So my view is that the tax is good policy. There will be inefficiencies and unfairnesses, as with all taxes, but the basic concept is a good one. I wrote more about that in our Budget round-up: taxpolicy.org.uk/2025/11/26/t...

Every year I have to decide between two hair styles, Dulux dog or baldie.

Has Chez Stephan turned Putney into a riot zone of beautifully-coiffured drunks? Because Brighton council seem to think it would tip us over into anarchy

The North Laines, a famously silent, sober part of Brighton, would be turned into a nightclub

I like fancy wine, what can I say

NOOOOOO 😱

I also have no hairdresser traumas because my hair never looks better or worse, it just exists as a curly dulux dog mop resisting all intervention

I don't mean to get all earnest but his idea - he sells posh wines by the glass while cutting, customers can buy bottles of their faves at the end - is a delightful, posh and harmless and will do total numbers in Brighton, and this kind of council shit is why we have no growth

The ultimate dream is me and the hairdresser getting pissed together

Britain needs growth! So lets block small businesses from expanding because Mrs Jones at number 30 has a cat that might be upset

When I investigated this issue a couple of years ago, we found it upsettingly easy to identify missing asylum seeker kids. They have posters on Missing People, yet no family or friends appealing for them. Nothing has improved.

I've had friends who have had to have that exact conversation with parents after abnormal findings. It poisons relationships, in some cases permanently.

Yes! I'm grateful that I don't need to fully understand this and can outsource the understanding part to an expert...

Wild, isn't it. I've had it once before so I know the drill, though 3 broken bones are pretty sore... Thank you x

Limb reconstruction: surgery, engineering and carpentry all at once. It feels (and is) very 'space age'. The frame is constructed of a hexapod or Stewart Platform, which is also used for telescopes and flight simulators.

The app is programmed to match this frame on my leg, and tells me how far I have to move tiny dials on the side each day to rotate the bone just over one degree, until my foot, knee and hip are in line.