Alan Stedman

Autocorrect changed that to 'stick' I see 🤭😬😂😂😂

Well. This is an interesting thing from a council that gave control to Reform UK just under a year ago.

What about a Davey lamp?

Very good

Candle? 🤭

Exactly so

There are a lot of pitfalls and they need open discussion

Some of the PR options are very unpalatable. Others might work but blundering in would be crazy. As I understand it under many of the options Reform's polling numbers would likely give them the whip hand. It needs careful thought

Plus ça change...

Dana Bash • @DanaBashCNN X.com 1/7 I just got off the phone with President Trump where he rated the war with Iran at a 12 or 15 out of 10. He told me, "We're doing very well militarily - better than anybody could have even dreamed."

Sometimes the level of stupidity is too much. It’s like listening to the permanently drunk guy at the end of the bar.

Yep, saw it earlier

They seem to be living inside a video game or as here inside Hollywood blockbusters

They don't do reality, they think they can just reach for the reset button

It's quite worrying I have to say

Maybe he will have a lightbulb moment

😬

It really is stunning 👍🏼

Cover of a paperback book that is entitled ' When the cranes fly south' by Lisa Ridzén The cover is very simple An orange outline traces a large dog sitting down and facing away from the reader. A human hand rests on the head between the ears of the dog

Just finished this recently published book

Some fiction you enjoy, some you just like, others you read and wonder why you persevered

This one danced around my mind for the few days it has taken to read it

No frills, no big twist, just a thoughtful, life enhancing story, extremely well told

❤️❤️❤️

Richard Burton photo in black and white He is seated facing to the right but with his body slightly twisted to the right causing his face to be about three quarters to camera. The eyes are looking right and therefore straight into the camera. His hair is jet black set against the white shirt he is wearing

Extraordinary photo

Reminded me of this

All that and then I think about my OD background and it is of course all part of the 'rituals' that go with this sort of leader 😬

Starmer needs to stop this sort of nonsense if he is going to win back any of the lost votes from the centre ground

However, going on his previous record, I'm not holding my breath

Labour's asylum policies will destroy lives and drive away voters Labour's asylum and immigration policies risk violating international law and are politically self-defeating, writes Daniel Sohege.

My latest piece for the @bigissue.com is out today, on how Labour's attacks on those seeking asylum are not only inhumane, potentially illegal, and seriously counterproductive, but also politically incoherent for a party which claims to be "progressive".

www.bigissue.com/opinion/labo...

It’s almost like we didn’t think this through.

👍🏼thanks

Russia sending election operatives to Hungary to prop up Orban, media reports Sergei Kiriyenko, a powerful Kremlin aide, has reportedly been tasked with overseeing the Russian operation in Hungary, applying the same set of methods deployed during Moscow-backed meddling in Moldo...

Russia is sending election operatives to Hungary to prop up Orban. The dirty tricks to support Putin’s puppet in the EU will be off the chart.

They do, they really do think they are in some video game or as this clip shows a Hollywood blockbuster

Unhinged, simply unhinged

When Charlie Kirk died,Trump lowered flags nationwide for him.

6 US soldiers die and not only will he not lower the flags nationwide for them, he just says “some people will die.”

WAR CRIME BY THE US.

An unarmed Iranian ship was takIng part in an Indian naval exercise, alongside the US.

The US withdrew and torpedoed the Iranian ship.

THEN the US refused to rescue the sailors, letting them drown.

This is treachery, cowardice, cruelty and a war crime of the highest order.

Israel who is waging multiple illegal wars and isn't in NATO has accused Spain of betraying NATO because they won't help them fight their illegal wars.

Oh and they aren't in NATO, in case you missed that.

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Long shot but was your dad's name Keith?

I was at school with a Keith Hickman

Because of the upper middle glass graduates with an MBA who just still think they know better and keep telling us they know better and have no idea what it's like to be hungry

Oh okay, aka Blue Labour

Working class, 1950s born retired senior manager with an MBA here who hasn't forgotten his roots

For anyone who would like the clip (including George).

Why didn't the other guy respond when the Conservatives said "alive but living in a burka" - yeah like Goode and Pretti?

Very cool

Looks like it

Well put Chris, the imagery is spot on