It needs some peas.

If you are a traditionalist no, but I'm pragmatic and if they are cooked correctly and enhance the meal then yes. Personally I prefer fried potatoes cooked in bacon fat.

In response to your last question - both.

Unfortunately rage baiting is the type of interview technique that is all too common nowadays. I am not sure if its because of the limitations of interviewers, intellectual or journalistic, or their belief that this is what audiences want.

A much better analogy than the Gestapo.

What is he suggesting? Britain as an international pariah topped up by US aid?

I think anyone trying to attribute rational thinking to this man is making a mistake. Just see him smirking holding the Nobel Peace Prize. I think he wants Greenland because he's been told he can't have it. Put him on the naughty step and wait him out. He'll get bore and move on.

This early 1980s poem by Hamayni ag Essadayne in Baz Lecocq's book on the Tuareg rebellions seems quite relevant to our own place and time too

Sauce of some description - preferably brown sauce or ketchup.

While I think there may be an element of that, particularly from the printed press, I think it is also to do with the shifting media ecosystem. I think the use of 'rage bait' is now common in an attempt to maintain shrinking audiences. Add to that poor and incompetent journalism, and voila.

I was brought with the Victor comic and Eagle. This sort of indoctrination was pretty thorough, add in Commando comic and the 1950s films. But if you travel and read your opinions can change.

In any sane world he'd be gone by now.

You've got to have a few spare, just in case!

She's come a hell of a long-way since you had her, saying something about your devotion and patience. But she has a little bit further to go yet.

About two thirds of the way through. The book and you deserve the accolades.

You don't need to be an expert to know however came up with this argument is a prize pillock.

This type of nonsense and other racist tropes have always been there in a part of the UK population, but not spoken out loud. But Brexit and the import of MAGA style politics has changed that. It needs addressing and shutting down. Most people do not believe this tripe.

I wonder whether this might be even be a subconscious bias, chasing a dwindling listnership of increasingly elderly middle class white people who have been radicalised by the traditional print media.

If it's an echochamber it's an echochamber where I can calmly discuss ideas with people instead of being insulted everytime I post, so echochamber away, BlueSky.

It's strange how the national newspapers with their shrinking readership seem to set the news agenda for the BBC's domestic news. The BBC seems to be chasing the same shrinking demographic and in the process appears to be losing it's reputation for impartiality.

Society has been hollowed out over decades, democracy reduced to performance, and solidarity was replaced by self-interest. We were sold the lie of meritocracy and the cult of individualism, and this is the end result.

Politics has become middle management for technocracy, and platforms turn the individual into both product and producer on their digital fiefdoms, feeding us whatever gets engagement to keep us hooked, with truth and accuracy being thrown in the waste bin.

The Polish one, they are stood there doing sod all.

As a pensioner I just read your latest book on the Stone Age and found it both educational, illuminating and most importantly entertaining. A concise easy to follow explanation of the latest archeological thinking. Excellent work!

Yes, whoever stacked those bales had no idea how to put on a load. You interweave them like bricks. The first time they move off at any speed they would lose half the load. I speak from experience helping my neighbour as a kid.

I'm sorry you feel that way, but please realise people of this viewpoint are a minority, but are very vocal and visible in legacy and social media.

Remember the company culture that helped build the gas chambers and crematoria at Auschwitz.

At times she comes across as a remarkedly stupid person. This may not be the case, but it sometimes seems proven by her ill considered words.

Very succinct and true. Witnessed this in every sector of British life.

A rare gem, best to savour them slowly.