Expect to see Kemi Badenoch launching a campaign to "save this great national institution, our beloved high street betting shops" in the next few days and then you'll know the policy is a definite winner.

we may as well try Reform" feeling. So it looks like Reeves has hit on the one weird trick?

and after the clock has started counting down the final months before the franchise is abolished - suggests that the product managers will have learnt a lot of lessons from working on this IT project.

This, except the first panel is 7 decades of white flight from cities to suburbs/Herefordshire mansions and the last panel is "Why are people in the inner cities failing to integrate?"

uk/e04000757-eye-moreton-and-ashton ), which rather raises the question of why Jenrick has gone to such efforts to not integrate into his community.

and asking who we should hold responsible for our communities having become "slums". https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/oct/07/robert-jenrick-accused-of-fuelling-toxic-nationalism-with-birmingham-claims

I take that back, I did pause at the guy in Under Milk Wood who "died of blisters" and consider all the many different things that could be a euphemism for. Perhaps that's what he means.

The only lyric that made the slightest impression was something about failing to understand Under Milk Wood, which struck me as odd because I never considered Under Milk Wood especially opaque. Otherwise, 7/10 vague background presence material.

New Idlewild album: the bits I remember sounded like Idlewild. I assumed something was wrong because it went silent after a few minutes, but no, it's just very short.

Bit hilly out. Shap is fun when you're southbound and the M6 has been closed northbound. https://strava.app.link/ElIyN5FgAWb

Same joke again.

Given the mess the Office for National Statistics are making of things like the Labour Force Survey, I think we should contract experienced suppliers like DFDS Ferries to deliver more Official Statistics.

cool! Looks brilliant - have some great adventures on it!

Everything else aside, just such a dumb idea to devalue a term reserved for one of the worst crimes, make people stop taking the word seriously, and undermine the broad support for systems in place to tackle terrorism.

I'm old enough to remember when our police were under-resourced, our courts system was overwhelmed and our prisons were full, and we didn't need to arrest old ladies crocheting peace slogans to keep them busy.