I never post things here, and aside from the existential doubt about motives for posting anything, anywhere, I probably should, because the other place is an absolute bin fire of bot-driven bigotry.

This anecdote in this very good piece I think tells you everything you need to know about Wallace

One presumes that the video editor, who so neatly clipped Jay Blades out of the latest run of The Repair Shop, has just had a whole bundle of Masterchef episodes dumped on his keyboard...

That moment on Masterchef, when a nervous contestant says "Yes, chef" to Gregg Wallace, and he just nods, sagely, rather than saying "I'm not a chef. I know less about cooking than you do. I'm a greengrocer, playing a role." Always that moment...

So Nigel Farage, who has repeatedly suggested that migration puts women's safety at risk, has been harbouring a senior colleague who was jailed for violently assaulting his own girlfriend

Bit of a harsh reminder for the calf to wake up to every day, but there you go…

Had the family of a man who'd raised a fortune for charity by walking round a council estate, not a country estate, been found to have shown "a pattern of behaviour" over a £1.4m book deal, that benefitted them, and left the public feeling "misled", would they be in the headlines, or the dock?

A word on the Allison Pearson free speech row, and what she describes as a ‘Kafkaesque’ threat to it. We asked her on @thenewsagents.bsky.social to discuss.
She said: ‘No. And if you get any aspect of the story wrong my lawyers will be watching.’
Gotta love a free speech warrior 🤷🏻‍♂️

I have watched five minutes of “I’m a Celebrity” and I am already very firmly on the side of the snakes.

Looking at the stats for the publicist v rapist Netflix boxing thing. Eight rounds. One threw 18 punches, one threw 78. That's 96 punches in 16 minutes of 'boxing', or one punch every ten seconds. What else were they they doing to fill the time?

Not quite the ‘Rumble in the jungle’ so much as ‘scrap of the crap’. Ancient rapist loses on points to a human publicity stunt. The dignity of boxing…

Bexley Mags closing today. Work half done, building firm in administration, no heating… How many Magistrates Courts left in South London? Four? A decade of neglect coming home to roost. You can’t have a justice system with no courtrooms.

I had hoped to be funnier, sharper and pithier here, than on Twitter, but I fear the old legal maxim is right - mere presence is not enough. I will try harder. Probably.