(Sorry for double-posting: on train with terrible wi-fi).

Thank you - I'm glad you found it interesting.

Thank you. I'm glad you found it interesting.

It takes an obscene amount of hubris to lecture the BBC when you have The Telegraph’s record on truth-telling.

Some of the paper’s errors this year are so bad they’re almost laughable 👇🏻

You’re very kind! Yes, definitely need to work on the tan.

There will certainly be challenges that are specific to our own times, as there are to others: children 30 yrs ago obviously didn't have the pressures of smartphones,to take just one example. But there are other pressures that are less potent today, around child labour, extreme hunger & overcrowding

It's not "whataboutery" to take note of the things that have got better as well as those that have got worse, especially when the latter are so often used by the likes of Farage to argue for the total failure of our governing system and the need to burn it all down.

Even since 2008, we've had gay marriage; the first non-white prime minister, mayor of London, Chancellor, Foreign Secretary and Home Secretary; big increases in the minimum wage; women's football going mainstream; cleaner energy; and a state that paid salaries & subsidised energy bills during Covid.

Somebody said to me recently "we didn't have all these mental health problems in the past". You only have to open a Dickens novel to see what nonsense that is.

Note that still in post at the BBC is Robbie Gibb, who helped set up GB News, and John McAndrew, formerly director of news and programmes at GB News.

In 2020, Boris Johnson said that Trump "encouraged people to storm the Capitol ... I believe that that was completely wrong. ... I unreservedly condemn encouraging people to behave in the disgraceful way that they did in the Capitol".

Does he still think that?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgCi...

In 2020, Boris Johnson said that Trump "encouraged people to storm the Capitol ... I believe that that was completely wrong. ... I unreservedly condemn encouraging people to behave in the disgraceful way that they did in the Capitol".

Does he still think that?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgCi...

Yet whenever one of these "stories" emerges, the BBC itself gives it wall-to-wall coverage for days at a stretch. It's one of the top headlines on every BBC news bulletin. That must have some effect on how listeners think about the BBC, and in that respect these campaigns work.

Ah! What a pity...

What is "Post Shredded Wheat cereal"?? Is cereal divided into two distinct epochs, before and after the invention of Shredded Wheat?

It felt like United switched the focus too early to protecting their lead, which is always risky with their defensive record, esp. when Casemiro can only last 70 minutes. They always looked more dangerous than Spurs going forward, but stopped trying to do that for large portions of the second half.

That would be a heck of a twist to the Strike books. "Cormoran, there's something I have to tell you. I'm 200 years old and lost my heart to a Conservative prime minister..."