Dan Tappin

"Hi, I'm Johnny Knoxville, and this is Doggy Daycare Run"

*Jackass theme plays*

Let's hope Willock isn't too injured.

Ethics adviser rejects Tory call for inquiry into PM over Mandelson appointment Sir Laurie Magnus said the relevant process appeared to have been followed when Lord Mandelson was made ambassador.

Oh. Due process followed perfectly. The Tory politicians & client journalists lying desperately about all this were, of course, cheering & chuckling away when *two* of Boris Johnson’s ethics advisers resigned in disgust at his staggering contempt for ethics.
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Wouldn't expect any less arrogance from you.

Personally, they should be moving heaven and earth for Lewis Goodall, Emily Maitlis, Cathy Newman, and James O'Brien.

But until Robbie Gibbs is fired into the sun, and rules about personal views relaxed, that ain't happening.

It's pretty easy to fix it all, get presenters knowledgeable again about subjects so they can actually push ministers.

If people think that poorly resourced podcasts are a better product, then some of the fault lies with listeners having lowered their standards of the news they consume #justsaying

Classic diss of 5Live, sorry you can't handle a little faster pace, trails with music in, and hearing feedback from actual listeners.

Rachel Burden, Matt Chorley and Nicky Campbell are too good to be wasted on the Today programme. The listeners clearly can't handle a modicum of personality.

At The Races with Leslie Nielsen and Red Rock Cider (Extended edition) from 1992

Wuthering Heights uni module given content warning for students A Cardiff University module featuring Wuthering Heights carries 'distressing content' warning

Slow news day?
This is a complete non-story. No one is being prevented from reading the novel.
Films get ratings & warnings, so can books.
BBC News - Wuthering Heights uni module given content warning for students
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I'd rather have no power than fund white power.

Over 20 people arrested in Dubai for sharing drone strike videos on social media — The Standard Among those charged is a 60-year-old British man who allegedly filmed Iranian missiles over the city

Has anybody checked in with all the free speech warriors who moved to Dubai to escape Starmers Stalinist regime?

Zack Polanski repeated claim hypnosis can increase breast size, BBC interview reveals Green party leader has said he immediately apologised for comments made in 2013 Sun interview, but footage six days later shows him standing by claim Zack Polanski’s claim to have immediately apologised for offering hypnosis intended to increase a woman’s breast size has been cast into doubt by the emergence of a 2013 interview with the Green party leader. In 2013, before he entered politics, Polanski was approached by a Sun journalist to see if a hypnotherapy session could make her breasts bigger. This experience was then written up as an article. Continue reading...

Zack Polanski repeated claim hypnosis can increase breast size, BBC interview reveals

The negative reaction to the plan to put wildlife on the banknotes has convinced me what a good idea it is.

There seems to be a clear divide between people that are extremely happy to use a tool that could be a landmine to their careers when it goes wrong versus thorough people.

Ncuti Gatwa's acclaimed theatre run of beloved classic play is set to stream for free Alongside Gatwa, the play stars Sharon D Clarke, Ronkẹ Adékọluẹ́jọ́, Eliza Scanlen and Hugh Skinner.

The National Theatre will stream The Importance of Being Earnest starring Ncuti Gatwa for free. The performance from the winter 2024/25 run will be on YouTube from 12 March. A watch-along premiere will be at 7pm GMT, during which viewers will have the opportunity to interact through chat/polls. 👜

Yes, for those of us that are stuck in work and can't.

Is there not a canteen in the bottom of WC any more?

And would be used by the local area for takeouts. But the shopping centre being so close nixes that.

this is basically american foreign policy now

no really, holy shit

Eating soup while drunk is fascinating because it either means you are at the absolute lowest point in your existence, or at a wedding

That's cos it is apeing Cha Cha Cha a bit :D Check the Finnish song, I reckon it could be a contender.

It's all delightful, looking forward to the playlist. Especially like the Eurovision entries after that snotty Guardian piece this week about the UK entry. Have you listened to many of this year's songs yet?

Fascinating how much she wants this to be true

Fuzzy memories and hard facts: An SC accuser's claims against Epstein, Trump examined An alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein gave FBI agents true accounts of her time growing up in SC. Claims she made about Donald Trump remain unsubstantiated.

"A woman who claims she was abused as a minor by both Epstein and Trump has given the FBI vivid accounts that include aspects of her life corroborated by the The Post and Courier through public records ... she claimed Trump forced her to commit a sex act on him sometime around 1984."

hello I'm mental

A library at Dr Tripletts school, where purple is their colour.

It's amazing what colours can do innit. Just googled them, and they still seem to be embracing the colour

Same colour as my primary school blazer, so this just sent a shudder down my spine that I was just about to be dragged to a church for another boring sermon.