Jaguar have really called their car Typo? Are we sure that’s not a, er, typo…

Four episodes into #Legends. And it gets better and better. Four episodes into #Citadel. It doesn’t. Can’t wait for #Rivals on Friday.

Honestly. Still can’t get my head around that the big reset was nationalising British Steel… All I can think of is Alan Partridge on the bed with his dictaphone.

I think the big issue with the UK is we have no cultural role model. We can’t have an empire so who do we want to be? Do we want to be like Denmark? Or Ireland? Or the USA?

A politician making ‘big choices’ would be doing something about this. 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

We got the big political choices right? You haven’t made any big choices. That’s the whole point. You’re a technocrat. You’ve made some sensible compromises. And fiddled around the edges. Be BOLD. That’s what’s needed.

What a top bloke Stephen Graham is.

Now that Starmer has nothing to lose, maybe he could employ his enormous majority to: Nationalise water companies and clean up our rivers/seas Rebalance business rates in favour of locally owned high street stores Tax multinationals effectively Do literally anything to help small businesses.

#Citadel has a fantastic cast, apparently limitless budget, and yet an entirely incomprehensible plot which feels like random scenes drawn from a scrabble bag. Most of which make absolutely no sense.

Started #Legends on Netflix. Very, very good. Steve Coogan is his usual self. Tom Burke likewise. Excellent script. Two episodes down and I’m hooked.

Watching David Attenborough get highly deserved praised for his century is reminding me: There is no crisis of masculinity, as such. We have plenty of positive male role models in our society. They just aren’t being pushed into young men’s feeds by nihilistic ad networks and social platforms.

I don’t imagine I’ll ever have £5m to subvert democracy and herald a new dawn of fascism. So instead I sent @zackpolanski.bsky.social and the greens £100 today. Because right now that’s about all I think we can do. Send small sums in large numbers to progressive parties.

‘Let’s find out how voters are feeling, by speaking to an an old man in Hartlepool…’ Could we not accept, at least today, that you have all the quantitative data you need to draw conclusions without these meaningless vox pops?

Blimey. How many of those fucking boats made it up the valleys?!

The problem with Farage is he’s all familiar language. No political language. All simple stuff. Easy to remember. Easy to say. Simple to understand. He’s a master communicator. And the rest are at best average.

I think what we’ve learned is that people prefer Reform to Diet Reform. Maybe it’s time to offer something different?

It’s grim up north.

As I filled my car at Shell - at 30p more per litre since the first mention of Iran in the news - I remembered the threat of our lame duck Prime Minister and Chancellor not to accept profiteering as a result of the conflict. Oh how I laughed.

Remember: Wealth cannot be separated from power. We're seeing in real time how the extreme concentration of wealth is distorting our politics, rigging markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people. Taxing the rich isn't just an economic issue, it's a defense of our democracy.

While I’m enjoying #SecretService I’m finding I lack empathy for both main characters. They are fairly unlikable. No idea why they had kids. But good story and script.

Drone deliveries begin. Of course urban areas are a problem. So they’re thinking of local hubs. Until eventually. They’ll realise that a little local hub. Right near your street. Is actually what you need. And it will be called. A corner shop…

No way does Harry Kane miss that. 🤷‍♂️

That’s why shooting from distance is always worthwhile. #ARSATM

A man forces his way into his ex partner’s house and detonates an explosive device. When will this violence against women end? I’ll tell you when. When the media and politicians are called to account for their heinous dereliction of duty. Of normalising misogyny. And failing miserably to act.

Incredible job by Tonda at #SaintsFC but feck me. Without that championship manager period at the start of the season, what might have been…

Tell me you’re at a gamekeeper’s wedding without telling me…

When football was played on real pitches! 🤣🤣🤣

Warning of inflation as a result of the Iran war, the governor of the Bank of England explained to those not on his half a million pound salary how their borrowing costs had to increase to protect them from the other costs which have rocketed… Make it make sense. For the love of God.

Nothing sums up the totally fucked up economic system better than golf. Mickelson gets $200m for signing up to LIV. The PGA responds to become a ‘for profit company’ and fires 56 people. 4% of its workforce. People who Mickelson could have funded for years… Greed isn’t good. It will kill us all.

#Bait on Amazon is good stuff. Always been a massive fan of Riz Ahmed. Great actor. Even better writer. Black comedy gold.

Well that was a day and a half. Puncture at 7am forced a change of daytime travel plans. Unbelievable game tonight. Way too open. But fair play to Ipswich, they deserve to go up. Just hope the Saints lads have more energy than I do for the playoffs after 14 hours on the go… #SaintsFC 😴😴

It’s to easy to blame Claire’s for not being fashionable, etc. But how can ANY UK retailer compete when the field is so stacked against them? Foreign digital giants pay no retail business rates, they have few, if any, UK-based staff. They don’t pay fair corporation tax, VAT… And and and… 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

Obviously gutted #SaintsFC couldn’t hold on yesterday but a few major positives. Best game I’ve seen Jander play. The manager is tactically astute. The squad is young and still learning and yet we went toe-to-toe for long stretches with the world’s largest Ponzi scheme.

Manchester City 130 Southampton 0

Thanks to South Western Railways, the first two hours to Wembley will be spent in my rail replacement bus… Come on you yellows! #SaintsFC

Come on you Foxes!

One way we could offset the costs of war inflation would be to lower fuel duty and interest rates.

Who knew Bristol City were our bogey side?

Well. We’ll have to defend better than that on Saturday evening… #SaintsFC

The thing about creating ads in AI. Is that you can take a reasonably lame idea. And then make it look totally shit. As well as full of tropes and blandness. But hey. It’s cheap.

Been in this house 8 years. Found a mothball box tucked away in a corner of a cupboard. Don’t remember moth balls looking quite so much like Napoleonic Russian infantrymen…

Watched Jo Nesbo’s #DetectiveHole on Netflix. It did not disappoint. The Norwegian Tarantino. 10/10

I don’t really care much about the Premier League but if #Arsenal had a decent centre forward, they would be home and hosed by now. They should have moved heaven and earth to sign Harry Kane.

Cracking morning.

Tell me you’re staying in Lambourn without telling me you’re staying in Lambourn…

We will literally look anywhere to find money apart from asking the people who are literally hoarding and hiding it.

Finally politicians starting to admit that free markets work. Especially one on our doorstep. I wish the public really understood what a total clusterfuck Brexit has been for UK companies like ours who want to export. Brexit was a Russian project backed with Russian money.

This is exactly how I’d win a major. Slice into the trees. Out into the bunker…