1929 eh. How right he was

Love to hear of the Covid profiteers coming a cropper

Was about to say I'd replace them with Villa ...

Cheers. Interestingly my friend @guywoodward.bsky.social tells me the battle still rages on the terraces of the Midlands over who has ownership of the song. Villa fans sing "hi ho Aston Villa" while the Wolves contingent go for their version. The two are playing each other Sunday, he notes...

Badenoch's discourse is the level of a 13yo chatting clever nonsense with her mates on the bus after school

"You might be right" = You're very definitely wrong and I'm bored by the conversation

Yes but that was political. I'm not an apologist for Thatcher - I just feel she was not in the league of the current crop of populist authoritarians

She wasn't corrupt

Or maybe in another era - this one - she might have turned into an authoritarian? I don't think so somehow

I agree she was a humourless bully with not a shred of sympathy for those she considered weak but still she believed in democracy

Whatever she was, Thatcher was no Trump or Putin

Marine Le Pen or Georgia Meloni come to mind

Astonishing how bankable these people are. The owners of the Telegraph (& the Mail) aren't idiots. Middle England buys their rags because of people like Allister Heath and Boris Johnson. That's the frightening thing. These guys are taken seriously enough to be paid millions for their nonsense

I won't forget the day after the vote a major London merchant wittering about it being a jolly good thing we'd be able to sell fizz in pints again. I remember thinking, God help us all. And here we are

Well you know how it is - listening with a piece of toast in one hand and making coffee with the other...

I swear I heard him say that this morning and was surprised and pleased it was allowed...have they censored it since then?

Otherwise watertight non?

Am I the only person in Britain immune to Paddington?