Anyone who covered Northern Ireland around the time of the Good Friday Agreement hung on Stephen Grimason’s every word. This is a lovely tribute from ⁦Mark Simpson⁩ to an extraordinary journalist. bbc.com/news/uk-northe…

oh what are you doing Ham&High

Saturday night and i’m just mainly admiring Neil Diamond’s eyelashes

Presumably the latter is a potential next volume title

Why wasn’t I at the Union Chapel for David Byrne #bbc4

🚗UPDATE🚗
- Britain is STILL sending millions of pounds of luxury cars into states neighbouring Russia, according to new data.
- There is STILL no especially plausible explanation
- Car lobby group the @smmt STILL insists it's got NOTHING to do with Russian sanctions
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Exciting development on W7 bus

So, Nigel Farage - one of the founders & owners of Reform UK - can present an “impartial” programme on a TV “news” channel during the general election according to the broadcasting regulator @ofcom. The leader of the party Richard Tice 🇬🇧 & its only MP Lee Anderson MP can…

Sad to hear. One of the good guys.

Walk into kitchen to hear Minister losing it on BBC Radio 4 Today

An excellent and insightful article from Steve Akehurst - analysis of poll crosstabs tends to focus on the winning coalition of voters from the prior GE.

Hence, we know lots about the (range of) views of the 2019 Tory vote.

This piece delves into the (likely) 2024 Labour vote.

Rishi has linked the attack on Pip to 'sick note culture'. Pip has nothing to do with work. It exists to (pretend) to help with the extra costs of being disabled. It exists to level the playing field just a tiny bit. It's a lifeline

Times have changed - Winter’s surprise exit a sign of the fracturing evolution of the football media | Football | The Guardian theguardian.com/football/2024/…

Great scoop from ⁦Madeleine Speed⁩ and ⁦Peter Foster⁩ - “A Defra official also cautioned against disclosing it to the media, saying one of its main aims was to avoid negative news stories.”Bad luck on.ft.com/3JvDH1b

And that's just the half of it

Londoners when they return from a trip up north

Bit damp in Dubai today

Joy. Massive bouncing hail in Aldgate.

Sure Start worked. It had big long term effects on the educational achievement of poor children. Its demise is a study in policy failure - over centralisation, over extension, poor data, 'not invented here syndrome'. thetimes.co.uk/article/sure-s…

Great doc from Mike Thomson on beautiful Haiti’s historical legacy bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…