I rarely listen to Classic FM, particularly at this time of year. I feel inadequate as I don't have a son called Tristam playing cello next to the Aga as I prepare food for my 27 strong family staying over the festive period.

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Can you imagine how few British people would be living abroad if you had to be high earning and intelligent to live in Magaluf?

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The readers are loving @jonathanhealey.bsky.social’s piece on clocks and capitalism for FT Wealth on.ft.com/49Nq3Fi

I don't know if avoiding Trumpy Webb, Weedy Tory boy Chris Mason and Young Conservative Nick Robinson is the ultimate answer, but it works for me.

In a nod to the Woodcraft folk, the socialist boy scouts, and the fact that left wing politics is more of a pre-occupation than a desire to govern for the better, I propose the new Corbyn/Sultana vehicle should be called 'Hobbycraft'

This is British media in action ... They celebrate their scraping of the barrel.

There are loads of people, many of them property rich and fulminating on Facebook, who actively get pleasure from people suffering through poverty. Where would they be without house price inflation and triple lock pensions.

Agree. Why can't Labour see this?

I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are

BBC reporters are hugely enjoying themselves.

I have changed my mind. He would spin away.

Despite all the budget leaks, Hugh Dalton will not be spinning in his grave today, because he was cremated.

Anybody out there who wrote for Fonthill publishers and has yet to be paid royalties? I am clearly not the only one www.reddit.com/r/publishing...

Having been mistakenly included on an electoral roll, Manchester shopkeeper Lily Maxwell voted in a by-election on this day 1867, more than 50 years before (some) women were enfranchised by the Representation of the People Act. Suffragists seized on it as a test case.

East Midlands Local News is utter crap. An singer has her laptop stolen; Peter Shilton stopped problem gambling a decade ago; the ego-ridden weatherman has views on mushrooms; AND a a long propaganda push for no gambling taxes.

Email from Labour asking me to reconsider my exit If I don't re-join, FARAGE will eat me up! Its the cosying up to the bigots and racists that made me leave in the first place.

ITV East Midlands news featured a 10 minute propaganda feature for the gambling industry. #Central

Well done to #r4today on following up on the Covid inquiry and the jailing of Nathan Gill and not letting these important issues go. Oh hang on I've just woken up and find instead the headlines include stuff about the 30th anniversary of 'Toy Story' instead.

I wonder if anyone in our national press will ever write that Reform have had a nightmare week?

Whilst Nathan Gill had to be paid to speak for Russia, we shouldnt forget that plenty of UKIPers were willing to parrot pro Russian lines for free.

When Justin Webb and Emma Barnett present #r4today and read out bits from the UK press how come that the BBC don't disclose that both are paid columnists for the Murdoch Times?

I didn't walk around the damp streets of Broadstairs on a cold November morning, canvassing on my own, so that a Labour Home Secretary could offer preferential terms to the rich. Feeling a bit of an idiot

Not Being A Member Of The Labour Party is working for me quite well. There's nothing more soothing than giving up hope.

I am putting this out there- has anybody had trouble getting their royalties from #Fonthill publishers? They owe me for the 18 months before their takeover by @penandswordbooks.bsky.social P and S say it is their responsibility, but they are not answering

My hatred of Corbynism was that it was a purely aesthetic political project and I'm starting to realise that Starmerism is also basically that, just with a much less attractive aesthetic.

In a year's time Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch will be doing a podcast together.

There is no evidence that stripping refugees' rights one by one will have any impact on people crossing the channel. Taking jewellery from refugees is akin to painting over murals for refugee children. These repugnant ‘deterrents’ did not work for the Tories, and they won't work for us.

It's the cowardice that did it for me too. I voted Labour 18 months ago hoping to end the performative cruelty and now I'm living in a far right hellscape of grotty flags on every lamppost and the BBC on the brink of collapse. The lack of leadership is utterly unforgivable.

Do you hear that….yes that’s thousands more running to the Greens and/or ripping up their Labour membership. Now do you hear the silence…that’s no Reform voters going the other way. Incomprehensible, reprehensible and political cowardice.

There a few things more annoying than the mock-humble Facebook sentence ' we have just done a thing'.

I have now gone from the Labour Party. I have always hated the expression, but I am really 'politically homeless. The Greens are an amalgam of Middle class nimbies and Corbynistas The Lib Dems may have forgotten 2010-15, but I haven't. Perhaps political parties are not the answer, and never were?

I know it doesn't really matter to anybody except me, but I need to leave the Labour Party if the immigration rules are changed as is predicted. I am an active member, and cannot campaign on these illiberal policies. Also, they concede the argument to the racists and bigots.

This place is full of Lib Dems who want to memory-hole 2010-15.

I honestly hope this is the last ever Budget. Going forward just announce changes as and when needed like everything else. We don’t need it all saved up. The world has changed. The media has become feral. No one can be trusted.

Tiny?

I don't need a poppy, Flag or 'royal' for me to respect those that gave everything in past wars. We are the only European country that obsessively looks back to past wars and we were not occupied. Can we please look to the future a bit more. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Possum looked into the mirror and scared itself.

For as many years as anyone been counting two or more inmates been mistakenly released from British prisons most weeks. Record does not make it acceptable. System needs to be fixed. It does leave me asking why BBC now gripped by end-of-civilisation hysteria heard on Radio 4 Today programme.

This investigation from the @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social is absolutely staggering. It is very common in Sheffield (I live in this bit) to have a leasehold, often with hundreds of years left on and pennies in ground rent. This is extortion pure and simple. www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...

Surely the way to deal with people like Matt Goodwin is to declare them not British.And when they say that actually they were born here just tell them that sorry it takes more than a piece of paper.

🙏 Big big thank you to everyone who bought a copy of my book about WW2 London Blitz ambulance driver and diarist June Spencer. This morning I sent all the revenue from sales in Sept and Oct to medical charities working in Gaza and Ukraine

Translated from the Express: "Our remaining readers must be given special treatment in the budget, while all non-OAP welfare should be cut."

#OnThisDay in London riotous history, 1795: king George III attacked by angry crowds protesting war against France and poverty, and demanding political reform wp.me/p74yfw-AB

This is my feeling too.

One of the first things I remembered.59 years ago

211 years ago about1816.wordpress.com/2016/06/11/k...

The Cabernet in the coal mine.