As I write this, it is late morning/lunchtime. so stuff will possibly happen throughout the day. This may get updated as a result later on, but then again it may not. The big stuff may have already settled on us, like so much guano. UPDATE 1930: Esther McVey? Really? “Common…

The conference season is upon us, may God have mercy on our souls. — The LibDem conference passed off last week in the shimmer of apathy it generally engenders in most of the population, but seeing as Parliament is in recess and the autumn is starting, it’s time for the “Big Guns” now. On Sunday, the Tory circus lurches into Manchester. In the immortal…

Ad ondatra, mortem cupio¹ — I had sort of promised myself I wasn’t going to write any more about Elon Musk, with his smug self-satisfied backpfeifengesicht, and his ongoing mission to destroy Twitter. Just for the record, I refuse to use the new “is this a porn site or something?” name he has dropped onto…

“Jesus Christ, they’ve done it. They’ve done it” — There’s a new social network in town, kids. Apparently, 70m people signed up to Meta’s new Threads app in the first couple of days. At this point, I’ll issue a disclaimer, and say that I’m not one of them, nor am I ever likely to be, for reasons I’ll explain…

If the Tories want the Johnson smell gone, they have to finish the job — It was supposedly Harold Wilson who once said that “a week is a long time in politics”, though I’m not sure what he’d have made¹ of the seven years of famine we’ve had to endure since June 2016 and “The Event” that has been the source of so many of…

…look at all the Nat-C farties — There are rabbit holes, and then there are rabbit holes. The great and the good (and I’m being extremely generous there) of wonky-eyed, manic Conservatism have assembled, in a gathering of the clans in London to swap stories and map out their vision for a New England. very much with…

I bet Rishi Sunak didn’t get much sleep overnight. This would primarily be because he’d have been up with party workers looking over the local election results as they came in, but also because even if he had been able to doze for a few sweet minutes, there would have…

Yes, I too have a tedious hot take on the whole Lineker business — If you were to ask most football fans about Gary Lineker, the first thing they’d tell you wouldn’t be about the Golden Boot he won at the 1986 World Cup, nor would it be that he is fourth in the England international all-time scoring lists¹. The odd wag might mention…

Another whiffy dead cat dropped on the table — There may be some amongst you who may have raised a quizzical eyebrow and wondered why yesterday, in the midst of the maelstrom of public discontent that is making itself evident through strikes, and the ongoing politically motivated destruction of the NHS, our bonsai Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak has decided…