Postcards From San Escobar

@msloobylou The Royal Oak?

CLEVER LONDON FOLK! We're looking for a private room/ private area in a restaurant/bar/venue in Central London (ideally near a tube) that can host standing up drinks & canapes for up to 40 people in Soho/Covent Garden/Fitzrovia/Piccadilly area. A PRIZE FOR WINNING SUGGESTION.

@Crap_Portraits Is it Tony the Tiger?

Just can’t be arsed doing a portrait this week, extraordinary little effort expended. No likes are needed

@campbellclaret @Scaramucci @GoalhangerPods @RestIsPolitics @RoryStewartUK @dcsandbrook @MarinaHyde It was really good & very interesting. So different from much of the other election night coverage.

Thanks to the brilliant @GoalhangerPods team who helped deliver our three @RestIsPolitics Livestreams and thanks from me and @RoryStewartUK to @Scaramucci @dcsandbrook @MarinaHyde Great panel and great guests.

@ThreshedThought Europe accepting the fact that we are on our own is going to be hard. US backed NATO will be finished sooner or later, so Europe and the U.K. need to realize that. Russia is the threat. Countries like Poland need to start acquiring nuclear weapons as soon as possible.

The UK immediately needs to: - Increase defence spending rapidly (rather than shrinking its army) - Focus its military strategy on deterring Russian aggression in Europe (rather than confronting ‘global threats’) - Work with European allies to defend Europe under a NATO that doesn’t have US support (rather than assuming that America guarantees European security). Anything less would be a government dereliction of duty.

@bmay I think that’s my favourite clip of him.

I will never tire of this old clip in which the orange maniac talks about his deep, longstanding love for the Bible, with such clarity and authenticity.

The whole place has gone fucking mad.

@RoryStewartUK He could just buy an old copy of Sim City and have some fun with that.

This really is a perfect thread on the current culture - utopian dreams hovering between satire absurdity and inanity - each post almost too perfect

@jayrayner1 It was a very entertaining review. The wine mark-ups were quite something.

A big name chef called Jason Atherton opens a hot dog stand at Harrods. I go. It’s truly awful. An insult to the very notion of hot dogs. So that’s another reason not to go to Harrods. This week’s restaurant review. theguardian.com/food/2024/oct/…

@msloobylou Well, he’s got a few rooms spare

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@Marek95283940 The beavers are revolting

Zwiastun nowego Gladiatora. Dobre w chuj...

@redskyatnight I thought that too as I screamed at the radio “either they were just kids or they weren’t even born”

Nick Robinson on R4 Today has just referred to pensioners as ‘the wartime generation’, despite the fact that most of them weren’t even born until the 1950s

@notesfrompoland The beavers don’t like it

Donald Tusk says beavers are partly to blame for the severity of recent floods, warning that "sometimes you have to choose between love for animals and safety". But a biologist says the prime minister is talking "nonsense" and making beavers a "scapegoat" politico.eu/article/poland…

The Beavers are revolting politico.eu/article/poland…

@SoozUK I thought his explanation on BBC Radio was fair enough. He wanted his lad to be out of the limelight when it was his exams. Is that not fair enough?

@BDStanley He looks a bit like Bob Dylan in those specs

@Socket1Sophie Schrödinger's workman

A living, breathing paradox.

@fanboyPL Bóbr, Honor, Ojczyzna. #Bobergate #Boberhejt #SanEscobar

Reakcja bobra gdy dowiedział się kto jest premierem. #Bobergate

@MatthewLBishop Manchester Airport is awful. It’s hostile environment 1000%. The only things that enjoy that airport are the bus shelters. (The low ceilings, the awful lifts, the arrows that lead you to nowhere. It’s so horrible!)

@djglendinning @DmitryOpines He’s consistently wrong about almost everything and he’s very confident in his opinions too. An empty vessel makes the most sound…

@DmitryOpines The inimitable ‘World’s Wrongest Man’ is not noted for the coherence or consistency of his positions on EU matters.

1/ If you're looking to improve your negotiating skills, one piece of advice is to start observing the way you think and talk about it. Language like this, which centres your ego and reduces negotiations to macho dominance displays, is poison.

@David__Osland @david_slimmon I hope his team get him a lettuce to celebrate. It should become a British tradition that every PM gets one after passing Point Truss. In 100 years time it will still be happening but hardly anyone will remember why.

By the end of next week, Keir Starmer will have been prime minister longer than Liz Truss. Without tanking the pound, blowing up the pensions system or sending mortgage payments sky high.

@olex_scherba That a huge doormat! I hope many feet were wiped on it. It’s all that dishrag deserves.

“Russian warship, go f yourself!” #StandWithUkraine