Exactly the type of hallucination we'd expect to see if we asked a generative AI to hallucinate a British town called Retford. twitter.com/joeblairkey/st…

'The decision by the Tories to put forward a person who appears out of touch with vast swathes of modern London should be seen as exactly what it is: a sign of how much this government really cares about the capital'

Part of the inspiration for my novel A Song for the Dark Times…

DAILY MAIL: Prostate scans that could cut deaths by 40% #TomorrowsPapersToday

Two highly qualified and respected British journalists – Belle Donati and Sangita Myska – have recently been taken off air, potentially for questioning foreign politicians in a manner that displeased them | Ann Moody

Belle Donati Sangita Myska
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Plant to bloom at National Trust site after 12-year wait. We are all pumped on the adrenaline. Working here is not for the faint-hearted. bbc.com/news/articles/…

‘The problem with socialism,’ Margaret Thatcher once said, ‘is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.’ When the Tories came to power in 2010, the national debt stood at 64.7% of gross domestic product. Currently it stands at 96.5% or £2,659.4 billion.

#ClassicCoronationStreet

A trip on the Martin M-130 China Clipper in 1936 included five stops from San Francisco to Hong Kong: Honolulu; Midway Island; Wake Island; Guam; and Manila, Philippines. Passenger counts on the San Francisco-Honolulu leg rarely exceeded six or seven. With any more, luggage had

So potential for two Tory incumbents on West Mids and Tees to hold on, but in two new mayoralties - East Mids and North Yorkshire Labour win big. Would mean A) incumbency matters a lot in mayoral races B) non-incumbent races are matching the national polling.

Cracker of a Tory election leaflet from Dorset:

“Swanage Conservatives have become just as angry and frustrated as so many members of the public at aspects of government conduct… naturally we don’t feel we should be held responsible for what goes on at and around Westminster”

A week after the leader of the Tories on #Dorset Council told Tory MPs to stay away, Dorset Conservatives associations are delivering leaflets calling their own MPs 'squalidly behaving'.

Here's how the new Brexit incoming border checks are likely to play out...

1. They will cause initial chaos, of an extent and duration still to be determined.

2. Things will eventually settle into a steady state that's worse than the current situation, but magically 'priced

Ugly moment for the Tory Chairman on whether they've accepted millions more from Frank Hester AFTER scandalous comments surfaced.

RH: 'I've got no problem answering questions on this.'
JC: 'Well, answer them then.'
RH: 'Any donations will be declared normally in due course.' ~AA

David Cameron(Foreign Secretary) tells the international relations & defense committee 'that I leaps for joy when the world service comes on... it's a brilliant service... & I'm quite a sort of license fee fan... it must be funded at a generous level..'

Art Nouveau 'Tudric' clock from c. 1900 by Archibald Knox, England.

Seems pretty likely that the Conservatives have accepted more of Hester’s money. Otherwise, why wouldn’t Holden just say “no”?

So, the translation appears to me to be: “Yes, we have taken his millions, but don’t want to talk about it before the local elections.”

Just awful. ~AA

Poor boy, just thirteen.

#farmlife