Apropos of nothing, Gary Oldman is younger than Gary Numan

Alex Jones is four years older than Alex Jones (the Welsh one)

If all you ask from life is a rollercoaster of a book with good twist, a funny bit with a goat, and a memorable title, allow me to present "A Torrid Lamentation on the Dearth of Validity in a Mechanised Ethos, Volume 2".

No, sorry: "Baby's Breath"

My bad.

www.amazon.co.uk/Babys-Breath...

I applaud Michael Gove's fervent commitment to gov't transparency on intelligence matters, however newly-discovered it is. ~AA

It's lies - he tells lies.

Public ownership of railways.

Greater Anglia services come back under public ownership today.

It now puts a third of all passenger journeys under control of the DFTO.

Dates for most other services to follow have been set and eventually services will transfer to GB Railways (following legislation)

Excellent to see the musings of cultural commentator/historian/comedian Stewart Lee, gone from the pages of the Observer, have now reappeared on @thenerve.news. Bravo to the Nervers (nervous?) for giving him a platform. Lees' latest piece on burning flags is here www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

How much financial support has Nigel Farage received from Steve Bannon and his network of far-right, populist billionaires?

In this video, Bannon is heard saying he’d find a way to fund Farage — so how much money actually changed hands, and was any of it ever declared?

youtu.be/az5wDHlD2RY?...

Reform UK’s Nathan Gill met with EU President Tajani to lobby him based on Russian Bribes.

Even then, Nigel Farage didn’t bat an eyelid.

Remarkable video. He had never shown an interest in free speech related to Ukrainian TV channels before.

#ReformRussianBribes

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

Number of deportations the ECHR have actually blocked since 1980 - 13 (THIRTEEN).

Please remember this next time some grifting populist claims us leaving the ECHR (and sacrificing the rights it gives us in the process) will allow us to ‘control our borders’.

That reminds me of the tv ad with Peter Cleall #Dottingham

I am thankful for the support and services out there to help people, what ever there needs.

Let's all personally be an addition to that, looking out for and support those we have contact with when they themselves need that extra bit help and care.

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Today is World Mental Health day.

Let it be a reminder that huge numbers of people have mental health struggles and we don't know what people are going through.

I personally have long running mental health issues which are managed well most days. But occasionally not.

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To be fair to Paul Simon, I actually started to hate *that* song because the video had colossal wanker Chevy Chase in it.

Never ever bloody anything ever...

I remember Alexei Sayle doing a joke about him (Simon) visiting South Africa and all the people running round saying "Hide the tunes, he's come to steal the tunes"

I watched the freeze frame of the video for nearly a minute before realising it wasn't playing. That's the face he pulls when anyone speaks to him. Thought I'd just muted the audio

But... It's the 'Noble' peace prize everyone in his cabinet said he should get

youtu.be/tLQbpCGqizM?...

That includes, rightly so, trump.

You could argue that Qatar has played a blinder in their 'gift' of a new Air Force One may have tipped Trump's sympathies

From FT: positivity on the economy.

It has become fashionable to express Eeyorish views on the state of the UK economy. But amid talk of rising debts and falling growth, there’s a more reassuring diagnosis: things are, at worst, solidly mediocre, and maybe not bad at all.

Badenoch: "While Britain was redefining what a woman is, China built five nuclear reactors."

A perfect summary of conservative idiocy. Glorifying authoritarian post-communism for its efficiency while vilifying democracy for seeking nuance and respect.

It is the Right who hate their own countries.