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Sat in a Spoons and the barmen just smashed a glass, not a single waheeeeeeeey. This country is finished.

The rich were paying for the book festival (via Bailie Gifford). The woke said they couldn't. Now ordinary taxpayers have to pay (via grants from the useless gov). Just phenomenally stupid isn't it. heraldscotland.com/news/25264499.…

Isn’t it nice, the quiet? Now the adults are in charge

This government is grotesquely bad They were dealt a shit hand. We all know that. We all accept that. But it’s like, instead of playing their bad hand they’ve come to the poker party with no idea what poker is, or how it works, and when the poker match starts and they realise

A truly stupefying thread

Politics UK The Sun "Oh no! Maybe we shouldn't have let 100,000 random men arrive in dinghies and then put them up in hotels?" - The British Government

Prediction: Europe as a whole will eventually witness the rise of a hard right leader, charismatic and English-speaking, but maybe French or German in origin, pledging to tackle migration Europe-wide Ironically, this might be the moment European politics becomes "post-national"

Sudden thought. Sex and food are the two primal pleasures - urgent, profound, overwhelming - they must be done. Yet in retrospect they dim quickly: I can only recall a few meals, or sexual encounters Yet a much more peripheral pleasure - travel - makes memories for life

I am absolutely stunned - literally shaken to the core with surprise and horror - to discover that my printer has stopped working Seriously. Has this ever happened to anyone else? Their printer not working? Feels insanely unexpected, like the universe has glitched

I mean, they are the one thing you can always rely on, arent they? When the entire cosmos feels crazy and broken, there's always your printer. Mr Quiet and Reliable, always ready, always working. Just getting on with the job: printing But not today

The utility of the average domestic printer is a good objective correlative for the British government since about 2005

I am visiting my parents for a few days to help them move some boxes as they are downsizing. This was inside one of the boxes. I am an only child.

Starmer has - incredibly - reached a state of pitiable helplessness after just one year. His pitch to the voters now is basically “yes I’m quite shit and I don’t know what I’m doing and I keep getting it wrong but I’m tired”

I wrote about How I drank "the worst drink in the world" thespectator.com/life/i-tried-w…

Chuffed by the first comment at the end of this. Scroll down to find....

I enjoyed Glasto a lot back in the day. I remember doing so much E I forgot where I was sleeping for about two days. Not sure I'd enjoy paying £400 for this

On the other hand, even tho I despair at the booji twerps that now make Glasto near-unbearable, it has established itself as part of the British summer season, and it is & always be iconic. And at its best it is brilliant. On a still midsummer evening, with the sun going down,

sean thomas knox It is indeed very funny. Kudos.

Rod Stewart being lectured by << checks notes >> “Will Hutton” is like Yasmin Alibhai Brown lecturing Michelangelo