The centre left did really well in the elections; Greens and LibDems made good gains. So the day after, the BBC books three Tories, including this bonkers backbencher, and no Greens or LibDems.

Plus no apology for the completely inaccurate London Mayor rumours. Ho hum.

'Two London rowing clubs have been forced to cancel training sessions in the leadup to Henley, after videos emerged showing massive pools of human excrement floating on the Thames'.

A day of reckoning is coming, I promise you, much sooner that you think.

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These are pretty cool.

— Lopez in Schiaparelli
— Wintour in Loewe (inspired by a 19th-century House of Worth tulip cape)
— Bad Bunny in Margiela. Neat silhouette. Cool basting threads
— Willy Chavarria in his line. Always an interesting take on Chicano silhouettes.

Can't quite believe Sunak would hold an election in Dec/Jan. You'd be pilloried for needlessly ruining Christmas. You'd be conducting it in the depths of a winter NHS crisis. And you'd be asking a predominantly older volunteer force to campaign for you in the cold and the dark.

Sending the first 300 migrants to Rwanda costs £1.8m each. To put that in context, school funding is around £7,600 per child per year. So the cost of sending one migrant to Rwanda would get 234 children education for a year. Is that a good use of money?

Lying at the Despatch Box used to be a resigning offence. Now it is just par for the course on the JohnsonTrussSunak side of the fence

Exclusive: former prime minister Gordon Brown has written to the Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley calling for a second criminal phone-hacking investigation into News Group Newspapers, namely into the alleged “destruction of evidence by the organisation and the cover up that…

Russia is actively recruiting soldiers to replace massive casualties in Ukraine, bolstering the myth of almost endless Russian human resources. We've been looking into it, and the picture isn't as pretty as the Putin regime would like the world to believe. 1/n

Number of council seats Reform has won: 0

(Surprising, in the circumstances, that the BBC continues to talk about it incessantly and repeatedly platform Richard Tice.)

My debut on The News Agents talking about No Way Out globalplayer.com/podcasts/episo… And if you want to buy the book, you can do so here: lnkfi.re/oCRrDT

We’re going to get distracted by 2000 more council seats today and the mayorals but worth dwelling on Blackpool South

🗳️ massive 26% swing to Labour
🗳️ third biggest swing to Lab in history
🗳️ Conservatives only just beat Reform (by just over 100 votes)

We’ve become used to…

Epic incompetence, sincere belief that rules don’t apply to him or desperate attention-seeking? It’s like he never went away.

'Thames swimming race cancelled over sewage fears.'

It's been going since 1890 and now it's cancelled.

I'm being serious. Do the boards of Ofwat and the Environment Agency have absolutely no self-awareness at all?

It's time for change. It's time to go.

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Many of the store's customers and former employees say they're sad about the closure 🔗⬇️
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Sam Coates Sky The people of Tees Valley need to read this before they think about re-electing Houchen

Tees Valley Mayoral Election
Ben Houchen, Conservative 51%
Chris McEwan, Labour 44%
Simon Thorley, Liberal Democrat 5%
YouGov say Houchen only ahead by slimmest margin

I have to say to my fellow LDs the case for tactical voting in Tees Valley is so strong it’s practically a moral obligation.

what the fuck are the handcuffs for?

For the 100th time it is NOT illegal to claim asylum (and I don't care about any new international law breaking laws parliament may have passed saying otherwise)

Here ya go, here's a whole list of them (incomplete).

@Thameswater, United Utilities, Southern Water, South West Water, Severn Trent, Anglian Water, Wessex Water, Yorkshire Water 💧, Northumbrian Water and on and one and on...