Great cartoon from The Telegraph.

Picked up today in Colmar to refresh my French.

Marcus Söder, the Bayern Minister, would make a great Bond villain. That is a compliment. He projects an aura of genial menace.

120 pages in and this is an interesting book. Insights into the rise of Vladimir Putin and the state of Russia around the 1990s.

There were a lot of articles over the weekend about the "feud" between the Gallagher brothers in Oasis. Fortunately, music journalists have never heard of "The Kinks"; that was a level above Oasis.

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Very sad to read about Martin Cruz Smith. His Arkady Renko novels reignited my love of reading and thrillers in particular. I get a lot of my political and historical education from crime and thriller writing, so I will be reading his final Renko novel very soon.

The biggest smuggling gang in the UK was the UK Government. That was a plot twist I did not expect.

In the next James Bond film he smashes the smuggling gangs and looks like Kier Starmer. I would pay

I believe an Apple strudel should count towards your 5-a-day fruit regime.

This was the worst Riverdance sequence I have ever seen. Michael Flatley should sue.

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Good crime series written from a female perspective. Grisly crimes in Hamburg amongst other things. Just beyond my level of German but I am catching up.

Imagine if the EU had bought Twitter, managed by the Commission. What would be the news?

Going to read about the Jazz Age as theatre parallels with the AI age. There may be trouble ahead.

I am going to rewrite my CV Phillipson style... "As a proud midlander from a working class family...blah blah etc." It is multi-media starting with slow violins and ending like the 1812 Overture. In the middle it rips off the Hovis commercial. Should nail that Director job.

In Hamburg. Trying Labskaus for the first time. Schifferborse by the Hauptbahnhof.

Does this mean that Peter Mandelson is now available for Strictly Come Dancing

Bruce Wayne is expanding from Wayne Enterprises

New book to start tomorrow. I have seen the television programmes and they are funny.