Good morning friends, hope you’re having a brilliant but rainy day. This is Mr Kenneth Connor & Mr Les Dawson discussing The Art of Comedy (1972)

On The Two Pound Buses.

‘I am going to spend my time attacking socialism.' Shadow Transport Minister Lord Moylan and Reform UK's Home Affairs Spokesperson Zia Yusuf lock horns over whether Reform or the Tories are the best party to take on Labour at the next general election.

Olukemi loves her native Nigeria more than Britain.

Fucking hell, captain Kirk going where no man has gone before and challenging @AldiUK

Socailists will never learn, because learning would require admitting the ideology failed. Tax the wealthy harder. They leave. Tax receipts fall. Investment disappears. Businesses and capital move elsewhere. And the lesson is never, “Perhaps we pushed too far.” No. The conclusion is always that the rich weren’t taxed hard enough, the rules weren’t restrictive enough, and the exits weren’t blocked quickly enough.

The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (5th October 1977). Jimmy has a plan for when the balloon goes up.

Children outsmarted Labour MPs. We did warn them.

Never forget.

And yet you have done nothing to force Walkers to use the correct colours for its crisp bags! The correct colours are: Dark blue - ready salted Light blue salt and vinegar Green - cheese & onion Pink - prawn cocktail I look forward to your action on this matter.

Except that if you post a "Fuck Hamas" meme on X you'll have some fuckwit plod drag you from your home late at night and put you in a cage. The plod very much do choose which sentiments they police. Here they're taking sides with the Islamo-leftist revolutionary movement. They'd be fully tooled up if it was white working class men waving the British flag. The police are traitorous lowlife scum.

It was literally your community.

As night follows day, Dan Hodges is wrong again.

“The fasten seat belts sign is on”. This is a message I received early this morning from one of the UK’s most experienced, savvy and respected financial traders. Someone I have come to know and trust for the last 25 years. 10-year bond yields are now almost 4.5pc - up some 50 basis points over the last month. 30-year yields this morning went above 6pc - a 28-year high. Yet the UK’s political and media class continues to focus on party posturing and folksy rhetoric, ignoring the slow-motion disaster that has been happening on the UK’s sovereign bond markets for at least the last 18 months - a disaster that will inevitably, unless we drastically change course, turn into a fully blown market meltdown. At that point, the UK government won’t be able to borrow enough money to finance our already spiralling debt interest bill. Britain’s financial management will be taken over by overseas technocrats - that will be the condition of additional borrowing, to maintain the basic functions of the state, as happened in Greece and Italy back in the early 2010s and here in Britain 50 years ago this year (when we were forced in 1976 to apply to the IMF for a bailout). The austerity then imposed on Britain would make 2010-2019 feel like a picnic - far, far worse than it would be if we took serious action now to control our public finances. Lower-income households would suffer most - and there would be serious damage done to the UK’s already rapidly-fraying social fabric …. I have been warning about these looking fiscal dangers publicly, in my newspaper columns and elsewhere, since at least early 2024. Doing so hasn’t been easy or fun. I have been dismissed and derided by numerous economists, “economists”, officials and policymakers - as well as lots of journalists. I absolutely don’t want a disastrous 1976-style outcome - which is why I’ve taken the blows and issued the warnings. The state is too big. Public spending is out of control. Our fiscal rules are a convenient nonsense - designed to kick the can of financial reality into the future. We need to get real … and take bold action to tame the growth of spending, push back a now totally over-bearing state and snap the British economy out of today’s high-tax-high-borrowing-low-growth doom loop - the result of myopic, counter-productive policy-making by successive governments for the last decade and more … Other prominent economists who agree with me - ie who are financially-literate, can read a yield curve, have a passing interest in economic history and who understand the dangers of some 80pc of UK government borrowing going on debt interest as it currently is - need to chuck “career risk” in the bin, and start saying publicly what so many of them have, for quite a while now, only had the bottle to say to me in private … Remember: “The fasten seat belts sign is on”

If this doesn’t become a defining image of the era, I don’t know how you’d beat it.

Over 50 teachers have been injured. Their job is to teach, not fight a civil war. That is what the military is for. Where is the French military?

Incredible. The green debate in a nutshell. A green Lib Dem who has absolutely no idea what she's talking about talks nonetheless, and has strong opinions about using the law to enforce her ignorance over things such as construction.

At least this Triple Lock/state pension issue has shown us the difference between the genuine socialist left and the fake left variety. The genuine socialist left, the likes of Sharon Graham, @JeremyCorbyn, @GeorgeGalloway et al have all come out in defence of pensioners. The faux-left are actually criticising Burnham now for not going even further! These people- so called ‘progressives’ who seek to pit the young against the old and present pensioners as some kind of burden on the economy- are beyond disgraceful. But at least we see them very clearly now & will never forget what we’ve seen.

The great irony is that most of the people telling us that pensioners are ‘privileged’ and that the state pension in its current form is ‘unaffordable’ are all very privileged themselves. Routinely privately & university educated, well-connected with family connections in media and/or politics, media fast-tracked in their 20s and regular ‘pundits’ on tv couches and BBC Question Time when still in their 20s/30s. These are the privileged ones. Not old folk having to survive off one of the lowest state pensions in Europe.

Starmer: “My dad was a toolmaker.” Burnham: “I want to build the Britain my dad wanted.” Same shit different script, basically the same puppet master.