David Francis

okay, here it is, the five key takeaways from this by-election:

1. Denton Kebab House
2. The Crispy Cod, Denton
3. Reddish Tandoori, Gorton
4. Cottage Chippy, Gorton
5. The Continental Takeaway, Denton

There were more viewers of the curling last night than Britain’s Got Talent.

Europeans after managing to prevent the collapse of NATO for another 1-2 weeks…

#Europe #Rutte

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.

Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

The Christmas Radio Times has just gone in the recycling; truly the festive season is over.

Go round the outside.

We now enter the week of actually eating the more expensive cheese than I would normally buy that no one had room for on Xmas day.

Festivus is a timely reminder that George Costanza is one of the all time great comic characters.
#Seinfeld

There Is No Mary Problem in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ George’s vision of his wife without him is essential to the film, but critics continue to miss its true—and profound—meaning.

This is an almost shockingly wise essay. I'm glad I've finally read it.

One of the things I hate about getting old is my inability to lie in. All my kids are asleep, we don't have to be anywhere, and yet here I am wide awake.

that’s the stuff

I too regret some of the stupid things I said when I was younger: such as that we had nothing to worry about, the British people would never vote to leave the EU.

Congrats everyone, we are officially at “circle back in the new year” o clock, we have survived the year, good work team

I don’t need Spotify Wrapped to tell me that the band I listened to most this year was The Fall. It was The Fall last year and the year before that. It’s more or less a pathology.

Brexit Hit to UK Economy Double Official Estimate, Study Finds Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist.

Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist

Poppy pizzas, clearly not quiches before you pipe up. Regurgitated from my Twitter account

We will fight them on the quiches

This is the future Reform want

Reform's HQ in Caerffili/Caerphilly with the words "NOW U CAN FUCK OFF HOME" written on it's shutters

Da iawn, Caerffili. 👏💜

Happy "The clock on the oven/in the car is right again!" eve to all who celebrate.

- I'm going to analyse the Welsh by-election result
- Caerphilly?
- Nah, I'll probably just fire off some hot-takes

"Amazing result for Plaid Cymru, so here's a guest from Reform anyway..."

There's an AWS outage this morning impacting lots of services; it started around 07.30 UK time. People who use services like Alexa as their alarm clocks have just had a helpful reminder that using a device reliant on connectivity to carry out a task that doesn't need connectivity is not a good idea.

wow, all it took was one week of restricted access to porn.

Do a PhD in a field you are passionate about and you’ll never work a day in your life, because there are no jobs.

holy shit lmao

The Telegraph today carries a news story about someone paying £7.4 million for a handbag (Hello, Lady Bracknell!). And an opinion piece describing a wealth tax as a ‘moral abomination’. What a time to be alive.

Oh...

[Date alert]

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