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2026-05-03 08:21:20 CEST

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Huh? Do quotes not make it across the bridge?

2026-05-01 23:29:50 CEST

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I mean, really! Even for a vegan, that is a low.
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2026-05-01 23:28:51 CEST

This (three day trip with no luggage) actually seems surprisingly doable. I would have to wash my hair on the day or the day before, and I would swap her comb/electric toothbrush for a mini-hairbrush/toothbrush, and ditch the PJs.
And her food choices can get in the bin. Even if you like baked beans, put a bloody barrier between them and the fruit, ffs!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dC5EpSlG_G4&pp=ugUEEgJlbg
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2026-04-27 11:34:09 CEST

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I do not doubt that most people campaigning for online age restrictions are doing so in good faith. We can all agree that children deserve a childhood where their online experiences are as safe as their offline ones. Having grown up on the internet myself, I know first-hand that the online world has real dangers. But just as we expect parents to teach their children how to cross a road or to call 999 in an emergency, we must expect more from parents when it comes to teaching children online safety too. Currently, only a third of parents use parental controls on their children’s devices, and it is not uncommon to see children as young as 2 experiencing their first years in front of the flashing screen of their very own iPad.
Banning children from social media by putting everyone’s privacy at risk will not solve the fundamental reason why young people spend so much time online. They do so because generations of adults above them have eroded away their youth centres, libraries and parks; have created a school system rife with impossible pressures; and have turned the offline world into something inaccessible, unaffordable and filled with chronically ‘unprecedented’ political and economic events.
Rushed, sweeping laws like those being voted on tomorrow are the result of a political landscape too keen to impose restrictions based on a gut feeling to do ‘something’ rather than the result of well-thought-through policy. Our children’s digital safety and the security of our democracy are too important to fall victim to this kind of self-congratulatory lawmaking.
Whatever form of restrictions MPs pass tomorrow, make no mistake: this is the end of anonymity online and the birth of a digital nanny state.

2026-04-27 11:34:02 CEST

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This week parliament will attempt to conclude legislation allowing the government to ban young people from social media. It’s taken weeks of ‘ping-pong’ to land on the specific form that these restrictions will take, and there has been no shortage of ideas. Tory peer Lord Nash’s proposals would introduce a blanket ban on all social media for under-16s, while the government is angling to implement restrictions on features and even introduce online curfews.
We’ll soon find out what the final compromise will be. But from an online safety, privacy and civil liberties standpoint, the details hardly matter. The wave of a legislative wand will not magically banish children from social media. The only way to do this is to force every single user to submit to invasive biometric face scans or digital ID uploads.
It is not hard to see that for all the good intentions, age-based restrictions to social media amount to a Trojan horse for a de facto mandatory digital ID system. Biometric face scans, often falsely presented as a privacy-safe method of age verification, will fail for millions of people: no algorithm can tell the difference between a 16-year-old on the day of their birthday and the day before. Many more users – adults with facial disabilities, young-looking women, or anyone who isn’t white – will face a significantly higher risk of being prompted to upload an ID document because the algorithm cannot accurately verify their age. And so, a biased and inaccurate algorithm will be the arbiter of who does – and who does not – need to upload their ID to unlock huge swathes of the internet.
Many people across the UK, particularly teens, don’t need or have IDs. But conveniently, the government’s national digital ID scheme is waiting in the wings. This multi-billion-pound solution in search of a problem may have just found one to solve.
Monitoring and managing children’s internet use is vital to keeping them safe. But children’s online safety includes more than protection from harmful content or addictive algorithms – it includes their cybersecurity, data protection and freedom of expression as well.
Since the introduction of the Online Safety Act, there have been many examples of just how vulnerable age-verification platforms are to data breaches and cyberattacks. Only this week, the government confirmed that the medical details of 500,000 participants of Biobank, one of the UK’s landmark scientific programmes, were offered for sale in China after a massive data leak. This data included full body scans, medical records and even DNA sequences. The mass gathering of biometric and ID information by age-verification platforms would mean that similar breaches, now on a national scale, would become more common. One can only imagine the devastating impact of such a breach on national security and democracy itself.
Rather than taking these risks seriously, it is all too likely that the government will present a national digital ID system as a ‘safer’ alternative. But any giant database full of sensitive ID information is simply a honeypot for hackers and hostile states.
It really is remarkable, watching hundreds of parliamentarians talk about how dangerous it is when children put personal information about themselves online and then, in the same breath, create a system that asks everyone in Britain to do just that. Even if banning social media would benefit children – which an alliance of 42 children’s charities and bereaved parents strongly dispute – the truth is there is simply no privacy-friendly way in which it can be done.
Comparisons are often made with the requirement to present an ID when buying items like kitchen knives. But in those cases, you flash your ID to the cashier, who checks your age and that’s the end of that. But social media is connected to a personal account, which means that ID information you submit risks being linked to your online activity. A more accurate analogy then, would be that the cashier checks your ID, follows you home, stands in your kitchen, and carefully logs every time you chop a carrot.
By relying on age-verification technology, all proposals to restrict social media for children pose an acute threat to the freedom of expression upon which our democracy rests. A future government could easily age-gate online spaces based on what political content they host, requiring users to pay for their right to free speech along with their right to privacy.

2026-04-27 11:32:46 CEST

https://spectator.com/article/a-social-media-ban-for-kids-puts-all-our-privacy-at-risk/
It is not hard to see that for all the good intentions, age-based restrictions to social media amount to a Trojan horse for a de facto mandatory digital ID system. Biometric face scans, often falsely presented as a privacy-safe method of age verification, will fail for millions of people: no algorithm can tell the difference between a 16-year-old on the day of their birthday and the day before. Many more users – adults with facial disabilities, young-looking women, or anyone who isn’t white – will face a significantly higher risk of being prompted to upload an ID document because the algorithm cannot accurately verify their age. And so, a biased and inaccurate algorithm will be the arbiter of who does – and who does not – need to upload their ID to unlock huge swathes of the internet.

2026-04-24 20:21:50 CEST

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Citroen. I think I’ve found the right video.

2026-04-24 20:21:04 CEST

Veg from the garden!
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2026-04-21 22:32:19 CEST

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“Mind your own business” here presumably means “not say anything when we invade women’s spaces”.

2026-04-21 22:31:28 CEST

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Someone posted that a few days ago. It was interesting but mostly I couldn’t get over his arms!

2026-04-20 11:54:44 CEST

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Duke of Edinburgh (‘s Award Scheme).
I was going to say it’s similar to [insert Italian Scouting award name here], but you don’t seem to have one. In the UK it’s the King’s Scout, in the US it’s the Eagle Scout.

2026-04-18 08:34:34 CEST

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Sort of. Very salty anchovy paste.

2026-04-17 21:04:05 CEST

@nprofile…esqv SNP manifesto link in Wings: https://wingsoverscotland.com/the-narcissism-of-no-differences/

2026-04-17 11:42:55 CEST

Hurrah!
https://www.thetimes.com/article/a1109b5d-c53a-4d27-a6d5-29b8644beef9?shareToken=59c8f4c5e02c68f39b4744e33660ded1
Only last week, Gentleman’s Relish was apparently consigned to the great sideboard in the sky but it appears that reports of its death might be somewhat exaggerated.
Devotees of the pungent anchovy paste had been mourning its demise after AB World Foods confirmed that production had ceased. Now, in a twist that feels almost scripted, its owner says the condiment synonymous with the English upper classes may yet be saved.
“We have been blown away by the response from Gentleman’s Relish fans since we confirmed our decision to stop production,” a spokesman for AB World Foods said. “Given this strength of feeling, we are pleased to say that we are at the early stages of exploring options with several third parties who have expressed an interest in taking the brand forward.”

2026-04-16 21:44:28 CEST

https://news.sky.com/story/one-in-five-teens-fear-being-cancelled-over-political-views-13532348
A survey by the Economist Educational Foundation found that 22% of 15 to 17-year-olds had stopped themselves sharing political opinions because they were worried about criticism, along with 20% of 10 to 14-year-olds.
Nearly one in four of the 4,000 students aged between 10 and 17 who took part in the survey said they have been asked to stop voicing their political views at school. […]
But of course the biggest problem is that…
"Instead, they are likely to go into chat rooms or forums that do allow them to share a fringe opinion, and that might be where their views become more extreme.

2026-04-15 20:23:08 CEST

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All this had, in fairness, been prompted by Kemi Badenoch. If the obliteration of the Conservative party is inevitable at the next election, it will be a shame to lose the one person who seems best at goading Sir Keir into his hissy fits. Perhaps the goings-on in the House of Commons don’t really matter but I suspect that nobody – not even Uncle Nigel – will be capable of poking Sir Keir with quite the same matador-style panache as Mrs Badenoch. Today she simply quoted things at him – starting with the accusation by ex-Nato chief Lord Robertson that the Prime Minister had a ‘corrosive complacency’ when it came to defence.
I suspect that nobody will be capable of poking Sir Keir with the same matador-style panache as Mrs Badenoch Sir Keir inevitably gave an answer which involved a labyrinthine tour of every Tory defence cut of the last decade and a half. To be fair to him – and when are we ever not in this column? – the Conservative record is apocalyptically bad. However, the PM shot himself in the foot by claiming that he, unlike them, was overseeing huge increases in defence spending. As Mrs Badenoch told him, to his visible ire, talking about an increase is not the same as giving an increase.
It was in response to this – which Sir Keir fashioned into a long tirade about Iran – that Sir Lindsay finally snapped and reminded him that it was Prime Minister’s questions and not opposition questions. Sir Keir sat down, bristling with anger, crossing and uncrossing his legs by way of distraction, not unlike Kenny Everett’s Cupid Stunt. Next to him, Douglas Alexander looked like a deflated bagpipe and Shabana Mahmood tried not to look like she was enjoying every minute of his humiliation. Pat McFadden sat there, looking as if what little was left of his soul had just departed his body.
Sir Keir continued his clucking and ranting, but to less and less enthusiasm from his own benches. There were generally mournful faces among backbench Labour MPs. Labour’s matinee idol Henry Tufnell looked haunted, like a middle-aged Vincent Price. Even John Slinger, whose presence in the chamber is normally akin to a cymbal-clashing monkey, wasn’t nodding along as much as usual. ‘This is so poor from the Prime Minister’ said Mrs Badenoch, with the air of a disappointed deputy headmistress.
Elsewhere in the chamber things were as predictable as you’d expect. With the upper-middle classes of the Home Counties descending on the Continent for their holidays over the next few months, Sir Ed Davey asked about the pressing issue for his core ‘worried well’ constituency – would Sir Keir do something about malfunctioning e-gates?
A barely functioning backbench MP screamed a non-question about how great her local hospital was doing under Labour. The surgeon and assisted suicide supporter Peter Prinsley asked an anti-Reform-coded question about how much insurance-related health options might put patients at risk (very little, if outcomes from France and Germany are anything to go by). All a bit rich from a man whose primary aim for NHS users seems to be to euthanise them. Once again, the House of Commons acted as if it were some great podium for the needs of the people of Britain, when in fact it’s more like a low-budget Versailles c.1789.
Still, in such situations one has to take what joy one can. Sir Keir turning the colour of Barney the Dinosaur as he confronted Sir Lindsay will live long in the memory.

2026-04-15 20:21:49 CEST

https://spectator.com/article/oh-the-joy-of-watching-keir-starmer-descend-into-fury/
Handbags at noon! It’s always nice to watch Sir Keir Starmer descend into the sort of incandescent fury that living under his government induces from most people on a daily basis. The absolute standout moment of today’s PMQs was one not caught by the cameras but a behind-the-scenes bit of piggy rage from the PM. Sir Keir Starmer’s anger when Lindsay Hoyle told him that it wasn’t ‘leader of the opposition’s questions’ was visible. But it was after the session, when a puce-coloured Starmer had an argument with Hoyle that the real joy was to be had, culminating in his flouncing out of the chamber. As he did so, he shot the Speaker an absolutely filthy look. Get her!

2026-04-13 18:55:22 CEST

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/04/13/farmers-threaten-protests-unless-reeves-cuts-fuel-prices/
Farmers for Action, a campaign group, has warned ministers of protests unless the Chancellor cuts tax on red diesel.
The threat comes after similar protests in Ireland crippled the country, forcing Dublin to send in the army. Farmers for Action were instrumental in organising protests against Ms Reeves’ family farm tax.
The group wants the Chancellor to cut the price of red diesel, which farmers use to fuel their tractors. It has soared since war broke out in Iran and is currently as high as 135 pence per litre, up from 60 pence per litre before the war.
Howard Cox, the founder of the campaign group FairFuelUK, told The Telegraph: “I am in discussions with farmers and others to hold fuel protests in London and other places as drivers and businesses are sick to death of being used as Labour’s cash cows.
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2026-04-11 11:02:11 CEST

Does anyone not know this already…?
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2026-04-10 21:21:51 CEST

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2026-04-09 21:19:03 CEST

Who the fuck, upon being entrusted with a Fabergé egg to take home from an exhibition, thinks “I’ll just stick it in my handbag while I have a cheeky pinot down the pub”?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj6098jngryo
I would love to know how little money he got when he fenced it.

2026-04-09 13:55:05 CEST

#nevent1q…2rka
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2026-04-06 22:31:48 CEST

https://spectator.com/article/russia-has-its-eyes-on-svalbard/
Where historically Russia’s interests on Svalbard appeared defensive – trying to stop Nato from coming too close to its defences in Murmansk – military chiefs have warned there are signs Moscow is shifting to a more offensive position. In 2022, Russia’s maritime doctrine stated its objective of ‘enforcing control over activities of foreign navies in the waters of the northern sea route’.
Nato is alive to this scenario. In 2024, the alliance’s defence college identified a future Russian invasion of Svalbard as one of its ‘Dragon King’ scenarios – a unique yet predictable event of huge consequence. It envisaged a situation where Russian forces took Svalbard in the night, cutting its internet and cellular services. The risk was flagged up that Norway might fail to win consensus from Nato allies for triggering Article 5 for fear a conflict with Russia in the Arctic would take resources away from Ukraine. Norway, it surmised, would on its own lack the capabilities to oust the Russians. […]
https://archive.ph/G7Gfi

2026-04-06 21:47:30 CEST

https://spectator.com/article/the-christian-grace-of-jimmy-lais-prison-drawings/
In prison, Mr Lai has plenty to fear. He is alone, on an otherwise empty floor, so high up in the building that elderly priests cannot climb the stairs to visit. The one window of his tiny cell is blocked. At night, the electric lights are turned off and he can see nothing. There is no air conditioning, so the summer heat gives him bad skin rashes. Denied outside medicine for his diabetes, he has only what prison medics deign to bestow. His back hurts. His nails fall out. His teeth rot. He is fed little but, even so, fasts every Friday. The prison rules are harsh. Usually he is denied the eucharist because it is classified as food: he has received the sacrament only 11 times in two and half years, but did so on Good Friday last year. Might that happen again this year? Confession is rarer still. Instead, permitted the Bible, and six books at a time which he rotates out, he tries to achieve the ‘acts of perfect contrition’ recommended by St Maximilian Kolbe, the Franciscan in Auschwitz who died offering his life to save another. He reads Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Francis de Sales, Bonaventure, Benedict XVI, G.K. Chesterton and Thomas Merton and follows Bishop Robert Barron’s Word on Fire discourses. He copies out St John Henry Newman’s prayer: ‘God has created me to do Him some definite service… I have my mission – I may never know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next.’
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2026-04-06 20:08:02 CEST

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2026-04-05 21:45:01 CEST

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Gone up to my room to put my slippers on and my feet up (on the bed). May end up staying here, we’ll see how the gin supply does!

2026-04-02 22:51:18 CEST

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It’s not there during the day!
At a guess, it’s a big tractor, but why it’s there and stationary for several hours each evening is a mystery.

2026-04-02 22:35:21 CEST

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I said it was amazing!
They’re really souped up.

2026-04-02 22:21:18 CEST

Does anyone have that amazing video of a police 4x4 pulling an HGV plus trailer on, I think, the M25?

2026-04-02 20:23:12 CEST

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2026-04-02 20:17:40 CEST

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Oh, no, definitely not. And that would be lots of small sources.

2026-04-02 20:16:07 CEST

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No, not close. Probably diesel exhaust, or maybe burning cleared scrub, but from memory that field is just rough grazing.

2026-04-02 20:11:32 CEST

This whatever it is has been parked in that field puffing smoke at about this time every evening this week, but not during the daytime.
Starting to wonder if Howl is visiting on his holidays….
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2026-04-02 20:06:32 CEST

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2026-04-02 18:21:20 CEST

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What a strange story.

2026-04-02 17:11:38 CEST

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Almost pleasant to see good old fashioned corruption, rather than another paedo.

2026-04-02 16:18:21 CEST

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One of my Pilates ladies has it, it’s terrifyingly grey to look at.

2026-04-02 15:57:57 CEST

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Just wait. Thankfully they’re ok when I have my walking boots on. It’s just like now, in my slippers, if I wiggle my toes it’s uncomfortable.

2026-04-02 15:54:51 CEST

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No, just much smaller country and living somewhere rural. I’d probably have to drive over an hour just to get to something you would class as a highway!
I could save maybe five minutes on tomorrow’s drive if I did the last bit on one.

2026-04-02 15:51:48 CEST

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Not really, no. Well, other than not wearing them!

2026-04-02 15:50:42 CEST

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No highway driving for me, best I can do you is twisty two-lane roads.

2026-04-02 15:45:44 CEST

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I’m afraid I’m a terribly proper “ten to two” driver, so I doubt it would get any use.

2026-04-02 15:31:06 CEST

I’ve been doing a lot of driving (by my standards) this week, because obvs that’s what you do when petrol prices are surging.
About 1.5hrs on Monday, 2hrs on Tuesday, and by the end of the drive on Tuesday I was getting a sharp pain in my dodgy shoulder. It went away when I stopped, so I thought nothing of it, but I woke up this morning with it very stiff and sore, and it’s still uncomfortable now.
This evening is supposed to be Pilates, which would probably help but it’s 1.5hrs driving, and then I have to do another 2+hrs tomorrow, and I really don’t want to spend the weekend in pain.
So I guess I’m not going :(

2026-04-02 15:23:26 CEST

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Aha! Having looked up a picture of the box, I have managed to spot it.

2026-04-02 13:49:19 CEST

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Nope, never had any bother with it other than wishing it would be a bit quicker to wake up.

2026-04-02 13:47:12 CEST

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Tbf, I’ve had this printer five years and it’s still using the ink that came with it. It doesn’t get much use.
(And, fortunately, it managed to squeeze out enough for the urgent job I needed to do today.)

2026-04-02 13:31:46 CEST

I bought printer ink a few months ago, as it had been complaining it was low for several months.
It sat on my desk next to the printer until I finished my last quilt, at which point I had a tidy up.
This may have been a mistake.

2026-04-02 12:32:29 CEST

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Yeah, it is, but still.

2026-04-02 12:30:22 CEST

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You’re good people for doing that.

2026-04-02 12:28:03 CEST

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My only qualm is how to display them. I’d worry about even good quality paper holding the weight without sagging or tearing.

2026-04-02 12:25:53 CEST

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Oh, I really like those, yes: thank you. I’ve save them.

2026-04-02 10:45:09 CEST

Signs of spring: squashed toads on the roads :(

2026-04-01 23:50:23 CEST

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They’re remnants from when I worked in the City, before I had bad feet. I may have to look for new funeral shoes.

2026-04-01 23:00:48 CEST

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2026-04-01 22:38:54 CEST

My feet still hurt from wearing smart shoes on Monday :(

2026-04-01 21:05:50 CEST

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@nprofile…jdwz

2026-04-01 21:03:04 CEST

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Not a sausage, sorry.

2026-04-01 20:50:13 CEST

UK: Tesco is doing 15p veg for Easter. Not sure about other places.

2026-04-01 20:22:17 CEST

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Bloody hell, those are amazing!
(Slightly surprised the standard housekeeping tip is still only $1.)

2026-04-01 20:18:10 CEST

Oh good lord:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/04/01/elizabeth-i-will-be-transgender-in-itv-drama/
The Tudor queen, who never married and established England as a rising imperial power, will be shown as a biological man in the six-part series next year.
The independence of the ‘Virgin Queen’, who ruled from 1558 to 1603 and defeated the Spanish Armada, has given rise to improbable conspiracies that she was a man masquerading as a woman.
Claims of her being a trans woman will be a central focus of the new series, titled Majesty, in which the monarch will be played by a transgender ‘woman’, according to reports. […]
Maya Forstater, Chief Executive of Sex Matters, said the series “sounds like an April Fool’s joke”.
“The news that Queen Elizabeth I is to be portrayed as transgender in a new ITV drama sounds like an April Fool’s joke, not the basis for a six part show that people will keep watching,” she told the Telegraph.
“Some in the arts sector seem to think that portraying historical female figures such as Joan of Arc as trans-identifying is edgy, but TV viewers who are already sick of gender ideology may say ‘this is too much’ and vote with their remote.
“The sexist conspiracy theory that Elizabeth I was a man because a woman couldn’t possibly have led as she did is tired enough already.”
Sorry, archive is on the blink again.

2026-04-01 20:14:58 CEST

Can’t be doing with April Fools in general, but this is amusing:
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2026-04-01 20:09:32 CEST

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Male, presumably?

2026-04-01 20:02:52 CEST

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That’s my spuds! I’m going to have to set the stepladder up next time I sow seeds.

2026-04-01 19:59:55 CEST

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2026-04-01 18:00:54 CEST

‘Tis the season.
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2026-04-01 15:23:32 CEST

The potting shed is filling up.
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2026-04-01 12:37:49 CEST

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Yeah, the weekend looks a bit grim, doesn’t it?

2026-04-01 12:09:37 CEST

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2026-04-01 11:52:59 CEST

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Bit of both. When he zones out like that, it means he’s gone far enough but it’s not so bad that he’s going to just turn around and leg it home.

2026-04-01 11:35:55 CEST

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2026-04-01 09:01:48 CEST

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I put mine on non-silent mode for a few hours yesterday, because there was a chance I needed to answer an urgent phone call, and it was incredibly annoying.

2026-03-31 21:01:44 CEST

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No, good solid shells. This is the one that seems to have a problem with her antibacterial coatings, though, I always break hers separately to look for signs of a bacterial bloom.

2026-03-31 20:08:31 CEST

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Hmm. Never seen it look like that before, it’s usually clear and gelatinous.

2026-03-31 20:01:44 CEST

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2026-03-31 20:01:32 CEST

Any guesses what this is on the yolk? (I binned it.)
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2026-03-31 16:05:52 CEST

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I think it’s a superhero nurse.

2026-03-31 14:38:45 CEST

I love how they’ve tried to make it cheerful with the little flowers.
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2026-03-31 11:01:10 CEST

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Highly amused that he’s made that video and in it used “desert” when he means “pudding”.

2026-03-31 10:33:12 CEST

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It will be interesting, if it passes, whether it is enforced against muslims, too.

2026-03-31 09:52:04 CEST

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Gandi.

2026-03-31 09:51:11 CEST

https://spectator.com/article/canada-wants-to-make-quoting-the-bible-illegal/
But the most controversial part of all is the removal of the hate-crime exemption for good-faith interpretation of a religious text, which was previously enshrined in the criminal code to prevent religious persecution and harassment.
The Bible is certainly in the government’s crosshairs. Marc Miller, the minister of Canadian identity and culture, testified in parliamentary discussions about the legislation that he believes there is ‘clear hatred’ in the Bible, particularly in Deuteronomy, Leviticus, and St Paul’s Epistle to the Romans. He said he didn’t understand how the concept of good faith can be invoked in quoting certain passages from the Bible, and there should be discretion for prosecutors to press charges for criminal hate speech.
https://archive.ph/CdDAW

2026-03-30 20:12:39 CEST

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2026-03-30 15:25:21 CEST

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IIRC, they have reduced tax rates too. Not sure how it’s enforced.

2026-03-30 13:46:58 CEST

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One of my sewing ladies.
Lovely service, lots of laughter.

2026-03-30 11:50:34 CEST

Just had to wipe cobwebs out of my funeral shoes…. I suppose it has been nearly four years since they came out of the wardrobe.

2026-03-30 11:33:15 CEST

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Little bit achy around my neck, but tbh that may just be general tiredness.

2026-03-30 10:52:37 CEST

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/29/nhs-rations-hospital-appointments-to-cut-waiting-list/
The NHS is to ration hospital referrals as Labour scrambles to meet its pledge to cut waiting lists.
GPs have been ordered to consult on at least one in four referrals rather than sending them to hospital in order to reduce “unnecessary” appointments.
The quotas, the latest method the NHS is using to keep waiting lists down, will come into force on Wednesday.
But MPs and medics have raised concerns that setting an arbitrary target will delay patients from getting access to the healthcare they need.
Dr Luke Evans, shadow health minister and a former GP, told The Telegraph: “My biggest concern is about this single point of access, with a target to bounce back one in four referrals – that is bad for clinicians and it is really bad for patients.
“It is hard not to see this as a way of Wes Streeting simply controlling access to hospitals and massaging waiting lists.
“We don’t even know if the planned 1 in 4 patients bounced back to the GP are recorded. Is Labour planning on effectively rationing secondary care – it seems like it.”
https://archive.ph/xl6Y2

2026-03-30 10:47:32 CEST

We left the house with a bit of blue sky and brightness, then thirty seconds later it was one of those “blizzard, but with hailstones” that we’ve been getting.
Unsurprisingly, Dog did not want to go very far.

2026-03-30 08:43:15 CEST

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No, my landline ones. At least they all change when I do one of them.

2026-03-29 22:52:40 CEST

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People no longer stop my mother in the street and say “oooh, I hope her hair changes colour!”….
(Much less orange as I’ve got older.)

2026-03-29 22:36:34 CEST

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Do they have no sense of cause and effect? Where do they think the next generation is going to come from??

2026-03-29 22:32:00 CEST

I was looking for, and failed to find, something else entirely, but may I present: me, aged around three, after a long day in the garden.
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2026-03-29 22:12:43 CEST

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The phones always catch me out, for some reason I expect something so techy to DIY it.

2026-03-29 20:33:36 CEST

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At least it didn’t snow today.

2026-03-29 20:16:32 CEST

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Been absolutely foul — windy, lashing rain, fog — all afternoon, then suddenly this.

2026-03-29 20:11:30 CEST

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2026-03-29 20:07:38 CEST

I’ve just spent the last half hour pondering, on and off, why it’s so light: surely clear skies can’t make that much difference?
Felt very dumb when I remembered the clocks had changed….
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2026-03-28 22:21:31 CET

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No, he’s a nasty piece of work.

2026-03-28 22:17:57 CET

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Neo-nazi-ish.

2026-03-28 22:01:29 CET

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