I am the first to say we need to move to cleaner forms of energy production. But when the 'answer' is to put 3.5m high solar panels on prime agricultural land the size of Heathrow airport, is it any wonder there's so much opposition? My dispatch from Lincolnshire. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10...

Emboldened by having more than 89 words with which to write book reviews, here's what happened when I read
James Briggs lovely From Ibiza To The Norfolk Broads. eastangles.substack.com/p/from-ibiza...

Burns night party clobber

Went to see Paddington in Peru. It’s fun in lots of sub Indiana Jones ways, but it doesn't really hit home comically or emotionally as the other two. Still, Julie Walters DJing drum’n’bass to the junglist massive of the home for retired bears is gold…

Had such a lovely day in Lincoln. Lark Books is the kind of book store I’d like to own if I had the nerve (and backing). Given it’s literally around the corner from
Waterstones I really hope it works out. And just down the same street Back To Mono is a complete treasure trove of a record store.