Annie Shaw

The Oval Office looks like the display window of a darts trophy shop I once saw in Withernsea

Well the pic was def a stock pic and not of anyone a journalist had interviewed, but it seems the ppl said to have been interviewed didn't exist either. So (a) there was no interview, (b) there was an interview with someone pretending to be the subject OR (c) interview was simply made up by the PRs

To think we were prepared to pay Rwanda to accommodate the people we considered potential undesirables when the genuine undesirables were willing to ship themselves off to Dubai at their own expense. 🙄

This is such an important point

The paper claimed that the journalist had interviewed the family - which is an interesting notion if they didn't exist. Did the PR firm employ actors? Was the interview conducted by chatbot?

But STILL no explanation of how it came about - other than it was not AI, which somehow makes it worse

And you were just trying to earn your crust

well done @ianfraser.bsky.social

I hope the cats get a joint byline.

It covers your nose and it's wrapped around your toes And inside it you put lemon meringue,
And outside you hang your clothes.

One of my favouries.

Always loved Alan Sherman and Tom Lehrer

This absolutely wins the internet for today. 😂

This is an extremely fun way to kill a few minutes on a by-election day: generate your own Allister Heath headlines. Here's mine.

Hmm, wonder what (who) made you think of those words....😉

This is going the way of electrics retailers once making the bulk of their profits from extended warranties, or the banks from PPI

What an appalling man 😳

Your nearest branch is almost certainly in Llandudno. Never seen so many banks still open all in one place in about 30 years. Where I live? Total banking wasteland.

Many condolences, Felicity.

Re-diculous

#LunchPun
With turmoil at number 10 I think the 3rd Miliband brother should be the Prime Minister. Steve would be a great PM. Abracadabra, problem solved.

Sepp Blatter suggests fans should not travel to US for World Cup The ex-Fifa boss showed his support of a Swiss lawyer who called for a boycott of the tournament due to security concerns in the US

Imagine being so corrupt and authoritarian even Sepp Blatter thinks you've gone too far.

www.theguardian.com/football/202...

🎯

first the internet got me to side with Michael O'Leary in his spat with Musk, now this.
end times.

or Rockall

And for the record (sorry abt the pun) I have always thought Bowie's Life on Mars was inspired by flicking through TV channels

I actually remember reading the very Daily Mail article at the time and when all the debate abt the meaning of the song was raging (IIRC needle marks on the arms of drug addicts and other nonsense) I recall thinking: surely it's about that funny story about potholes. As indeed it turned out to be

OK, I'll play. "Jumping on to the Penzance sleeper just as it departs Paddington and finding Lembit Opik has moved into your reserved compartment, having the guard throw him out and then seeing him later in the restaurant car giving everyone the evils." A few years ago now but I still savour it 😂

I kinda imagined an old Corrie format - cos it was full of financial howlers like Ken cashing in DB pension to pay Deidre's defence, the Richard Hillman equity release fiasco, bailiffs raiding Jim's house to repay his girlfriend's debts, none of which were legally possible. But Archers works for me!

I have long dreamt of a financial education drama modelled on the Archers, which after all began life as a drama to teach landworkers about best modern agric practice after World War II. Perhaps the Archers - which lost its educational remit 40+ years ago - could indeed pivot to financial education

being sent in a pneumatic tube up to the room where each piece of copy was retyped by a Linotype operator to create lead slugs with all the words back to front

cutting up the pieces of paper on which reporters had written their copy and pasting each paragraph (with a big brush stuck in a pot of liquid glue) on to separate bigger pieces of paper and marking them up with the size of type each one was to be set in. Then watching said bundle of glued pape m/f