BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[Ian H]

Guess the rag:

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That has Express vibes about it, but the Telegraph is so wild these days that I'm not sure.

 

[AndyRM]

I'm going with Telegraph.

 

[secretsqirrel]

I’d say Telegraph due to their output of late being tiresome. Every day an ‘unnamed‘ source tells them Reeves is going to tax <something> in the budget.

 

[briantrumpet]

 

[Pblakeney]

I always thought Messi was a better player than Ronaldo as he is a team player and not a self centered prick.
Self centered prick showed his true team allegiance last night, money.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c993e74pxd7o

 

[briantrumpet]

Not that I care even one hoot about football and the World Cup, but I don't think this is how it's supposed to work...

 

[Rusty Nails]

With Infantino (and no, that’s not a nickname for Trump) anything is possible.

 

[Pblakeney]

Not that I care even one hoot about football and the World Cup, but I don't think this is how it's supposed to work...

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I predict a shambles, or nothing changing.
These things take months of planning, if not years. It is not something you can flip flop on.

 

[briantrumpet]

I always thought Messi was a better player than Ronaldo as he is a team player and not a self centered prick.
Self centered prick showed his true team allegiance last night, money.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c993e74pxd7o

Does it look like Ronaldo's had cosmetic surgery in that photo? (I know that's kinda missing the point.)

 

[Pblakeney]

Does it look like Ronaldo's had cosmetic surgery in that photo? (I know that's kinda missing the point.)

His vanity knows no bounds so yeah, possibly.
It could also be his fitness and diet regime which even I will admit to being impressive.

 

[AndyRM]

Messi is just as much of a prick as Ronaldo.

 

[briantrumpet]

John Crace in good form here, mostly rounding on the hapless/hopeless Starmer, but some other good barbs.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/19/john-crace-on-how-labour-shattered-his-expectations

I feel I should probably start with an apology. A few days after the 2024 general election, I wrote that it felt as if the grownups were back in charge. It wasn’t as if I was carried away by the vision of Keir Starmer or the charisma of Rachel Reeves. More that I felt we had regained a basic level of competence. That politics would become business as usual rather than the breathless psychodrama of the past 10 years. You could go to bed at night relatively confident that the country would be more or less recognisable when you woke up. There would be no more mad people doing mad things as we raced through five or six news cycles in the course of a couple of hours.

And part of me was a little concerned. Because what is good for economic stability and social justice isn’t necessarily good for a sketch writer. Dull, well-intentioned politicians putting in place dull, well-intentioned policies, and a government that is ticking over more or less OK, do not necessarily make for great entertainment. So what would I write about?

It turns out that I needn’t have worried.

[...]

One of the features of the new government is that it is no longer the Labour shadow cabinet you bump into in the corridor. They now go everywhere by ministerial car. Instead it is the Tory shadow ministers. Which can be awkward. I passed the Philpster on the stairs a few months back. He looked me in the eye and said, “Hello, John.” Awkward. At that moment I knew that he knew that I had once described him as “a nose in search of a bum”. He also told a press gallery lunch he was upset I had called him a “quarter-wit”. He aspires to be a half-wit. Patience, Philp.

 

[briantrumpet]

An interesting follow-up on the fly-tipping case:

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...ordshire-field-contains-rubbish-from-councils

Waste from local authorities in the south-east is among the vast mound of rubbish dumped illegally next to a river in Oxfordshire, it can be revealed. The finding provides evidence of possible large-scale corruption in waste management, a legal expert has warned. Household rubbish, partly macerated, remained rotting and stinking in a mountain of waste about 150 metres long and up to 6 metres high on Tuesday, in a field next to the River Cherwell outside Kidlington in Oxfordshire.

There is evidence that some of the waste comes from primary schools and local authorities in south-east England. Paul Powlesland, a barrister and founder of Lawyers for Nature, said the evidence was concerning. He said: “If confirmed this shows the waste is the result of large-scale fraud or corruption in local authority waste management.”

 

[Pblakeney]

An interesting follow-up on the fly-tipping case:

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...ordshire-field-contains-rubbish-from-councils

As suspected, it is far removed from fly tipping.

 

[secretsqirrel]

An interesting follow-up on the fly-tipping case:

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...ordshire-field-contains-rubbish-from-councils

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