Agreed - and it’s beginning to look like Vance is even more of a s**t than Trump. What an appalling pair

I’ve been rumbled.

From Private Eye this week

RIP David Lodge. His novels were a huge influence on me, especially Small World and Nice Work. I loved his humor and his sense of weirdness, and the way he crafted smart sympathetic characters with a satirical edge. He also wrote a novel about HG Wells, A Man of Parts.

What a great writer. The ideal combination of ideas, challenge, plot and laugh out loud humour. I loved his novels - literary fiction at its unselfconscious, easy going, but acutely rapier-like best.

Admittedly biased by having a 93yo mum with dementia, and have great admiration for Louise Casey, but we've already had an independent commission to form a consensus. Just make a decision and get on with it

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A year ago #NotAlwaysWrong www.independent.co.uk/voices/rache...

Two highlights from the weekend: Robert Icke’s #Oedipus at Wyndhams theatre brilliantly acted adapted and designed. Then Tirzah Garwood: Beyond Ravilious at Dulwich Pic Gallery beautiful poignant art from 1939s/40s. Both highly recommended

I’ve been at #Lord’s today for a lunch (thank you caterers and delightful staff) and looked around the Pavilion. I hadn’t realised they have charming original Lowrys… ‘A Cricket Match’ 1952

Well… I know I know, but his twatness is endlessly fascinating, and we are all capable of focussing on more than one news story at a time, so I’m happy to twin track here

159,380: Another new record in numbers of homeless children living in temporary accommodation in England. Up 5% on three months ago and 15% on a year ago
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…and George Frederick Handel lived next door, at number 25. What a shame they weren’t contemporaries. What a duo they’d have made

#AustralianPinkFloyd outstanding at #RoyalAlbertHall last night

Well said John Bothwell from Durham. Well said indeed! 😆

I’m forever in search of jazz stations which don’t send me searching for the nurofen but equally are not so smooth as to be soporific. Let me recommend EasyJazzFM (non profit based in Ottawa) One Jazz - available on Sonos and based in Uk. And ABC Jazz (Melbourne), and JazzFM91 (Toronto).

Terrific David Tennant Macbeth at Harold Pinter Theatre this afternoon despite my idiotic seat selection

Hi Paul! Great to be in touch. Let me know when you are up in town😊 hope all well too

Well they should pull their finger out and change this. Obviously. Unless they think that making people wade through pornography, racism and lies to obtain government communications on X is sensible or proper.

@insidehousing.bsky.social or any readers: Can you point me to a recent article I cannot now find on how local councils are introducing new committees or panels to oversee their housing service in response consumer regulation? Thanks

Thank you such excellent and informative posts. Three years earlier Pissarro was in Dulwich, London near where I live, painting lovely landscapes. This is St Stephen’s, Lower Norwood, 1870, then and now

Thank you for posting such great paintings 👍 Here is Mornington Crescent – Early Morning 1992-93 by Frank Auerbach 1931 - 2024

The government must reverse this decision and permanently link Local Housing Allowance to what rents cost.

So renters don’t face another winter of impossible choices. ❌ 5/5

Our latest LHA research LHA shows that if the govt keep LHA frozen, private renters on housing benefits will be £243 per year on avg worse off by April 25, rising to £703 by the end of the Parliament.

It's worse again for Londoners and families with children, £882 & £971 respectively 4/x