Will

Why are MPs spending so much time chasing councils and resolving routine casework instead of scrutinising government? Revive Redcliffe-Maud, and draw on Derek Senior’s city-regions. Give local authorities real powers and funding. MPs should be national legislators, not complaints handlers.

Politics! A Prime Minister making an argument. Trying to persuade people of something. Again.

Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff

At some point it will stop being entertaining. But today is not that day. Having dealt with so many glory supporters of theirs at school it’s endlessly entertaining when they plunge new depths.

Sigh. Last line of this story "As a proportion of the economy, debt was ​lower than a year earlier, the ONS said."

We cannot allow the housing crisis to go on like this.

In a Knight’s Tale the crowd is totally silent after Paul Bettany’s introduction of Heath Ledger’s character.Not because it was bad, but because they were all extras who didn’t speak English&couldn’t understand what he had said. Mark Addy then improvised a “yeeeah” and they all joined in and cheered

My Spanish is a tad rusty but I feel like I can decipher some of the words in the middle of this Real Madrid statement

Amazing that Liz Truss has become international shorthand for total incompetence, a lasting global legacy across generations beyond any British Prime Minister since Churchill.

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In Oppenheimer when he’s standing in front of the flag with 50 stars on it following The Trinity Test. In 1945, when there were only 48 states. I am not a crackpot.

Trap (2024), is a very silly film. But they do succeed at making it tense when he’s trying to escape the arena. Once they leave the arena it just totally falls apart.

Though, cards on the table, in my ideal world we would have shifted those interceptor stocks and then told Ukraine to absolutely keep blowing the crap out of Russian oil infrastructure until every last Russian soldier was either off Ukrainian soil or buried in it.

yeah specifically it's the Persian one

Need some of those beautiful French-style toll roads.

I'm sorry, but the audiobook of Gromit's autobiography should be marked as "read by the author" and then just be 8hrs of silence.

You’re right -— I did overestimate by own revenue by Billions in my first response -— well done for spotting that.

So I assume they just edited it to make it look like Richard E Grant has a chance, haven’t they? And he’ll be toast by a landslide #CelebrityTraitor

Hardly an original take but it is Quite Annoying to imagine how much the UK (and me, and you!) would all have more cash today if Donald Trump hadn't decided to start bombing Iran for *reasons*. Where's the White House impact assessment on my nursery fees. www.ft.com/content/2cb1...

I don’t think the current Stewards of the BBC understand the value of the brand at all

Wow, what an excellent use of a Cabinet Ministers’ time - micromanaging bus stops.

Hammering it into an open goal like Jude Bellingham against a team of 12-year-olds.

Unfortunately this has fallen victim to the cult of the savvy for some. It doesn’t matter it will barely move the electorate. Ending cliff edges is a good idea www.ft.com/content/82ce... l

In the simplest and most reductive way, the Uk political class seems to have resolved to pay 4% of gdp a year to investors to avoid raising taxes by 2% if gdp a year. It sounds mental when you put it like that but that’s actually the situation.

No she’s not.

I'm never going to recover from this. #CelebrityTraitors