Squeezy John

Lib Dems, third for most of my life, have never had anything like this. The party currently has over 70 MPs but is almost invisible. Yet when they do a stupid stunt for attention, the media gets very angry. Maybe, you know, stop just platforming Farage all the bloody time?

This went on for the rest of the full hour, at which point the BBC apologised for having to go to the weather and urged viewers to follow continuing live coverage on iPlayer. Forty-one minutes of unfiltered, unchallenged propaganda by a far right party with 8 MPs, now third in the polls. Discuss.

The Alexander Yakovenko who told a fellow diplomat: “We have crushed the British to the ground. They are on their knees, and they will not rise for a very long time.”? See fascinating article by @peterjukes.bsky.social and work by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social in bylinetimes.com/2022/03/08/p...

I'm a touring musician and back when the M6 Toll motorway opened in 2003 it made travelling north easier. In 2003 it was £2 to take a car the full length of the motorway. Using the Bank of England Inflation calculator in 2026 that would be £3.82 But in 2026 it costs £12 TWELVE FUCKING POUNDS!!!!

Donal Lunny, a true legend of Irish music, has died aged 79 Salut! Folk’s appreciation salutfolk.com/2026/10/24/d... @nextwavef.bsky.social @elizacarthy.bsky.social #irishmusic @irishculturalcentr.bsky.social #donallunny @irishtimes.com

The whole world is having to deal with the terrifying and expensive chaos caused by this country's temper tantrum, and then we have to hear them mytholigise themselves on top of it all. Just can't be fucking dealing with it.

Obviously I want the utmost damage to Trump in the midterms, for Congress to constrain him & for a Democrat president in a couple years time. But honestly something broke in my relationship w America when Trump won the second time. I can't imagine feeling excited for an American president again.

Fucking Brexit! It's still getting worse ... an extra €2 handling fee per item on top of the already €3 duty per item. This is for orders of €14 to send CDs to enthusiasts of our music in the EU. It's prohibitive. It's anti-business. Fucking stupid ignorant people who voted for this!!!

We're just going to leave this here.... oxfordclarion.uk/grow-it-fora...

The Russians have made their strategy dependent on Trump delivering final outcomes that the Trump administration is now too weak to achieve

When Turning Point UK started up they were a joke on social media ... They're not a joke any more. Their CEO is basically a mafia boss who openly talks about hiring contract killers to deal with his enemies. How come non-violent Palestine Action people are deemed terrorists but not Turning Point?

Update: A charity called Scan Angels got involved after a kitten was hit on the road next to the allotment. The mum had successfully raised two litters in her time on the plot. Her kittens were very timid of people, but she’s very tame. They’re all being re-homed now.

Socialism.

It’s worth keeping some cash around the house just to see the look of utter delight in an older tradesman’s eyes when you answer “how would you like to pay?” with the *right* answer.

Where King’s College Cambridge leads … the others follow after ;-)

MOTORISTS: Increase the value of your knackered old car by 10% by simply filling it up with diesel in 2026. @twoptwips.bsky.social

MOTORISTS: Increase the value of your knackered old car by 10% by simply filling it up with diesel in 2026. @twoptwips.bsky.social

Just like he has done every single year for 10 years, Nigel Farage has come out claiming that it’s only a few bad apples, but he’s clamping down on them and improving their vetting process. “What was it that first attracted you to the racist political party Reform UK?”

It’s taken me 51 years to work out that Frère Jacques is a lazy monk, not the singer’s little brother! And suddenly the song makes sense with the bit about ringing bells. 🔔 🔔 🔔

If you vote for them ... you want this shit.

Feeney is such a nasty piece of work. He hates the fact that people from other backgrounds have made enough money to buy and improve the nice housing in Solihull while white people have failed to do so. He really believes that being white entitles people to the best stuff. That's proper racism.

Watching this ITV documentary on Reform and I'm both joyous that we no longer have Keith Starmer liked a cowed ventriloquist's dummy parroting Reform rhetoric as our Prime Minister ... while lamenting the fact that the Green Party that made his removal possible pressed their own self destruct button

Shame on the BBC. ITV once again teaching their cowardly corrupted arses how to do public service broadcasting properly without a single bit of public funding!

I know a lot of the headlines have already been clipped up and leaked out already ... but you should really be watching the full documentary about Reform on ITV ... it's just non-stop disgusting racist, xenophobic and violent speech from every Reform candidate and employee they talk to.

Ah, 18 October: the customary date of the Charlton Horn Fair, a day of traditional Britishness: fancy dress, horn-wearing, cross-dressing, boozing and occasional riots to celebrate King John cuckolding a miller’s wife and giving the miller some land to avoid having his throat cut...

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If you think your friends/family over-share their lives through photos on Instagram ... just thank the stars you're in 2026 not 1986 when they would invite you over to sit on their stairs with the lights off and project the photo slides on to their wall with commentary - ... for two fucking hours!

I'm so old I can remember when John Cleese was LibDem.

Anyone still driving or buying Tesla is a murderer.

Why is a retired banjo playing, public school nepo-baby on the BBC's flagship Newsnight commenting on the Red Wall? And why no mention that: Winston Marshall only has a political platform because his Dad is billionaire Paul Marshall... owner of GB NEWS and the Spectator.

Musk is an enemy of Europe. There is no justification for continuing to use his products

Fucking Mumford & Sons … if you chose Bellowhead over these pricks back in the day you chose good over evil!

If you're still on X ... now my friends is the time to pull that plug. This very dangerous man needs to be stopped, not enabled www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Giving strong “well she was asking for it going out dressed like that” vibes. He’s a nasty nasty man.

Oh sorry Nigel … I didn’t mean it … I was provoked in to putting your bollocks in this hand-crank meat mincer and turning the handle. I will be conducting an internal investigation!

Who amongst us hasn't been provoked into saying black people are animals and the King is a secret Muslim who should be decapitated?

The Green Party have lost me. If they continue to allow themselves to be infiltrated and then dominated by a bunch of angry Rik from the Young Ones' then they will never have a serious place in UK politics which is a massive shame because the world needs more of their core values right now.

Trump has clearly done a deal with Putin. He has completely traded any ounce of morality and decency that America had left for a little bit of diesel.