Dan Weir

Why is the Northern Line so busy today?

We had a 'empty the compost toilet every morning' thing once, which we weren't expecting, but to be fair that was mostly our fault for not reading the listing properly. Also now that I think about it, it wasn't AirBnB - but similar kind of thing.

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"Prohibited place for a purpose prejudicial" has a pleasant rhythm. Maybe gives "Oratrice Mecanique D'Analyse Cardinale" vibes. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Not sure I've ever seen the Northern Line so rammed. At Oval and four trains so far have been so slammed only a handful are getting on each time.

Not sure I've ever seen the Northern Line so rammed. At Oval and four trains so far have been so slammed only a handful are getting on each time.

FROM SERBIA TO BRAZIL AND EVERY DISCO I GET IN MY HEART IS PUMPING FOR LOVE

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

If anyone fancies learning to swordfight, I'm running a Rapier & Dagger introductory crash course at the London Historical Fencing Club on Sunday. 4 hours, £50, we'll probably go to the pub afterwards too. No experience necessary! londonhistoricalfencing.club/new-students...

Obviously I'm a bit biased, given where I work, but this is worth a read. Also I do want to give a shout out to the team here for all the hard work they did to make the council tax debt collection changes happen! It really was amazing getting that through, and seeing Martin react to the news live!

Police are advising non-essential travellers to use their common sense and sensibility

If anyone fancies learning to swordfight, I'm running a Rapier & Dagger introductory crash course at the London Historical Fencing Club on Sunday. 4 hours, £50, we'll probably go to the pub afterwards too. No experience necessary! londonhistoricalfencing.club/beginners

The classic "oh, I've got to the platform. I'll just stop here. In front of the doorway" is annoying. However I've also seen the frankly dangerous "I've just got off the escalator. I'll now just stop here."

Our website is currently down while we resolve the same PHP issues that are affecting so many other sites. But we're fine, emotionally. And the museum is still open. There's even a scone with your name on it.

If anyone fancies learning to swordfight, I'm running a Rapier & Dagger introductory crash course at the London Historical Fencing Club on Sunday. 4 hours, £50, we'll probably go to the pub afterwards too. No experience necessary! londonhistoricalfencing.club/beginners

Storm Austen is coming. If you are a woman of marriagable age do not attempt to travel to Netherfield without a carriage

This is so finely balanced. Electoral Calculus says this gives Labour a 10 seat majority. However, tighten it just a little - have Reform lose 4 points, and Labour and the Tories gain 2 each, and Labour get a 100 seat majority.

Jonathan Powell’s The New Machiavelli may be the shrewdest of the New Labour era memoirs, but *hands down* the best Trotsky reference belongs to Jack Straw. ✍️ www.linestotake.com/p/fit-for-pu...

I mean I have absolutely met people in the Labour Party who are younger than me and at least strongly imply that they have been a militant union organisor since 1971.

Too little, too late. The only measure that will tackle this scourge is public gungings, 1990s-CBBC-style. Any politician not prepared to say this is not serious about the problem.

Ah the sweet nectar of disappointment. This is what being a Palace fan is all about.

My limited experience of this is that it's more to do with the right wing press - especially the Telegraph feeding them scare story after scare story.

New White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia: “They have said I only took questions from conservative outlets. However, The Daily Mail is not known to be a conservative outlet or friendly to conservatives.” Brits everywhere: *hysterical laughter*

What report are they talking about here? I'm pretty sure the Prevalence Review does not make this claim.

Sometimes I manage to make an absolutely perfect pot of coffee in the morning. I'm never sure what causes it. The exact temperature of the water? The exact amount of coffee itself? Letting it brew for precisely the right time? But today is one of those days and gosh it improves my morning!

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It seems like a problem for Reform is that all of their members with moderate, defensible opinions are in fact undercover reporters.

The government’s independent review confirms the rise in mental health conditions is real and that financial stress is a major contributor. Now it’s time to tackle what’s driving it. Read our Chief Executive @helenundy.bsky.social’s comment piece for LBC 👇 www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...

Including Ireland in the Union Jack in stories set before 1801. The original Pirates of the Caribbean film, suprisingly, got it right - but then, in a move suggestive of the drop off in the quality of the series - the 4th film, which is explicitly set in the reign of George II - got it wrong.

Was watching Buffy’s Anya backstory episode. Friend asked why I sighed. “She’s not of a sufficiently high social class to have domesticated rabbits that far north in Europe in that century, but the writers couldn’t know, the paper was only presented at a conference yesterday.” Accuracy is fleeting.

Today's accidental experiment in combining Lemsip with coffee has not been a success.

This is Burnham's Britain.

So, conceptually I liked the idea of the Archer story where it turns out Alaska was only leased to Russia and the lease is about to run out. Unfortunately, having found a copy (on a shelf when I moved into my current house), it turns out to be quite dull.

A lot of childcare entitlement policy is a bit weird. This is not related to the 30 free hours pledge being something the Tories came up with during the 2015 election campaign to beat Labour's 25 hours pledge, had no idea how to fund and assumed they'd trade away in a coalition agreement somehow.

The thing that gets me about these lurid anti-Zionist statements, like the one the Greens just passed, is that it is *so fucking easy* to criticise the Israeli government without engaging in that type of language.

Unemployment among young people is a big issue! Morally as well as economically. But you solve that by tackling mental health and looking at why the jobs aren't there for this cohort, not by treating adults like overgrown kids and going "yeah, you're your parents responsibility, kthxbai"

According to Electoral Calculus, this would put Labour in majority territory 20ish seats. I'm a little sceptical that Reform would end up this far ahead of the Tories in an actual election though. If you swapped their numbers you end up with a 50 seat Labour majority and Reform on 30 seats.

Think these changes are basically noise. What's happened? +4 to Reform so I'd guess 2 from the Tories, 1 from Restore and 1 from Labour. Labour pick up 2 from the Greens, and the leftover is a rounding error.

Being released on bail in England doesn't usually involve a financial security or bond. I think technically it can, but it's not standard practice. But because it's used in America people assume it's the same system here.