Celestial M Weasel

PULL THE LEVER, LOUIS!

“the minister tried to shovel all of the blame onto Capita, ignoring the significant failure of governance by the Cabinet Office that allowed Capita to wreak havoc.”

Even though the Anthropic version of this is the opposite of how it usually goes I'm still opposed in principle. If you want an insane share structure stay private!

Dual class stock should be illegal for public companies.

Today is the 40th anniversary of bus deregulation. I’m considering celebrating the occasion by poring over copies of the pre deregulation Tyne and Wear timetables with that warm glow of memories of the days when buses always ran to time and there was seamless integration with the Metro……..

Very William Gibson-coded statement from Lula

Liz Truss mentioning Mars reminds me of this talk by the Supreme Master, with the messages she has received telepathically from the Martians youtu.be/oCj4otHmRVA

1400s: a language is a dialect with a great novel published 1800s: a language is a dialect with an army now: a language is a dialect with a compiler

I'm sure Elon Musk would arrange something for such a trusted friend. They could even go together?

Anglofuturism baby

Liz Truss claims Brits would be on Mars by 2040 if she hadn’t been ousted www.politico.eu/article/liz-...

So I've been at those parties. When does he mention that they're discussing race science constantly

As I've said before, it's only once I became a professor that I realized the entmoot, a meeting that goes on for three days and three nights, was a professor's joke about faculty meetings.

why can't we vote for MEPs any more Nigel? do you know anyone who made that happen?

good….luck?

... Then they came for the BBC and I said LOL LMAO

POSIWID

today in "anxiety-inducing updates regarding today's Airbnb booking":

Find it mildly amusing that uk rail tickets are advertising ways to escape uk rail travel

"Of all the books I have ever reviewed that purported to offer a serious thesis, this is without question the most deranged."

I could spend the rest of my life analysing this feedback sign in the local Home Bargains. Did 'not happy' break from overuse? Was it taped over to ensure 100% positive feedback? Is the green 'b' in 'feedback' some kind of subliminal nudge? Is the duck tape indent because people still keep pressing?

Surely RiP is just disillusioned politicians/spin doctors, but The Newsagents really illustrates this BBC failure. Lewis Goodall was the best of the old format Newsnight.

In this week's @navigatepolitics.uk weekly roundup, I looked into the most prolific names of our councillors... 📈 The most popular overall? Dave ➡️ The most Reform? Karl 🌹 The most Labour? Lynn 🌳 The most Tory? Roger 🔶 The most Lib Dem? Julian 🌍 The most Green? Natalie

The only way we can move on is if Andy Burnham hears a new Half Man Half Biscuit song extemporising about this underlying cause of our policy impasse.

High streets are an important part of modern Britain. It's where afternoon drinkers go to get interviewed by news reporters for their views about immigration.

The British syndrome, summarised: 78% of us say our high streets are important to us. But only 28% of us actually use their local high street even once a week – and only 53% of people said they used theirs *once a month*. We won't use it, and we won't lose it.

Every successful British non niche podcast eg The Rest Is Politics is a BBC policy failure

Here's an idea for editors, let's do a little roleplay. Writer: "I have a contrarian take!" Editor: "Is it fucking stupid?" Writer: "Well yes, but it bucks the consensus. No one else is saying it." Editor: "Is that because the consensus is correct?" Writer: "... yes but... " <hang up>

Well you can't get much clearer than that. Restore are Putin stooges.

Idk man, when I hear “Get ready for war in 1,000 days” alongside slogans such as “invest in Britain”, I’d want details such as “will my investments and staff be blown up by weapons up to and including nukes ”, and I’m not even a high rolling wealth creator

This is why Andy Burnham needs a lot more political support on the EU, because this story is never going to be straightforward, and he's trying to break ten years of denial. Discussions on the terms of re-entry are absurdly premature given this.

Is this the stockpiling thing? Have been really taken aback....

A few people should have followed my lead because I'm reading some utter nonsense from middle class people who have decided that they are permanently against any suggestion that this government makes, regardless of how sensible it is.

*"three years _away_", so enraged by war-wanking arseholes I can't even type

The BL quietly transforming itself into a WeWork seems like a bad idea, all things considered. If we had a Culture Secretary I’m sure they’d be all over it.

Happy 1st anniversary to the comeback of the Bored Ape Yacht Club as a metaverse !

Fascinated by whoever at the DNC looked at the pre-Midterms grid and decided ‘Two Saturdays out from polling day, I say let’s pencil that in as ex-presidents let rip on Donald Trump’s interior decor tastes day’.

Chancellor says government to commit hundreds of millions to develop ‘distinctively British’ approach to AI (Special kudos to anyone who remembers this)

if you tickle us, do we not laugh? #elmo

if you prick us, do we not bleed? OM NOM NOM

** Update ** Kelvin McKenzie (two hours ago) tweets about a brawl at the event, which he attended