Watching the final of Melodifestivalen 2026 (on delay) to see who Sweden are sending to Eurovision... there are some truly *excellent* songs here, and I'm only four down so far.
The guy with the Glenn Hoddle perm had a surprisingly rapturous reception.
#melodifestivalen2026 #eurovision
absolutely rotten stuff. horrible. fuck off
From BBC news website: I 'completely get' concern over asylum hotels - Starmer Starmer is asked how he would feel if a hotel housing asylum seekers was at the end of his street. "I completely get it," Starmer says, adding: "Local people by and large do not want these hotels in their towns, in their place, and nor do I. I'm completely at one with them on that." Starmer says he understands why people want the hotels closed and he wants that too "as quickly as possible". Asked to put a date on it, Starmer reiterates his commitment to do so by the end of this Parliament. When it's put to him that is four years away, he says he would like to bring that date forward, but does not commit to another date.
Oh nothing, just the actual Prime Minister telling people they’re entirely correct to drive asylum seekers out of their communities
Is a milkshake a foodstuff? Asking for a friend.
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The Taylor Swift podcast story today meant I could get our Taylor Swift correspondent to file her first story. She’s in the audio version of the Podnews newsletter today (hit “listen”). podnews.net/update/new-h...
The Taylor Swift correspondent understood the assignment, crushed it, etc. etc.
Here's to more Taylor Swift Podcast News in the future...
Bracknell News: Fire engine spotted in busy area of Bracknell Image shows a fire engine in the middle distance, in Bracknell.
This is the entire story. Someone saw a fire engine. In Bracknell.
Screenshot of the Interrail journey planner app showing some stats: 7 countries visited, 3066km travelled, 16 places visited using 15 trains, with a total travel time of 1 day, 7 hours and 36 minutes.
What a near-fortnight of Interrailing looks like. Excludes almost all tram, bus and metro journeys as they're not usually covered by the rail pass.
(Holidaying by train was an awful lot of fun. If you have the opportunity I'd recommend trying it!)
#trains #holiday #europe @interraileu.bsky.social
OZZY OSBOURNE IS GONE AND RUPERT MURDOCH IS STILL HERE ARE YOU KIDDING ME
Woken from a nightmare where I ordered a flat white, and what I was given was an iced flat white.
📊 Whether you went up, down, or you're missing CAH3 disciplines from your static data set: happy National Student Survey release day! #NSS #HigherEducation #DataAnalytics
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Reform UK's Darren Grimes tells constituents he can't hold surgeries with them because he's been advised by the police not to do so for "security reasons".
The only problem? Police spokesperson says this is entirely untrue and they gave no such advice
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To the secondary schools who have pupils on off-site trips today, and have made them wear full uniform (shirt, blazer, tie, trousers):
Shame on you.
It's 33C today. Put your twisted ideas of appearance aside and let them be comfortable, and safe.
Me to the birds singing outside my window at 4am
Things that my bus is hotter than:
- the oven used to bake my pizza about 45min ago
- the hot water in Fenwick Colchester's gents toilet (top floor)
- the surface of the sun
Eurostar seats booked for the summer! Maybe I'll get a selfie with @eurostarjustin.bsky.social or @tmblakeeurostar.bsky.social?
Now to double check the timetables for the other gazillion trains!
#interrail #interrailing
Disapoofed
I’m going to make my children read this
Boo, hiss, etc
I feel like @simonmclean.bsky.social would have some suggestions. Something plinky-plonky from KPM, maybe?
I listened to episode 1 in the pool the other night. Very hard to swim while chortling. 9/10, would chortle again.
First series was great - glad to see there is more!
150% TARIFFS ON ALL MEETINGS THAT COULD HAVE BEEN AN EMAIL
Remember this one. In five years, or ten, or twenty. When we're a weird, dirty, backward nation that still sets fire to stuff, and places like China and India start to ask us why.
The Greens now have nearly 200 more councillors than Reform.
This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.
Don't use Checkatrade on the basis that their radio ad jingle was shit.
Can u imagine this amount of coverage about the economic costs of Brexit?
Sigh.
