@joemorison.bsky.social
Yelling is totally appropriate. I think we are all screaming on the inside.
January 22, 2026 at 4:55 AM
Yelling is totally appropriate. I think we are all screaming on the inside.
For example, Scotland has its own parliament and laws in the UK, but that doesn’t stop it sending MPs to Westminster just like any other region.
January 22, 2026 at 4:54 AM
For example, Scotland has its own parliament and laws in the UK, but that doesn’t stop it sending MPs to Westminster just like any other region.
Of course, I don’t understand it as well as you but I have studied it academically. The size of the US is no bar to a parliamentary system, and I don’t see that having 50 states is either but you can probably enlighten me about that.
January 22, 2026 at 4:52 AM
Of course, I don’t understand it as well as you but I have studied it academically. The size of the US is no bar to a parliamentary system, and I don’t see that having 50 states is either but you can probably enlighten me about that.
You don’t need to travel to strike, you can just stay at home.
January 22, 2026 at 4:49 AM
You don’t need to travel to strike, you can just stay at home.
Good luck, darling. How excellent to see you back where you belong!
January 21, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Good luck, darling. How excellent to see you back where you belong!
If you had a Leader of the Opposition, as parliamentary democracies do, maybe they could make that call. Or, perhaps things will get so bad that it will happen spontaneously. I appreciate the difficulties you mention, but what else can you do? Good luck - the world needs you to win.
January 21, 2026 at 11:04 AM
If you had a Leader of the Opposition, as parliamentary democracies do, maybe they could make that call. Or, perhaps things will get so bad that it will happen spontaneously. I appreciate the difficulties you mention, but what else can you do? Good luck - the world needs you to win.
Since James Callaghan, our prime ministers have either been shameful or an embarrassment - Starmer manages to be both.
January 21, 2026 at 4:02 AM
Since James Callaghan, our prime ministers have either been shameful or an embarrassment - Starmer manages to be both.
And, as with the girls in the Epstein files, that just makes him even keener to invade.
January 18, 2026 at 4:29 AM
And, as with the girls in the Epstein files, that just makes him even keener to invade.
There are noises coming out of Germany that they might do just that. If they do, who knows who else might follow?
January 18, 2026 at 4:27 AM
There are noises coming out of Germany that they might do just that. If they do, who knows who else might follow?
I heard Suchet say it in an interview.
January 18, 2026 at 1:26 AM
I heard Suchet say it in an interview.
You mean out of the ones who haven’t already been put back in prison?
January 17, 2026 at 6:10 PM
You mean out of the ones who haven’t already been put back in prison?
With the exception of … with the exception of … . No, you’re right, every damn one of the arseholes.
January 17, 2026 at 3:09 PM
With the exception of … with the exception of … . No, you’re right, every damn one of the arseholes.
What stuns the rest of the world is that 42%. It’s why it will be a very long time before we can trust you again. (In the UK, the figure is 16% - and that’s bad enough.)
January 17, 2026 at 8:00 AM
What stuns the rest of the world is that 42%. It’s why it will be a very long time before we can trust you again. (In the UK, the figure is 16% - and that’s bad enough.)
Did you know that when playing Poirot, David Suchet kept a coin clenched between his buttock cheeks? Once you know that, it totally explains the way he walked.
January 17, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Did you know that when playing Poirot, David Suchet kept a coin clenched between his buttock cheeks? Once you know that, it totally explains the way he walked.
Dutch countryside?
January 16, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Dutch countryside?
When people don’t want to upset the sensitive when using that phrase, it’s common in the vernacular here to say, ‘I don’t give a flying fig’ .
January 16, 2026 at 1:57 PM
When people don’t want to upset the sensitive when using that phrase, it’s common in the vernacular here to say, ‘I don’t give a flying fig’ .
Artistic license, Richard, totally acceptable. And, as I said, it’s a lovely picture. I’m not dissing you, just making a rather flippant point.
January 16, 2026 at 1:51 PM
Artistic license, Richard, totally acceptable. And, as I said, it’s a lovely picture. I’m not dissing you, just making a rather flippant point.
I like your picture, it’s lovely, but I’ve lived in London for 47 years; I walk that spot often, sometimes multiple times a day, and to make I’m not going mad I’ve just double checked on Google street view. There is no tube entrance there and there are no phone boxes. But, hey, so what?
January 16, 2026 at 1:48 PM
I like your picture, it’s lovely, but I’ve lived in London for 47 years; I walk that spot often, sometimes multiple times a day, and to make I’m not going mad I’ve just double checked on Google street view. There is no tube entrance there and there are no phone boxes. But, hey, so what?
Sounds like one of the worst ways of wasting one’s life that I’ve ever heard of.
January 16, 2026 at 10:51 AM
Sounds like one of the worst ways of wasting one’s life that I’ve ever heard of.
I’m confused by the tube sign and the phone boxes.
January 16, 2026 at 10:47 AM
I’m confused by the tube sign and the phone boxes.
And, equally controversially, I honestly think that bears shit in the woods.
January 16, 2026 at 7:21 AM
And, equally controversially, I honestly think that bears shit in the woods.