Sometimes it pays to stop and zoom in on a photo

Just thinking of that time in 2018 when Quincy Jones gave a couple of remarkable interviews with eye-popping details. RIP to a real one. Here's the Vulture interview (1/2) vulture.com/2018/02/quincy…

Beware the Badenoch , from ⁦Private Eye Magazine⁩ Notes & Queries, 2022. #Badenoch #Jabberwocky

Still can't wrap my head around there being someone else called The Queen. Doesn't feel like a job title that should be transferable.

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David Bowie- Low (1977)

Years ago, in the 1990s, me and my boss were looking at a client's rental accounts. He asked was I sure about the mortgage repayments. I said I had checked them with the bank. "They can't be less than the rent," he said, "That never happens. Not on a 90% mortgage." Seems like...

*squints* Theatre Twitter? You still out there? If so come and see my play "Fandemonium!" at Scottish Storytelling Centre on Tuesday, part of Gateway New Writing Festival.

The CIA publishes the craziest stuff on their website. "Oh yeah we had professional remote viewers, yeah, we asked them to go visit Mars one million years ago. What did they see? Pyramids, obelisks, a dying elder race looking for a new home. Anyway its declassified now."

Nov 18th 1815 - Jean Valjean is released from prison, after serving 19 years. 5 for stealing a loaf of bread, the rest for trying to run. 📽️📅 Les Misérables (2012)

A good day to recall one of John Prescott's most famous lines. And to honour its promise. “The Green Belt is a Labour achievement and we intend to build on it”.

Cracking anecdote from John Banville in The Guardian

Can't have peace on Earth without Mr. Worldwide

Me, a perfectly normal guy getting into a taxi: "How about them grooming gangs ay?"

What are the main reasons voters have switched from Labour? Winter fuel allowance trumps all else. After that, impatience over public services + cost of living. Immigration less salient. Net Zero of no salience whatsoever. Scandals less than I expected. via YouGov

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