#caturday climbing trip

On the dynamic pricing discourse, wondering what would have happened if Oasis tickets had been announced at £350 each from the start. Would that be better, so people didn't wait agonisingly in a queue only to be hit with the price hike? Or is it about the price tag itself?

The Dwarf Bread of breakfast foods

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I’m not sure that’s how cats work…

Yes! Cockfosters is in my council, my local area, and I am delighted to say Yes In My (almost) Back Yard!

Heresy.

This story has upset an awful lot of people in ways I did not expect. Apparently using a sibling dispute to teach your kids about an economic concept while also making both of them happy is... bad?

Old habits die hard as Starmer AGAIN refers to Sunak as the prime minister. The first time could be considered amusing. The second looks like carelessness

Pictures or it didn’t happen (Translation: please please please give us pictures)

Robert Jenrick tops the first round of MP voting, with Priti Patel eliminated and Mel Stride and Tom Tugendhat at the bottom, and Kemi Badenoch and James Cleverly in the middle. Sets up an interesting battle for the final four... and a very intense conference

Already, the vastly reduced size of the parliamentary party is having an impact. Just two MPs switching to Priti Patel’s cause could have set a very different tone for this contest…

This leadership contest is already offering up surprises… newstatesman.com/politics/uk-po…

While we spend so much political capital talking about pensioners, school exclusions have risen by a fifth, children in the UK are being denied healthcare and we are seeing increasing incidents of child abuse and violence. Children are being massively let down in this country.