The Remains of the Day - Leeds Castle, Kent

God loves a trier, and leaving the front exterior shot to 14/14 is certainly trying their best

If only Esther McVey was as angry about hungry schoolchildren as she is about rainbow lanyards

So why did the Tories - who were happy for several of our newspapers to be taken over by the son of a senior KGB official - block the sale of the Telegraph to a UAE consortium? Hmm, a proper head-scratcher...

The New Yorker has published a very long piece about the Lucy Letby case today, which is embargoed in the UK for legal reasons. I make no judgement about Letty’s guilt or innocence, but this was not a safe conviction. archive.ph/AWpyz

I underwent surgical procedure this year. My 1st general anaesthetic in 50 years of my 55. Lying on trolley in process of being put under I’ve never been more grateful for fabulous Consultant Anaesthetist - rather than possibility of a Gas Fitter fancying a career change to an AA

Esther McVey bans rainbow lanyards. Meanwhile:

'A crate of black lanyards? That will be £200 million...'
'Hello, Zahawi Lanyard Solutions Ltd...'

This is important to note.

FYI: Penny Mordaunt voted against it.

Sunak asks for us to judge him and his party on his record? Where to begin with such a litany of failure, incompetence, corruption, dishonesty and cruelty? Let's just call out this one aspect of the Conservative record... How shaming is it for one of the world's richest…

Just a reminder that 14 yrs ago there were no waiting lists over 18-weeks, no 12-hour A&E waits, no waiting an hour for an urgent ambulance, over 90% of cancer patients started treated within two months, everyone could see their GP within 2-days,…

Then we got the Tories

'Trust me to keep you safe against the threat of Putin' say head of party whose defining policy this last decade has done more than anything since WW2 to divide our continent and make its collective defence against Putin weaker

Rishi Sunak, whose party took millions of pounds in funding from Russia-linked donors and whose wife's family business continued to operate out of Moscow long after the war in Ukraine began, accuses his opponents of seeking to 'embolden' Vladimir Putin

'Yes, I could tell you exactly how this happened, but a magician never reveals his secrets'

19YrsAgo Today St Olaves Hotel,Exeter Helen Bonser-Wilton & I formally became #TeamBW partnership.
I left card in her Dressing Room with words of Robert Browning: ‘Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be,the last of life for which the first was made’ - So far so very good❤️xx

Quintessentially posts another year of losses. Delayed fillings of accounts to Companies House. Auditors declining to sign off accounts & now rising debts- Is Ben Elliot’s (Camilla’s nephew) company in peril? The Times and The Sunday Times apple.news/Ak7xkPD4SSZKQc…

#OnThisDay 1818 Bere Regis,Priscilla Brown found asphyxiated on dung heap.Priscilla pregnant:named newly married John Gallop as father:claim he denied.Only viable suspect for murder:charged.Appeared Dorset Assizes protesting innocence.Found Guilty.Executed July27 #WestcountryJury

“Trust me” says man Rishi Sunak whose billionaire father in law was Putin’s bestie, still lists a Moscow office, wrote software for the FSB spyware developer & whose party took millions to do Putin’s Brexit & blocked a Russian inquiry & still hasn’t sanctioned Lebedev

Robert Peston, 'You talk about the importance of growth and security. But since the 2019 election we've had economic chaos, ethical chaos, more turnover of ministers and prime ministers than during any government in history. We've got trauma in the NHS. Why on earth shouldn't…