.

#HideAndPeake

Are you in London?

Life happens once.

It's fairly short.

Make it matter.

And don't bother yourself with articles like this.

My dad likes it, but his taste isn't brilliant.

Lovely track

Switching on #totp just as possibly Pulp's greatest single of all begins.

I love all of it. All of it.

My kid saw the big w and said "Warios???" #totp

This type of American dumbness is just the tip.

Anyone calling for the end of the BBC will allow guff like this to pollute the UK kids market in the vacuum.

Where you went wrong is you have caught it in "first few weeks in a job enthusiastic" mode and not a few months in and read an email about cutbacks and entering "don't fuck up and give them a reason to drop you" mode.

"You call yourself Fantastic, but can you throw a copper kettle over a pub?"

This is the single best piece I've read on "replacing coders with AI," it fully dispells the myth from the perspective of a software engineer and does so in a calm, reasonable way.
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tony blair — blairite
margaret thatcher — thatcherite
nigel farage — farite

There is such a malicious game of telephone being played with the Telegraph’s M&S ‘trans’ shop assistant story. It’s gone from the anonymous complaint claiming the person was trans because they were tall to versions — notably in The Sun — falsely suggesting the person offered a bra fitting.

Met a famous current kids tv actor today on a set visit, as thoroughly lovely as you would expect.

Was funny when he was talking about the longevity of his career and now reckons 24 year olds recognise him in the street from his first tv appearances.

UK/France: Agreement on the Prevention of Dangerous Journeys [CS France No.2/2025] This treaty was presented to Parliament in August 2025.

Finally, the text of the UK/France migration treaty

Some comments 1/

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Tbh honest no good news gets upvoted on Reddit, there is a sizeable portion of downvotes to anything anti-Reform or pro-migrant.

Hell /r/uknews has a specific stickied post each weekend specifically for good news that doesn't get a fair shake.

2008 market crash - that living standards haven't recovered from- coupled with rise of post-truth world of Social Media isn't really something anyone around the world has dealt with.

Online Safety Act is ham-fisted, but platform holders refuse to own what goes out on their airwaves.

FLA 25: Matthew Rudd (03/08/2025) Matthew Rudd pic (c) Jamie Stephenson If you work Mondays to Fridays, Sunday nights don’t have a good reputation. They’re about winding down the weekend, and about preparing for another week of gri…

NEW! Beginning Series 3 of my music textcast #FirstLastAnything, broadcaster/writer Matthew Rudd @matthewjrudd.bsky.social talks about his ace long-running Sunday radio show #Forgotten80s, his home city of Hull and its fourth best band, and much more besides. firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/08/02/f...