Jonny Morris
@jonnymorris.bsky.social
Writer and producer (mostly Doctor Who-related things).
Winchester City Councillor for St Barnabas ward. 🔶
For council enquiries email: [email protected]
Winchester City Councillor for St Barnabas ward. 🔶
For council enquiries email: [email protected]
I do think one of the root causes of Labour's problems is that they won the election with only a third of the vote; they didn't come to power on the crest of a wave of popularity and what goodwill they had they used up almost at once. Lots of backbenchers one twitch of the dial away from extinction.
Our first-past-the-post electoral system clearly can't cope with the strains placed on it by a politically fractured, multipolar electorate. I suppose we'd better get used to this instability unless or until that system is changed.
February 9, 2026 at 3:31 PM
I do think one of the root causes of Labour's problems is that they won the election with only a third of the vote; they didn't come to power on the crest of a wave of popularity and what goodwill they had they used up almost at once. Lots of backbenchers one twitch of the dial away from extinction.
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"But sir, what if I'm an existing Sky Customer and I select the HBO Bundle without adverts?"
"It's perfectly simple. IF you're an existing Sky Customer, and you select /without/ ads, you will be switched to a lower tariff on HBO basic on the NOW platform..."
"It's perfectly simple. IF you're an existing Sky Customer, and you select /without/ ads, you will be switched to a lower tariff on HBO basic on the NOW platform..."
February 9, 2026 at 1:34 PM
"But sir, what if I'm an existing Sky Customer and I select the HBO Bundle without adverts?"
"It's perfectly simple. IF you're an existing Sky Customer, and you select /without/ ads, you will be switched to a lower tariff on HBO basic on the NOW platform..."
"It's perfectly simple. IF you're an existing Sky Customer, and you select /without/ ads, you will be switched to a lower tariff on HBO basic on the NOW platform..."
#EveryAlbumIOwn (Revisit) Hot Sauce. Queen. 1982.
Top 3 tunes: Put Out The Fire, Las Palabras De Amor, Under Pressure
You can skip: oh god, half of it
Rating: 6/10
I've given it another chance but, no, sorry, it's as if the Queen boys deliberately set out to produce their worst album. Dancer okay.
Top 3 tunes: Put Out The Fire, Las Palabras De Amor, Under Pressure
You can skip: oh god, half of it
Rating: 6/10
I've given it another chance but, no, sorry, it's as if the Queen boys deliberately set out to produce their worst album. Dancer okay.
February 9, 2026 at 1:02 PM
#EveryAlbumIOwn (Revisit) Hot Sauce. Queen. 1982.
Top 3 tunes: Put Out The Fire, Las Palabras De Amor, Under Pressure
You can skip: oh god, half of it
Rating: 6/10
I've given it another chance but, no, sorry, it's as if the Queen boys deliberately set out to produce their worst album. Dancer okay.
Top 3 tunes: Put Out The Fire, Las Palabras De Amor, Under Pressure
You can skip: oh god, half of it
Rating: 6/10
I've given it another chance but, no, sorry, it's as if the Queen boys deliberately set out to produce their worst album. Dancer okay.
Top Secret! A Doctor Who stars spotters guide. In order of appearance/credits:
Gertan Klauber
Richard Mayes
Ian MacNeice
John Carney
Gertan Klauber
Richard Mayes
Ian MacNeice
John Carney
February 9, 2026 at 12:04 PM
Top Secret! A Doctor Who stars spotters guide. In order of appearance/credits:
Gertan Klauber
Richard Mayes
Ian MacNeice
John Carney
Gertan Klauber
Richard Mayes
Ian MacNeice
John Carney
Unfortunately he turned it around 360 degrees.
Starmer's statement thanks McSweeney for "turning the party around after one of the worst defeats in its history".
Labour currently polling at about 17%.
Labour currently polling at about 17%.
February 9, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Unfortunately he turned it around 360 degrees.
Who would have thought that Doctor Who fans were so close to Chinese Speaking Liberal Democrats?
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
Bluesky Map
Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.
bluesky-map.theo.io
February 9, 2026 at 9:53 AM
Who would have thought that Doctor Who fans were so close to Chinese Speaking Liberal Democrats?
Carly Rae Jepsen - I Really Like You
YouTube video by CarlyRaeJepsenVEVO
youtu.be
February 9, 2026 at 9:15 AM
Surprised this hasn't become a meme.
February 8, 2026 at 11:12 PM
Surprised this hasn't become a meme.
I'm not sure a Labour MP anonymously briefing against their leader is in any position to call someone else a coward. 🤔
A Labour MP remarks: "Starmer will go down as the worst PM in Labour history ... He’s a coward who refuses to take responsibility for his own actions. He is a moral gravity-well from which neither decency, honesty or integrity can escape. A genuine disaster for this country and the Labour movement.”
February 8, 2026 at 10:25 PM
I'm not sure a Labour MP anonymously briefing against their leader is in any position to call someone else a coward. 🤔
The secret to getting rid of an earworm is to think of a song with a clear, definitive end like She Loves You or With A Little Help With My Friends (the Beatles version, NOT the Wet Wet Wet version).
Readers replies: why does a song sometimes get stuck in our heads – and what makes an earworm?
Readers replies: why does a song sometimes get stuck in our heads – and what makes an earworm?
The series in which readers answer other readers’ questions explores the sounds and music that play on repeat mentally – and how to escape their aural clutches
www.theguardian.com
February 8, 2026 at 2:43 PM
The secret to getting rid of an earworm is to think of a song with a clear, definitive end like She Loves You or With A Little Help With My Friends (the Beatles version, NOT the Wet Wet Wet version).
So farewell then Onson Sweemey, let's hope things improve under the steady hand of Sleve McDichael.
February 8, 2026 at 2:39 PM
So farewell then Onson Sweemey, let's hope things improve under the steady hand of Sleve McDichael.
#EveryAlbumIOwn (Revisit) Golddiggas, Headnodders & Pholk Songs. The Beautiful South. 2004.
Top 3 tunes: This Will Be Our Year, This Old Skin, Stone In Love With You
You can skip: Don't Fear The Reaper
Rating: 8/10
A "mixed bag" of covers from the Boots. Livin' Thing and Don't Stop Moving also top.
Top 3 tunes: This Will Be Our Year, This Old Skin, Stone In Love With You
You can skip: Don't Fear The Reaper
Rating: 8/10
A "mixed bag" of covers from the Boots. Livin' Thing and Don't Stop Moving also top.
February 8, 2026 at 1:39 PM
#EveryAlbumIOwn (Revisit) Golddiggas, Headnodders & Pholk Songs. The Beautiful South. 2004.
Top 3 tunes: This Will Be Our Year, This Old Skin, Stone In Love With You
You can skip: Don't Fear The Reaper
Rating: 8/10
A "mixed bag" of covers from the Boots. Livin' Thing and Don't Stop Moving also top.
Top 3 tunes: This Will Be Our Year, This Old Skin, Stone In Love With You
You can skip: Don't Fear The Reaper
Rating: 8/10
A "mixed bag" of covers from the Boots. Livin' Thing and Don't Stop Moving also top.
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After a certain point the sanity of Palantir's leadership does matter to the national security of the UK and other European states buying its software
February 8, 2026 at 12:14 PM
After a certain point the sanity of Palantir's leadership does matter to the national security of the UK and other European states buying its software
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Any time I look to see what the Labour government is up to in the UK it turns out to be things like making posters that Alfonso Cuarón put in the background of the long tracking shot that opens “Children of Men”.
February 8, 2026 at 12:12 PM
Any time I look to see what the Labour government is up to in the UK it turns out to be things like making posters that Alfonso Cuarón put in the background of the long tracking shot that opens “Children of Men”.
Just checking out today's Observer to find out about The Salt Path couple's links to Epstein.
February 8, 2026 at 11:01 AM
Just checking out today's Observer to find out about The Salt Path couple's links to Epstein.
Katie Melua - The Flood (Official Video)
YouTube video by Katie Melua
youtu.be
February 8, 2026 at 10:18 AM
Nobody is even mentioning David Lloyd George, who was a right old shagger.
February 8, 2026 at 12:51 AM
Nobody is even mentioning David Lloyd George, who was a right old shagger.
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There are no good mental images here. Do not set forth upon that road.
February 7, 2026 at 11:58 PM
There are no good mental images here. Do not set forth upon that road.
Time for ANOTHER Dickens.
February 7, 2026 at 10:57 PM
Time for ANOTHER Dickens.
#JonnysTrekTrek Emanations. An original idea, thoughtfully done, albeit with a couple of plot-solving conveniences. The best one so far though.
February 7, 2026 at 7:49 PM
#JonnysTrekTrek Emanations. An original idea, thoughtfully done, albeit with a couple of plot-solving conveniences. The best one so far though.
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Blur - Song 2, but every "woohoo" is done by Mario
YouTube video by ThePandemicLight
youtu.be
February 7, 2026 at 3:02 PM
JW Top Secret! Not seen it before, though I have seen many, many clips so it's nice to finally see the bits of narrative that go between them. Very funny film, and lovely to see so many British character actors and supporting artists (I recognised them all from the other things they've been in).
February 7, 2026 at 3:14 PM
JW Top Secret! Not seen it before, though I have seen many, many clips so it's nice to finally see the bits of narrative that go between them. Very funny film, and lovely to see so many British character actors and supporting artists (I recognised them all from the other things they've been in).
I like the idea of Labour replacing Starmer with Wes Streeting but I don't think they should stop there, they should gradually replace the entire cabinet with vague lookalikes giving the same performance, like they did on Bread and Allo Allo.
February 7, 2026 at 1:18 PM
I like the idea of Labour replacing Starmer with Wes Streeting but I don't think they should stop there, they should gradually replace the entire cabinet with vague lookalikes giving the same performance, like they did on Bread and Allo Allo.