The Mayor

Yeah slow and steady. I like my trainers (Hoka Clifton’s) so will be sad to get to that stage.

Don’t think there were any instructions. Up to 7k today. Knees fine, still 11/12 weeks to get to 10k so ahead of schedule. Could prob get a slow 10k now but trying to keep pace & extend distance.

Slight plantar irritation hence the socks!

They were Plantar Fasciitis support socks. I was wearing them after big runs (thinking recover) rather than during (not thinking support). Apparently that was wrong.

This weekend ChatGPT told my wife she was washing her hair wrong and informed me I was wearing socks incorrectly.

I think we may have reached the “surrender to our robot overlords” phase.

Is France involved? Germany? Spain? Any EU country? Why pick on Starmer? Almost as if he only wants to help his frog-faced mate out.

Starmer shouldn’t worry about offending people accused of abusing Children.

Noncey McNonceface says what?

Makes me pretty nostalgic to see Super Mario taking on Bowser again. Let’s-a-go!

43 points and it’s barely March. Who even are we anymore? COYBs

Heard this 12+ years ago in MCR in a talk by @timharford.ft.com I think.

Lived by it ever since. More often than not as the dissenter - not always right, but always dissenting.

Increasingly thinking the electoral calculus is wrong. Rooted in c.95-2016 view of holding centre. Brexit drove a wedge which has widened and reduced the centre rump. Labour need a realignment to reclaim the moral centre & left and forget those radicalised by right wing. Don’t chase the 30%.

Great game this afternoon. Proper back and to stuff. Pickford save at the death though!!!! Great three points! COYBs!!!!

Movie Pitch: Iranian Turkey Bacon.

Reboot of the John Candy classic ‘Canadian Bacon’.

Plot. US President comes under pressure as allegations that he is a child sex offender surface. So he distracts the world by launching a military action against Iran.

Too far fetched for a movie?

First of all be lying if I said I wasn’t joyful Reform were rejected. Despite online noise it’s true that #BotsCantVote

Secondly, Starmer is going to struggle to not let this spiral to a May hammering and his own end.

Only Labour winner is Burnham - next by-election, blocking him will be harder.

I was wondering when the shouts of “Electoral Fraud” would start by Reform. Impressive they managed it before a single vote had been counted.

Why would they call the process into question unless they thought they had lost?

If Betfair is to be believed in the absence of exit polls in by-elections … Reform will be third (Greens comfortably in first on current odds).

I think/hope Green and Labour voters will have broke a bit more decisively one way or another than the polls show due to a lot of hovering pencils.

28/28/27 (polls) becomes more like 31/25/27. Just not sure whether it will break with habit (Labour) or disillusionment (Green).

Beto late smash and grab of that point! COYBs!!!!!!

Vance is a real Triple Threat.

Self-serving
Malign
Dumb

Most politicians have at least one of these qualities - to have the full package is both impressive and terrifying.

Another day another lie pitched at only the dumbest of Americans. British soldiers paid the ultimate price of on the frontline alongside Danish, Americans, French, Dutch, Canadians … shameful disgusting & vile.

Anyone in the UK aligning with Trump is pretty far from patriotic.

Which was the more terrifying prospect for a North Atlantic island. Trump saying he was going to Greenland or Kerry Katona saying she was going to Iceland?

Ha. Yeah low stakes boycott for me too. Club over country in my case rather than ball shape!

Yeah you are probably right but will get harder to avoid the question if the Tango Tyrant doesn’t get back in his box soon.

Wonder if any European country has the balls to pull out of the World Cup. Absolutely should at least be threatening it.

We are approaching the time where the name Elon, joins Adolf on this list of “Names Parents never consider for their children”.

So who had “The President of the USA kidnaps the President of Venezuela and then goes on to threaten to invade (fellow NATO member) Denmark’s territory” in their 2026 Bingo Card.

It’s still only the 6th of January. Strap in lads and lasses - it’s going to be a bumpy one!

Is it likely that malign Russian influence is behind Reform and that they are all on the payroll to deliberately radicalise the hard of thinking across the UK?

I am just asking questions!

Godfrey doing his Trump impression with Dr. Dre in the studio 🤣💀

Emergency YouTube video by Blaggers ITA - Topic

Never mind Oasis. Right now if there was a 90s band we needed back it would be Blaggers I.T.A.

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Let’s try and see it from the other side.

If a court told you that you couldn’t see your kids and women avoid being near you. If you hated all aspects of your lonely sad life and you found yourself regularly in ‘Spoons at 9am. Then you too might be tempted to paint a roundabout or two.

Sick of plastic patriots. They hate British democracy, hate the BBC, hate the British judiciary, hate their fellow citizens, hate that people want to come here, hate our Universities, Teachers, Civil Service, our councils our institutions … but they paint roundabouts to intimidate refugees?