Don’t believe *anything* you see on the internet. 🤷‍♂️

My parents were cleaners, doing physical labour 7 days a week into their 70s and were petit bourgeoisie because they owned their own carpet cleaning machine. 🤷‍♂️

And to keep the Country Party’s boot on the neck of the Liberal Party.

That’s the how they structured the Brisbane City Council wards until 1972

Are they great covers of Jackie Mason's material?

I am reminded of that wonderful Sam Kriss piece about Tony Blair: "that universal joy when he finally ended a generation of Conservative rule by ending the Tory monopoly on evil."

I used to sit next to the guy who typeset Bryce Courtney’s novels, who said he’d never seen manuscripts as heavily reworked by an editor

Coincidentally, 2010 was the last election during his time in parliament.

I recall ‘Neither left nor right, but in front’

I confess I preferred what made the Doctor special was that he took action. Not that he was a specially powerful boy, but simply that the cared enough keep helping others.

Trump does seem to have been the only significant NYC guy to have broken with Epstein after his trafficking conviction. (I understand that may have been coincidental, but still)

Where’s Blanchett and Lee?

The media doesn’t write those stories, journalists do. Journalists are the problem.

Poor Jeremy. I think his status since the surprise leadership victory works against his very conciliatory and compassionate style. ‘Former backbencher’ can work quietly inside yorp to try and get something worthwhile out of it. ‘Figurehead leader of the left’ looks like a fool and worse.

Every time I see ‘Peyton Manning’ I wonder why people are talking about the guy who used to be the Canadian Opposition Leader.

Personally I'd be pleased to see BBC News disappear entirely. To argue, as many do, that British politics or our news environment would be so much worse without the BBC you have to explain why British politics and news environment is so very bad with the BBC.

People can quibble over whether they should have waited a bit longer or negotiated slightly different outcomes, but what was the victory condition for ending the shutdown otherwise? 🤷‍♂️