Wonderful story. thetimes.com/article/0de4a9…

'Accused' is surely not the appropriate word here. thetimes.com/article/03501b…

Badenoch is like a wasp trapped in a jar - all noise and pointless fury. thetimes.com/article/d344d8…

Very good indeed.

I don’t think people are talking about the Hurculaneum Papyri enough. We have a legitimate chance of *DOUBLING* the amount of classic Hellenic literature the modern world has access to! It may be the most valuable piece of historiography in a millennium

Just hope it's not the Roman equivalent of the complete works of Dick Francis.

Love this film.

I think I'm so habituated to listening to Saturday evening jazz on R3 that it just feels wrong if anything else is playing.

Remembering Ron ‘Pigpen’ McKernan on his birthday today 🌹 Pigpen met Jerry in the early 1960s on the San Mateo Peninsula coffeehouse circuit. They formed a band called The Zodiacs, with Billy on drums, Jerry on bass, Pigpen on harmonica, and Troy Weidenheimer on guitar. Later,

Threads. Easily the most harrowing film I have ever seen.

Sunak wasting his time sticking up for pensioners when they're already his party's most reliable voters.

Bad idea. thetimes.com/article/53e439…

Fresh borlotti beans

It is insane to be considering this and people who should know better are being far too cavalier about the potential risk. thetimes.com/article/bbd9f0…

Given a choice, are high-skilled migrants going to be most attracted by our struggling health service, dysfunctional transport infrastructure, dilapidated public realm or exorbitant housing costs? Or will they just go elsewhere.

Not only is it a beautiful, sunny September day, it has also been ages since I heard anything at all about Grant Shapps.

Always find piano trio jazz the hardest format to warm to.

The vast stacking & drying rooms of a British opium factory in Patna, India (1850). Britain’s victory in the First Opium War enabled it to sell the drug in China on a huge scale, resulting in massive addiction, despite Chinese attempts to ban it