There's an easy way out - Pope Leo XIII issued a decree in 1900 that anyone who discussed, wrote about, or commented on Jesus' Foreskin would face automatic excommunication.

The earth one is the main one in there anyway - although there are a fun few other ones. Peter Kenny is amazing doing those audiobooks!

Yeah, I did think of the State of the Art as well which sets up the whole “should we interfere with Earth” thread. Banks’ ability to weave a compelling story around things not happening (or things that didn’t need to happen) is remarkable really. It makes them feel incredibly believable!

A few of the Culture novels really manage to weave in lots of paperwork. Excession (my favourite) has pages of (effectively) emails between Minds politicking while The Hydrogen Sonata is a wonderful book focusing on delivering (or not) a diplomatic apology. The audiobooks are superb as well.

The “I can’t believe…” “advert” was a glorious bit, lovely work and a great podcast as always.

The McLaren strategy peeps certainly did.

I'm not too bothered about Sprints in general either way but the lack of practice time here with the new surface seemed to make it much more formulaic - no one really seemed able to do anything different because they didn't have the data to see if it could work.

What a season.

I do miss The Last Post but still can’t believe doing a daily podcast and keeping that quality didn’t break you (even when it dropped the weekends!).

Still two more episodes to go in this season thankfully.

Wouldn’t you think that at some point a modicum of self awareness would kick in and you’d realise that if private schools are *required* for good music teaching or SEND provision, maybe that’s what you should be upset about?

Still in there for me. Have you got a Focus mode turned on? They can change how the display works (eg my sleep one turns the display off).

I wrote a dissertation on Commonhold at Uni while it was being proposed back in ~2000 - no interest from the industry at all since. Love the plan to ban leaseholds but I expect plenty of interested parties will get stories in the Mail/Telegraph as to why it's either unworkable or (somehow) woke 😂

Pit Stops aren't going to fix this. It's become the one Grand Prix throughout the year that I really don't mind missing. If they're going to keep it the change should be much more dramatic - get them in some small/low aero spec cars that can actually race around there.

Very jealous! Cabin Pressure and Souvenir Programme are absolutely perfect.

Brilliant stuff - have really enjoyed the series. Although it does mean I’m now hearing your voice on Fish, Page 94 and now The Naked Week - I’m starting to get the AHM Tetris Effect.

I've wondered a few times if there's something that could be taken from liturgy as well - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liturgy... - allow some millionaires/billionaires more direct ownerships of some "great works". A bit of peer pressure for which of them builds the greatest hospital or school.

It's really worth it. First few episodes are slower than many modern series but set the scene well. By the last two episodes it felt like I was holding my breath for the entire running time - the tension is astonishing and the cast phenomenal.

“Hold me back Pierre!”