If the teenage me in 1985 imagined that he could carry a calculator around that received spam calls it would have melted his mind. He would have wanted one. Tbh I was impressed by that early iPhone app that looked like you were drinking a pint of beer OUT OF YOUR PHONE!!!

Yup loved it. The first aid sketch was pitch perfect (having recently done my outdoor first aid cert).

Meanwhile, if anyone thinks there are are many Reform voters who think "I have zero trust in Labour on immigration, the small boats are still arriving, but *this* latest gesture at hardline policy is the one that will make me look again" I have a bridge to sell you. So who is this policy for?

I'll take your word for it...

No otters... although the weather was a little 'otter than it ought to have been for November....

Tastes like chicken that has a personal stylist and speaks fluent French.

The (dirty) Birdy Song and Misery.

ITV 9.50am Bertrand Russell Speaks His Mind... within 10 years it was Anne Diamond and Rustie Lee.

Yup -- Gong is still massively good value and Kavus Torabi is a top notch front man. This is the iteration of Feelgood that came to Allendale: youtu.be/C_4bcZHeNKc?...

We had Dr Feelgood play our village hall (the Trigger's Broom version, much like the iteration of Gong that played last month). But still blisteringly good and "riffs" were definitely the order of the day. (Also, we are spoilt with our little Northumberland village's ability to host amazing gigs).

youtu.be/yelK7E81slM?...

“Every last one of them [vaccine mandate] is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery,” Dr. Ladapo said.

... and *slavery*!

Remarkable and disingenuous comment from the Dr... Should travel restrictions for unvaccinated US citizens to UK eventually follow to protect vulnerable people?

Hope you're ok... it does all sound very stressful.

Pub?

I don't think you've read the English (in particular) political landscape terribly well. Your mystifying assertion now that Starmer is "far-right" is just nonsense. I'm not going to argue that you aren't educated... but even educated people have gaps...

Is there a problem with his title? What I'm smelling here is the standard leftwing line on social mobility: "I know my place"

The comms are bad, but the leftwing tendency to not see actions within the context of real world decision-making is a failing.

He's made mistakes, but he isn't "rightwing"

I don't wholly accept that characterisation. Starmer is not by many measures (looking at his history) a right wing clone. The problem is Labour seems unable to navigate the new landscape of political comms, and we can blame McSweeney for his simplistic and mystifying approach to date.