This is IMO why you can't understand Morgan McSweeney's approach to politics without reference to Liz Kendall (whose campaign he managed) getting 4.5 per cent, a contest from which he basically took the lesson 'don't try and argue for something, ever'.

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Are there any Rightists – even one – who is basically saying, 'OK this has now gone too far. I'm getting off'?

Amen. TV and filmmakers - please use wigs responsibly. This is just gratuitous and disturbing.

An emotional Dickie Bird wipes away a tear after being given a guard of honour by England and India at the start of his 66th and last Test, Lord's, June 20th 1996. He retired from all cricket at the end of the following summer

Fab Five Freddy told me everybody's fly. Happy Rapture Day.

It was always funny to see Dickie get all het up about crowd barracking. "I can't help it if it rains, can I?" he would shout, as a host of seat cushions came hurtling in his direction.

It is with profound sadness that The Yorkshire County Cricket Club announces the passing of Harold Dennis “Dickie” Bird MBE OBE, one of cricket’s most beloved figures, who died peacefully at home at the age of 92. Read more: yorkshireccc.com/news/harold-...

Goodbye Dickie lad. He represented the innocence that lies somewhere deep in all of us.

I thought you were joking... Whaaaat?!

Crazy thing to say out loud to a journalist

It makes me laugh how the BBC are more than comfortable using 'far right' for foreign politicians, but so obviously squeamish about using it for Farage and Tory extremism.

As ever, the shapeshifter. How politics works. Arsonist turned fireman.

I think a lot about a question Chris Morris (as the interviewer Peter Hammill) asked Martyn Lewis on Radio 1 in 1994: ‘How does news help us?’

Victory V's give you diphtheria.

Nigel Farage is, and always was, far right, from his schooldays. The squeamishness about calling him out is one of the reasons we’re in such a terrible state today.

As a black man. I think Charlie Kirk is great.

"Anne Aston is currently appearing in There's A Girl In My Soup" 🍆

The sordid joys of that Golden Shot episode on ITVX are manifold. I won't spoil it, but look out for the couple from Manchester who look like a 1973 Myra Hindley and Ian Brady.

#CallMyBluff

Only Connect

they have put 3 2 1 and The Golden Shot on ITVX. This is not a drill

Including On The Buses but omitting The Avengers, The Prisoner and Rising Damp...

An Art Nouveau lectern in Paisley Abbey. It's by J Craig Barr, presumably from around the time of the early 20th Century restoration of the chancel.

Portly children getting wedged inside wooden play animals. The 70s.

Disgraceful and inappropriate. Bookmarked.

Tony Warren was 24 when he created Coronation Street. I think that trumps Jesus.

Predictable spin on today’s ugly announcement from our fash-hungry media.

I bet this is that pedo Terry played in Carry On Camping.

Hello.

I strongly believe that British TV should have ended in 2000, at which point we should have all gone outside to till the land of our feudal masters. To be fair, watching ITV now does feel like that did happen.

ITV at 70

Another nepo role in a forthcoming film adaptation.

ITV at 70 #ITV #70

As Rosh Hashanah begins this evening, I wish Jewish communities in London and around the world a happy and healthy new year. Shana Tovah!

Shana Tova everybody! מאחלת לכולם שנה שלווה ופורייה קדימה

Speaking as a journalist, I’m not a journalist.

George Sherwood Hunter Jubilee Procession in a Cornish Village (1897) oil on canvas

practicality is not the point - the headline is - and its amplification

June & Beattie are watching a news report about a handbag snatcher known as "the Granny grabber" - and the identikit picture looks very familiar to them.... 📺 #TerryAndJune #s08e11 #MistakenIdentikit

"A'wight, darlin'? Giz us hand, will ya? I've only gone and got me plonker stuck in the chaise lounge."

The winner of today's Arsenal v Man C game.

Donnarumma was nowhere. 2 points dropped for both teams. I thang yow.

Poor Nick Owen's plums got a good seeing to at the end there, after Stapleton got absolutely fucking leathered.

Emu gives John Stapleton and Nick Owen a right pasting on TVAM.

Arteta has learned the Anfield lesson. There's no need for caution when you have a squad this good.