Jeremy Worth

Wouah, wouah.

If you're thinkin' about appliances, it don't matter if they're chrome or white.

Just the thing. Marvellous.

I have been calling the post sinister (in all that he leaves, deliberately, to be inferred) but I think the mot juste is "frightening", yes.

Just reading this perplexing news now. What a spectacular own goal by the BBC, delivering such a squalid, unworthy ultimatum to a figure who entertains, educates, and edifies. What an example to lose. Of course he resigned...but oh, alack the day.

What a powerfully irresistible thought. I miss the pre-teen school run so much (Beatles, bickering, bum jokes...and sometimes brain fodder).

Pinning and printing this. Absolutely inspiring. Looking forward very much to listening to your latest work over the hols!

Ours are 15 and 18 (and far cooler than I was at their age); it delights us that we can still get them around the telly for the Christmas traditions they have known since childhood. May we never become too busy and too grown-up to enjoy our buttered eggs.

Did you see how gleefully he grabbed the ribbon and put the choccy coin around his own neck?

Exactly right. Mistakes must be corrected, but deliberate campaigns should be recognised for what they are.

There was an obit yesterday for the "inventor of the frozen burrito". He looked very pleased with himself in the picture.

Samuel West | Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth

A lovely interview with Sam West, part of GB's podcast series about formative experiences and memories. Their conversation, recorded between Timothy West's memorial service and Prunella Scales's death last week, is touching, thought-provoking and thoroughly uplifting.
shows.acast.com/rosebud-with...

Good for Terry - but to be fair, that was obvious to all of us!

During a hot summer holiday it was much more bearable. Families could purchase a pass from the bursar. It could even become a bit crowded on a sweltering day; I remember my mum diving to the bottom of the deep end and surfacing with the Head of the Science Sixth (Terry W) sitting on her head.

Good God. Sometimes I miss my old Nokia. Also my Mac Classic II, with its occasional recalcitrance and its big plastic Y-fronts. Most salacious communication I ever got from that was a "Happy Mac" icon (phwoar).

Recommend Jonathan Daube's _Educator Most Extraordinary: The Life and Achievements of Harry Rée_ and _A Schoolmaster's War_, writings by HR edited by his son Jonathan (regular LRB contributor). Both part of my small expat library of Watford/WBGS-related volumes! An extraordinary man indeed.

Ah, of course. He did - albeit a bit slighter in build! I'd forgotten about the 2CV!

Trying to work out who that would have been. Any chance of initials? ;) I had Dr Diane Kermack and the late, great Dave Evans. Biology was the best of the three for me, too. Great teachers.

I lick the spoon, though.

Bolero, me.

How proud he must have been of you. Thinking of you today.

I agree with you, but I've seen it done. It's a thing. At the other end of the madness scale are those who wash, rinse clean, and pop the now-spotless plate straight into the dishwasher.

Where false professions of Christianity by the likes of Trump, Vance, Kirk, Huckabee and White-Cain are concerned, the writings, witness and example of Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer (arrested by the Nazis in 1943 and murdered in 1945) might and should be brought back into strong light and focus.

No argument about disagreement, censorship and attack, Mr #Poilievre. But if you think it reasonable to characterise Charlie Kirk's bigoted positions as "a contrary point of view", and if you think the USA is currently a healthy democracy, you need to reexamine your senses of reality and morality.

But don’t say we have to grieve Charlie Kirk. No one HAS to do that. Hate that he was murdered, sure. Condemn entirely the violent direction of US political discourse, yes. But grieve that guy? THAT guy? No way.

Charlie Kirk should not have been murdered. Charlie Kirk was a dangerous and repulsive bigot. Both of these things can be true.

I know it's all too easy to point out hypocrisy but are we seeing a great outbreak of Republican 'thoughts and prayers'? Are they urging people not to rush to politicise this? Are they insisting that the shooter was mentally ill rather than ideological?

Charlie Chaplin could have heard Anarchy in the UK.

This is the Britain I recognise. Not a country where courageous migrants are shouted at by home-grown fools and desperate inadequates from outside hotels. Farage and every single immigrant-scapegoater can go to hell. I want to be as proud to be British as I once was. (Thanks, Dan, for the link).

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