Dave McCallum

I know this is uncomfortable to admit, but there is a small area in England's second city where people are just not integrated with the rest of society. Many of them hold views that arguably go against British values.

Yes, we need to talk about the Tory conference in Manchester.

Am wondering if all of those suddenly deciding they’re against communities living “parallel lives” might reconsider their support of religious schools? Or indeed private ones?

So I’m being treated for cancer so I’m one the ‘blessed’ people who get quicker treatment and I see many categories here with graphs tailing off but an increase from July to August. I’m not entirely sure what I’m seeing as I’m not a statistician so maybe I should crawl back in my hole…

Sorry Ros, this not my experience so maybe we should find out what the stats say…..

Graphic which reads "Mayor of London / It was predicted to take 193 years to meet legal limits for air pollution in London/ We did it in 9"

I remember being told that it would take 193 years to reach legal limits for nitrogen dioxide.

I decided this was unacceptable.

Thanks to the bold policies we put in place, we've managed to do it in nine years - 184 years earlier than expected.

This is the judgment on the PPE/Medpro claim.

A cracking £122m win for the Government Legal Service

And is wonderful to see the government bringing a claim in contract against a shoddy supplier.

This does not happen often, and it should happen far more.

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One of the best symphonist ever to have lived…

OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.

Is this a comedy (a genuine question!)? Aside from the risible puppet, Sigourney’s brief appearance seems to be doing far too much work….
And don’t get me started on the Robot Camels.
It’s a long way from the trailer for No.7 which moved me to tears but who isn’t a sucker for the Falcon?

Without inherited wealth or the family name, these fellas would be stood at the side of the road shouting nonsense at passing traffic.

So the youngest is on tv in the coming weeks as a participant in BBC Young Chorister of the year 2025. He’s created a new Insta account just for his music and here it is!

Not just choral but also Jamie Cullum covers and organ stuff

@jackmccallum_music10

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Yeah, I mean you’re surely going to need someone to tidy up all those takeaway cartons….

Balanced view…..

Tbf Giamatti is often such good casting…..

Mind you it is Sunday so normal rules don’t apply.

Early doors…?

I mean, we are a country who did so much of this stuff (internet) very early but development in the recent decades has been predictably poor.

I think (unfortunately for the government) this just demonstrates the very patchy mobile coverage we have in the UK.

Really lovely, though I think Woburn would beg to differ….

I was teaching a Y3 class this morning, and one boy excitedly told me that he'd passed his Grade 1 clarinet. I asked him what mark he was awarded, and he told me that he'd been given an 'Extinction'. #primaryteaching #clarinet #distinction #extinction

Maybe Starmer should’ve shuffled himself in that direction….

I would just like someone at DCMS who can at least pretend that they like music.

Maybe not, maybe debatable. Is that really your point on this thread? I was trying to think of U.K. positives on policy.

One of our real national achievements, very noticeable on a recent holiday to France and Greece where everyone seemed to smoking or vaping….

I think our recent work on renewables will also be seen as a quiet triumph.

My generations relationship with alcohol is very much another matter.

Is Corbyn really interested….?

The English willingness and even enthusiasm to actively divest themselves of the rights that protect them is just baffling.

People seem to think they’re fighting some battle against foreign oppressors when the rights they wish to abandon protect* them from being oppressed by their own government.

BBC Proms - 2025: Soul Revolution with Trevor Nelson Featuring hits by Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin and Marvin Gaye at the BBC Proms. Beverley Knight and friends bring an emotional night celebrating music that soundtracked history.

Watch this and weep….a beautiful show.

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All the time….

‘Cut’ to the chase and buy a good comb and one of these mighty contraptions….also good for ear and nasal hair!

The 18 year old daughter of an immigrant from the Philippines, who lives nearby, is going to Oxford University.
Yet another example of the drive and ambition of the children of first generation immigrants.
Their contribution to the country is immense.