Petitions are the perfect example, it gives people the illusion that they’re having an effect. But in reality, when those 10k petitions are hit, it’s up to the houses discretion whether they even want to talk about it.

Yes, the way the UK Parliament handles petitions is absolutely terrible. Even though they are required to hear any petition that gets 100k, a House committee basically decides whether it gets treated seriously or not. What's really needed is a national equivalent of public questions to local government. I can understand that there would have to be some sort of signature or support-gathering requirement or ranking because first-come-first-served-with-a-time-limit (which is what happens at local government) would become an unfair fastest-finger-first contest each time the questions queue opened, but it could be better than the petitions.

Starmer to unveil compulsory online ID checks by the backdoor, more like.

🙁 that Tom's not on here or other open social media yet.

Where's that announced?

The layover podcast for this episode claims that it's because Scotty is in the title graphics for Chew Chew Choo and Sam keeps trying to sneak the show in unplanned/unbudgetted, but I'm not sure I believe that.

Really? Aren't we already hours into day 3?

Not gonna lie, I'm a bit disappointed that Lincolnshire was an episode that seems like it could have been anywhere, even more so than the bells. It's such a geographically and historically unusual place, but Tom 's indoors almost all of it.

Typo or bad autocorrect in title? "are" probably should be "and"