There’s something revolting about the ‘nuclear button’ question asked of every prospective leader. It relegates nuclear annihilation to game-show status, with candidates ‘scored’ on their level of toughness. It’s the worst possible way to discuss the worst imaginable nightmare.

The Secret of Life in two short paragraphs from Kurt Vonnegut. I do miss him.

The wonderful Kurt Vonnegut died #OnThisDay in 2007. He's up in heaven now.

One week it's a rat-infested, crumbling disgrace - the next it's:

Started, going, etc.

Paul Robeson, legendary singer, actor and left-wing political activist was born #OTD , 9th April, 1898. This is him singing 'Joe Hill' for the miners of Woolmet Colliery near Edinburgh in 1949. Spellbinding.
youtube.com/watch?v=B0bezs…

So there we have it. Conclusive evidence that the Daily Express is nothing more than a political tool for manufacturing stories.
x.com/garvanwalshe/s…

'Yes I would increase income tax in Scotland'

'I think we need a progressive tax system'

- Anas Sarwar during the 2021 Scottish Labour leadership contest

An Israeli Air Force jet left Prestwick on 18 November at 1pm and landed in Beersheba, Israel around 5 hours later. Beersheba is the main depot used by the US to deliver bombs and other weapons to Israel for its attack on Gaza.

The MOD refused to comment.
declassifieduk.org/exclusive-isra…

Documents relating to the Royal household are exempt from the Freedom of Information Act.

The UK Foreign Office said an exemption relating to communications with, or on the behalf of, the late Queen, was “absolute”.

One simple question: why?
independent.co.uk/life-style/roy…

This low-to-middlebrow post-feudal shitlord losing his seat will be my own personal Portillo moment, and I look forward to trying to remember who he was.
x.com/13sarahmurphy/…

This made me spill my tea 🤣

The running joke at the moment in India is that ‘an Indian and a Pakistani are overseeing the partition of the UK’.

It's the 2nd most powerful flavour in the world, doncha know.

Me to Mrs. F as I leave for the pub: 'No, no - I won't start talking about politics.'
Me after 3 pints:

The “Billy Boys” song originates with Billy Fullerton, leader of the Billy Boys of Brigton Cross, a Protestant street gang in the 1920s. Fullerton was awarded a medal for strike-breaking during the 1926 General Strike and formed a Glasgow branch of the British Union of Fascists.

How it started: 'Take back control!'
How it's going: China now controls London's water supply.

The laughable assertion from the Tories that 'Britain is the Second Most Powerful Country in the World,' (backed up by an article in the Daily Express, FFS) reminds me of this from Professor Nicholas Boyle, University of Cambridge.
archive.is/6NC4N

This letter is 10 years old. It was true then and remains true today. Regarding the recent murder of aid workers, I'd say we're at about stage 5.
x.com/DrRoundglasses….

“Hello, yes, do you have a copy of ‘We Fucking Warned You’ by 48.1% of the population?”

So refreshing to see some real, incisive journalism from the UK media.
x.com/implausibleblo…