Heather Dougherty

Яeform MP Sarah Pochin is so concerned about the impact of second homes on communities that two days after asking a question about it in parliament she bought one on Anglesey / Ynys Môn. Good scoop by my erstwhile colleague @willhaycardiff.bsky.social willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/reform-mp-...

Hey folks. In total honesty my tour is NOT selling well. I’ve sold 30 tickets in a 400 seater in Birmingham, and not much more elsewhere. If you like musical comedy, if you like standup, then please come see my show! And spread the word! The Rachel Parris Songbook tour starts in Nov! Link in bio! 🎶

In the Guardian Blind Date this week: 'I said I don't like Clapham Gays… guess where he lives?' My review:

This is a really good piece.

I second Matthew's recommendation, this is a great (and now award-winning) read from Katie Mather in @pelliclemag.com

This German comedy sketch (with English subtitles) perfectly captures so much of what is going on right now in the UK, the US, and across Europe. "Playing the 'Nazi Card' in the Third Reich", by Browser Ballett.

Well, happy 29th anniversary to the greatest ‘reverse ferret’ ever issued by a media outlet

For those who prefer their hair to be nasty, brutish and short

Is watch advertising always this tossy?

Wesignation!

That's the west coast mainline for you

@andrewhunterm.bsky.social will be delighted!

This Donnie Darko sequel SUCKS.

I’m sure many have drawn attention to the advice given by the Oracle of Delphi to King Croesus of Lydia, that if he should send an army against the Persians, he would destroy a mighty empire. Just not in the way he hoped

Maybe these need to be put on a few menus/supermarket walls. These are from the UK National Food Strategy, showing the proportion of UK land used for different things (huge for beef/lamb, tiny for crops), & where we get our calories and protein (68% & 52% from plants). The difference is staggering.

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

Well done, Duchy of Cornwall, Natural England, Moor Trees, Woodland Trust. Dartmoor needs more rainforest! duchyofcornwall.org/article/volu...

Oldfinger

Hooray!

It's ridiculous that the Government *still* haven't banned the sale of peat. Peat bogs are still getting dug up and used for compost and in horticulture. Ministers say they'll ban it 'when time allows'. Get on with it already! Sign the petition: actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk/end-peat-sal...

I’m sure Andreas Whittam Smith would have wanted people to struggle to read his obituary in The Independent using a smartphone

Every year we make a free-to-download-and-print-off-yourself colouring-in Advent Calendar. This year’s heavily features Bigfoots. Please share! Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...

Sultana and Corbyn act like they were put together in a competition by Simon Cowell and now they're contractually obliged to go on tour

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

As it’s international man day, let’s have a quick look at the Man top ten. Bat Rocket Isle of John In Mr Spider Neanderthal Manfred Gary Old Gary Nu

Andrew, you have been evicted. It's time to leave your big brother's house

For those that have followed me from Twitter you will recall I put out many threads on the lunacy of the plan by Rishi Sunak to make the excise tax system for Alc be based on the strength rather than volume. This subtle change was devastating for the wine industry with yet more UK Brexit red tape.

What a weird name for a dog. But sorry for their loss.

Astonishing piece about #Putin’s huge vanity #wine project, Krinitsa, just down the road from his vast and staggeringly vulgar Black Sea palace, Gelendzhik. The fruits of kleptocracy in a mafia state, on a grand scale theins.ru/en/inv/28560...

Yes, this is pub culture! We must stamp out this single file queuing nonsense.

all my love to the new waiter in this place who, when I ordered a glass of picpoul, went "a glass of......pickle? :("

*Lady Bracknell voice* “A HAM-bag?”

Don’t want to worry you unduly, but it’s very hard to find any footage of the techbros and datagarchs saying they really like people. Sure, ‘humanity’ as a concept gets positive reviews but nothing really warm and memorable about people. youtube.com/shorts/LXpc1...

Hooray, it's Private Eye week 🎉 Will John Torode and Gregg Wallace be featuring in a follow up #Masterchef cover to issue 1638 from December? You can find out this Wednesday, available from all good newsagents Or subscribe here: www.subsonline.co.uk

fantastic foreskins

Preheat your oven to Central Line.

Arranging for my tombstone to provide suggestions of similar humans you might like

Nice. Here's the full 100 awesome wines list: 100wines.wineeducators.com

Well, yeah, you’re Cary Grant.

It's charming, in a very British (but not Richard Curtis) way. Do go and see it.

Champagne Louis Royer, rinsing bottles, c. 1900s. 100+ years ago, heavy, thick, and expensive bottles built to withstand up to 6 atmospheres were commonly reused multiple times.

‘Creepiest pub sign 2025’ competition is now closed

no offence to Carrie but "you have birthed Boris Johnson's fourth child in five years" is something you'd have to say to me in the hope that the sheer horror of it would finally wake me up from a lengthy coma