Exactly right. Mistakes must be corrected, but deliberate campaigns should be recognised for what they are.

A lovely interview with Sam West, part of GB's podcast series about formative experiences and memories. Their conversation, recorded between Timothy West's memorial service and Prunella Scales's death last week, is touching, thought-provoking and thoroughly uplifting. shows.acast.com/rosebud-with...

Where false professions of Christianity by the likes of Trump, Vance, Kirk, Huckabee and White-Cain are concerned, the writings, witness and example of Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer (arrested by the Nazis in 1943 and murdered in 1945) might and should be brought back into strong light and focus.

No argument about disagreement, censorship and attack, Mr #Poilievre. But if you think it reasonable to characterise Charlie Kirk's bigoted positions as "a contrary point of view", and if you think the USA is currently a healthy democracy, you need to reexamine your senses of reality and morality.

But don’t say we have to grieve Charlie Kirk. No one HAS to do that. Hate that he was murdered, sure. Condemn entirely the violent direction of US political discourse, yes. But grieve that guy? THAT guy? No way.

Charlie Kirk should not have been murdered. Charlie Kirk was a dangerous and repulsive bigot. Both of these things can be true.

I know it's all too easy to point out hypocrisy but are we seeing a great outbreak of Republican 'thoughts and prayers'? Are they urging people not to rush to politicise this? Are they insisting that the shooter was mentally ill rather than ideological?

This is the Britain I recognise. Not a country where courageous migrants are shouted at by home-grown fools and desperate inadequates from outside hotels. Farage and every single immigrant-scapegoater can go to hell. I want to be as proud to be British as I once was. (Thanks, Dan, for the link).

Timeline cleanse

So sorry to learn that CHB has departed, @andr3wsmith.bsky.social. Like you, he responded so kindly and thoughtfully to tweets years ago expressing gratitude for the seeds sown in an 8yo mind by Season 18. Your mutual admiration and affection were evident in interviews and DVD extras. Condolences.

This guy, I swear.

"We love Scotland", says #Trump, as yet again he flies in to desecrate the ecology of his mother's native land by creating a Trump golf course. Golf at historic St Andrews where real sportspeople compete, you charlatan. May Molly Forbes forever invade your widdle-ridden dreams.

Bob Marley would have been eighty today. "One Love" is almost unbearably poignant on his birthday, as we pull apart from each other and ruin the world, one cynical and ahistorical vote at a time.