High Wycombe has A Bit Of A Reputation for producing people who like to blow things up, so I love that they leaned into it by installing this bin to collect old nos canisters, which in an intense enough heatwave, and if enough discarded canisters have enough unused nos in them, could indeed blow up.

I wrote this in 2009 and the proposal broadly holds up:

Burnham will become Prime Minister without a shit being fired.

To be fair, this isn't Reform's coinage. Hillary Clinton used "misspoke" when she was caught publicly telling an, I guess, "mistruth" about coming under sniper fire in the Balkans.

Same, though thankfully this doesn't happen much any more.

Oh OK, so Nigel does think some murdered politicians are worth acknowledging

Oh hey, good to know that Graham was witty. What a comfort.

Also

I hope everyone who has been rude about Ann Widdecombe this morning is pleased with themselves. I'm not being sarcastic, I really hope they are. This couldn't happen to a nicer person.

While this is music to the ears of the Labour right because they're unhinged about immigration, 1 or 2 of their synapses will be baffled at this story because they assume Johnny Foreigner is desperate to come to the UK regardless of how unpleasant we make it because we're inherently "world-beating".

That, since it's not work-related, PIP can't be used to bully disabled people into inappropriate work or exclude them from benefits because they're out of work - so it's not fit for purpose for Labour, who can't wait to start inflicting their "difficult decisions" on the disabled people they despise

Evergreen:

Pious whataboutery can end up handwaving away pretty much anything.

With today's exciting announcement of yet another "people versus the establishment" by-election, it's time once again for the Great British Public with their legendary Common Sense to fall for the same embarrassing bucket of fishguts that they usually do. #clacton

Obligatory post, I don't make the rules: SHAFT!

Coppers are so immersed in their filthy day-to-day environment that they're genuinely surprised that civilians object when they encounter it.

*fingerguns* And remember, kids,

Norwegians complain that 1980s comedy titles were all "Help! We Are On Holiday" (National Lampoon's Vacation), "Help! We Are On Holiday In Europe" (National Lampoon's European Vacation), "Help! We Are Flying" (Airplane) etc. Swedish translators clearly succumbed to the same weird disease.

See also: Miracle Whip, Snickers

Yes, and that seems to have been a sensible decision because it doesn't sound like it was a very good catchphrase.

Mets have spent a lot of money advertising the pervert glasses in London. Whole platforms at Tottenham Court Road tube given over to groovy young women-about-town asking their pervert glasses about restaurants or whatever. Truly inspiring (for perverts who own pervert glasses)

Good. This is better. Maybe he's learning on the job, like Keira Knightley did. This means that after 10 years of being Prime Minister he might fully *taps ear* ah, I'm just hearing