Carl Harding

Pepper the black cat asleep on the back of a white armchair.

Pepper the black cat demonstrating love and trust by sitting with her back to the camera, on an orange and white cushion.

Pepper the black cat somehow partly under a curl of blanket.

Pepper the black cat asleep on a cushion on a cane chair.

Pepper the black cat sends you lots of furry love, purrs and healing.

An elderly black cat lies curled in the back of a chair, which is entirely white.

The best black cat is of course my black cat! Here she is, having located the only bit of white furniture which isn’t covered. It’s a gift…

Drop plans to scrap jury trials and replace them with a judge-only process. We must keep justice in the people's hands. I just signed the campaign calling to save our juries

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This is # 980 of 1000+ reasons why you shouldn’t be buying from Amazon.

The symbols used on the UK TV programme Only Connect, which consist of six Egyptian hieroglyphs, row reeds, lion, twisted flax, horned viper, water, and eye of Horus.

What’s going on with Only Connect, BBC?! The Horned Viper is nearly always chosen last. I’m going to start a support group for rejected symbolic serpents…

I love the expression on the horse, like, ‘chivalry, schmivalry, I’m so over this bullshit.’

This is precisely why I’ve been pushing back for years against all the flat earth/moon landing hoax etc etc. If you can diminish people’s sense that there’s any distinction between falsehood and reality you are then able persuade them of anything. Truth matters in every context.

Is it tefascist or tfascist? I can never remember…

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#ukpolitics Let’s protect our democracy from Russian influence before it’s too late.

I totally love that there were homely decorative items in the tardis, including what looks like a peacock sculpture and a coat stand. Excellent!

Symptoms bad today so I’m lying in bed thinking of collective nouns for birds.

A bobbin of robbins
A bowl of corncrakes
A string of buntings
A shoal of herons (hmm…)

Anyone replying with suggestions for swallows or tits needs to sit in the corner and think about their life choices.

Radio drama is hilarious. I mean, I get why they need to do it but, seriously, hilarious.

The correct order is: Find some good films and watch them instead.

I love the noise the kitchen door makes every time it opens.

Is cricket the one with the goals or the one with the shuttlecock? Asking for a friend…

Totally agree. London and New York singing this tune and we’re loving it.

So next time someone asks you what steadfast courage looks like, here is your answer.

Relief, poor kid she’ll have ptsd if she has one more dance-off!

I’m so sad that La Voix has had to pull out of #strictly such a loss to the show, we’ll all miss her humour and life and all that she represents.

Absolutely this.

History will remember what you decide today. Show courage, and add the roadmap to phase out coal, oil and gas – over 80 countries back it! #COP30

It’s just like the ‘If they win big in the midterms they’ll impeach the president.’ Their intended criticism is an advert for the very thing they seek to denigrate.

Just to clear it up for everyone. The Labour leadership know that trying to out-Reform Reform doesn’t work. They’re not doing it because it’s popular, they’re doing it because they actually believe in it.

Labour is not playing at being a right wing government, they *are* a right wing government.

Perfect!

Budget day is political theatre. This is one of the trailers.

Note the blue and white striped Cornish-ware. The original and still the best breakfast crockery design.

Did you hear about the drug dealer who said he didn’t want to get into big sport for fear it would damage his reputation?

Then write it again, swapping out Dominic Cummings for Morgan McSweeney.

Toxic positivity, not great.

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