Trump would love it. Very bling White House.

Same. V50. Grey. It never did go wrong and it was so light you could ride all day through mountains without breaking sweat. I used to love that little wobble as it started and the the smooth chug as it slipped away. So well balanced that it drove itself really.

Your doesn't bleed oil I suspect.

I did a couple of motorcycle tours around Europe at about the same age, in the early 80s. A Moto Guzzi instead a Matchless. A very different continent to the one he saw. I suspect my bike was more reliable, but I am sure his trip was more extraordinary.

Imagine touring through post-war Europe after five years of isolation and the destruction? And he is wearing a tweed jacket and a beret and smoking a pipe. Sadly I have no written record of what he saw. The year after that last trip he met my (German) mum. No more motorcycle tours...

Jawohl

Ok. That makes sense, thanks!

And please don't tell me that Marshall doesn't know what he's doing and shouldn't interfere with @gbnewsonline.bsky.social editorial. Their lies and racism only exists because of his funding.

For me this as bad as the infamous Libyan Gaddafi episode. The LSE thinks that it knows what the higher moral interest is without considering the grubby moral compromises. No-one is pure but this one stinks

Thanks Andrew - a superb summary!

'what about the kiosks?'

Lots of other problems of course. Again, we need more research on this and it's hard to define but I would argue UK news orgs are more partisan than ever. Could just be our politics or increased competition and the subscription biz model?

There's much more political reporting and commentary than ever before. There's more policy reporting than ever before. But perhaps the two are more separated? One problem is that policy stories are given to pol corrs as soon as they go up the agenda. f

Och. That's lovely thx