Johnson 2019: 80 seat majority. Broadcast pundits fawning around this untrustworthy clown, buying ‘oven-ready’ nonsense like tipsy courtiers, regurgitating ‘10 year reign’ line. Starmer 2024: 174 majority. Broadcast pundits endlessly opine he’s on ‘shaky ground’. Do better.

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An assassination attempt by a mentally ill person using an AR-15 is a terrible reason to vote for the man who made it easier for mentally ill persons to obtain AR-15s.

It is absolutely ridiculous to throw out the slur that Labour want to keep children in poverty simply because they didn't lift the 2-child benefit cap within their first 18 days in office after 5,174 days in opposition. One does not imply the other - that's a lazy, lazy

Today, the BBMF Bomber Aircrew took to the skies in PA474 to practice the Lancaster display ahead of our return to the 2024 display season. We are pleased to confirm that AOC No. 1 Group, Air Vice-Marshal Mark Flewin CBE MA BEng RAF, has awarded Public Display Authority.

Don't call them Farage Riots. It makes him really upset.

Mr Farage and Mr Anderson won't thank you for sharing this #FarageRiots #ReformRiots #30pRiots

Colin from Portsmouth on Nigel Farage before the election

One of the best things about the Olympics has been seeing groups of people talking in the BBC studio without any possibility that one of them will be Isabel Oakeshott.

So my legend of a cousin Lorcan just realised he was kind of important to the creation of Foo Fighters Foo Fighters UK He saw a video by Dave Grohl talking about why he got back to work after a visit to Ireland. Lorcan was out hitchhiking wearing his nirvana top when Dave stopped

🎙️"It turns out all these years I've confused 'Journalist' with 'Mouthpiece.'" High profile political journalist excited to reveal that he's recently discovered how to do journalism, just in time for the change in government.

R.I.P. Maggie Smith. Seen here on the Parkinson show with Kenneth Williams, reading one of John Betjeman's poems (Death In Leamington) to Betjeman himself.

A simple explanation of trickle down economics

We've been asked about our December plans for Hull Noir, so we're delighted to confirm Tim Major will join us Hull Libraries (Central and online), 11th December, 7pm. It's free to join us, as always: In person - eventbrite.co.uk/e/hull-noir-ti… Online - eventbrite.co.uk/e/hull-noir-ti…

Here’s a poem called ‘From the Encyclopedia of Alternative Facts’.

Since it's almost Midsummer...

My latest cartoon for Guardian Books

Just checking….Are we absolutely certain that the British patriots are the people who hate British cities, British law, British judges , British democracy, the British civil service, the British Broadcasting Corporation, and large swathes of the British people?