New Christmas lights just went up in Clacton.

(Farage is still the MP who makes most money from second jobs. By a long way.)

An unexpected musical pleasure of recent years has been the self released albums of Julian Cope.

Full of classic Cope sounds (mellotron!), the Arch-Drude still has an ear for a tune, and who can resist lyrics like:

“They ruined my Subbuteo and made their escape, four Jehovahs in a Volvo estate”