Alastair Duncan

Fantastic thread

Did he go to Edwin’s last gig at the Royal Festival Hall. Bloody brilliant. I don’t think Edwin’s a fan tbh.

There are now 625,000 people aged 90 plus in the UK. This is up by more than 50% in the last 20 years.

Around 16,600 of them are centenarians (people aged 100 plus). This has doubled since 2004. 1/2

New ONS release out today: www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...

This explains the novel Chesil Beach

‘Empty shelves, higher prices’: Americans tell of cost of Trump’s tariffs US consumers say price rises caused by president’s tariffs contradict his promise to make life more affordable

yes, we have no bananas.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

1 Nurse: It’s become a real problem in this area 2 Nurse: We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction 3 Show a building sign posted: Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it Nurse: Ministers, Spads, Researchers… 4 Nurse: Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely [Nurse on phone taking a call] Ok - we’ll be right over 5 Nurse: We just have a gentle chat [Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster Minister: I understand your concerns… 6 Nurse: Are you OK love? Minister: Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters 7 Nurse: That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian [Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters] Nurse 2: Give us your phone, love 8 Nurse: At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to [We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.] 9 Minister: YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR [woman looks baffled] 10 woman: I just want a bus service Minister: LOOK AT MY FLAG [produces a St George's flag] [ends]

The sad end of the cluetrain manifesto

Good natured casual racism and ultra violence

Covid enquiry update, strangely not covered in the nationals apart from that bastion of investigative journalism, the Daily Star. Well done them. Cc @implausibleblog.bsky.social

Excellent piece

Exclusive to all newspapers @privateeyenews.bsky.social

'give me the most French idea you've got'

'no, that's too French'

Daily Mail Misinformation

It’s a ridiculous daily Mail article

Fab

Headline: "Man who appealed Pelicot rape conviction handed longer jail term"

The world's in a bad way, but now and then something goes right

$41 million: The amount of money we’ve raised for indie bookstores since 2020.

$0: The amount of money Amazon has raised for indie bookstores since 1994.

Sounds like modern Life without Buildings @robertdallasgray.com

Queen pays tribute to 'legend' Jilly Cooper after author dies aged 88 – live updates

I thought the Queen died in 2022

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg...

Reform UK’s Nigel Farage with the Russian Ambassador (that he denied meeting), and with Oleg Voloshyn's wife Nadia Borodi, Voloshyn bribed Nathan Gill.

Farage is still silent.

It’s deafening.

#ReformRussianBribes

+1 ☝️

Good to see Streeting so popular

The ‘over diagnosis’ narrative is such a cop out. We could say the same about cancer, which, according to the daily Mail (?) has doubled since the 1990s. Funny that, as people are living longer and diagnostics happen earlier.

Officer Gotcha from Jamie and the Magic Torch

Officer Dibble from Top Cat

PC Selby from Postman Pat

Which fictional police officer do you think would be most likely to get caught out by a Panorama sting operation saying something unacceptable?

REVEALED: bombshell evidence of the link between Tylenol and autism.

Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.

this exists it is called thinking

Looking forward to listening to this.

Why is BBC Any Questions platforming the bonkers right wing Sarah Elliot, wife of Matthew Elliot (of vote leave fame)?

Well, what did you think was going to happen? Colombia and Panama kicked him out.

This is also seriously impacting families (particularly women) who are charged with school non-attendance for their child and fined, left with a criminal conviction and takes no account of the child’s circumstances, which in many cases, are extremely difficult - illness, anxiety, bullying etc.