Rob Campbell

just shows that actually being responsible for something, like a council, is much harder than heckling from the sidelines. I’m not sure Farage and his various parties have ever run anything until recently

shabby-looking front page. All that underscoring is numbing rather than impactful. And the bottom line of the main header is adrift, bobbing about in too much space.

I first read it in 1975 and thought it was an interesting tale of things that an unfortunate previous generation used to worry about.

Because your posts confer dignity on the ordinary, and remind us that the apparently mundane may be beautiful and fascinating. That’s useful for feeling grounded and grateful.
I’ve also used them in a writing class to encourage students to find the drama in detail.

We might be a touch biased, but we think adding beavers to banknotes is an excellent idea 🦫

what could possibly go wrong?

what do you get in change? Slugs? Ants? Have you thought this through?

I prefer the otter ones

can you please start a rumour that they are thinking of putting a squirrel or whatever on the union flag. Just for fun.

you don’t have to go there Ed.

in that case, the picture is fake mews.

that’s very bad news. Oman positions itself very carefully, and is a force for good.

she’s the Mayor of Lincolnshire.

I think that when a concept is too complicated for him, he puts the bare bones out there and waits for others in politics and the media to flesh out what he probably meant. The TV news plays back various interpretations and he owns the one he most easily understands. He’s outsourcing his thinking.

For anyone still worried about Geoffrey Cox's welfare, he received £111,000 from legal work in February, so is just about keeping his head above water.

And meanwhile we were encouraged by the worst of our politicians and media to punch down, always picking on the most vulnerable amongst us, instead of looking ‘up’.

I always have a soft spot for the ‘don’t know’ people. I imagine them just sitting in the park, eating cake, watching puppies and kittens, and generally ignoring the world.

just pressed the button on my self-published (and first) novel so I can buy a copy and take it off-line for final checks.
I’m worried that it might, for example, have been printed back to front, or accidentally translated into a blend of Esperanto and Klingon. Or it could just be crap.

we should hold those grievances close. Mine all start with ‘why are there so many different’ … lightbulb fittings, phone leads, colours, cars, nuts and bolts, flies, fools, etc

I’m beginning to think there should be a free poo bag with every copy of these newspapers.

this is a fantastic bit of gently compelling work from Chris Meredith. Listening, I was transported to another time and place, and came back from there with so much to think about

I do wonder if any of these Trumpies have ever read a history book? It’s a long time since I sat my O Level in the subject but I have this horrible feeling that I knew more then, as a 16 year old, than they know now. One of the main things I learnt being, of course, a sense of what I didn’t know.

a lot of the media isn’t doing that BUT it is interesting and encouraging to see the widening gap between what the Mail, Express, Telegraph, GB News etc wants and what its target audience seems to want. I can’t recall recently such a sense of right-wing audiences failing to fall into line.

its unique and bizarre. What are they supposed to do? Send him a video saying hey look we’ve surrendered?

hey I love the FT but your excellent report has a caption referring to a Type 45 at #Yeovilton? Ships can’t go there. It’s not by the sea.

what on earth is going on with his hair?

I had armed guards at my wedding reception.

those sausages need herding

This's excellent from the PM
I am not prepared to commit our military service people to action, unless I am sure that what they are doing is lawful & has a viable basis. They deserve to know that their PM cares &pays attention to whether what I am asking them to do is lawful & I will always do that.

I saw some when I was there a couple of years ago, just out beyond the south lighthouse. Half the island turned out to watch and I’ll never forget the sight.