This is the table display of Boris Johnson’s memoir at the Cheltenham Literature Festival tonight. Waterstones staff keep cleaning it up. But then festival goers keep doing it again! @cheltfestivals
Right listen here. A staycation is where you stay at home and visit local tourist sites etc. Basically act as if you are holiday whilst staying at home. If you drive to Cornwall or somewhere else in the UK that is a holiday not a staycation.
'Hopefulness is not a neutral position. It is adversarial. It is the warrior emotion that can lay waste to cynicism. Each redemptive or loving act, as small as you like – such as reading to your little boy... keeps the Devil down in the hole.'
Nick Cave.
I’m struggling to think of two more conservative places than the City of London and Henley. The first is now Labour and the LibDems just flipped the second
It's astonishing that Labour are going to win the biggest majority of the postwar era and the BBC cannot stop talking about Reform.
Reform's relative success is absolutely part of the story but they are not the main story.
Reforms success this evening is being wrongly framed. It’s about stagnant real wages, sky high rents and house prices, imploding public services, a sense it’s all crap. Labour must address those issues from day one.
reading classics is like wow human nature has been fundamentally unchanged throughout history and we have always been deeply emotional creatures capable of great love and great evil. and then there’s like fifty pages about how a farmer decided to switch methods for harvesting hay
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