Is your football club a proper football club?

What happened to chucking season tickets at your club’s manager when on a bad run? You never see that nowadays. In fact I haven’t seen it for about 15 years. That used to be the done thing didn’t it, obviously not by everyone but a few people. When and why did it suddenly stop?

Tomorrow's Budget coincides with the Cheltenham racing festival - some Tories claimed that such a clash ought to be a resigning issue for Gordon Brown when it occurred back in 2004 ...

We really failed as a society by not having more seasons of Time Commanders, that show where teams of average people with little familiarity with history or video games controlled armies in Total War. Should revive it on Twitch and have academics (preferably drunk) comment.

On the theme of Atlantis and lost islands and continents, when was the island of Sodor lost to the sea, and did it suffer a Númenor-like fate owing to the hubris of the Fat Controller?

Roger Taylor and Sam Ryder look like they're watching a huge Cylon fleet approaching the Battlestar Galactica.

“Thanks everyone for comments on the draft, here it is revised with all your edits.”

work emails are turn-based combat

Ipswich Borough Council announces its by-election result with a laser show (2001)

inviting political candidates to play a city management video game and writing up who performed best during an election campaign is v v cool -- this from the SimCity (1989) wiki

#AccidentalPartridge

I'm pleased to inform you that the Isle of Wight is now a Total War tutorial level

A lot happened yesterday but this quote from John Reid in the Lords is a belter 😂

google ai LOVES to step in when it sees “vs” and will try its hardest to compare whatever you throw at it

Oh your "out of office" is on is it. You're off "all the way through" are you. I'll tell you where you couldn't put an out of office on. It's starts with B. And it ends with attle of the Somme