Peter Smith

Our Woodward and Bernstein.

Is it a #Shetland thing to hang washing out to dry in a storm?

Watching an episode of Ken Burns' Vietnam War is a reminder that not only had Simon and Garfunkel songs gorgeous melodies and beautiful vocals but also contained powerful messages.

Sky News reports that Dulwich College finds allegations of racism and antisemitism by Nigel Farage distressing. It begs the question why didn't the school do something about it at the time.
Why wasn't Farage expelled?

Until a few minutes ago I thought Bonnie Blue was something my grandma put in her twin tub washing machine during the rinse cycle.
Couldn't have been more wrong...

Thinking about an alternative career as a budget influencer charging £500 to say " 'ow much!?" in a thick Yorkshire accent as I read their bank and credit card statements.

Our Pontiac Trans Am

You'll just feel a little prick....

Brilliant. I find the screens in cars very distracting.
I watched the 1966 World Cup final on a smaller TV.

If she replied I couldn't face years of "sit up straight" "Your hair's a bit long, lad" and "why can't you go out with a nice girl like Barbara Cooper?"
No, thanks.

Many of the England players are socially engaged and will not pass the US social media test.
If Trump had his way England would be captained by Joey Barton.
(There goes any chance of visiting the US next year)

Anyone who crticises anything about Dolly Parton is a 5 star shit, no exceptions.
She's one of the most wonderful women on the planet.

A really bitter sweet photo. Happy memories of getting into music in 1972/73 and seeing The Who live a few times, they were awesome.
Sad realisation that Daltrey is now a homophobic right wing Brexit loving angry bloke.

The proposed social media inspection by US immigration during the World Cup could exclude players.

My first unaccompanied trip to London was in 1974 to see The Who at Charlton Athletic. The train from Leeds to King's Cross was pulled by a Deltic.
The Deltic at full power was the most exciting sound I heard all day.

For the long term good of football it's important the 2026 World Cup is a catastrophic failure.

We sponsor a 5 year old Vietnamese girl through Action Aid. Anh is the same age as our granddaughter and they exchange letters/drawings.
Anh is from Khe Sanh, as in the Born in the USA lyric.
I bet Anh's grandparents had a very different childhood than me and my wife's.

John Redwood is rewarded for his decades long record of being wrong about everything with a peerage.

In the 60s, we had a male dinner lady. He was a retired First World War veteran.
He once pronounced regime as re gee mee. And, to our shame, we never let him forget it

Soeaking personally. I was obsessed with The Who, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Leeds United and Linda Wainwright.
#lufc

A routine hospital visit and you wouldn't believe the number of immigrants there.
Every Consultant and clinician, half the nurses and quite a few admin staff. All bloody foreigners!!!
Thankfully, the waiting areas were full of true Brits.

#PMQs is a weekly platform for Badenoch to show the country she's a PM in waiting.
Week after week she comes across as petulant, trivial and ill prepared. Not a good look.

Liked Italian scooters and Italian tailoring too.

It's a bit rich for Badenoch to call Starmer a caretaker when her position as Tory leader is less secure than the manager of Watford.
#PMQs

Could be wrong but I recall no news bulletins on Radio 3 during the covid lockdowns.

Nothing will convince me otherwise. There shouldn't be news bulletins on Radio 3 or 6 Music.
Listeners are there, partly, to avoid the news.

1994 was the worst World Cup of my lifetime.
The 2026 shitshow is likely to make 1994 look like Mexico 1970 or Spain 1982.
A celebration of the beautiful game it ain't.

Europe here. Trump thinks we've got problems. I suspect the US has greater ones.

The mean IQ in Yorkshire rocketed when Andrea Jenkyns moved to Lincolnshire.
The shrubbery on Tingley roundabout, in her old constituency, is more intelligent than Jenkyns.
#PoliticsHub

The minister currently at the dispatch box in the Commons, Keir Mather, is remarkable.
He had a test in double science earlier, yet he's an expert on rail nationalisation.