Gosh I hadn’t realised Restore Trust (RT2021 Ltd) has been running a paid-for ad campaign about its National Trust sconescare. I wonder how much it cost. I wonder how much the company’s Respect Britain’s Heritage website and all its other ads cost.

How can a modern advanced country full of intelligent competent people end up with this ridiculous “solution” to the Brexit trade disaster? It’s a national embarrassment foisted on us by the flag-obsessed Brexit pretend-patriots.

The damage Lord Frost has done to the economy of the United Kingdom, our reputation for competence and the Union of the United Kingdom ensures him a place in history books. The more nonsense he writes, the more he resembles the male version of the historic Liz Truss disaster.

There’s the Herman Melville short story about the bloke who is always in the office … because he lives there …literally hidden in plain sight

Really imaginative interesting brilliant Proms season ahead. Best of British. BBC Proms

What! Hidden in plain sight … how clever…

And here he is again, the ever-determined and infatigable alan rusbridger on his pursuit for more transparency in the British media world.

Worth a listen

In “Britain Is Better Than This” I compare Boris Johnson’s comments on Africa p313 ff with the Ladybird children’s book on Africa published in the 1960s (Flight Five Africa.) The Ladybird version appears to be still alive for some in the Conservative Party.

At the Conservative party conference in October 2016 Boris Johnson referred to Africa as “that country.” Fact: there are more than 50 countries in Africa. Another Fact:
Boris Johnson (Eton and Oxford) was then the UK’s Foreign Secretary.

We asked Gavin Esler to watch a month’s worth of GB News to gauge the nature of the messages promoted and framed by its presenters. He survived—just.

Here’s what he thought👇
prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/65…

Telegraph readers switching to Labour? G B “News” viewers too? … it’s a funny old world.

Worth a read.

Thank you BBC Radio 6 Music for adding Divergence to the playlist! 💚🎶💚

Written for the 6 Music Festival,as part of my collaboration + experiment with maryanne hobbs 🖤

It’s available now as a keepsake on @bandcamp and out tomorrow on all digital platforms : orcd.co/divergence

So - (see below) - Ofcom listens to what “audiences have told us.” If anyone on Twitter likes Rees-Mogg Farage Tice Anderson and other politicians having free political advertising on G B “News” (or if you DON’T) Ofcom would like
to hear from you …

Gavin Esler Ofcom They are only treated as news when they want to be it seems, but they are licensed by OFCOM as news. Here’s their licence.

Thank you Jim - much appreciated-

So G B “News” is not news even if it presents itself as news? In an election year politicians propagandising their views on matters of public policy in something that calls itself “news” doesn’t count as news for Ofcom? Seriously?

Folkestone people I need your help. Can we get as many people as possible together on Sunny Sands TODAY (Wednesday) at 6.30pm to say we don't want any more people dying crossing the Channel?

Documentary?