Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

Infantino by name, infantino by nature. 🤡🤡🤡🤡💩💩💩💩

Watch some YouTube videos involving sovereign citizens in the US. My goodness. Absolutely mad. Some of the people probably need psychological interventions. But, the way they behave is absolutely draining for the people in the state systems that have to deal with them. Scary in some ways.

Just saw an Instagram clip of two GB NEWS commentators speculating how the Suffolk wildfire started. Going through reasons why it might have started that aren't climate change. How it started is secondary. Climate change is causing tinder dry landscapes. That's why it burns so readily. Utter twats.

Time for the UK to put some significant investment into desalination plants?

I suspect that by the end of this year, we will find out that we have already passed the point of no return with regard to climate change. The planet will survive. Whether humanity does, who knows. We are such arrogant fools.

Andy Burnham is proposing a £2 cap on fares. Good. And will work well enough in cities. But in smaller towns and rural areas, may cause capacity issues. There needs to be some extra money so extra capacity can be introduced, where there is a need.

So Ortega goes full Somoza. Abysmal. Nicaragua’s president says country will not hold any more elections www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Nicaragua’s president says country will not hold any more elections

Daniel Ortega, the 80-year-old authoritarian leader, says move will ‘build a wall’ against the opposition

theguardian.com

Interesting reshuffle from Andy Burnham. A lot of new shuffling around/new appointments which will mean an element of disruption as they settle in. But the two Ministers who have been the most criticised are kept in post.

Is it just me? Or were the camera angles for the World Cup final really awful?

For those of you who've seen Mark Crossley telling the story about Cloughie (with Cloughie voice) and the Wimbledon "Ghettoblaster" incident, a slight amendment - "Now wave your f**King banner, Argentina"

This match is bonkers!

Is it time to put some defenders on? 😁

Small boat crossings seem to have reduced significantly in recent months. Better prevention. And perhaps benefitting from tighter EU access rules. Media seemingly losing interest. Wonder if they'll be back on the case once Andy Burnham is PM.

Andy Burham mentioned that people wanted "the Labour Party back they once knew". Which one is it though?

📌 ICYMI — ‘The BBC’s Ill-Conceived Cuts Sacrifice Journalists In Order To Save Managers’ The BBC is sacking journalists whilst leaving layers of largely superfluous and expensive management in place, argues former BBC reporter Patrick Howse

‘The BBC’s Ill-Conceived Cuts Sacrifice Journalists In Order To Save Managers’

The BBC is sacking journalists whilst leaving layers of largely superfluous and expensive management in place, argues former BBC reporter Patrick Howse

bylinetimes.com

Worrying.

Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 〓〓 🔶🌹💚💙@cornishskipper.bsky.social · 3w ago

“Friedrich Merz has warned Trump’s administration against interfering in German elections after the US state department announced a scheme to fund Maga-aligned causes in Europe…Amid growing concerns that the US is seeking to directly influence European politics” 🤬 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

If Argentina plays as badly as France has tonight, we may be OK in our semi-final.

Sky News correspondents looking and sounding a bit incredulous that the Ann Widdecombe murder is now being treated as a terrorism when it wasn't previously regarded as such. Well if new evidence is found, of course things can bloody well change. How ridiculous can they get. Such poor reporting.

I've occasionally been "pushed" auditor reels on Meta. They really are dangerous and vile individuals. The ones I've watched probably need a psychiatric intervention. But, the behaviours they exhibit are utterly abysmal.

If I were Nigel Farage, I’d dip into that £5 million crypto gift just to fund a video that can compete with this! 🤣 HILARIOUS ⬇️

I will be interested to see what Louise Haigh does during the Burnham Premiership. She seems to have been quite key to some of the actions that got him to this stage. I think she is quite ambitious.

In the very early hours of Friday 14th of August, the funniest lines could be "the Reform election agents look concerned" and "Mr Farage left the count without speaking to waiting journalists"

It won't happen of course. But would be funny if Count Binface was sponsored by Clacton Refuse Services, with the slogan "getting rid of your local rubbish".

It will be something if France elects a convicted embezzler from a crooked party to be their next President. Marine Le Pen says she has done nothing wrong. But only because she believes that the law does not apply to her. Dangerous to have a society where people support that warped logic.

It may be the complexities of the legal system in France. But, the structure of her punishment seems rather helpful in some ways to Marine Le Pens' presidential ambitions. I hope it isn't a case of friends in high places.

Trump having a normal one today then, declaring renewed war with Iran, a halt to trade with Spain, and once again to take over the territory of another NATO country. A clown demeaning his country. www.politico.eu/article/trum...

Trump orders a halt to US trade with Spain

“Spain is a wasted cause. We don’t want to do any trade business with Spain anymore,” says U.S. president.

politico.eu

Farage rails against the establishment and the deep state. But if Count Binface defeats him, he will have succumbed to the power of the Corporation aka "The Corpy"....

Will Count Binface's election tune be "My old man's a dustmen", perhaps sung by Countess Binface?

Just chuckling about what it would be like in Parliament if Count Binface became the MP for Clacton.