Lang Rabbie

Stop 👏 having 👏 unrealistic 👏 body 👏 standards 👏 for 👏 camels 👏

Trump and the UK have much in common - both avoided getting involved in the Vietnam War.

I sometimes wonder whether Blair ever learned anything from his disastrous support for Bush in Iraq.

He clearly didn't.

Next on the list for public sculpture activism on the South Bank of the Thames...

Fountain in Courtyard of Shell Centre, Non Civil Parish - 1379937 | Historic England List entry 1379937. Grade II Listing: Fountain in Courtyard of Shell Centre. May include summary, reasons for designation and history.

I suspect descriptions of Franta Belsky's fountain for the Shell Centre as "Torsion Fountain" (including in @c20society.bsky.social story) are a fairly recent confusion with the Gabo at St Thomas'.

I think the Belsky should be called "Shell Fountain". historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-...

“Axel Springer will further expand and strengthen the Telegraph Group internationally – with the aim of becoming the leading bourgeois-conservative* medium in the English-speaking world,” explained the Berlin-based publisher of “Bild” and “Welt.”

Perhaps better translated as "civic-conservative"?

Axel Springer was the reason my Austin Allegro failed its MOT.

From the prolonged radio silence, I was beginning to worry Torsion Fountain had been nicked by a scrap metal thief and the developers of Shell Centre Upstream site were keeping quiet about it.

When will water start flowing again???

@se1.news

Technocapitalists’ great trick is to make people who hate all this bullshit feel like they’re suffering from the same fogeys-not-coping-with-a-changing-world syndrome every generation succumbs to, rather than, say, just rejecting a rampant evil that seeks to rob us of our individuality and soul.

We Have Always Been At War With Eastasia

Raytheon Executive: I know you’re skeptical about buying American again. But hear me out. The MIM-104 Patriot is the only surface to air missile system with a proven track record of success against the US Air Force.

Danish Defense Minister: Continue.

All relief flights from Dubai should be met at arrivals with signs saying "HM Revenue & Customs welcomes you back to the UK"

Islamophobic meme wars

MAGA and UK offshoots in Reform desperately trying to connect Trump’s war against Iran with domestic British Muslim communities. But they are 85% Sunni and the 15% Shia is filled with Iranians who fled the Ayatollahs.

It’s just racist ignorance, isn’t it?

Today should be your 38th birthday.. When you lose your son you lose more than a child you lose a piece of your heart and your joy. Life is forever altered, and nothing can ever fill that space. Yet in my soul, he remains, my precious boy, forever loved. His laughter, his smile, and his love are woven into who I am. My love for him will never fade. Yor are my pride and my joy - you've made a change that cannot be broken..

Alex's mom on his 38th birthday.

There’s something morally grotesque about reporting the words of a genocidal war criminal as if they were uttered from a genuine place of authority rather than from atop a pile of Ukrainian corpses.

I think you mean “panicking immigrants” Ms Oakshott?

Those of us old enough to have taken a precocious teenage interest in Mitterrand's 1980-81 election campaign can recall the shock when he re-appeared with his prominent canine teeth filed down to become electable.

In hindsight, should have realised he was a shape shifting bakemono werewolf!

Making a Khamanei who is going to die on his own soon enough and threaten the stability of the Iranian regime a martyr would be a spectacular stupid thing to do so I'm going to assume that's precisely what Trump and Bibi have done.

Just your regularly scheduled share of this masterpiece by @tomgauld.bsky.social

So just as a final word on this by election before polls close:

No matter what the result, Gorton and Denton is supposed to be in a category of safe seat that should essentially render it uncompetitive. The fact that it isn't is a damning indictment of Labour's time in office.

Just half an hour left to read Andrew's Preview - so you too can sound knowledgeable about these bleeding chunks of City of Manchester and Tameside.
Sewn together to form an unwieldy constituency - to appease Stockport Nationalists whose votes must never be co-mingled with those of Mancunians?

I see I was beaten to it!

Morningon Crescent surely!

It's mad that people say this when every analysis of voting behaviour shows that which christian denomination you belong to (Anglican, Catholic or Non-Conformist) is a good predictor of whether you're a Tory, Labourite or LibDem. Just Islamophobia to think British Muslims invented religious voting

King Charles has come up with a radical new approach to deal with his Andrew problem

Tweet from Dominic Cummings in which he lambasts Matt Goodwin as a charlatan

Look as endorsements against Matt Goodwin go I don't exactly agree with it, but I will take what I can get.

The long 2010s are finally over

This means:

1. Labour confident of win, or
2. Labour not confident of win but want to look confident of winning in order to try to conjure up a chance of winning, or
3. 4D chess players have run riot with PM's diary.

Anyway, here's what the polls say: theweekinpolls.substack.com/p/gorton-and...