A gift for all setters of crosswords …

Not sure what the point of setting up a cross-party committee of MPs to look into widely reported problems might be if the Government refuses to implement any of its recommendations …

The PNG Courier on cruelty, cowardice and Crayola ...

Caroline Lucas of the Green Party reckons that Water needs to be Renationalised.

RT if you know it has to be.

Oh my. This letter to The Times by a former *Tory MP* on the Angela Rayner story is quite something.

'I suppose that her attackers cannot bear the idea that they are about to lose to a woman who pulled herself up by her bootstraps. And who is going wipe the floor with them.' ~AA

“Rotating the Square Block” would be such a great title for an autobiography …

Ha ha ha … Read this during a grown-up Teams meeting and came close to having to mute my mic …

Snowman creator Raymond Briggs’s favourite Sussex paths theguardian.com/travel/2024/ap…

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Another extract from Ten Years To Save The West. This time it's Liz Truss on her similarities with Mrs Thatcher.

Scrabble describes Scrabble …

I’m in Barcelona and you might expect me to be promoting my own books, but I’m sharing my holiday reading with you instead, because Becky Holmes hates spinach has written a funny and well researched book that everyone should know about …

For anyone who hasn’t seen this tetralogy before, it may be the most boat-friendly example of Anthony Etherin’s oeuvre. And it is, of course, impossible …

The PNG Courier puts the mordant into Mordaunt …

In case you missed it yesterday, do go back and enjoy this cheeky debut puzzle as sometime student Bard takes a well-deserved slot in the The Independent …

This slow-moving crash is getting so little attention.

Between fees, Brexit, and 'cracking down' on visas, unis anticipate a 37% drop in foreign students. And that means they may have to cut places for Brits!

A perfect microcosm of how migration hysteria causes self-harm. ~AA

Shouldn’t be possible …