I've skittered through my 5-day/ 1800+song Christmas library to bring you a new 2-hour show, a quarter of it new releases (this year & last), another quarter old stuff I've only discovered since I last did one of these in 2022 (still available). Cheery, in parts.
open.spotify.com/playlist/19X...

Every Unionist MP from Ulster, from whatever party, voted against the Assisted Dying Bill. But it won't apply there if enacted. Nor will it in Scotland, yet several Labour or Tory Scots MPs voted against it (including mine), and 2 LibDems. They've done nothing wrong, but it feels a bit iffy to me.

I liked and admired Louise Haigh, who resigned as Transport Secretary yesterday, but in her replacement there is now an added bonus, and further historical moment in our national life to note, on top of the bigger headline news from Parliament this afternoon. This:

This is your reminder to get a library card. They have so many services and basically all of them are free.

I'd be very interested if someone could please draw up a Bluesky starter pack of humorists to follow. Thanks.

The BBC's Powell & Pressburger season gets underway this Sunday on BBC2 with the TV debut of 'Made In England; The Films of Powell & Pressburger', then continues on BBC4 on Nov. 21...

Now it's filed for bankruptcy, I'm glad I inherited some of my Mum's Tupperware boxes. I even have some of the right lids.