Dara O'Reilly

Keir Starmer's middle name actually IS "Rodney." Nigel Farage's middle name is, disappointingly, "Paul."

'Which curry house is open late?': Nigel Farage and Marina Hyde go for a pint Marina Hyde said in her column that she'd rather have a pint with Nigel Farage than the other party leaders. When the day came, she chose bottled lager from Europe …

Never forget that Marina Hyde wrote an article about how great going to the pub with Nigel Farage was.

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Make a political hero of Zack Polanski if you want. Just don’t forget to engage your brain | Marina Hyde The Green party leader is riding high in the polls. But across the political spectrum, uncritical adulation leads nowhere fast, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

This is the sort of shitty sneering piece that Hyde whipped out whenever Corbyn got any traction with people. The message is that the establishment fear Polanski, and are desperate to stop him.

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This poor girl on the #ToyShow is probably going to have a rude awakening about "Inspirational Figure Coco Chanel" at some point.

Asked for comment by Sky News, the IDF responded: "Earlier today, IDF troops identified two suspects who crossed the yellow line, conducted suspicious activities on the ground, and approached IDF troops operating in the southern Gaza Strip, posing an immediate threat to them. "Following the identification, the IAF eliminated the suspects in order to remove the threat."

They were 8 and 11 years old

Two brothers killed in Israeli drone strike on Gaza Fadi Abu Assi, 11, and Goma Abu Assi, eight, were gathering firewood at the time, their uncle said.

You’ll never guess how the IDF decided to talk about killing these two kids, 8 and 11 years old, in its official statement

*welsh accent*

Things are getting strange, I'm starting to worry

This could be a case for

Opened my Instagram stories and there’s Willow Smith over in Los Angeles lip synching a middle aged Limerick mans experience of maintaining friendships while being autistic

Change UK ABSOLUTELY had a brand. It was designed to be abbreviated as "ChUK," and capitalise on the popularity and electoral power of its young and photogenic leader Chuka Umunna. While they clearly overestimated that popularity and electoral power, it was still an intentional naming.

I wish Hollywood star Michelle Pfeiffer a long and healthy life, but you know and I know, @seamas.bsky.social , that when she eventually and sadly passes, she will be described as "Grease 2 Star Michelle Pfeiffer" in our family WhatsApp group.

Trading Places is both a Christmas film and a New Year film.

I suppose one should sympathise with the pensioner living alone in a £2m house who can't afford the surcharge, but on the plus side, just think of all the dark psychological thrillers we'll get using the plot sitch "Elderly widow rents out a room to an enigmatic and mildly threatening stranger."

When Scrooge sees his own future, why is it not mentioned he is now a duck?

Why didn't he thank me for my attention to this matter? I gave my attention to this matter.

The evidence would appear to suggest that being "led by the strongest voice in the room" is less inimical to justice being done and being seen to be done, than being the ONLY voice in the room.

During the Diplock Era in Northern Ireland, while conviction rates were not significantly higher than in jury trials, (51% of cases tried by a magistrate ended in conviction compared to 49%,) a significantly higher proportion (9% as opposed to 6%) of convictions were overturned as unsafe.

"Mr President, I have nothing but respect for your office, but I don't think there's much public appetite for "Police Academy 8: Courage Under Fire." Also, a lot of the original cast are dead. What's that? You've spoken to Guttenberg and he's very keen? Well, if Steve's on board, I guess..."

To be fair, absent any way to establish the best team in Europe every year, which as we know does not exist, this press release from a Nerds Website For Nerds seems to be our only option.

Slapping anyone on the pitch is violent conduct; it's irrelevant if they're an opponent or a teammate. He'll likely get the automatic one-game for a sending-off, and maybe get it upgraded to three for the exacerbating factors.

No, the other way around. It was an Everton player, Idrissa Gueye, who slapped his teammate. And it's not without precedent. Bowyer-Dyer for Newcastle, Le Saux - Batty for Blackburn in their Champions League season.

I have a theory that the invention of the smartphone is one of the reasons people stopped smoking. What else were you going to do when you were hanging about waiting for people?

Kitmas '25: the gift of football www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/kitmas-202...

When he was leading the line for Aston Villa and Manchester United at the turn of the millennium, you never saw him leading a Doomsday-cult spin-off of the Nation of Islam, but I suppose it was inevitable.

And the only way I'd know is that signs change to kilometres, and I keep getting text messages from my mobile phone company about roaming. Which are actually very annoying, and I don't think I can turn them off!

I think a lot of people from the UK don't realise that frictionless, passportless movement between the UK and EU happens in the United Kingdom. Whenever I'm home in Derry, I go on a 10k run which crosses the Irish border 8 times.

One from the archives:

In 2023 Ayesha Hazarika said it was ridiculous the Cheltenham Racing Festival took place in March 2020

But at the very time Cheltenham was taking place in March 2020 Hazarika sneered at those who were demanding more scrutiny of the decisions the govt was taking on Covid

Labour cultists need to drop their purity tests and fall in line behind the Greens to stop Farage. A vote for Labour is effectively a vote for Reform

Mine is "Dabbareth Burke," on the basis that I've seen "Dabbasheth" before, just there, in your post.

Grok actually says all this about MY physique as well; he's just very optimistic and kind.

To be fair, he's less positive about my relationship with the kids, but he agrees with me that that's actually on them. They need to buck their ideas up.

A photo of a sign, white text on red background: JESUS... WHO IS HE? WHY DID HE COME?

When I arrive at the party