Define an exercise in futility. How about an ad on TV for specs that doesn’t feature the brand name in type easily legible to someone with dodgy eyesight?
Feet On The Ground
Monday, 9 November 2026
Kitchen Bang!
Baxters are having to recall tins of cullen skink [smoked haddock chowder] as they are defective. The product can end up with a nasty taste or, at worst, the dodgy tins can explode!
Be advised
All those who are claiming that Rissole Brand “did not fool us, we fooled ourselves” are fooling themselves with that ‘us’. You lot were fooled but not the people who have known that Brand and his mate J. Woss are no good for decades. And the stuff coming out now proves that it was available to the group which includes our prime mayor and other Labour luvvie Brand fans.
Bargains!
Who would want to pay £300 for a CryoGlow LED face mask? Or the sale price of £234? Or a grand (reduced to £449) for a bean-to-cup coffee machine?
Well, I suppose if you’re on the public payroll and with an expense account, these things attract.
Cash or safety?
The Scottish government is wondering if it can make money out of driving tests for the over-70s. A pilot project in Aberdeenshire found that half of them weren’t up to the job.
Emptier pockets
EFU stooge “Bollocks to” Barnier is trying to get himself noticed by announcing that he has decided that the UK will be screwed rotten if our prime fantasist’s Brexit Betrayal goes ahead.
Sunday Treat
The Packers were in New England, where the Patriots threw a pick right away. Big return, Love in for a TD. Then a sack by GB. Huge pass to the red zone, a pick wiped out by DPI, TD GB, 14-0. Nearly a TD pass for NE. Huge pass to Golden, sack by NE in Q2, FG, 17-0.
The Patriots stopped by a pick. Nowt from it. Swiss cheese, NE on to a TD. NE close, picked again. DPI got GB close, TD, 24-7. NE inside the GB 10, TD, 24-14. Nearly another pick by GB.
Red zone for GB in Q3, TD, 31-14. Scoring range again, FG. The Pats sopped by a fumble to GB, TD from it. Love with +2, 42-14. Close for NE, end zone pass, TD.
Into Q4 for a big gain, FG for GB, 45-21. Sack for GB. Looking foggy again. Roughing gave NE a TD shot, 45-27. Into the last minute, no more scoring.