Already the quality of debate in the House of Lords is (with a few notable exceptions) of such a higher quality. Imagine wanting to replace this with another chamber of elected politicians. This is Parliament at its best.

… no Twitter in Heaven, thank God. But to leave one platform on the grounds that it serves polarisation and profit and to pretend those don’t also exist on Bluesky, YouTube and Facebook (!!), actually sends a signal to the millions of people on here but not elsewhere that they…

‘No Englishman unmoved that statement hears, because with all their faults we love our House of Peers’. spectator.co.uk/article/this-p…

London’s new super sewer is a marvel, built on time and almost on budget — it should be a model for other projects | ✍️ Alice Thomson thetimes.com/comment/column…

“…But while fans might feel let down, that’s surely our problem not hers.”

RIP to an absolute icon, the likes of which we may never see again, Dame Patricia Routledge Her rendition of Noel Coward's "Marvellous Party" will always remain the undisputed best version

AI is also extraordinarily bad news environmentally. It poses an existential threat to creativity and originality, it learns from stolen work by real authors, it encourages cheating, and nobody in the arts/education/publishing world should be endorsing it.

“The myth that people in the Middle Ages thought the earth is flat appears to date from the 17th century as part of the campaign by Protestants against Catholic teaching… Atheists and agnostics championed the conflict thesis for their own purposes.” patheos.com/resources/addi…

Bold question from a man who thinks the medievals thought the world was flat

Apropos of nothing.

You couldn’t have waterboarded this clip out of me.

He said it in an interview with a Sunday Times journalist! "So much of it is all bloody Christians. They argue that grannies will be made to commit suicide. Even if a few grannies get bullied into it, isn’t that a price worth paying for all the people who could die with dignity?"

Luke Kelly was born #OnThisDay in 1940 WATCH: Performing 'On Raglan Road' on 'Humours of Donnybrook' in 1979 rte.ie/archives/2019/…

‘Why can’t producers discourage interviewees from telling us how grateful they are…? And why do so many “serious” programmes require two presenters who greet each other with squeals of joy… as though they’re secret lovers and can’t imagine being parted?’ thetimes.com/uk/media/artic…

A very happy 189th birthday to WS Gilbert- the only genuinely funny Victorian.

“I’ll bet you a dime that I can drink that drink without touching the hat.” CHEERS (1983) #HarryAnderson #GeorgeWendt #JohnRatzenberger #NicholasColasanto

“We live in an age where nuance is regarded as an affectation, so it was not entirely surprising that Donald Trump should have taken the expression at face value.”