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More crossword! More! More!
And today's clue is a heartening 10 down:
Something to read for romantic days out at the seaside (13)
The second letter is "S" and the 6th is "D"
And today's clue is a heartening 10 down:
Something to read for romantic days out at the seaside (13)
The second letter is "S" and the 6th is "D"
December 4, 2025 at 11:29 AM
More crossword! More! More!
And today's clue is a heartening 10 down:
Something to read for romantic days out at the seaside (13)
The second letter is "S" and the 6th is "D"
And today's clue is a heartening 10 down:
Something to read for romantic days out at the seaside (13)
The second letter is "S" and the 6th is "D"
Well, I hope I'm having fun with this crossword of mine, because I'm not sure anyone else is.
December 3, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Well, I hope I'm having fun with this crossword of mine, because I'm not sure anyone else is.
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I heard.. Rachel Reeves once.. and you need to brace yourself for this.. didn’t put her trolly back at the supermarket.. she left it against a wall near where she’d been parked 😱
Yup I know.. there’s no going back on that
Yeah you may say Farage racially abused kids at school.. but about Reeves 🤦🏼♂️
Yup I know.. there’s no going back on that
Yeah you may say Farage racially abused kids at school.. but about Reeves 🤦🏼♂️
December 2, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I heard.. Rachel Reeves once.. and you need to brace yourself for this.. didn’t put her trolly back at the supermarket.. she left it against a wall near where she’d been parked 😱
Yup I know.. there’s no going back on that
Yeah you may say Farage racially abused kids at school.. but about Reeves 🤦🏼♂️
Yup I know.. there’s no going back on that
Yeah you may say Farage racially abused kids at school.. but about Reeves 🤦🏼♂️
Today's crossword clue barges rudely into the room and falls over a heap of angry cat, and lies there swearing and-
9 Across: Dick created work of late cubist (4)
To which the second letter is "B"
9 Across: Dick created work of late cubist (4)
To which the second letter is "B"
December 3, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Today's crossword clue barges rudely into the room and falls over a heap of angry cat, and lies there swearing and-
9 Across: Dick created work of late cubist (4)
To which the second letter is "B"
9 Across: Dick created work of late cubist (4)
To which the second letter is "B"
I have made two lists:
1. Films which are not Christmas films in spite of being set at Christmas: DIE HARD
2. Films which are Christmas films in spite of being set nowhere near Christmas: GROUNDHOG DAY
So there
1. Films which are not Christmas films in spite of being set at Christmas: DIE HARD
2. Films which are Christmas films in spite of being set nowhere near Christmas: GROUNDHOG DAY
So there
December 2, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I have made two lists:
1. Films which are not Christmas films in spite of being set at Christmas: DIE HARD
2. Films which are Christmas films in spite of being set nowhere near Christmas: GROUNDHOG DAY
So there
1. Films which are not Christmas films in spite of being set at Christmas: DIE HARD
2. Films which are Christmas films in spite of being set nowhere near Christmas: GROUNDHOG DAY
So there
Ah yes, the crossword.
Today's clue was: "Play this with a boot going round hoping for Free Parking (8)"
The answer was . . .
OBLIGATO
Today's clue was: "Play this with a boot going round hoping for Free Parking (8)"
The answer was . . .
OBLIGATO
Now to business. The crossword leaps on abound, and so to news of 6 down:
6 dn: Play this with a boot going round hoping for Free Parking (8)
_ _ _ I _ _ _ O
6 dn: Play this with a boot going round hoping for Free Parking (8)
_ _ _ I _ _ _ O
December 2, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Ah yes, the crossword.
Today's clue was: "Play this with a boot going round hoping for Free Parking (8)"
The answer was . . .
OBLIGATO
Today's clue was: "Play this with a boot going round hoping for Free Parking (8)"
The answer was . . .
OBLIGATO
I have received this statement from the Grand Pooh-bah of international film classification:
"Die Hard cannot be a Christmas film because of the number of innocent people who get killed without regard. Innocent people get killed in Westerns. Their lives are as meaningless as their death. However...
"Die Hard cannot be a Christmas film because of the number of innocent people who get killed without regard. Innocent people get killed in Westerns. Their lives are as meaningless as their death. However...
December 2, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I have received this statement from the Grand Pooh-bah of international film classification:
"Die Hard cannot be a Christmas film because of the number of innocent people who get killed without regard. Innocent people get killed in Westerns. Their lives are as meaningless as their death. However...
"Die Hard cannot be a Christmas film because of the number of innocent people who get killed without regard. Innocent people get killed in Westerns. Their lives are as meaningless as their death. However...
Then the question is, why did Labour - including Starmer in its shadow cabinet - spend four years with its thumb up its arse letting it happen?
👏 Keir Starmer PM: "How Brexit was sold and delivered was wrong. Wild promises were made to the British people and not fulfilled."
"The idea that leaving the EU was the answer to all our cares and concerns has clearly been proved wrong."
"The idea that leaving the EU was the answer to all our cares and concerns has clearly been proved wrong."
December 2, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Then the question is, why did Labour - including Starmer in its shadow cabinet - spend four years with its thumb up its arse letting it happen?
Now to business. The crossword leaps on abound, and so to news of 6 down:
6 dn: Play this with a boot going round hoping for Free Parking (8)
_ _ _ I _ _ _ O
6 dn: Play this with a boot going round hoping for Free Parking (8)
_ _ _ I _ _ _ O
December 2, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Now to business. The crossword leaps on abound, and so to news of 6 down:
6 dn: Play this with a boot going round hoping for Free Parking (8)
_ _ _ I _ _ _ O
6 dn: Play this with a boot going round hoping for Free Parking (8)
_ _ _ I _ _ _ O
Keir Starmer is still talking like an idiot. Of course he has to say Brexit has failed. We can all see it's failed, he can hardly say otherwise.
But he still can't get his brain to say it was a mistake.
But he still can't get his brain to say it was a mistake.
December 2, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Keir Starmer is still talking like an idiot. Of course he has to say Brexit has failed. We can all see it's failed, he can hardly say otherwise.
But he still can't get his brain to say it was a mistake.
But he still can't get his brain to say it was a mistake.
In fact, it's a Christmas Western. If you told someone to take all the tropes of a western, and all the tropes of a Christmas film, and mash them together in a big bucket of popcorn, this is what you get.
British public’s verdict is in: Die Hard is not a Christmas movie
British public’s verdict is in: Die Hard is not a Christmas movie
Survey also reveals Britons’ favourite festive film, views on tear-jerkers and family cinema trips
When Macaulay Culkin recently said he didn’t consider Die Hard to be a Christmas film – wading into one of pop culture’s most heated holiday debates – he was booed by a live audience.
But it looks like the British people are behind the actor, with a survey revealing that Home Alone is the UK’s favourite festive film, while Die Hard has officially been voted not a Christmas movie. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:14 PM
In fact, it's a Christmas Western. If you told someone to take all the tropes of a western, and all the tropes of a Christmas film, and mash them together in a big bucket of popcorn, this is what you get.
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Watched BBC 6 o clock news. Just a completely unserious broadcast. Chris Mason, acting like a children's entertainer, giving a prolonged impenetrable editorial. Not a whiff of informative content about the Budget or what it means for the country. Just playschool blah blah bollocks.
December 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Watched BBC 6 o clock news. Just a completely unserious broadcast. Chris Mason, acting like a children's entertainer, giving a prolonged impenetrable editorial. Not a whiff of informative content about the Budget or what it means for the country. Just playschool blah blah bollocks.
Christmas begins!
Go to bed! Get some rest! Because tomorrow, it begins anew:
'I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea …'
25 Days of #AChristmasCarol
#CharlesDickens
'I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea …'
25 Days of #AChristmasCarol
#CharlesDickens
December 1, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Christmas begins!
I wish I could draw what goes on my head
December 1, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I wish I could draw what goes on my head
We're in the Brexit cliffhanger now. It's the end of the film, Britain's arse is hanging over the cliff and Michael Caine is trying to inch his way towards the golden Brexit without sending the whole country over the edge.
He's got a great idea, lads . . .
He's got a great idea, lads . . .
December 1, 2025 at 11:53 AM
We're in the Brexit cliffhanger now. It's the end of the film, Britain's arse is hanging over the cliff and Michael Caine is trying to inch his way towards the golden Brexit without sending the whole country over the edge.
He's got a great idea, lads . . .
He's got a great idea, lads . . .
I'm cyber squatting the name "Conform" in case the Tories and Farage do a merger.
From my post on whether Reform will kill the Tories. These two are group one:
samf.substack.com/p/last-rites
samf.substack.com/p/last-rites
December 1, 2025 at 11:48 AM
I'm cyber squatting the name "Conform" in case the Tories and Farage do a merger.
There is no Brexit black hole because there is no Brexit. There never was a Brexit, or Europe. There is no such place as Europe. No one who has ever tried to find it has come back, and those who claim to have seen it are all mad.
December 1, 2025 at 11:18 AM
There is no Brexit black hole because there is no Brexit. There never was a Brexit, or Europe. There is no such place as Europe. No one who has ever tried to find it has come back, and those who claim to have seen it are all mad.
And plunging ever deeper into the crossword, we now come to an emphatic 16 across:
16 ac. What to do with a future promising care order without child benefit (4,7,2,2)
16 ac. What to do with a future promising care order without child benefit (4,7,2,2)
December 1, 2025 at 11:01 AM
And plunging ever deeper into the crossword, we now come to an emphatic 16 across:
16 ac. What to do with a future promising care order without child benefit (4,7,2,2)
16 ac. What to do with a future promising care order without child benefit (4,7,2,2)
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It’s Whamaggedon Eve.
Comrades may the odds ever be in your favour.
Trust no one
Comrades may the odds ever be in your favour.
Trust no one
Why do the British love playing Whamageddon, and what started it in the first place? | Gemma Gould
Whamageddon: Britain’s most ridiculous annual descent into festive paranoia
Why do the British love playing Whamageddon, and what started it in the first place?
centralbylines.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 3:06 PM
It’s Whamaggedon Eve.
Comrades may the odds ever be in your favour.
Trust no one
Comrades may the odds ever be in your favour.
Trust no one
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"We’re an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week, but all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special biweekly meeting. By a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs–"
November 30, 2025 at 5:44 PM
"We’re an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week, but all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special biweekly meeting. By a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs–"
Answers!
Today's crossword clue was 17 down: "One piped one on board being thrown something to wear (8)
And the answer was O R G A N D I E
(explanation follows) . . .
Today's crossword clue was 17 down: "One piped one on board being thrown something to wear (8)
And the answer was O R G A N D I E
(explanation follows) . . .
November 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Answers!
Today's crossword clue was 17 down: "One piped one on board being thrown something to wear (8)
And the answer was O R G A N D I E
(explanation follows) . . .
Today's crossword clue was 17 down: "One piped one on board being thrown something to wear (8)
And the answer was O R G A N D I E
(explanation follows) . . .
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They're small. Muddy knees. Higher voices than adults. Easy.
November 30, 2025 at 1:24 PM
They're small. Muddy knees. Higher voices than adults. Easy.
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I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea …
25 Days of #AChristmasCarol
Returns Monday
#CharlesDickens
25 Days of #AChristmasCarol
Returns Monday
#CharlesDickens
November 29, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea …
25 Days of #AChristmasCarol
Returns Monday
#CharlesDickens
25 Days of #AChristmasCarol
Returns Monday
#CharlesDickens
Saying there is a Brexit "debate" is like saying there is a vaccine debate in America.
There is no debate. One is fact, and the other is false.
It's true people may cling quite fiercely to a mistake, but they don't need a "debate" to cure them, they need therapy.
There is no debate. One is fact, and the other is false.
It's true people may cling quite fiercely to a mistake, but they don't need a "debate" to cure them, they need therapy.
November 30, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Saying there is a Brexit "debate" is like saying there is a vaccine debate in America.
There is no debate. One is fact, and the other is false.
It's true people may cling quite fiercely to a mistake, but they don't need a "debate" to cure them, they need therapy.
There is no debate. One is fact, and the other is false.
It's true people may cling quite fiercely to a mistake, but they don't need a "debate" to cure them, they need therapy.