‘Welcome to the Hotel California…’

Warpigs in Copenhagen’s meat packing district. Beer off the scale, bbq epic.

There are, inevitably, also plenty of mistakes in national policy - notably the assumptions behind industrial strategies, when regional realities in some cases mean only a small proportion of people are actually working in those priority sectors.

It’s not what it is, it’s what it looks like.

Wait…what? Are you telling me that the IfG has been an advisor to this televisual travesty?

It’s been a miserably depressing year. So I went to Lofoten. Which is nice.

Have to say that Hostage on Netflix is compellingly bad. Plausibility has been sent into outer space, dialogue rehashed from a dusted-off comic book, actors/agents need to be asking themselves questions. Grim.

BBC website. Leading with Netanyahu and Gaza. And then this on the same national & international news homepage. Someone help me out…

Michael Gove ‘interviewing’ Donald Trump when Rupert Murdoch was in the room.

There, aced it for you, Al.

They’ve been slow out of the blocks at LA level (where the scale of victories was a surprise to an immature organisation), but scepticism and low expectations about governance are probably on their side. Still in a risky phase, though.

I get that and to a degree the last rites almost feel like they’re being priced in, but how dependent is the Reform birth on the Tory death?

Hmmm…ambitious people is a broad field. The question is whether Reform has room for names, as Farage parties have always been a Farage show. Wouldn’t that be more of a tipping point?

Thanks, Santa.

My (entirely unsupported by research) assumptions are that they fit into 80:20 territory.

Take your point, Ben, but comments on an FT story are arguably a bit short of broad-brush public opinion. Tabloid faux outrage about Glastonbury etc feels like noises off to me (which isn’t to say it’s not a valid debate)

I can smell the PR and public affairs budget from here…

In a world of goldfish-bowl online click cycles, ‘forever’ is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

I mean, Glasto looks and feels like a feature in Good Housekeeping now, doesn’t it?

The utter, utter, utter misery of spying that lager you drank so memorably abroad in the chiller at your local Co-op, only to find the legend ‘brewed in the UK’ on it…

Now, now, David, you can’t beat a cross-cutting departmental headline.

Good luck with that since X is the corpse of human knowledge.

Christ almighty. Take the same pub bore logic, flog it to death, hang, draw and quarter it, drag it through every reactionary publication you can find, leave it on a stick on the ramparts for a few months, exhume it, then publish it in the Telegraph. Again.

Beautifully-produced, of course, but a bit Taylor-Sheridan-Does-Cowboys-Under-Big-Skies again after Yellowstone.

Exhibit A and Exhibit B: a crude comparison, of course, but Britain’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde attitude towards capital investment and revenue spending writ large.

Brian Wilson, co-creator of iconic 1960s band the Beach Boys, dies aged 82

Damn, what a talent

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Possibly. but I’m reading this entire thread and hearing Monty Pytnon’s ‘Novel writing from Dorset’ sketch.

They’ve always been far too Dfident about it.

That’s a broad definition. I’m donning a metaphorical flat cap & going back to my cub reporter days to droolingly recall the oozing sausage & onion cobs made by the corner shop nr our newsroom (sometimes served by an Alsatian), and the Cornish pasties made by Crusty Baldwin’s. Not taste, experience.

What’s a proper sandwich shop (not a trick q btw)?

It’s the trade-offs question. The others involve no commitment.