[Andy McDandy]

I noted they were the only national paper to even vaguely both sides Trump and Ukraine this morning.

What was it Jim Hacker said - read by people who think the country's run by another country? Something I suspect they'd be fine with, depending on the country.

[Bones McCoy]

I noted they were the only national paper to even vaguely both sides Trump and Ukraine this morning.

What was it Jim Hacker said - read by people who think the country's run by another country? Something I suspect they'd be fine with, depending on the country.

The Telegraph went full Tufton buring the reign of Boris the wise.
They converged on Upminster after his replacement.

It's no surprise that they'd back a pro-Putin line, and talk up all his little puppets.

[satnav]

Earlier in the week the Telegraph thought they had a gotcha because a mum who had removed her daughter from a private school because of Labour charging VAT on school fees had subsequently got her daughter into a special school and the local authority were now having to pay transport costs.

This isn't a gotcha, quite the opposite. The child who apparently has mobility issues is now at a school that can properly meet her needs. The child will now get specialist support including physiotherapy and specialist careers advice. She would probably not have got this kind of support in a private school.

[The Weeping Angel]

Earlier in the week the Telegraph thought they had a gotcha because a mum who had removed her daughter from a private school because of Labour charging VAT on school fees had subsequently got her daughter into a special school and the local authority were now having to pay transport costs.

This isn't a gotcha, quite the opposite. The child who apparently has mobility issues is now at a school that can properly meet her needs. The child will now get specialist support including physiotherapy and specialist careers advice. She would probably not have got this kind of support in a private school.

Saw that story nice to see it getting exposed for the nonsense that it is. I went on their website and half the articles were on private school fees.

[The Weeping Angel]

[Yug]

Utter shite from the dribbling swivel-eyed bell-ends at the wannabe Daily Fail

Labour council targets motorists who park on their own driveways

I think there's probably a good reason for this

Lambeth council has created a map marking homes with a red X where occupants are driving over pavements without permission to park on their land.

The south London council is now demanding householders pay the authority thousands of pounds to make driveways official. The move could make the council up to £1 million in fees...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/0 ... wn-drives/

Ah. So, rather than prosecuting the law breakers, the council is giving them the opportunity to regularise what they're doing.

HOW DARE THESE LEFTIES TRY TO MAKE PEOPLE OBEY THE LAW!!! 1!!one!!1!

Bastards!

[Bones McCoy]

Speaking of "making people obey the law".

Police 'acted reasonably' in Pearson hate crime case

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8y9j7j953o

Essex Police "acted reasonably" during an investigation into journalist Allison Pearson over a social media post by the Daily Telegraph columnist, a report states.

The National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) looked into the force's actions after Pearson claimed she felt "bullied and threatened" when officers visited her home in Essex on Remembrance Sunday in November.

The Essex force has previously defended its since-dropped investigation over an allegation that a social media post incited racial hatred.

In his findings, Mark Hobrough, the Chief Constable of Gwent and the NPCC's hate crime lead, said footage from a body-worn camera showed the investigating officer's approach to Pearson was "polite and carried out in an exemplary manner".

Speaking to BBC Radio 4's PM programme soon after the case was discontinued, Pearson said the visit to her home in Saffron Walden was not "standard practice" and was "absolutely unacceptable".

She added: "Kemi Badenoch, the Tory leader and many other people* in the law, in politics, in normal walks of life, have said that is totally outrageous."

* Karen deploys the "all my friends agree, and everybody clapped" defence.

[satnav]

I like the 'normal walks of life' bit. Presumably she means people who read the Telegraph and the Daily Mail. The unsilent majority.

[Bones McCoy]

Fingers on the pulse - again.

[The Weeping Angel]

On a similar note

https://bsky.app/profile/showerabsolute ... j2pfs7lk22

[The Weeping Angel]

[Tubby Isaacs]

Ha ha ha. Straight out of How To Lie With Statistics.

[Tubby Isaacs]

And more.

Except for the fact that there's no epidemic of fires at substations, it's spot on.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/simoncga ... 74624-pL4f

[Boiler]

One of the replies on LinkedIn echoed something a former colleague of mine does keep commenting on - that the grid as it stands cannot support mass EV and heat pump uptake.

[The Weeping Angel]

Latest hit job on Ed Milliband

https://archive.is/KggVg#selection-3289.0-3315.293

The major business groups have had enough. The Chancellor doesn’t want to write any more cheques. Ordinary consumers are fed up with the endless bills, and the trade unions with the mounting job losses. No one has asked him but it is probably a safe bet that his older brother doesn’t have a very high opinion of him.
Still, amid all the flak, Ed Miliband, the Energy Secretary, probably thought there was always one body he could rely on. The eco warriors of the Climate Change Committee (CCC) would surely always have his back? But hold on. Even they have now turned on him – and that is a sign that enough is finally enough.
It was a damning verdict on Miliband’s first year in office. In a report this week, the CCC, the unelected quango created to monitor our progress towards net zero, argued that the Energy Secretary had not done enough to remove green levies from bills, which was making electricity too expensive.
Even worse, by leaving bills so high, he was deterring people from buying electric cars and heat pumps and so delaying our progress to climate salvation. If it was an end of school report, it would have been four out of ten at best, along with a terse “Ed must try harder” from the headmaster.

[Tubby Isaacs]

"Eco warriors of the Climate Change Committee" is barely adult.

I'm amazed to see they aren't lying about the need to remove levies. But the costs would have to go on something else- it's unlikely this is Ed's call alone. The Chancellor actually protected his budget in the Spending Review, far from not writing any cheques.

[Tubby Isaacs]

It's that time of the year again.

On Twitter he clarifies that he's not against people having fun, just against the idea that Glastonbury is "countercultural". Does anyone who attends actually think that? Surely it's a fun event that promotes some good causes? Seeing he's generously conceded he's not against fun, I think we can see what he objects to.

I do though think that Spiked, for whom Tom Slater writes, thinks it's countercultural.

[Andy McDandy]

Serious "I was into that band before you had even heard of them and besides, I'm now into some stuff you haven't yet heard of" vibes there. In other words, very Spiked.

I get that Glastonbury has been promoted by the BBC as the high point of the popular music year, partly because there isn't really anything like Top of the Pops on TV any more. There's Jools Holland, and that's about it. But it's still just one (admittedly very big) festival among many. There's no bank holiday for it, and nobody's forced to watch the coverage.

And again, just like Monbiot with his acceptable public transport fantasies, there's this subtext of "Ugh, I have no reason to hate this thing per se, aside from basic reactionarism and a looming deadline*, so I'll just make out that it was once fine but now the wrong sort of people are enjoying it, and that won't do".

*Saw a thing by some Telegraph hack recently, saying that they were being driven to churn out an anti-woke spin on whatever news was going on, that they knew how ridiculous it was, but their children needed feeding. Just remembered - it was on the back of the hard up millionaire family who turned out not to exist outside an Alamy photo file.

[Boiler]

"if lots of people like something that I like, it's popular: if lots of people like something that I don't, it's populist."

No?

[Watchman]

"if lots of people like something that I like, it's popular: if lots of people like something that I don't, it's populist."

No?

I thought it was more a case of "I like something, but I don't want others to share"