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Have never tried it but am just about to spend the summer in North and South Tyrol so I'm going to do my damndest to seek some out. I think a lot of it is made not too far away.

There's a pretty solid argument that Nutella was created a result of a naval blockade by Napolean against the English leading to a cocoa shortage in continental Europe in the early 1800s. /csb

All this eggy crisp talk has sent me on a mission to Deptford to buy some salted egg crisps. Incredible things.

Want to know what’s next? IMO: LGBTQI+, starting backwards. Making them taboo in public discourse and education, erasing IQT as concepts, eventually removing equality protections for BGL, potentially even outlawing them.

A bunch of my New York colleagues are protesting at Stonewall on Sunday

Fuck this shit. Seriously, fuck it.

The Wakefield by election had a turnout closer to 2% below average , based on the 79 by elections since 2007. Not sure it's that valid to compare it to GE turnout.

Oooh good point. I completely forgot about the Mirror. My bad.

The Guardian, our only real left of centre news outlet of note has about 125k print readers and 18m online.

I know we've touched upon it a few times in the last few days but I thought I'd try and put some numbers on how much of an uphill battle Starmer has with the media.

About four million people read the Daily Mail and the Sun in print every day. Online, the number is closer to thirty million. There is also a network effect from that. Its not just about readership, its about the fact that many newspaper readers talk to friends and family about what they read in the papers.

I personally think it is absolutely remarkable that Starmer is doing so well not doing worse.

Finding a bottle of babycham dated 1955 in my grandma's drinks cabinet in the mid 90s is my record. Tasted fine (to ~12 year old me when I necked it behind a hedge in her garden).

Not sure what the advantage of wider use of them would be (routine recording during service for later analysis by AI algorithm/Network Rail staff?) but I didn't hear the original interview.

Go back a couple of pages and you'll see @paininthe giving a good explanation

I wonder if Starmer might regret his quietness on Labour's support for trades unions in the future.

I suppose this just shows that we probably look at different news sources, but I thought Starmer had been pretty solid on his support for trade unions in recent weeks. Its a core part of their policy statements too.

I thought the argument was that he was too quiet on supporting RMT and this specific strike as opposed to too quiet on unions?

Which craven little prick has been sent out to do the media round this morning, probably on the false promise of a job?

Was supposed to be Dowden but he quit first. Then Raab was lined up, but he has pulled out.

Can't be cheap to run at the moment either.

Amazing that the possibility of him resigning didn't even cross my mind.

So what happens now?

Can't have another confidence vote without them changing the rules.

He can't call a GE because he will lose.

Dowden resigned

Imagine being able to say now is the moment the situation became unacceptable and being able to keep a straight face.

Is it too early for cans??

There's a sign in a tunnel on Thameslink that I always notice. It says "Lower Pantograph" and it makes me snigger every time I see it. That is my only pantograph contribution.

I think Ashlea "you can't be British and Black" Simon is running for Britain First in Wakefield.

I thought she was in prison.

Apparently the Twitter chat is that RNT opposed AI driven trains.

Which would be crazy, seeing as there isn't a single AI driven train anywhere in the world...and that AFAIK there has only ever been one proof of concept test and that only happened last year.

Damm those RMT sponges for refusing to implement technology that doesn't exist!

I think ML did say that train based sensors and pantograph cameras are already a thing but no idea if across the whole network or not.

Don't suppose anyone knows what, if any, "technological improvements" the unions are rejecting?

I think there's a clip of our boy Micky Lynch correcting an MP and pointing out that most of the supposed technological improvements had been implemented already. Can't find any reference to what they actually are though.

The only problem I had with Sonar was the amount of 2nd hand smoke involved. I was sweating ashtray smells for days afterwards.

Just doing my bit to try and counter some of the uninformed dad-core grouch being spouted on here at the moment...

To be fair, I was just tabling SGP to see if the ununformed dad-core grouches were against it as well as glastonbury, seeing as they have a fair amount in common.