This is a nice house but why is the kitchen telling me I've not read enough Salman Rushdie and am also generally disappointing? www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/8...
Matthew O'Connor
@matthewoconnor.bsky.social
My daughter is autistic, my son is not. They're equally annoying. Currently married to @helenskywalker.bsky.social http://schole.org.uk/
Death Of Stalin stuff. It's the gravitas of the staging and the ludicrousness of the words
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9h agoholy shit -- Schiff ties Trump's judicial nominees in knots by asking them who won the 2016 before *before* asking them who won in 2020, which results in them sounding like election deniers about Trump's victories!
Reform repaid Tice loan on same day £1mn donated by mother of Farage aide Cottrell ft.trib.al/dlAq12b
Reform repaid Tice loan on same day £1mn donated by mother of Farage aide Cottrell
Transactions fuel criticism of the party’s lack of transparency over its financing
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"Nige, some bent spiv wants to trouser some shares in your totally legit #ReformUK scam." "I love bribes, me, but will I get away with it? What are the optics/" "Let me have a play with the contrast, but I'm sure it'll be fine."
The outpouring of grief and love for Glen Hansard will stay with me. His performance at Other Voices in Dingle was achingly beautiful: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMt3...
The Frames - Fitzcarraldo | Other Voices
YouTube video by OtherVoices
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“New accounts for the business of Farage’s partner, Laure Ferrari - who supposedly paid cash for the £885,000 home - show no signs of money-making” if Farage paid for any of it he would have been liable for extra rate stamp duty ~£44k #FarageBung www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...
Mystery deepens over Farage's Clacton house
New accounts for the business of his partner, Laure Ferrari - who supposedly paid cash for the £885,000 home - show no signs of money-making
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It's very kind of Nadhim Zahawi to offer the incoming PM his advice on @bbclaurak.bsky.social this morning. I hope Andy Burnham's filing system already includes a category named 'Thieving, lying, bullying, arrogant bastards' so he has somewhere to put it.
🎶 "There's nothing I can say They're showing old clips of Joe Hart."🎶
All you bronzed sunbathers swanning around London in skimpy outfits need to check your privilege. I once glanced at the sun and my head nearly fell off.
My wife has gone out. Hope she enjoys herself. Sure I'll be fine.
Relax guys, enhancing photos with #AI doesn't always work: 1/6
Not sure if I've told the story on here about how I was accidentally caught up in a head-shaving fetish scenario, when I was a poor student. Turns out it was quite easily done.
Exclusive: The UK Statistics Authority has rapped Kemi Badenoch over claims she made at PMQs last month about the number of people claiming Universal Credit. Asked to comment, a spokesman for Badenoch replied with a “yawning” emoji. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...
Exclusive: Statistics Watchdog Raps Kemi Badenoch Over Universal Credit Claim
The Tory leader was accused of misrepresenting the size of the welfare bill.
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30 years ago, as a philosophy undergrad, a friend kindly offered to proofread my dissertation on the temporal metaphysics of GE McTaggart. I was subsequently called in to explain to my professor why I'd written an essay boasting my ability to move forwards and backwards in someone called Tim.
Uncle Duke@uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 3mo agogonna be sporting and give tim a five minute head start
On what would have been my glorious uncle Bartley's birthday this week, here's a short story about how one of my wife's uncles did the coolest, kindest thing for my side of the family just because he could. 1/
Welfare spending (which includes pensions) was, in fact, higher than income tax receipts throughout the entirety of Kemi Badenoch's ministerial career.
Full Fact@fullfact.org · 3mo agoThe Conservatives’ Alternative King’s Speech claimed the welfare bill is higher than income tax receipts “for the first time ever”. We’ve heard this a few times recently, but it’s not true. Welfare spending (including pensions) has been higher for years.
Laurie and I went to the West End tonight. At the tube, his Zip card didn't work so I let him use my card at the barriers, confident that I could use my phone. I had to shout at the useless barriers on my way in, way out, and both times on the way home. Here's a few pics I've just found on my phone.
Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye - Ella Fitzgerald Souvenir - Billy Joel On Raglan Road - Luke Kelly For No One - The Beatles I Wish I Knew... - Nina Simone God Only Knows - Beach Boys America - Simon & Garfunkel The Last Day of Our Acq... - Sinead O'Connor Touch Me I'm Sick - Mudhoney Spank Thru - Nirvana
Kate Bevan@katebevan.com · 3mo agoNightswimming - REM Wichita Lineman - Glen Campbell Iris - GooGoo Dolls Silver Springs - Fleetwood Mac Winner Takes it All - Abba Missing - ETBG We Three - Patti Smith Through The Barricades - Spandau Ballet Set Fire To The Third Bar - Snow Patrol Canadian Railroad Trilogy - Gordon Lightfoot
Inexplicably, walloping a piano with your elbow because you think it might look cool (it doesn't) makes all of the bits in it rattle afterwards. (Elbow action at 51 seconds.)
Happy St. Patrick's Day - especially to those of you who celebrate with clumsily performed, lachrymose renditions of this:
The light outside Finchley hospital took a funny turn on Friday.
FYI: not to scare anyone, but I attended my #EEG test having been informed that this would just monitor my brain activity. Afterwards, I was told that it's designed to attempt to induce an #epileptic fit, which would have been handy in advance. 48. hours later, I've mad brain fog and blurred vision.
Well that #Hamnet is a scream, eh? Paul Mescal is a weird, smug, grinning bag of lumpen thighs but 👌because Jessie Buckley, Max Richter's soundtrack, and the Zissou-esque ending.
Post a pic of the venue where you saw your first concert and the band or artist.
Alice just announced that it's the 10th anniversary of her #autism diagnosis. We were going to do a group high five before she added that it was also 10 years since her dyspraxia diagnosis so we thought better of it.