It’s not too difficult to stick to that because here it’d be largely the Mail and a few tabloids, which tend not to be used in the serious news sections here anyway unless it’s a piss-take of the Mail.

Champions and Two Taoist Tales for me. Taoism Drunkard in particular is really out there, I’d have preferred if it had been teamed with Shaolin Drunkard (which must be in the pipeline) but I’m happy with the set.

Now that famous saying makes sense: the luck of the Japanese.

Now that would be a plot twist - the world’s leafiest is actually the world’s tiniest lettuce.

I saw a documentary about people in this area of the sex trade and there was a woman doing a brisk trade in used undercrackers - she bought multi-packs from M&S, cracked open a tin of tuna and was rubbing tuna water into the gusset. It really helped boost her productivity. That’s the kind of outside-the-box kind of thinking this country needs to get off it’s knees.

The shop reportedly only has male buyers at the moment.

Weird that.

That’s like shooting fish in a barrel. A harder challenge would be to find someone in Reform who isn’t awful.

Now that’s taking the piss!

I have been thinking about a hedgehog highway since there was a thin coating if snow and you could see tiny footprints going down our path, out into the pavement and back down the neighbour’s path. I’ve apparently got four and I might as well give them a chance to roam about in more safety.

Is Sunak really so stupid

Yes.

They are never going to say to vote tactically but resources will be targeted at constituencies where they stand a good chance of winning, which will have a similar effect. I’d respect them more if they said “we aren’t going to win in X, so vote Lib Dem/Green/SNP to really stick the boot in” as it might make all the difference.

The thing about Clacton is polling suggests Labour are in second, with Farage well ahead. So an argument could be made for Labour to step it up a gear there because if Farage messes up (perhaps by continuing to be a Putin stooge) they could sneak between a split Tory/Reform vote and get a cheeky win. Anything to keep Farage out of Parliament as his influence is corrosive. They may be calculating that Farage as an MP might be the nail in the Tory’s coffin for a generation but it may bite them in the arse.

Do not let the bigots and bullies win

Said one of the worst bigots and bullies in a party largely made up of some pretty terrible people.

Does he want to destroy the Conservative party and rebuild it in his image[?]

This is my worry - his sudden U-turn suggests someone has had serious words with him about how this is the best time to strike as the stars have aligned to show a route for him to get into power. He doesn’t need to win (m)any seats, he just needs to wreck the Tories chances in a number of seats, dragging them to historic lows and then propose some kind of merger as the best way to remove the threat. With so few MPs left and a desperation in the party, he can pitch himself as the best candidate to beat Starmer and, he may well be.

It would make the Tory party into the National Front Lite but they’re already most of the way there:

all these policies would be at home in a Thatcher-era National Front manifesto, and they are all now promoted by the Conservative party.

It Can’t Happen Here?

He only likes the white ones.

#NotAllTicTacs