So proud of their country that they have to wear masks

McSweeney is a genius

am prepared to believe this

He's exaggerating unfortunately. It's in Esh Winning

Jan Morris on almost anything is wonderful by "Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere" is a particular favourite

this is very good advice

Hang on. They're telling us we have a Culture Scretary?

General purpose graphic

après moi les célébrations

Can I put in a word for West Coast mainline where Avanti are replacing the (not bad) Pendelinos with the awful Evero. I mean, why be satisified with a service that's just expensive when you can make it extremely uncomfortable too

Not for the first time, the people in the BBC who make The News should really have spoken to the people in the BBC who make More or Less.

What a time to discover that @NewsOrFallSong isn’t on Bluesky 😞

unless you're the Police

That pronounced drop in the early to mid eighties. Would that have been Margaret Thatcher rescuing the economy?

Well at least he can comfort himself with the knowledge that it wasn’t for lack of effort on his part