... and a Happy New Year to you Gary, with sincere thanks for the past year of technical advice, shared knowledge and quiet inspiration. Here's to you for a very successful 2026.

Trump isn't running London so he has to believe that it's the world's worst hell hole. Just the usual dysfunctionality.

There can be no doubt, our values and ways of thinking are being flooded. Awareness is a powerful defence.

I'd much prefer that the Chancellor of the Exchequer spent all their waking hours on managing the UK economy and delegated the letting of their London property to estate agents. Anything else is serious dereliction of duty to the electorate.

Just when you think they have reached rock bottom they go onto plumb new depths. If they have this much trouble with local government wait until they upset the international money markets à la Liz Truss. They will run away.

When they lose access to free NHS health care under Reform, have their benefits cut, see their housing rights wiped away, wave goodbye to social care - where will they turn next?

An achievement the rest of us just marvel at. It is truly exceptional. A job well done Gary.

Best festive wishes albeit at distance from ... Peterborough.

Always a slow news day in the Daily Mail.

Living in York I can reassure you that our many bollards are called bollards and anything else is just bollards.