Grany Shapps is really an empty vessel, isn't he? Down from being four people, but still only saying what he's told to say. There's no him in there at all.

Remarkable that Wragg, with the national security implications and Menzies, with what looks like blackmail and possible fraud, and security aren't continually screamed across the headlines, isn't it? I wonder what huge political news story interests the tabloids more?

Just what is it about sleaze and illegality that attracts Tory MPs?

Really really really looking forward to this exhibition Leeds Art Gallery by #PeterMitchell HGV driver turned photographer

museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/events/leeds-a…

Nothing says 'I'm a con man' more loudly than an overcoat with a velvet collar, eh, Farage?

I wonder if Taylor Swift talked to Ian Duhig FRSL for her tortured poet syndrome.

You have to laugh at the desperation of right-wing paper on Angela Rayner. The police saying there are 'a lot of assertions knocking about' and they'll 'get to the bottom of them' becomes 'investigated over multiple allegations.'
Shouting into their own dustbin.

Making people more aware of poetry can only be a good thing

Liz Truss interviewed by Allison Pearson. Really, it has to be beyond parody.

Truss: 'I served as secretary of state under both Trump and Biden' hands up, please, if you don't remember her serving in any US administration.

Doonesbury for April 14, 2024 | GoComics.com gocomics.com/doonesbury/202… via @GoComics

I don't know if you've seen anything about this, Yaroslava Antipina theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

Interesting that it seems all mention of Angela Rayner has vanished from the BBC's website (along with the Kuenssbery show), and also from the Telegraph, apart from an old op-ed column.
Very strange.

Apparently “dropping new music out of the blue” or something is a thing the kids do nowadays!
So to celebrate going ont rod with Jenn Reid today, have some of that!
Totally solo and mostly unaccompanied. Get it in you! ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥
#folkpunk #folkmusic

Seen this, Essie Fox Author ?
theguardian.com/film/2024/apr/…

Lovely to see Sarah Statham in the Yorkshire Post today. Buy her album, it's great.
yorkshirepost.co.uk/whats-on/arts-…

Apple blossom time

A lowing review of The Scream of Sins from Morning Star Severn House

definitely one for Anne Louise Avery 's Old Fox: theguardian.com/science/2024/a…

Evidiently, the efferverscent Congresswoman MTG has said that last week's US earthquake and the eclpise asre signs that God in unhapy with the country and people should repent.
Welcome to the Dark Ages.