Nothing new, is it? But credit to Burnham for acknowledging it... 👍

With respect, I wasn't trying to extrapolate anything. I was simply saying that it was a good result...

I just checked his X account. Not a word from Farageski...

NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/

No, you're not hard of thinking Ian, but with respect, I disagree. With Labour on a high, and Andy Burnham generally regarded (correctly) as a huge improvement on Keir Starmer, I would still maintain that Zack's performance was excellent. For the record, I would *not* have voted for that motion.

That I had been "blowing smoke" to cover up Zack Polanski's "failure"... 🤔

You do wonder sometimes... The Greens secure a third of the vote, in what was previously a safe Labour seat. A massive increase in their share, whilst Labour's actually falls. More votes than all the other opposition parties combined. And when you point this out, what do the hard-of -thinking say?🤣

My Dad was an amateur painter, Reece. Over 20 years after his death, I still have some of his work stored in a cupboard. It's so hard to look at it. And remember...

Company behind Scotland’s biggest data centre proposal is owned by the treasurer of the UK Conservative party via British Virgin Islands. It could receive £23m public subsidy. BVI facilitates opacity and tax avoidance. Successive UK govts have defended the use of tax havens by wealthy elites.

An accurate thread Alice! I definitely don't mean honest, moderate Christians, Muslims, Jews or any other faith, when I say that religion has too often been used by the unscrupulous as a prop to support nationalism and irrational fear of 'others'. It's not a healthy belief, in any incarnation.

I hadn't heard that. It's a beautiful interpretation. Thank you!

Kemi Badenoch holding up five fingers...

Prison? Well, put it this way. For him, I might just rethink my objection to public executions...

Old photo: Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, was constructed between 1590 and 1597 for its remarkable owner, Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury, better known as Bess of Hardwick. Seen here looking north along the double yew hedge which runs the length of the beautifully maintained South Court garden.

I'd agree with that 😄👍

No. I'll check it out, thanks!