Farewell then Humza Yousaf. So close, yet so very very far…

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Well he managed just over a year. That’s a decent innings these days.

Angela van den Bogerd knew “more than anyone” at the Post Office about the Horizon system, and yet she has now usurped Congolese IT technician Guy Goma as the least convincing computer expert ever to appear on UK television.

Sketch here…

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'I want my children to grow up in a country where the streets are safe, the public space isn't filthy, where it isn't a hassle to get around, you can own your own home and where climate change and the environment aren't an afterthought.'
—Cameron leadership victory speech, 2005

People are making $70-80K per year selling restaurant reservations in NYC on the secondary market 😯

Captain Tom, Kai Rooney dressed as Captain Tom, Captain Tom Spa Complex, Demolition of Captain Tom Spa Complex

Happy St George’s Day

‘It’s not your question, but it is my answer’, illegal migration minister Michael Tomlinson tells Mishal Husain on BBC Radio 4 Today on Rwanda scheme. We are through the looking glass in terms of politician interviews

Well this improves with every paragraph

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Sometimes, in politics, you’ve got to be prepared to stand up and fight. You’ve got to be prepared to tell a load of old age pensioners that they can’t go to bed til they do what you say.

Enter Sunak the tough guy…

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Sorry but the FA Cup is absolutely right to scrap replays. If you missed the goal because you were staring at your phone then it’s your own fault.

Very much looking forward to this which starts in FIVE MINUTES on radio 4

If Monty Don ever got poached by Netflix would the BBC make him go on non-gardening leave?

If you were going to do a comedy musical about the last fourteen years of Conservative government, what better ending could you hope for than the prime minister giving a big speech out of nowhere, to tell everyone that they’re not really depressed?

Just didn’t think there were enough articles around this week about Liz Truss so decided to write one myself.

If you think Liz Truss’s book is deluded, the TV interviews are even worse

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'It has already been observed by everyone who has reviewed Ten Years to Save The West, that its author has become utterly detached from reality and entirely delusional. But the book tour has been even more deluded than the book' | ✍️ Tom Peck thetimes.co.uk/article/if-you…

Incredibly grating having to add a parking ticket to my “shopping basket” before “proceeding to checkout.”

I think this must be the first time since 2008 that three of the four Champions League semi-finalists had an English player.

There's a bit in James Graham's This House which is a kind of montage / medley type thing of all the MPs the 74 Labour govt lost for mad reasons, mainly either dying or faking their own death. The 2019 version would be so insane no one could possibly believe it.

.David Frum: 'When they teach [about this election] 100 years from now, they won't be talking about abortion and grocery prices... What's on the ballot is the constitution itself, and that really should not be up for debate.' on.msnbc.com/43Z7usP