Helen Shapiro
This is a quote from the Conservative Party online newsletter:
‘And Labour’s Jobs Tax came into effect yesterday, meaning every working household will be £3,536 worse off over the course of this Parliament.’
Okay, I would prefer it if Keir, Angela, Rachel, (especially Rachel) etc, weren’t running the country, but when I read simplistic crap like that, I question the ability of their would be successors.
I am part of a working household. I don’t recognise that blanket averaged out figure, but I do realise it’s the biggest number that some newly graduated kid in Tory Central Office could work out. I realise also that in annual terms, it’s £707.20.
So my message to Kemi and her Boy Scout Troop is this: don’t talk down to people who have been involved in politics for longer than any member of the Shadow Cabinet has been alive, smarten your act up and show me you’re serious or …
Macron-esque
www.telegraph.co.uk/money/property/house-prices/labour-wants-house-price-fall/
I believe that the same thing happened in France when Macron victimised second home owners. Eileen and I had our Spanish place on the market when he did that. Every single person who viewed it was French.
I hate politicians who penalise success then pretend that it’s socialism.
Rhetorical
Question for my American friends. Did you vote for higher prices and declining export markets?
No?
I didn’t think so.
Seems so
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Clear and present
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/29/what-is-the-smithsonian-institution
I have never understood why bedbugs should be seen as crazy, as the saying goes. POTUSes, on the other hand, that’s obvious.
Jurgen
Watching the Trivago ad, okay I know it’s scripted but I’m wondering whether Coote might have been right.
Covid five years on: the serenity of lockdown.
This might seem odd, but I look back on lockdown with fondness. In 2020, Eileen’s condition was such that we had been living a cloistered life, to an extent. With the constraints, things happened that worked in our favour, best of all the home deliveries that kept me out of socially distanced queues and the like. Exercise was no problem either in a place like Gullane, easier in a way with fewer people around as I pushed the wheelchair.
We had a carer, for a few hours every week, the sort of person who lights up everywhere she goes. My Friday evenings with the guys went on too, onscreen using Zoom.
We were happy, blessed and very lucky in comparison with the misery of millions. And every Thursday we clapped
Question
What idiot at Old Trafford authorised the sale of Scott MacTominay?
Things that PMO
There is a growing practice among TV drama producers to include a shot of a character reading a text on a phone. Usually they contain relevant information. Usually they are on screen for only a couple of seconds.
I have a Godzilla sized TV and good vision, but the only way I can read such images is by going back and freezing the frame, hardly conducive to an enjoyable experience.
Think on, folks.
14 years of Tory misrule, but they never got around to this …
Shit jobs will cure you, benefits claimants told | The Daily Mash
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LO*******L
Anyone who believes in Nordic secrets to happiness hasn’t met anyone Nordic | The Daily Mash
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The Empire strikes back
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/18/canadian-actor-jasmine-mooney-detained-mexico-border
I know that the US is polarised and I have respect for my Republican friends. But even allowing for the Guardian spin, this is disturbing to say the least.
Pearly
Just a thought. Imagine if Bill Gates was President.
Research?!?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62zwy0nex0o
How does one become an ‘expert’ in sexual strangulation? How does one research? Brings me back to the old adage, ‘Those who can do those who can’t…’
If only …
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De Niro is right
Your guide to chortling gleefully at the Trump recession | The Daily Mash
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Reasonable question
Does President Trump actually know what he’s doing? He seems to be injecting bleach into the US economy.
Duncan Edwards
A story. When I was little, my dad, who was a teacher, was heavily involved with schools football, at local and national level. I think he was a selector for a while, as there were a couple of occasions when he went to away games in England with the Scotland boys’ team.
One of those, in the early 1960s, was with the senior squad, the Under-16s, to Wembley. I might have been six or seven at the time, but I remember this as clear as if he was still telling the tale.
My dad was a reserved man. He observed, he praised sparingly, and he never went overboard. Apart from one occasion.
He came back from the Wembley trip absolutely raving about one of the English boys, who was he declared, the best footballer he had ever seen, any age. He never changed that opinion. A couple of years later, that boy was a full international. And only a few years after that, he died in the Munich disaster.
As always, the Mash is close to the mark
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Charlotte Emma who?
I am feeling quite pleased with myself. Apparently this year’s overnight success, someone called (labelled?) Charli XCX is 32 years old and I had never heard of her until she won some awards.
I have a 14 year-old granddaughter. My goal in life is to show her that there is more to music than Charli and Camilla Cabella. So far, I’ve got as far as David Guetta.
