If Harris wins I am going to be so annoyed with my late dad for not putting a bet on her being president sometime in 2025 at the start of the 2020 primaries. Except of course he’d have lost the betting slip anyway.

This is the voter canvassing version of infinite monkeys typing Shakespeare

I don’t know this Bob Taylor story. Fantastic.

I find it so so much easier to suspend disbelief about the casting in this (did Tudor Brits have modern accents?; were they black? I don’t care) than to put up with “we’re going to do this thing” or similar in a drama set in 1985. Is that just me?

Terrific interview with Mick Waters and David Cameron💜 about their edited book Unfinished Business, a tribute to Tim Brighouse. Well worth a listen.

Happy Birthday, #Clangers! 🎂🌜 First seen on TV #OTD 55 years ago, the whistling space mice were created by artist and puppet maker Peter Firmin, photographed at his home in Kent by Jack Barnes for Radio Times in 2015. Clangers 💫

Excellent piece about class and cricket (and Durham) by Paul Edwards

One of the writers was the versatile and often hilarious Kin Platt. And the impersonations (Cary grant, Phil Silvers — whod never have been seen together) were terrific. Much better than your average HB fare.

It’s arrived and I’m looking forward to starting it this weekend! 🌟 #legend steve munby ⁦David Cameron💜⁩ ⁦Harry Brighouse⁩

I took one look out of my bedroom window in #Saddleworth ⁦Oldham Council⁩ & decided it was the perfect day to stay in bed for a while with ☕️ reading my new book ‘Unfinished Business’ by Sir Tim Brighouse. Hope everyone keep safe in #StormBert 💨☔️⁦Harry Brighouse⁩

Do you remember the 1942 Carnegie-Medal-winning 'The Little Grey' men, written & illustrated by 'BB' aka Denys Watkins-Pitchford? It was bout the last 4 gnomes in England, its brilliance lying in how he made them seem as much a part of the countryside as a robin or a badger.

Can’t help thinking this article helps explain why Ken Barrington was such a great, and such a beloved, mentor. thecricketmonthly.com/story/1220189/…

Robbie Williams’s new single sounds an awful lot like Jim Croce’s I Got A Name. If someone published a paper that much like one of mine, anyone who noticed would think it was plagiarized. Curious to see what happens.

This is exactly what the Women’s Institute wants you to think. (And the Wombles. Don’t forget the Wombles. Oops! Do forget the Wombles!).

The batsman with the oversized implement is Ernie Wise, hotly pursued by umpire Eric Morecambe - the bemused looking fielder is Dennis Amiss

Very sad that Johnnie Walker has passed away today. He was a nice man and a fine broadcaster. R.I.P.

The amount of fragile men that are offended that Annabel Sutherland’s name is up on the MCG honour board is insane. ‘There should be different boards for men and women’ WHY? It’s an Australian player scoring a test century at the MCG. I’m so bloody sick of this shit. #Ashes

The first female to make it on the visitors MCG honours board 🥹🫶

From Simon Kuper at the FT. I actually doubt there are many people like Tim in the federal government but however many there are there will be none by the end of this year. To be fair, that does seem to be the goal.

Thrilled to see FOUR UW–Madison scholars — @Harrybrighouse1, Patricia Devine, Lisa Martin & Mark Seidenberg — elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences of Arts & Sciences for their outstanding work in the social & behavioral sciences. A tremendous & well-earned honor! news.wisc.edu/four-uw-madiso…