Maybe - just a crazy idea, but bear with me for a moment! - the reason why the Lib Dems should not “get serious“ is that the UK’s most important media organisation covers politics in babytalk so much of the time?

(I think a lot of the BBC’s written output can likely be explained by them interpreting “need to write for a reading age of seven” as ”need to write for a moron with an adult reading age”.)

Anyway, mission accomplished: I found the stone I was looking for at Priene and we finally have some decent photos of it to accompany the bad squeeze from the 1990s

The causeway is very popular with beach-goers, no doubt all enthused by the new Airai inscription in ZPE

When Ted Heath sacked Enoch Powell he was acting in the face of a majority in favour. Harold Wilson backed him up and called the speech “evil”. Long past time for Keir and Kemi to do the same.

Anyway, a fantastic time was had a Erythrai (Ildır) today, including a look around the ongoing excavations, courtesy of the team

These little guys really are incredibly convenient for idiot tourists like myself who have still not learned to drive

Indeed. Sorry, the core people behind the last year are not liberals! They use the word as a pejorative! Need to accept that if you want social liberalism you are in the business of building coalitions with actual liberals, not wishcasting!