Having not read anything about his time at the CPS, I'd be fascinated to know if he adopted the same pace of responding to crises there too.

Think it's worth pointing out that Americans have always had a weird attitude to paracetamol. Their doctors are much more cautious prescribing it than we are in the UK. Suspect that makes these claims more likely to find a receptive audience.

Ears engaged and ready for take off!

There should be a high bar for politicians attacking the media, but maybe Ed Davey has half a point here? For example, the first three paragraphs of this BBC story repeat Reform's £243bn figure without saying that the thinktank behind the estimate now disowns it. (This is mentioned in paragraph 35)

Would like to organise a get together for the 3% of Millennials saying Community and the 3% of Gen X saying Red Dwarf. My people.

Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’

Armando Ianucci would cut an argument over who controls 'Your Party' for being too on the nose. Still, I hope they stick the landing and we get a 'Who's On First?' routine at conference.

Admittedly I haven't read it, so maybe I'm missing something, but I'm not quite sure why a book about kayaking the Northwest Passage has been categorised as 'Mountain Literature'.

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

This is why I like being on microblogging sites. People with this kind of knowledge at their fingertips, and consequently yours.

On 31st Aug., a major clean-up operation took place at the Ossoue glacier to restore some of its natural beauty for its final years! 🧊🚮✝️ Organized by 'Moraine' asso. this made it possible to collect 185 kg of waste, including valuable heritage items! 📷 P.N. Pyrénées 1/

My mother's war against ever getting rid of anything at its most ridiculous: three tea bag dishes stacked on top of each other.

Millennials watching Zoomers experiencing a Mandy scandal.

This thread is my Joker origin story.

"Economic power" loves it when you nationalise the railways and place more stringent requirements on landlords.

No one makes me want to defend Keir Starmer like his staunchest critics who are completely disconnected from reality. Raising the minimum wage, settling multiple pay disputes, raising taxes on businesses and a massive expansion to workers' rights is not being 'beholden to economic power'.

Dad sent me an article from the local newspaper about my home town's scarecrow festival and I'm absolutely losing it at them referring to what is clearly a Jane Austen scarecrow as a "fashionable lady". She's outside the library, lads.

The march through the institutions will be led by Moodle.

I'm going to sound like the kind of pendant everyone hates here, but I'm really not going to allow them to call a wyvern a dragon when the theatre is called the 'Wyvern Theatre'.

Just for a second, take a step back, and remember that these are the actions of a 56 year old man towards a 17 year old girl.

Thinking about that stat about under 35s liking In Our Time and remembering how I didn't have enough time at uni (UNI!) to listen to all the good Radio 4 programming. These days I can barely find anything of interest outside of a few reliable shows.

I felt something...as though a thousand insomniacs cried out at once.

Trying to imagine what it would feel like to be this relaxed.

Me when my double Ds come in.

Feel like the Beeb have internalised all the anti-immigrant messaging to such a degree that they're now writing headlines that make it sound like Badenoch wants to put North Sea oil on a. Flight to Rwanda.

Decided to re-watch the 1995 BBC Pride and Prejudice and I'm never quite prepared for just how good Colin Firth's Darcy is. You can see why they asked him to do it again.

Another fun day searching for 'ways to unpick Cameron-era austerity' that don't run through 'taxing the people who got tax cuts under David Cameron'!

Remain convinced that the best way to discourage SUVs is to run a campaign that characterises them as fundamentally un-British because, well, they are. Vulgar, impractical American cars that aren't at all suited to UK roads.

Editing this year's obituaries for the Alpine Journal and am struck, once again, by what a privilege that is. Am constantly left in awe of these rich, fascinating lives I play a small part in memorialising.

The ideal bank holiday Monday involves climbing an easy route with a view.

Fabulous day at Dinas Rock yesterday finishing off the wonderfully named 'Inflated Roundhead'. Surprisingly quiet given the bank holiday.

Someone please make it stop.

You know you're a climber when...you see this headline/thumbnail combination and misread "homebuyers" as "home boards".

Nice morning's bolt clipping and mushroom spotting at Tyle y Coch. Thoroughly recommended if you like crimpy face climbing and/or fungi.

Cardiff airport is so small and quiet that I reckon I could get from the car park to my gate in 15 minutes if I didn't have a bag to check.

AI is less useful to you for practical tasks than 'Gary's DIY' a YouTube channel run by a man from Basingstoke with an over-long clip art opening on every video.

Danny Boyle's best work if only because it's still driving the wing nuts up the wall more than a decade later.

Jenny Visser-Hooft relaxing with the newspaper and her dog, Patiala, in Sonamarg, August 1930.

She knows exactly how to get the all-important attention.

About two decades ago, the BBC had a show where they made children's invention ideas real and a 10-year-old boy came up with this and they made it.

Learning how to use markdown and remembering how to add a space by repeating "And non-binary spelling mistake, semi-colon' to myself like a conspiracy theorist. (  adds space just for clarity)

Pursue engagement at the cost of credibility and you’ll deserve neither and lose both.

Great information environment we've got going on here.

Oh, this one is very good.

It's definitely the wind turbines at Turnberry that aren't in keeping with the landscape...

It'd be really great if this is how we find out that Reform has been infiltrated by a sect of radical vegans.

Interested to know what else he thinks satirists should be doing...

"You can unplug the cat. Looks like he's fully charged."

It may be that there's something else behind the pulling of this film, but NatGeo's refusal to be candid certainly makes it look like they're playing down their previously stated values so as not to draw the ire of the current US administration.