David Trott

I bear enormous ill-will towards Wordle bot.

Jason Arday’s death is an absolute stain on this country. I feel devastated for him, his family and for people of colour in this country. There’s too much to say about it but there are human consequences to the culture war. When a person becomes the culture war. He was failed.

Tell you what, it’s lucky that went off AFTER I was done lighting this disposable bbq in this very dry field - otherwise I could have spilt my kerosene.

IT IS THE MIDDLE OF THE KIDS’ BEDTIME, ANDREW.

Me when my posts get 0 likes

On repeat today. 😢 open.spotify.com/track/2aay5E...

“Minister for AI” is today’s version of a 2008 “Minister for the US Sub-Prime Mortgage Market”.

Having tried - and failed - for over a DECADE to get Virgin Media to take my late father’s name off the account, I think they got off lightly with just £28m. Virgin Media fined £28m for preventing customers from cancelling contracts www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hard to find a better summary of the Keir Years than this from @iandunt.bsky.social, I reckon. open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

None of this is helping me wind down, tbh.

I post a lot about how X has become a toxic cesspit, but checking in on the FB comments in response to very bland posts by Southampton City Council is a good reminder of how vitriolic social media can be. It does feel there needs to be a shift of social norms about how people behave online...

Anyone want to fund my podcast idea where I hang about in Tesco car parks interviewing people without kids who use the parent and child spaces?

Reluctantly predicting now that Labour will do terribly, Reform will do well, and Labour will interpret that to mean “WE SHOULD BE EVEN MORE LIKE REFORM THEN SHOULDN’T WE”.

Ah shit, I’ve run out of Trump portraits. Just popping down to B&Q to stock up.

oh shit

Incidentally have you heard the story about him running for JCR president (basically student union president)? He was unopposed for the role but one of my best friends had the inspired idea to campaign for re-open nominations (R.O.N) which we duly did and ended up outpolling him.

I needed to see this today.

Those roundabout painting guys really explain the “gland” part of “England”.

Print out this article and pin it to the door of No. 10 immediately.

Currently drafting a letter to @ndironsmp.bsky.social about stripping back of EHCPs. The core point is this: we knew before the election that money was tight. BUT: we voted Labour so they could protect our most vulnerable from the worst effects of it. It's quite extraordinary to regret your vote.

Fascinating experiment in how much money people can be made to lose before they can no longer afford the luxury of owning the libs.

Kicking off the couch to 5k thing again. I hate running. Seems so pointless when I own a car.

no. no I don’t want it.

"Everything's computer!" - your elderly accountant trying to submit your VAT return

"Everything's computer!" - your nan using the Tesco self-checkout for the first time

🧵 This is a perfect example of what I've be describing as disordered discourse, and it's threat to democracy. Politicians are afraid to speak openly about key issues. Why? Because disordered discourse has captured the system itself—forcing obedience, punishing dissent, and making truth irrelevant.

For the supposed “strongmen” of politics, they’re actually craven cowards. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I am grateful to Michael Rosen for two things: how Bear Hunt inspired an absolutely obsessive love of reading in my daughter; and for revealing where in Wood Green I was able to get the best falafel this world has to offer.

Presumably this was the plan all along and the spat with Zelenskyy in the White House the premeditated excuse.

war.ukraine.ua/donate/

The cognitive dissonance required to simultaneously hold that (1) we are returning to a world of warring great powers, requiring rapid rearming and a generational shift in posture, and yet (2) we can’t find the £11bn to do it without tactical cuts because fiscal rules.

Look, all I’m saying is that there must be more than pee on that tape. No grown man - US President or otherwise - would debase themselves THIS much for just a bit of pee. #MoreThanPee

Sometimes I think we over complicate the ideology and the politics etc. Everything you’re told as a child is that the bullies don’t win. Including, and especially, while you’re being bullied yourself. And then the whole of 2025 has been a circus of geopolitical bullying. So it’s deeply distressing.

If you still have an account on X, you might want to delete all your DMs sharpish.

Cutting the aid budget to 0.3% is shameful. Just shameful.

*sigh* www.forbes.com/sites/conorm...

Thanks to @dannyrye.bsky.social for sharing this genuinely excellent thread from @eliothiggins.bsky.social - really thought-provoking.

Wasn’t expecting an existential crisis at the shopping centre car park, but there we go.

Social media is largely a cesspit, but occasionally you find something awesome - like this guy, determined to teach dads how to braid their kids’ hair. www.tiktok.com/@dad.braids?...