Happy New Year everybody 🎉

Merry Christmas one and all

Kemi Badenoch at #PMQs: "We had a budget in March this year and tractors were not blockading the streets of Whitehall afterwards."

Here are the tractors blockading the streets of Whitehall in March this year. They were protesting - you really couldn't make this up - Badenoch's trade policies. 😂

my sister: why do you delete so many posts

me: sometimes you don't know something's really stupid until you send it out into the world

my mother: *staring at me just a beat too long*

My one constructive criticism on BlueSky, as a community: we need to “like” less and “retweet” more. In the absence of an algorithm, that’s the way we find each other and reward good content.

Dear Republicans,

No one is “teaching” us to fear pregnancy, but maybe, just maybe, you should ask yourselves why we might.

The notebook sweet spot is so small.
Like the chances of finding one that's nice enough to buy but not too nice to ruin by writing in it are basically zero. Madness. This world is absolute madness.

Deactivated the account in the other place...its like the end of the shawshank redemption. Crawling through all the excrement to find your way to freedom 🤣

Bradgate Park, Leicestershire

⚠Invalid Handel

There's been talk again of a royal commission on social care [cue collective groan from policy wonks]

Like many I agree a royal commission would be a waste of time. BUT I do think there could be value in an inquiry modelled on the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards

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For those folks who have joined recently, a few tips that may make your experience here more enjoyable.