The Digester

I was there for this and the John Adams. He really is the most remarkable pianist: his Philip Glass études in the Purcell Room is one of the cultural highlights of recent times. I must say I found the Kurtág rather too challenging though.

It's the kidney machines that pay for rockets and guns.

Warhammer vibes.

Munich, of course, famously a great place for British PMs to get an easy win that saves their career.

The real reason I'm leaving The Great British Baking Show Trump is threatening bombing the likes of which Tehran has never seen Prue Leith

the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran

Remandy Andy, sharing a cell with Mandy.

Kemi Badenoch's luxury item - a border force to repel any arrivals #DesertIslandDiscs

"Remember those lefties Sunak, Johnson, May and Cameron? The Conservative Party won't tolerate their commie nonsense any more."

Lads. You've invented Rumbelows.

Nothing says working class like your dad being on the new year’s honours list

A huge amount of children's homework is required to be carried out on apps. For most, this means on a smartphone. Any ban on smartphones would also require a huge shift in teaching.

He's one of my favourite menswear writers.

Man, this 'EU' thing sounds great, we should totally look into it.

"I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"

"All that meat and no potatoes" (Louis Armstrong)

Trump threatens to intervene if Iran kills peaceful protesters "We are locked and loaded and ready to go," the president said on Truth Social early Friday, after economic protests in the Islamic Republic took a sharply violent turn.

Yes, killing peaceful protesters is a sign of tyranny.

www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/t...

YouTube video by Snowy White Monty Python - Coal Miner Son

Not to mention all those gala luncheons.

youtu.be/2HZtZ1Jzjmc?...

YouTube video by 23111963 Wogan Titles December 1985

We’re approaching the 40th anniversary of this spectacular bit of TV, an intro sequence to Wogan’s chat show. If anyone ever says that the 1980s were shit, just shake your head, smile condescendingly and play them this

youtu.be/ntTckWx8MMw

Has Craig Brown done her yet?

Letter to the Guardian. The protection of badgers has a long pedigree (Report, 29 August). Arthur Gore, known as "Boofy", the eighth Earl of Arran, was a fanatical defender of them. He was also a tireless campaigner for the rights of homosexuals. In 1967 he managed to push through a law in the Lords that decriminalised homosexuality but failed to pass a bill to outlaw the cruel hunting of badgers. When asked why he had not received enough support for his badger bill, he replied: "Not many badgers in the House of Lords." Tony Lywood Keswick, Cumbria

Found when sorting an old drive. I still, very occasionally, say 'not many badgers in the House of Lords' and this is why:

Comment from Robert Jenrick Lunch with the FT.

Comment of the year (Robert Jenrick, Lunch with the FT).

Agree on the first point. Disagree on the second. The system is deliberately designed to allow amicable settlement if possible.

Scene from Grosse Point Blank

I'm not sure what you thought the UKIPO should have done differently at that stage.

TBC I'm not claiming the party written about behaved well. Also it seems there was an error by the IPO in granting the original trade mark. Examination standards have ime gone downhill in the last few years. But ultimately the right outcome was reached.

It sounds as if it didn't get that far, but settled first*. The IP system rightly gives time for parties to settle before a court case.

[*I'm guessing based solely on the report]

Chart showing an enormous July spike in ICE arrests in DC of people without criminal records

File under "charts that need no explanatory context to make the story clear" wapo.st/4iC8oCR