my top tip: access the NHS via an ambulance and remain top of the list as Urgent for the duration of your condition. It’s scary but speedy. Beware drifting in the low risk doldrums of Routine.

I think they wear out the sky instead

great stuff, really enjoyed it.

but you must have got yourself to the bar in a conscious state, so just ignore what happened after. You’re good.

only if drunk a pint at a time, sorry

all beers count, including the alcohol-free ones.

essentially, a thing can only be conscious if it can drink beer with you in a bar. It’s a pretty simple test.

that’s awful, and needless. Wouldn’t you and the BBC would have had a strong defence against defamation under the Honest Opinion section of the 2013 Act?
Any media lawyers on here? I’m not, but have had to think like one from time to time.

I recall, at school in the 1970s, boys using chalk to draw swastikas on the coats of German exchange students. It was a dreadful thing to do, but there was at least a loathing of fascism rather than a nostalgia for it.

what, and leave him struggling on his £1m a year salary for his Mail column? (In the meantime, I’m sorry for your loss.)

fabulous series. The closing song, Something On My Mind, is gorgeous (and it’s worth a listen to the original, by Karen Dalton)

got a horrible feeling that’s somewhere in the UK

would she include Boris Johnson, born in the USA? Would Disraeli, born in the UK, count as a ‘native’? I’m not sure she’s thought this through …

worth remembering that if you lost a loved one to Covid at the height of the pandemic you may have had little or no knowledge of how they died. It was a remote business, and comms from beleaguered hospital staff were sparse. The dead just vanished. Death certificates delayed for weeks.

I doubt it, but we’re thinking hard about them.

I really, really hope they’re training up as Morris Dancers. Their moves suggest it.