*On The Front Line* that should’ve been

They could expand that out to the day schedule and fill in the gaps with classic long form interviews with political giants like Wilson, Thatcher, Benn etc from the archive. I’m not saying it would be doing big numbers, but it would be informing, educating and (for some of us at least) entertaining.

I’ve long thought that the News channel’s night/weekend model is more interesting. Intermittent reminders of the headlines between programmes that inform and contextualise like Our World, Tech Now, The Media Show, The Travel Show, On The Front Lune and (now gone) Hardtalk.

"Countries are calling me and asking me to do what I did in New York City." Are some countries desperate for advice on wire fraud, soliciting contributions from foreign nationals, conspiring to defraud the US and how to get a good night's sleep in an office?

Comin' over here, making a meaningful contribution to our economy and culture!

They have correctly identified that the problem with that leaked video meeting was the lack of flags in all but one of the backgrounds.

I hate posts that start "Genuine question", because they usually aren't. So I'll replace it with - "Indulge a luddite" - isn't that the point of Bluesky being open source? That anyone can take the code and recreate it elsewhere? Or am I misunderstanding? Or are there infrastructure barriers too?

I'm not sure which one is serious and which one is credible

I came here to suggest the Tiffany Aching books by Terry Pratchett but someone got there before me. The other one that occurred immediately but is maybe a bit obvious - His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

I read points 1 & 2 and thought, "fair enough". Then I read number 3 and realised that he thinks points 1 & 2 are bad things.

The worst is when they go off to the loo and your mind is still flying and wanting to say more stuff. Stuff you know you'll struggle to hold onto until they're back. It's just occurring to me now that people probably go to the toilet for a break. I just thought my friends all had weak bladders.

Jack talked a lot about preserving old country traditions but a lot of the things he featured on there seem be completely one off anomalies. I think it was basically a rural 'That's Life'. Which is fair enough. I imagine there's limited humour in funny shaped vegetables for a working farmer.

Coincidentally, that is exactly how Andrea Jenkyns' song 'Insomniac' made me feel.

It certainly seems to still be what we are telling visitors at least www.visitliverpool.com/explore/live...

Brilliant as always. I wonder if you could clarify something though. When I was growing up in Merseyside, we were always told that Liverpool's Chinatown was the first to be established in Europe but you state that it was London's (or perhaps specifically the Limehouse incarnation?)

It’s notable how little anyone was talking about Farage or Reform yesterday. As pointed out on the ever brilliant @quietriotpod.bsky.social, this should be the template for Labour on how to manage the news narrative.

She was one of the few bright lights in this govt and I’m sad she has to go, but maybe there is a positive interpretation to consider here? At least this is a government that takes accountability seriously. And she seems to have left in away that leaves the door open for for a future return.