[Abernathy]

Well, not to pick nits, but if it’s a fantasy, then nothing would inevitably follow.

[Youngian]

Was listening to PMQs and struck by the impressive range of real issues raised once Kemi's grandstanding was over. Mental health, rural depopulation, high suicides, on going Stormont paralysis, the menace of antivax propaganda, corrupt practices in the franchising system. And no running down the clock with 'does the PM agree his policies are marvellous?' Sadly it only cuts through with those effected.

[Tubby Isaacs]

You have to get past all the party leaders these days.

[Abernathy]

A not entirely un-commendable attempt to understand Starmer-hatred in the Grauniad today :

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... 1768287916

[Tubby Isaacs]

Jonathan Liew is a pretty good writer, but I see we can add "writing sports columns" to cutting hair and driving cabs in George Burns' gag about people who know how to run the government.

[Abernathy]

Sir Keir had a good PMQs today. Not remotely troubled by Badenough, he even pitched in a couple of good jokes :
One about the Tories’ “IKEA Shadow Cabinet - full of dead wood, and with the odd nut flying off to join Reform”.

The other one was less chucklesome - about the Tories having had that many PMs, Chancellors and Home Secretaries that they’d had “more positions than the Kama Sutra” (har har).