Jack Tindale

Incidentally, if you've ever wondered how those absolutely vile Pumpkin cafes have survived at train stations, it's because they're mainly rebadged Travellers Fare ones that managed to get a peppercorn rent and they're (ironically, given the launch of GBR) only just coming to an end.

I do love how we have all these overlapping heritage agencies and you can be fined if you install a window that doesn't fit the "aesthetics" of a conservation area but for some reason Britannia Hotels are allowed to run the Adelphi Liverpool into the ground.

Always minded of that quip from Archbishop Fisher, "...the very worst the Bomb can do is to sweep a vast number of people from this world into the next into which they must all go anyway".

We will all go together when we go
All suffused with an incandescent glow
No one will have the endurance
To collect on his insurance
Lloyd's of London will be loaded when they go

(I'm from Barnsley I am allowed to make this joke)

A friend of my dad was an extra in Threads.

He said he traipsed through a post-apocalyptic city, full of decaying ruins and populated by feral, mutated children. Then he got off the bus to Sheffield and went to film Threads.

Posted by an "advisor to the Ukraine military", apparently. 🤷‍♂️

I'm not a "nuclear power will solve everything" person but "you can't build nuclear plants, what if Russia invades" is one of the most unintentionally funny arguments against it you could think of.

Fairly sure that if the Spetsnaz land at Lowestoft we'll have more important things to worry about.

Yeah, I'm fairly sure half of these are just VPNs.

Look, there's enough silly, radicalised, home-grown morons - we don't have to invent shadowy Russians to make ourselves feel better.

I'm not entirely convinced if the account is but it would make sense given how much it is one of those Doompill Accounts about how the Russian economy is going Gangbusters, Actually.

It is heavily associated with a rather odd economist who is British, however. I'm a bit on the fence with this.

I am the sort of arriviste bourgeois de province that Flaubert would mercilessly mock (there's a strong element of the Pécuchet to me) and I therefore feel that I probably would, on balance, be more suited to life had I been born in Besançon rather than Barnsley.

I do find it hard to dislike the French.

Will Tanner (not that one, this one) is the unironic Rhodesia supporter BTW.

Monday.

I would often go there
To the tiny church there
The smallest church in Saint-Saëns
Though it once was larger

sorry cones I know you want my body but there is a four and quarter hour deductland video out so we are gonna do that instead

A vaguely intelligent man driven mad by his own hubris and paranoia.

Again, Blue Labour has always been a glorified political salon but it did have some decent if unoriginal ideas about place and communitarianism, and now it's whatever this is.

My mother died of sepsis after a cleaner broke a window and she stepped on a shard and it became infected, so you’ll forgive me if I am concerned about this Glass Man.

Hate that there’s three impressions I can do that are pitch perfect and how much I hate what they say about me.

1. William Hague going “well I was recently in Benghazi”

2. Enoch Powell requesting a fish smoker on Desert Island Discs.

3. Bully from Bullseye when he walks across the screen.

Formula 1 is probably the sport I have the least active interest in. I respect the engineering but it’s otherwise something that I find absolutely, monumentally, dull.

It does feel like one of the teams does a new innovation, and then proceed to win every race that season, rinse and repeat.

Inexplicably, Catford.

Not to be a narc but this is also really genuinely illegal.

I don’t know what level of South London “a fried chicken shop flying the LTTE flag” is but it’s bloody high.

Yeah I love how performative it is (TBF, this is at the otherwise totally unpretentious Blyth Hill Tavern).

It’s quite funny how SK is more of an island nation than we are, despite not being an island.

What a production line (forgot the rugby was on…).

Am I Ted Heath or can I get a least one strike?