Saw it on Wednesday, for £90 in the stalls. About three quarters of the way back but unimpeded sightlines and every syllable audible.

Booked only the previous week, so I'd say worth checking a few different nights. Fun production, camped and vamped to the max.

Rewarding the Christian Democrats who (still?) want to reverse equal marriage is bad enough as part of the centre-left option. But it does give the prospective Jetten-1 cabinet a solid numerical basis. Dumping Green Labour for an outer-right fringe under half its size brings barely a majority at all

At 38, he'd also be The Hague's youngest leader. Husband Nico Keenan, a hockey Olympian, shares a Buenas Aires birthplace with Queen Máxima. The monarchy plays a subtle but influential role in cabinet formation. But Jetten needs to swerve the most problematic conservatives as coalition partners.

Same. Regrettably, he's gay too.

A crassly wrongheaded take.

"There was no receptionist on duty and her roommate had fallen asleep and was not answering her phone."

Drag people away on an awful HR-type charade, then make them share a room? A well deserved outcome.

*splashes water on coals*

~ I had it down as a steam-building trip, your honour.

Did the other seasoned editorial executives at the helm of the weekly now called The New World not see trouble coming? Hire zealots, get propaganda. Inevitably Sonia leapt to champion Sandie Peggie in a tribunal case that quickly brought evidence of the nurse's nasty history of racism. Where now?

Hard not to sense the hand of former Spectator editor Matthew D'Ancona in Sodha's hiring. These days an "editor at large" at TNE/TNW, he departed Tortoise not long back after a disruptive drive to terfify the slow-news startup. When James Harding merged it with The Observer he wisely left her out.

Glory be to guerrilla plaques. The dates suggest this one's been up a few years.

By my count there are six (6) Labour MPs further down the line than Exeter, all elected since the 2014 Dawlish calamity. Time they had their say. Leaving this project unfinished risks local economies (er, not to mention their own biweekly spot in the Pullman car, so they'll be aware).

Fair to note that for every exec acknowledging the toning down there's another saying there's no change. And that the Gravity sample is not much more than 3pc of the top 1,500 mainly US players. But BMW, what's your excuse?

www.gravityresearch.com/wp-content/u...

A striking set of side by side brand logos here, this year channeling Visage in their fade to grey. There deserves to be a more thorough drilldown than Newsweek's but the craven retreat is at least being given a mainstream airing:

www.newsweek.com/corporate-pr...

Rivulets like pumped veins. But also, despite the sparsest of identifiers, a sense of place. Here?

images.app.goo.gl/WwKJPeSEbyUu...

m.soundcloud.com/chantellebyr...

I don't know how The Economist managed the parting of the ways with her a few years back but wow, bullet duly dodged.

Keep em standing proud... Saw last week's snap: are you in the Lakes for long?