Times today has an obit of a not-uncontroversial accountant and, in the standfirst, gets his age wrong by a decade. Subs' joke, possibly.

Percy Grainger's Green Bushes BBC Radio 3 perfect length (and jauntiness) for Saturday midday drive to the pub in Woolhope.

In my theatre-going days we critics never waited for the curtain call. By that tine we were running down the aisles, crouching, to make an early getaway to file the overnight review. So Chummy's little cameo would have gone unseen. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

QUENTIN LETTS: At 4.25pm, 800 years of history drew to a close dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

QUENTIN LETTS: There's something furtive about the Governor dailymail.co.uk/debate/article…

Rishabh Pant - man of the match!

'Police found out his name from his senior bus pass' - the veritable sleuths! theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…

Letter in this week's Spectator.

Grumpy bishops infinitely preferable to wet ones. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1… via Mail Online

The 'grumpy' Bishop of Fulham may simply be a successor to Dr Phillpotts, Bishop of Exeter in Victorian days, who was celebrated for being cantankerous - and was accordingly rather popular.

Second lesson was from St Luke, ch 20, with its line about the self-important scribes who 'devour widows' houses'. Treasury theorists and inheritance tax!

Hereford Cathedral Close ⁦Three Choirs Festival⁩

This piece - a collector's item - suggests a certain panic behind the arras. thetimes.com/article/ad3463…

Every barber's nightmare. A likeable sort, he was proof Marxists need not be glum. telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/202…

Well well! telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/…

A particularly good page in Jim McCue's 'Postings 2'.

Stonking finale last night to Three Choirs Festival with Matthew Brook in the title role of Elijah with Philharmonia Orchestra . Contralto Jess Dandy: remarkable voice. Hereford Cathedral was packed and rapt.

Just finished this beautiful novel by Quentin Letts - I laughed, & I cried. The spirit was with me throughout

When I was appointed Daily Telegraph diarist 35 years ago I asked her to lunch. She declined, but in the most charming way that I always had a soft spot for her. telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/0…

Brother Corbyn has a point. telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/…