Would have been interesting to hear his reflections on why there are three seperate measures in relation to the Israel/Palestine conflict and no references to any other foreign policy issues at all.

Possibly my favourite aside in any film: when the book keepers ask for the day off and Scrooge reacts poorly and one of them says “it was the frog’s idea”. Just lovely.

On the positive side, it’s possible the person who comes into the light will be a giant bison/bear/wolf hybrid who you will initially clash with but later come to love after he gives you a whole library and it turns out he’s a prince.

Conspiracy theory and its theorists are inherently amusing (David Icke’s books from the 90s about how the Queen Mum was a shapeshifting lizard are unintentionally hilarious), but this kind of fact-free horseshit is harmful to democratic discourse and really dangerous for an ex-PM to indulge in.

This isn’t like 1997, in which turning on the taps would shift a fair few problems, because there is no entity or infrastructure to fund in the right space. More money for CAMHS is essential but if better intermediate options are not created and seen to work, the high end demand will never reduce.

Yep. Ultimately, the British state is underfunding its statutory promises and has been since at least 2012, during which time Covid has made all of the problems harder. There is neither a “reform the system with no extra money” OR “just throw money at it” way out.

Part of this is result of long-term decline in support provision from local authorities to intermediate cases in childhood: there is now basically no effective support space between “whatever school can do with its resources” and “full diagnosis with statement to lever open extra money/CAMHS access”

“The Fault is in Our Star Wars”: no changes, just the sequel trilogy in full.