Conquest’s second law: the easiest way to explain the behaviour of a given organisation is to assume it is secretly controlled by a cabal of its enemies.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Conservative party’s plan to reintroduce national service.

🚫 Marry
🚫 Buy cigarettes
🚫 Buy alcohol
🚫 Fight in the army

If you intend to reverse all of these, maybe you’d have a serious point. If not we can all see this gerrymander coming a mile away.

Was this the result of Rishi taking a day off to think about the campaign? What on earth was he smoking?

I think I’ve just tripped. Are we seriously suggesting this? Which particular demographic does this appeal to! Is there one single boomer who will decide to vote Tory on the back of this? One?

Is this worth losing what’s left of the young adult crowd?

Imagine not appreciating what the difference is between having a cup of coffee and knowing that you’ve gently funded some farmers in the third world and having a line of cocaine and knowing that you’ve funded the murder of children from Tottenham to Mexico. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Russia: As part of a civil lawsuit, Putin's Federal Protective Service (FSO) inadvertently leaked security details for his Novo-Ogaryovo mansion (Object 53) in Moscow located 30 minutes from the Kremlin.
- 111 FSO officers guard the complex.
- 4 doctors permanently on staff.

Actually I have a new favourite Italian sign

Yeah mayyyyybe if the Tories had spent the last 14 years taking an interest in what children are actually taught…

There’s only one reason you’d bomb a busy hypermarket in the middle of a Saturday afternoon; to maximise the number of civilian casualties.

Not to alarm anyone, but China has surrounded Taiwan with warships and aircraft and the DoD has issued two statements about it over the past hour.

A relic, with a relic.

(The other relic in the picture is the head of the crozier of St Gregory the Great, my fave…)

Not a bad spot for Mattins.

Votes for 16 is an interesting Starmer pledge. Meant to create a “youth quake” among 18-24 voters this time and then aid incumbency after a landslide. But may backfire in that it will unnerve a lot of older former Tories or don’t knows now. A glimpse of a gerrymandered future.

Americans: Lucy Letby is obviously innocent, the UK justice system is insane, I would *never* go there

America: