Went to make a joke about the Greens taking their council victory a bit far but glad to see everyone else on Twitter got there before me

I am very uncomfortable with the idea of a mayor for a Shire or non-metro area. But Sheriff has acquired all kinds of other meanings in the last thousand or so years. It feels like Shire Reeve needs to come back.

Was surprised to see I'm now being offered access to Grok - even more surprised to see Elon Musk has decided to use the Deutsche Bank logo for it

Took my 83 year old blind grandmother to vote this morning. She said 'which box to continue paying interest on central bank reserves?' Someone shouted out 'Anyone but Reform!' and a huge cheer rang out. Amazing scenes.

It's #dogsatpollingstations day! Daisy can scent out a Lib Dem gain from 50 yards

Rishi Sunak's wife currently dressed as a World War 2 battleship trying to confuse a U-Boat #GeneralElections2024

A key journalist skill is losing awards nominations gracefully - congratulations to Valeria Martinez and Felicity Hannah who I could tell would beat me as soon as I saw their pieces!

This seems highly GDPR compliant @ the European Commission

Interest rates could be higher

Nothing quite so humbling as listening in to an investment committee meeting and hearing one of your beats described as "an obscure, arcane thing that nobody really thinks about"

Which is the worse example of consultant-induced corporate rebrands? Ditching your most recognisable visual brand or ditching all but one of the vowels in your name?

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This reminds me of my first ever story in print where I had to ring a lawyer and ask if Karl Lagerfeld's cat could legally inherit his money

List of things BlackRock does according to replies 🤦‍♂️ - Control the UK government - Authorise the use of Storm Shadow missiles - "Own Ukraine" - Want to turn the population into "assetless peasant tenant tax slave wage serfs" - Nice sprinkling of WEF conspiracies as well

Here’s the shortlist for ESG Story of the Year #HMAwards25! Congratulations to Josephine Moulds & Nimra Shahid, Edmund Tirbutt, Elliot Gulliver-Needham, Martin George, Dom Webb & Emma Ann Hughes 👏 tinyurl.com/3wkkrzkp