Kuenssberg is back tomorrow-who is she interviewing-Nigel Farage-so while she’s been absent a new leader for the Green Party-a new party YourParty established-yet she has Farage as her guest-BBC this love in with the Reform Party has to stop!

Whitby - I love you, but you’ve got to break the habit of shafting your guests… Cod and Chips twice with a pot of tea…FORTY FIVE POUNDS! £45.00 bloody quid. I thought it was only Dracula that bled you to death…! #eastendontour

A very happy 70th to the brilliant Rita Rudner! "When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always." "Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them." To attract men, I wear a perfume called 'New Car Interior.'

My novel The Gibraltar Conspiracy (published by Austin Macauley) reflects much of the current status quo between the Rock and neighbouring Spanish towns of La Linea and Torreguadiaro. Many waiting for the approaching glorious days when at last the border fence is removed. The

The annual jamboree of hypocritical virtue - COP30 climate conference begins in next week in Brazil. As well as ripping up trees in the Amazon rainforest to build a 8 mile highway to COP30, hundreds of delegates will arrive on private jet to tell us plebs how to save the planet.

I am one day away from my irritating middle-aged habit of waking up at 3am proving to be actually useful. Sod’s law once the Ashes starts I’ll finally sleep through the night

The competition between some (not all) of the BBC Radio 4 Today presenters to see who can be rudest and smart-arsest with government ministers (though rarely Farage and Co) might be one of the reasons they are losing so many listeners. Pat McFadden did well there not to say “if it’s

ALASTAIR CAMPBELL BBC Radio 4 Today Pat McFadden BBC Radio 4 Today Is no longer presenting news preferring to push a narrative that’s aimed at undermining the current PM. Professional reporting should be just that & interviewers should conduct themselves impartially. Yet again the influence of the brash side of the USA is evident

ALASTAIR CAMPBELL Jenny BBC Radio 4 Today Pat McFadden BBC Radio 4 Today lost me during the Starmer Mandelson fallout period because I was sick of the lead BBC reporters suggesting he had to go … again and again. Always loved Today too ..

I am so much enjoying The Killing Stones by Ann Cleeves it’s like I’ve come home with Perez, the new Orkney setting is inspired & now I want to go there as I did with Shetland (best week ever!). I hope there are more Perez novels in the pipeline….

Emma S Thanks so much Emma! And yes, there will be more Jimmy Perez novels.

Clocks go back in the UK, tomorrow. Here's some handy advice ...

Cathy Newman, "Trump smashed up the old world order, the UK and EU are wondering what to do about it" "Keir Starmer offered closer ties with the EU, why not go the whole hog and rejoin the EU, with the majority of the country in favour?" Sir Michael Morpurgo, "It was the

I seem to have upset the Nigel Farage MP fan club - so let me be clear. This man sows hate, lies and division. He is a grifter and a conman. He does not represent the vast majority of Britons. RT if you agree P.s. multiculturalism is great.

A second pressing already for this 27-CD box set of all my #Bach recordings for Hyperion Records Ltd. Happy Listening! Buon ascolto!

JD Vance has accused European countries of 'interfering in the Hungarian election',  after he travelled to Hungary to interfere in the election

Am I the only one to be a tad suspicious that the Iran war was started to get Epstein out of the headlines, and now they’re using Epstein to get the Iran war fiasco out of the headlines?

What a breath of fresh air having Victoria Derbyshire this morning! I don't thank the BBC very often these days but thank you for a balanced well led program for once!

Happy birthday to Sir John Eliot Gardiner! On Bach: "If I look at Bach, I cannot be an atheist. Then I have to accept the way he believed. His music never stops praying. And how can I get closer if I look at him from the outside?" "Bach gives us the voice of God - in human form.”