Connecting fridges to the internet was always a stupid thing to do.
Extremely inappropriate earworm of “Blame it on the Houthis”.
An Essex wedding. Everyone was beautiful, there was soul music from the 1970s and the 2000s and there was a drunken argument about politics on the way back to some 19th century inns after midnight. All one could hope for really.
It feels cold, for maybe the first time since March. I don’t like it.
If inheritance tax on primary residences was abolished I think you’d see some of the richest pensioners using their savings to buy the most expensive houses they could get. Upsizing instead of downsizing.
Badenoch much better at the grievances part of the speech than the policy part.
Already this week I must have heard Kemi Badenoch say at least five things that would be career-ending for most politicians and we’ve not even got to her speech yet.
I watched that War Game programme on Sky where Michael Gove is prime minister and manages to get the UK involved in a nuclear war with Russia. Seeing the Tory policy ideas coming out of their confereence, they watched it too.
Very surprising that the British Museum chaired by George Osborne cannot organise an exhibition of an 80-metre long tapestry in a large room without buggering it up.
Everything makes sense if you believe Trump is a Putin puppet. He might not be, but he keeps playing the part.
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It’s in Sunak’s real voice too. Future historians will be able to judge how we fell so far and so fast as a country with the help of stuff like this written by our accidental prime ministers.
Adam Macqueen@adammacqueen.bsky.social · last wk.Am in awe at the batshitness of this intro by Rishi Sunak in today’s Sunday Times.
I’m just the latest in a long family tree of people waiting for the potatoes to boil.
You have to wonder who Kemi has been talking to if she thinks childcare support for people earning £100,000+ is a vote winner.
Thinking about Celebrity Traitors and a good strategy for the Faithful would be to keep in the obvious Traitor REG because they’ll recruit if he’s banished and then they’re back where they started. He might lead them to other Traitors and they can always pick him off later in the game.
We only have fourteen hours to save the Earth* * Four minutes to do Duolingo
My favourite fact of Celebrity Traitors 2 is that former spouses of both Rupert Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks are in it. The money doesn’t last long.
They’ve finally started on this 9-storey wooden building in Clerkenwell. “The largest full timber structure in the UK”.
Today I bought yet another replacement toilet seat for the office. I also went to the Impressionists exhibition at the Royal Academy. And tonight it’s Celebrity Traitors. I should keep a diary.
Worth reading if only for the line "He is also close with the boxer Mike Tyson, with whom he shares a love of pigeons".
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The City is having one of its October wobbles just in time for Healey’s first budget.
Brave of Burnham to say he’s going to fight the next election on changing the voting system, axing the triple lock and raising taxes, with three years for the opposition and media to scaremonger about it all. Well he can tell you that he tried.
Saw Diane Morgan carrying a cardboard box in Holborn today and my immediate thought was “robot”.
Looks like we can downgrade this one from "terrorism" to "fuel theft".
The fact that “Choosin’ Texas” has spent 23 weeks at number 1 in the US during the same year as “Rein Me In” spent 23 weeks at number 1 in the UK with so many people being unaware of either song shows that counting streams is no way to judge the popularity of music.
Burnham trying to make the next election about tax. Makes things easy for Badenoch, but which way will Farage jump?