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Depending on how young / careless your bairn is, you could reduce splashing with a narrow-necked receptacle? I’m thinking of something like a glass bottle barely wide enough to receive the frother, so there’s not space for the milk to easily escape.

You realise this isn’t my argument and I’m mocking it?

Say the line, tankies!

“Labour under Starmer are red tories and I can’t tell how they’d be any different”.

Looking at Tamworth’s voting history, I think it’ll probably be a fairly close-run thing. Labour have held the seat in the past, but it has been getting steadily more conservative over the last decade to the point where I’m not convinced that it’ll be easy for Labour to pick up. There’s very little Lib Dem presence to encourage tactical voting either.

I’ve set up a play money prediction market here if you think you know better which way it will go.

I think it is important that it happens, even though it is a fair wedge of nonsense most weeks. The reason for that is the alternative isn’t “better holding of the government to account”. If PMQs was cancelled, nothing better would replace it. And we’d end up in a situation similar to the USA, where the executive can simply choose not to be in a room with dissenting voices.

Do you think someone like Trump would even choose to try govern when every week he was forced to sit in a room with every member of the opposition and answer questions, effectively under oath, as to why he was governing so terribly? Followed by all the news networks showing clips of him being OWNED or BLASTED or whatever all-caps word they’re using for headlines this week?

I cannot imagine how the patreon user who just received an espresso machine the price of a small car must feel. Very cool move from James.

Standard reminder that letters of no confidence may as well not exist if the submitter is remaining anonymous. If they aren’t actively campaigning for Sunak to go then it’s highly unlikely that the threshold would be approached.

While I’m aware of the Welsh independence movement, I’m never sure of quote how legitimate a force it is. Compared to the SNP, which have been a big voice in UK politics, Welsh independence always seemed like a fringe view and unlikely to lead to a referendum. I’m prepared to be wrong on that, so I’ve set up a few prediction markets (play money) on Welsh independence if anyone wants to weigh in.

• Welsh Independence this decade
• Welsh Independence by 2050
• Welsh Independence referendum (any result) this decade

Right, so I didn’t actually mind the original ENT theme at all during my rewatch earlier this year. Far worse was the outro credits which were deeply jarring every single time.

The revamped theme is appalling though, it’s doubling down on everything that put people off about the original and it’s far, far worse.

Wow, there’s some super cool stuff in there. Not sure what you’d do with Julie Mao’s corpse, but it’s hilarious that’s a thing you can buy.

It's a great idea. When will you be funding it?

Play-money prediction market: will the exploration find Nessie?