There's a budget/audience for Netflix films about Newsnight but increasingly not for actual Newsnight (at least as we knew it) and cannot help but feel uneasy about that

Liz Truss attributes her failure to the absence of champions in the media. This is implausible & suggests a distorted memory of the media reception

Wow. Just look at this superb building about to succumb to dastardly developers. They are like the water companies, only less visible and more cunning

Chipping Barnet Cherry Blossom

Demography is Politics. Japan’s population decline features on front page of weekend Financial Times. But it’s not an outlier: 30+ countries, including most in Eastern Europe, are already losing population. More on this in the forthcoming Ipsos Generations Report 2024 📉

Probably the greatest content on the internet.

#SKI News: it’s the end of the line for the iconic Transarc at Les Arcs, after 32 years of loyal service 👏. Season review here simon-lesarcs.blogspot.com/2024/04/ski-se…

This is indeed massive fun. Apparently the top time for looking at Rightmove is “on Wednesday at 8:48pm, that midweek lull when we glance at our lives and wonder if there might be something better elsewhere”…

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Match wrap | Oxford United 5 Peterborough United 0

'The greatest individual performance in a yellow shirt? Maybe. The best league performance at The Kassam? Perhaps. The best ever? Maybe even that too.'

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What a wonderful afternoon back in Oxfordshire. Bravo to Oxford United players, staff and fans 💛 💙 #oufc

FT: #oufc 5 Peterborough 0

Truly a football fairytale. It’s extraordinary what you can achieve by wildly outspending everybody else in your league and losing millions a year

What I loved so much about that, alongside the dashing attacking and well-taken goals of course, was the bloody-minded defending. The team just did not want to let a goal in, even at 5-0 👏 #oufc BBC Radio Oxford Sport 💛 💙

Absolute half-time standing ovation for #oufc ’s true team performance. Peterborough will be receiving a Fergie Hairdryer Session as I type. You can see they are good, but they have been arrogant and complacent so far

OMG 2-0 #wicog #oufc

10 mins gone and feels like both sides have started quite well. Some incisive forward runs by #oufc but then again #posh look very much at ease moving the ball around ⚽️ 0-0

Good afternoon from the Kassam Stadium 💛 💙 #oufc

The fact that pieces like this are now being written should bring shame and shudder to the West.

Including Feargal Sharkey’s account of how the Top Chalk River that is the River Test is being used as a sewer ⚠️