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The least funny member of The Mary Whitehouse Experience, who went on to be the least funny member of Newman & Baddiel, then the least funny member of Baddiel & Skinner.

I often get called a vagina if that helps. Kids, man. They can be so cruel.

Rosario Dawson Kimi Raikkonen Andrea Pirlo Caroline Flack Heath Ledger (and a ouija board)

5 for Wednesday. Shocker. 3 for the comedy quiz

The left are hardly getting behind Labour and trying to help Starmer oust the Tories. Pinnochio emojis you would imagine coming from the Tories, but no... On the antisemitism issue, I'm not re-treading the old ground of who said what, when and so on. That dragged Corbyn's leadership down and sink it like a battleship. He couldn't clearly announce anything because the news was always filled with stories about this issue. All the stuff about individual policies being popular was lost in that white noise. The issue I was addressing was the funding shortage in Labour caused by a few things, including a hefty payout, loss of union income because of that payout, and the loss of seats. Add to that loss of members (between 10% and 20%) as the lefties who joined for Corbyn left. The Labour party (by membership) is still over twice the size of the Tories.

Just a wee diversion.

I stopped reading at this point and let my imagination fill in the rest of the post. You filthy b*****d.

I was in the civil service from 2006 to 2013, and remember the rapid speed (and cost) of renaming everything that moved, re-doing signs to make Scotland look like Wales and so on.

Couldn't care less which way they do it so long as they were the same to avoid confusion.

On the last season of Titans on Netflix and need a new show to watch with the kids after this one. Watched all the arrowerse, mandalorian, etc. Any suggestions much appreciated (I think I asked this a few months back as well...)

This goes well beyond Covid and goes right back to 2007 with the SNP coming into power. Plastering Gaelic words across police cars, train stations and ambulances when fewer than 2% of Scots read or speak it. Renaming various agencies and bodies to be distinct and different from the Westminster counterparts. And it's why throughout this pandemic she has been consistently one degree different from England in every regard. Just to show that Scotland is different. Health is a devolved issue - but would any difference have really been made had all 4 nations adopted the exact same strategy? All these tiny shades of difference have no material benefit to safety - except to undermine it by causing confusion - and are used by politicians. How much of 2020 was Sturgeon enjoying being "seen" to be better than Johnson at this? When at the same time the same mistakes were being made, such as discharging the elderly back into care homes to spread the virus?

Remember, there are many folk out there who cannot budge from wanting fresh and perpetual lockdowns.

The details you are looking for can be found here https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/our-work/news/investigation-antisemitism-labour-party-finds-unlawful-acts-discrimination-and

Not all of them, we still have plenty

For many office workers (thinking of the civil service in particular) the difference will start with meetings. Rather than just saying that a meeting will be held online via Teams or Zoom, the invites will come round saying that the meeting is in a certain room, but people can join it online. What will inevitably happen is that the in-room meeting is where all the discussion is, and those joining online are spectating. if you have ambitions and want to be seen participating, you'll need to be there.

Just the kind of thinking that has killed Labour in the past. As recently as 2016, the Tories were in utter crisis after the Brexit referendum. Cameron resigned, leadership election looming, public trust gone - Labour under Corbyn could have really attacked the Tories and made some real progress. They were making inroads in the polls. Instead the centrists within Labour thought the same as you - now is the time to attack the leader! So they formed a circular firing squad. Instead of attacking the Tories, Labour ended up in a months-long leadership challenge attacking themselves. The Tories appointed May and Labour was the party in crisis all summer. I don't think Corbyn really recovered - that was the moment that the public would have given him a hearing and the party destroyed it. Right now is the time for Labour to start saying something positive; a leadership challenge will just kill them.

All the news reports is a six-figure payout, which is a fairly wide range. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58439902 A triple whammy really - compensation payouts, loss of short money and cuts from Unite tied to the compensation.

6 for Tuesday

Odd to hear on the radio this morning, both Tory and Labour spokespeople saying vaccine passports should be scrapped. Good to hear.

Honestly, about a third of the way through lap 1 and it cut to adverts. I was pacing around, raging wondering what the hell was going on. It came back a third of the way through the race and stayed with it till the end - which in many ways was better than ITV putting in regular 5 minute breaks, but at the same time was just awful.

The wife's best friend lives in Yorkshire. They talk every day. After a long chat with her yesterday, she said she wanted to speak to me...they're talking about her going down for a visit in August, the first in quite a while. For. A. Week.

For as long as she is First Minister, masks and vaccine passports will never be revoked.

Corbyn brought huge numbers of members to the party, people who had previously not been engaged with Labour or politics generally. That was indeed a good thing. They all climbed into bed with him, and then he shat that bed. These folk leaving post-Corbyn is no great surprise. I doubt they would have stayed unless Long-Bailey would have won the leadership, and the project would have carried on. Starmer is responsible now, yes, but the point about the finances is two-fold. Huge sums going out in compensation, and less coming in because unions are less happy now that they can't dictate what is going on.

Bit if a shame Meldrew was banned. He would have had some awful picture or comment to make here about BBCs. Then again, he was a compete roaster so probably best he's away.