badly-drawn boo! 👻

The oldest curry recipe published in the UK dates from 1747. The first fish and chip shops opened in about 1860. Why is the latter British food but the former isn’t?

A fluffy grey cat stares up looking extremely grumpy

#DailyFrank on discovering that dinner will be served by Mr Bee and not me

A gigantic monstera plant dwarfing a man standing in the foreground

And yet my emails remain unanswered

Not even shelducks, which are common on the v beaches here, but holidaying mallards.

Because of the boats. Labour has legitimised Reform's politics by treating it as crucial, but labour just isn't racist enough for some people.

Morning sky looking over Hoyle Bank towards Hilbre Island. The sand is dark and the sky mackerelled with cloud

While I love sunshine and blue skies, I do love it when it's all moody

A drake and a mallard side by side on a muddy beach. He's saying "don't think much of this foreign food"

Ducks on holiday

A cartoon Chthulu

Littlest niece is obsessed with Squishmallows and has been showing me her card collection. And it turns out there's.a Squishmallow Cthulu...

It's in the settings somewhere

You don't need to defend someone who's not being attacked. She wasn't mentioned.

My sister's cat

A chunky tabby and white cat pushing for headbutts

Same from another angle

I think Chilli is happy to see me

I've learned how to turn that off

A fluffy tortie and white cat in the foreground, standing on a sofa. In the background can be seen our other three cats, waiting...

Titus has been selected as today's emissary to inform me about the woeful lack of food

I'm in a load of corporate photos which regularly appear in presentations and emails/newsletters etc., but I mind those a lot less.

TPOs aren't much cop if someone doesn't give a shit

People who regularly appear on screen / video etc., do you ever get used to seeing yourself? I'm in a bunch of social media stuff for the rugby club and it's like when you hear a recording of your own voice. Entirely alien and upsetting.

I would rather not, thank you.

I dunno - there are a lot of v wealthy people who are incredibly exposed to this

A fluffy grey cat lies in a traditional kitty loaf position but upside down

#DailyFrank with the rare inverted loaf

I don't think that's limited to one particular profession

I don't think you've understood the assignment

But nobody mentioned her except you.

This will happen with AI but will take the entire global economy with it

And?

That's worth a lot of money now you know, since it was superseded by the 1994 Cartwright Edition.

Nah they've always been racist, they're just less embarrassed about it now

"legitimate concerns"

There's no 'race debate'. There's racism and hate crimes.

Sorry, what? There is no “race debate”. There is racism, there are racists.

This isn’t a legitimate political polemic, this is hate speech and hate crime.

Can we stop trying to wedge the bigotry of fragile white men in to public discourse? Doing so is hate-washing and we need to stop it.