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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

As one Londoner put it to me: "We were all able to sleep more peacefully last night, knowing that all those sign-holders had been locked up."

Don't worry, no-one can see the cat.

There's no cat in this photo.

When the England and Wales men’s national football teams play a friendly next week they’ll walk out accompanied by 22 people living with dementia. To further raise awareness, they’ll also be playing the 2nd half without names on their shirts.

Sending love Jase x

“Select all squares containing J D Salinger books” - CAPTCHA in the Rye.

A tune entitled "The Stool of Repentance"

This one sounds painful.

Stephen Yaxley-Lennon being deported twice in 24 hours - first from Colombia, then from Panama - because he’s deemed a national security threat, just a week after he led a march calling for migrants to be deported, is the kind of schadenfreude we can all savour.

YouTube video by The Juilliard School The Music of Hermeto Pascoal | Juilliard Jazz Orchestra

Farewell the mighty Hermeto Pascoal, composer, musician of unbounded positive energy and invention. I hope they play the Choro Árabe at your funeral . . . youtu.be/uAHlq2vkobc?...

I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/

Saved me a lot of money as I was considering buying it on dvd!

The Telegraph Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence [Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday] Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent 29 August 2025 8:57am BST

The Telegraph Money > Property > Second homes How to avoid tax on your second home From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net [Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto] Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer 29 August 2025 1:21pm BST

On the same day in the Telegraph:

Angela Rayner resigns as deputy PM over failure to pay enough tax on flat - live updates Rayner also quits as housing secretary and deputy leader of the Labour Party after admitting she underpaid tax on an £800,000 flat in Hove.

Angela Raynor resigns.

@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social

Now do Farage, who has bought his house in Clacton under his girlfriends name, and used a private company to avoid tax on his gbnews wages. Do your job bbc!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c0...

Rayner: I received the wrong advise, I'm sorry - RESIGN

Jenrick: I did this on purpose - WELL DONE OLD CHAP

Angela Rayner accidentally pays less tax than she should have, resigns, and the media gives her hell.

Nigel Farage deliberately pays less tax than he should have, and the media gives him a free pass.

That, right there, is the problem.

All the episodes of Parks and Recreation are on UKTV (that's free to air). You're welcome.

BRILLIANT news. Thank you!

Palestine Action supporters urged to demand they are taken into custody if they are arrested Protesters are being urged to demand they are taken into custody if they are arrested for supporting Palestine Action this weekend - which may threaten to overwhelm police resources.

Palestine Action supporters urged to demand they are taken into custody if they are arrested

Don’t feel proud to be English. Feel lucky to be English. The vast majority of the world don’t have that good fortune you were given. Don’t waste it hating on people in need of a better life; people who have risked their lives just to have a tiny bit of that same good fortune that was given to you.

Yessss. Have some of that.

YouTube video by elbuccanero Princess Diana Crash - First BBC News Report (interrupting 'Borsalino') 1997

It’s the anniversary of Princess Diana’s death in 1997. Here’s BBC One breaking into possibly the most unfortunate scene imaginable to initially tell people that something had happened. m.youtube.com/watch?v=FPhC...

It's almost like my laptop knew exactly the moment my son had moved out and it's 2 days before school starts (therefore I desperately need it to do timetables I should have done last week) to present me with the blue screen of death.
These fucking machines are more sentient than we'd like.

A lime. The Last of the Summer Lime. Oh yes.

My son has been living with me for the last year. Every night we'd have a rum, ginger and lime.
He moved out yesterday and I vowed to stop drinking and start dieting once he'd gone.
So this...
IS THE LAST OF THE SUMMER LIME
Yes it is. Cheers.

Outstanding.

There's customer service for you.

I stumble through the breakfast area, see the chef and, fully expecting either a withering smile or a stern request to leave the building, I ask is there a chance of a coffee while we wait for the fire to take hold? and without blinking he replies of course madam and off he goes.

At a hotel in Bristol, not having slept because I suspect my room doubles as the sauna, and I couldn't open the window due to Bristol being one big all night riotous party venue. Just dropping off at 7am and the fire alarm goes off. Clearly not a drill due to confused slightly panicky management -

Fond memories of the "cot in the bathroom" from a couple of Christmases ago.

In the spirit of DuvetKnowItsChristmas, this was my son's bed in the kitchen in my sister's flat for the last few days. 😊