I would prefer not to

Excellent!

My daughter’s mates. Sound lads and top entertainment live.

North: Barcombe
East: Glynde
South: Newhaven
West: Ditchling

Today I shall mostly be drowning in strange craft beers in the sunshine. First up, a raspberry sour stout from China.

I’m sure there’s a long history of migrant dinghies bypassing Dover and aiming to land a bit further north at *checks notes* Great Yarmouth . . .

And it’s all such a fucking waste of life and human potential: people who could have more and give more if they didn’t happen to be born in a ‘lesser’ place.

This is such a dumb take.

Govt spending is supposed to reward success? What if - crazy, I know - investing more elsewhere boosted GDP elsewhere?

If you don’t immediately change your email signature job title to ‘Reputational Warfare’ I’ll be disappointed.

AI (being useful for once) points to the popularisation of this being a Thatcher speech in 1983.

Yep. The ultimate piss boiler for me is ‘taxpayer’s money’. I’m not sure exactly who invented that but pre-Thatcher I’m pretty certain it was ‘public money’. Which is what it is.

Going back historically we understood that we had representative democracy - ie elect people to do what they think is best. For the last 30 years or more we’ve been dealing with an idiot’s idea of participative democracy where politicians think they must do what Joe Public says all the f’in time

Ah, balls #thecricket

Woakes right now

‘Tis but a flesh wound…’

If there is a worse DIY job out there than replacing the blade on a junior hacksaw, I’ve yet to encounter it

A stark, bewildered feeling, as of death, came over me.

Torygraph warning, but shut up Angela.

I couldn’t begin to quantify what our allotment does for our mental health. And understanding nature and where food comes from looks like it ought to be a priority right now.

It’s far worse than that: the centrist’s Andrew Tate.

‘Woke trigger warning’

Calling an article ‘How to be a man’ and then sub-skeeting it as actually being about how to get laid is not much of a ‘progressive’ point of view.

I was on site this morning with a Spanish lad, engineer, looked at the weather and briefly considered trying to explain ‘black over Bill’s mothers’ to him, but fortunately changed my mind for the better.

Chap in a project office just introduced me to a new starter as ‘Architect and General Cultural Person’

I think this may have to become my email signature from now on

Here are the requirements and the ChatGPT output. Copilot was so shit I didn’t bother saving it, but then ChatGPT turned out worse. Remind me to try again in 2 or 3 years

Following a discussion on generative AI today, I’ve had my first foray. I decided to request a map based on a series of complex but objectively indisputable factual requirements (those being my own dubious definition of the north-south boundary in England) I put this into Copilot and ChatGPT 1/2

How is ‘scrap HS2’ a motoring policy? And what the fuck does he think that will do in 2029?!

In fairness, I’d have voted for Oasis’ rise to dominant popularity had it been an option.

It’s almost as if Stop The Boats Keef might learn from that, but there we are.

I hate the prick too, but the right arguing we took a wrong turn when he was the first openly Thatcherite Labour leader is kind of fascinating.

Uwe Rosler! With his own hair!

After spending yesterday juggling the cricket, Le Tour and the football, I’m struggling with the abject sportlessness of today.

When he was elected the nice centrist opinion havers were all very happy about ‘the return of sensible politics’. In the last couple of weeks I’ve seen their posts about ‘magic grandpa’ and his ‘silly politics’

Really think it’s time to look into the silly option now.