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Re the bird wearing a trilby - how can something so right be wrong?

07.03.2026 10:40 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Sandals, white socks and a muddy pond look like a recipe for trouble.

06.03.2026 09:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Steve is nagging at the universe's unanswered fruit-related questions again.
Stop it, Steve. It's a fruitless endeavour.

04.03.2026 22:26 👍 413 🔁 42 💬 15 📌 3

Admirable restraint from the dog, resisting the temptation to cause mayhem in the stream.

04.03.2026 11:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Enquiring minds want to know what is preventing the Campaign MPs leaving LL about to join Your Party. Ideological differences?

28.02.2026 11:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Gorton and Denton result should be a brutal wake-up call for Labour - but I'm not convinced they've even plugged the alarm clock in yet.

27.02.2026 11:52 👍 275 🔁 35 💬 11 📌 3

I was there!

25.02.2026 20:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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MY GOD HOW BIG ARE THE FUCKING ANTS

25.02.2026 11:59 👍 209 🔁 22 💬 7 📌 1

Because it's rugby not football.

21.02.2026 16:15 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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I'll count this hilarious @bergerandwyse cartoon as a map 😉 🗺️ 🐦️

20.02.2026 03:00 👍 149 🔁 33 💬 0 📌 1

Everyone has kept their coats on. Either they're not staying or the librarian hasn't turned the heating on.

19.02.2026 20:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Where is the crushed Oreo, strawberries and ice-cream option? Change coming when 16 year olds get the vote.

17.02.2026 18:13 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

The young man doesn't look entirely convinced that he is engaged in meaningful activity.

16.02.2026 08:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Me sat on my fat arse critiquing the athletic ability of someone going 70 miles an hour down the side of an icy mountain.

#WinterOlympics2026

12.02.2026 15:28 👍 220 🔁 20 💬 3 📌 4

I remember that book. Each page with just an illustration of the object on a neutral background.

10.02.2026 09:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I think she's communing with the tea-cosy.

09.02.2026 20:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
Reform by-election candidate suggested people who don’t have kids should pay more tax Exclusive: The Reform politician’s suggestion would ‘punish millions of women and strip them of their basic dignity to choose’, Labour’s deputy leader has warned

So as I struggled with miscarriage after miscarriage before having my 🌈 baby, Reform would seriously think I should pay more tax during that agony.

This policy isn’t just a slippery slope to a handmaids tale dystopian future - it’s a deliberate step towards it
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

07.02.2026 07:58 👍 843 🔁 335 💬 87 📌 31

The fact that the other plausible candidate is Angela Rayner, and she won't do anything until her tax affairs are cleared by HMRC.

06.02.2026 13:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Maybe it's just that the PLP can see that the heir apparent (Streeting) is a bit too close to Mandelson?

06.02.2026 13:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

British response to the film about Melania Trump: If they were screening it for free at the bottom of my garden I'd shut the curtains.

30.01.2026 20:30 👍 2162 🔁 338 💬 57 📌 22

Sadly it's rare for the soil to freeze nowadays.

28.01.2026 10:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yes, I think you're right. I hadn't twigged the man walking away with a bunch of daffs. But the barrow looks like it's laden with scrambled egg!

26.01.2026 19:47 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What is the yellow stuff on the barrow?

26.01.2026 19:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Trump and Farage

Trump and Farage

A real shame if this photo went viral again today.

18.01.2026 08:18 👍 2668 🔁 1418 💬 84 📌 63

Thank you, this English B52s listener has always wondered what the black-capped chickadee looked like.

30.12.2025 19:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The red onion lampshade might just be an optical illusion.

27.12.2025 20:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Paintinb as described.

Paintinb as described.

Morning.
Winter landscape with bullfinches, Bruno Liljefors, 1891.

25.12.2025 06:11 👍 155 🔁 32 💬 3 📌 0

Daddy 1974 looks very pleased with himself for having "stepped up to the plate" to hold the ribbon

24.12.2025 13:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"I'm 'A' from Balmoral
Completely immoral
Entitled
Untitled
Here for your abhorral."

23.12.2025 17:12 👍 59 🔁 8 💬 11 📌 0

Also known for his pony stories.

21.12.2025 08:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0