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Toasted sourdough looks pretty but has no place on a full English breakfast. You nearly break your teeth on that crust. Standard white sliced or farmhouse wins every time.

The future of the BBC - explore our impact across seven key sectors Ahead of the UK Government’s Green Paper Consultation deadline, discover the BBC’s unique impact on the arts, science and nature, the independent production sector, children’s and education content, m...

If you haven't yet responded to the BBC Charter review you've got about 3 weeks left. As well as our recent review (see thread above) you might find it useful to draw upon these briefings from the BBC itself about its impact on areas from news to children's education
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

YouTube video by Kamiklase Paint Your Wagon - The Simpsons | Original Quality

Before I read this the only thing I knew about the Simpsons skit...thank you! 😂 youtu.be/oGEeouAnrGQ?...

These two look very much like a 1990s comedy sketch series

Downton Abbey 3, but perhaps that is my own fault.

A graphic of a glowing decorative lantern on a dark background. Large orange text at the top reads “Ramadan Mubarak.” At the bottom is the logo and name “Liberal Democrats" in orange.

Wishing all those observing this holy month in the UK and around the world a healthy and blessed Ramadan.

Recently discovered Alberic Magnard and currently playing him on my show. He's fantastic, but not especially well-known outside of France. A really beautiful energy to his Ouverture.

You can listen here: gws-radio.org.uk

Unforgotten is excellent. The first three series are the best - it isn't quite as good after that.

Are you familiar with @labourshercule.bsky.social ? They go through each episode and have interviewed all of the regular cast from the first few series. It's incredible.

Louvre: Leak damages 19th Century painting in latest setback A catalogue of incidents at the world's most visited museum have placed museum bosses come under increasing scrutiny.

Oh, for the Louvre of God.

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I love this piece so much. So much energy and verve. I genuinely think the symphony as a whole is a masterpiece.

Agree.

Perhaps Bobby Dean - very impressive and seems a little more leftish.

I would have said Miller would be on that list too - and perhaps someone more identifiably on the left of the party. I don't know the new MPs well enough yet to know who that would be.

Spot on from @libdemdaisy.bsky.social here 🇪🇺🇬🇧

Fair enough - apologies. Missed your point then!

This is why there's a whole chapter in my book about the damage the grid has done to policy making.

By the way the Met Office has updated their app and rendered it useless and I am seething

Perhaps worth remembering that polls about US intervention in Venezuela conducted before today are no longer informative. Expect public opinion to polarise very quickly (dampening any effect on Americans’ views of Trump):

There is, to my mind, no justification for the continued use by the UK Government of X as a platform for official comms. There hasn't been for some time, in fact, but if the latest developments around AI-generated image abuse and CSAM don't change the policy I really don't know what will.

Rushing to finish making a cup of tea I started twenty minutes previously and forgot about.

Me, except it's the Conga del Fuego Nuevo and the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela. 😳

If the British government, and indeed other governments, can’t muster a fast and strong response to Twitter adding a facility enabling users to create and share AI child sexual abuse material then not sure what Musk could ever do that would actually provoke a response.

"What was your favourite game of 2025?"

Keir Starmer - *sincere answer about spending his limited time with his kids playing Mario Kart, delivered as if he just googled it*

Ed Davey - "I still love a bit of Wii Sports"

Kemi Badenoch - "My best friend was killed by a Sega Mega Drive"

My aunt had a phone number very similar to Cambridge station, and when people called to ask about train times she would answer them from the copy of the timetable she kept by the phone.

Thank you!

I don't know, I still think the funniest was when the divide was...that they had voted Lib Dem for different reasons.

The Good Life - Silly But It's Fun (26th December 1977). "The ooh-ah bird is so called because it lays square eggs".

He'd forget to get one, wouldn't he?

Will the Green strategy cause them to have success in urban areas and fall back in rural areas, and what effect will this have on seat totals in the 2026 local elections?