Everyone who capitulated to this guy over the last 9 months should be ridiculed mercilessly

She meows at me grumpily if I stop giving her fuss for more than 30 seconds

Although I would quite like my left hand back at some point this afternoon…

I'm just beginning to feel generally sad for humanity

There is often more charm in a shoddy photoshop than there is in anything AI can generate

It’s going to be the world’s most predictable tragedy when it finally burns down or falls into the Thames, and our entire bloody system is to blame. Many successive parliaments, governments of all stripes, and a media which has them all running scared of taking a decision. I despair, honestly.

...that's right! It was the Pre-Feasibility Study and Preliminary Strategic Business Case, back in 2012!

Thank goodness those warnings were quickly heeded, eh readers?

That's right, it was the Joint Committee on the Palace of Westminster in 2016!

Bonus round: In which year did a report say: "The Palace is reaching the point where its condition is deteriorating, risks are growing and partial patching and mending interventions are no longer sufficient"?

And they even had the King over to open it while this was happening!

They're going to let it burn down. People may celebrate that when it happens (they did last time), but we'll have lost something iconic with which people the world over identify our nation. And there's no guarantee they'll be able to save Westminster Hall this time, either...