“I know of no other example where the prime minister has overruled intelligence advice.” Channel 4 Dispatches uncovers how Boris Johnson chose to ignore security advice and make the son of an ex-Russian spy with alleged links to the Kremlin a member of the House of Lords.

The person who invented those "cats bum hole" toilet paper dispensers should be on trial in the Hague

In 2022 alone, the Tories took over £62k in donations from Lubov Chernukhin. The wife of Putin’s ex finance minister. Post invasion, to be clear. Weekly meetings with the PM and chancellor. No outage or headlines despite national security risks. Why wasn’t THAT on the news?

But everything is fine according to NR 🤷‍♂️

A constant challenge if you spend too much time on the political bit of the internet is not to start adopting positions just because people you find annoying/disagree with about other things think the opposite

The subordination of women is an odd thing for the state to subsidise. But that's what retaining 'the advancement of religion' as a charitable purpose leads to. Charity law needs reform. secularism.org.uk/news/2024/10/r…

Former MI6 head hammers Brexit and says: Britain is now irrelevent France has eclipsed us Putin will have been absolutely delighted by our decision to leave the EU. So will Xi Jinping. Russia is weaker than us but felt emboldened to invade Ukraine through our serial weakness

Not “moving on”

When a scheme would transform your commute but project delivery takes so long in the UK you'll probably be retired before it happens.

Paul Merton talking about his dad in 2014. Very candid depiction of a particular kind of working class emotional repression which I imagine is way less common now.

Depressing that so much design of public spaces is so awful. Really hope the people involved actually take some notice of the comments.

I suspect the response to the Budget this week is going to be unhinged. The mainstream right has lost any sort of perspective. It lacks the language to describe things it does not like in anything other than apocalyptic terms.

So… can anyone name the elephant in the room this budget? A clue… (Link —> instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/autumn…)

BBC doing both a radio and TV series about Lord Lucan in 2024 is most gratifying. It's about time kids today learnt about the things that absolutely obsessed us forty years ago. If there isn't a six-part series about spontaneous human combustion up next, I want to know why.

These are brilliant

There could be no greater indicator of the Government's commitment to its own decarbonisation targets than a Budget that increases bus fares by 50% while handing drivers another fuel duty freeze for the 15th year in a row.

until the day i die i will never understand how this wasn’t the end of it

1. I don’t often tweet about my personal life, but on 1st November, my mum Jane was hit by a large vehicle as a pedestrian in St. Louis, USA. She suffered a severe brain injury & remains in a coma in hospital. Here's Jane & me in happier times.