Stephen Boswell

Most people in England & Wales are not Christian, and it’s axiomatic to a free society that religious beliefs - or the lack of them - are irrelevant to civic participation. Britain is a pluralist, not a Christian, society; and this is one more reason to fight Reform UK.

😂 Sometimes you just have to laugh. A great read.

That’s the hallway of a proper Stoke fan - and yes, that’s the programme for my first ever match. Perhaps I should frame mine too.
Love the seats - proper wood, polished by the squeaky bums of a generation of fans.
I’ll dig out a couple of items
of my (more limited) memorabilia and post them.

What hit me was her reaction when Rory Stewart told her in a one to one meeting that his father had died

Is she even human?

Reform UK’s Matt Goodwin faced GB News complaint over colleague’s claim of ‘inappropriate comments’ Exclusive: Nigel Farage understood to have known of grievance against byelection candidate, whose lawyer described it as resolved ‘minor workplace matter’ of miscommunication

EXCL: Matt Goodwin, Reform UK’s candidate in Gorton & Denton byelection, was accused by woman working at GB News of making inappropriate comments which she viewed as sexually harassing - story by @helenahorton.bsky.social & me

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Your birthday run of success in not winning continues!

That was my first ever game! I was born 1958.

I have that programme in the loft - haven’t seen it for years, but does it have a lad in a bobble hat on the front?

I don’t have the seats, but for years our season tickets were one row from the back, next to the press box. Great view.

Without watching, does it rhyme with punt?

None - at least since you were born …

1970: Lost 0–1 to Tottenham Hotspur.
1976: Lost 1–2 to Tottenham Hotspur.
1981: Lost 1–3 to Middlesbrough.
1987: Lost 0–1 to Coventry City.
1998: Drew 1–1 with Nottingham Forest.
2004: Drew 1–1 with Wigan Athletic.
2009: Drew 2–2 with Portsmouth.

Not optimistic…. being a Stoke fan since I was 9 has knocked optimism right out of me!

I always expect the worst!

😕

Happy Birthday, Dave!

Up the Potters!

Boris Johnson defends Prince Andrew – video London mayor Boris Johnson praises the Duke of York during his weekly radio phone-in slot on LBC

www.theguardian.com/politics/vid...

He never got a single thing right, did he?

Ever

omg

Maybe they’ll release the Epstein files to distract from the tariffs.

so many bad apples, you might think the whole tree is just rotten ...

Crikey

Buckingham Palace has a long and ruthless tradition of distancing itself from scandal. Nothing matters to the Firm more than the perpetuation of the Firm itself.

Be wary of stories that seek to put Charles and Co in a good light because a lot of it is nothing more than crisis and PR management.

Ann Widdecombe’s toenails, just to add to the culinary delight

The Jenrick/Farage fallout will be fun. Hard to pick a side, mind. Like being offered a choice between a hair sandwich & a toenail-topped panini.

Good to see

How silly. I never eat them in any case as I hate any form of dried fruit, so am not a sinner.

However, thanks to your prompt I’ll head down to MandS later and get a pack of their fruit-free Extremely Chocolatey HCBs.

There goes the diet

And my place in Heaven too

Wild Sika deer (Cervus nippon) roam freely in Nara Park, Japan 🇯🇵 where they enjoy #Sakura Cherry Blossoms 🌸

He’s only under investigation at the moment though.

There's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip

Fingers crossed 🤞

I’d love to finger whistle our dog like 99.9% of other chaps I know seem to be able to do.

I have a bit of an inferiority complex about it 😢

A man claims his grandmother in Colombia—a former housekeeper at Epstein’s Manhattan home—kept hidden memory cards, photos, and tapes when she was fired. He says it includes child abuse evidence, and both ABC and Fox refused to release it. If true, she may be holding what investigators searched for.

Fair enough
Ciao

And yet some clowns up here want to vote for these mutants.

I’m knocking on myself!
No, it can’t be explained simply, but it’s certainly there

No because he is a former DPP