Paul Rutterford

@paulrutt.bsky.social

⬆️ Pulling a stupid face

I hope Rachel Reeves’s response to Andy Burnham’s offer of a lesser job after removing her as Chancellor was like that of my stepdaughter when she received a letter saying she hadn’t got a job at the local zoo’s gift shop. She opened the letter, read it and bellowed, “Shove it up your arse!”

Dear FIFA, For the next World Cup, do you think you could see your way clear to scrapping ‘hydration’ breaks, keeping the final half-time to fifteen minutes, without any Superbowl-type entertainment and doing away with the ‘bronze medal’ match altogether? You could? Marvellous.

GUYS - I’ve just realised what Farage is going to do… The thing is he now has NO WAY to proceed which doesn’t humiliate him. If he wins, he is, as Rachel Reeves put it, The Man Who Spent His Summer Arguing With A Bin. If he bails, he’s The Man Who Fled From A Bin. And if he LOSES…

My wife was watching a rerun of Father Brown today. I had my head stuck in the newspaper and heard Mark Williams tap on an office door and say, “May I come in?” I then heard my wife say, “Fuck off”, at which point I looked up and saw her trying to swat away some flies. Made me laugh.

Did anybody else just see the on-court interview with French tennis player Corentin Moutet after his victory at Queen’s? Someone in authority should have had a quiet word along the lines of, “Say ‘fuck, fuck, fuck’ in an interview again and I’ll break your fucking arm, you pathetic twat”.