Starmer falling into the same old trap as US democrats. Stop talking about your opposition. You’re gifting billions in FREE media. Set out YOUR vision. You can never prove someone else is wrong. You can only convince me you are right. Current Labour advisors are seriously flawed.

#BlueLights is back on BBC1. Best cop show bar none.

I like the idea of deciding who remains in the UK. I’m sure we can all think of someone who shouldn’t remain here…

This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty. If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐 There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..

Find someone who looks after you the way Shane Lowry looked after Rory. #RyderCup

If Starbucks wants a genuine turnaround, rather than firing staff maybe stop selling shit coffee? 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

I only watch golf every two years. Because it’s never better than this.

Former Reform politician admits taking money to support Russian narrative. Who does leaving the EU benefit? Russia. Who benefits from weaponised migration? Russia. As always; just follow the money…

Everyone: What's government doing about the cost of living crisis, the climate crisis, and the unfolding genocide in Gaza? Labour: "We will mandate people carry Brit cards". This government's priorities are painfully out of touch and increasingly authoritarian.

More billionaires than ever hiding cash in Panama and the British Virgin Islands and the problem is the Albanian who cleans my car for £10? Sure it is. Sure it is.

The quickest way to bring social media sites to heal is to make them financially and criminally liable for all misleading ads on their sites.

There were lessons for #SaintsFC last night. And for all football managers. Playing out from the back with a sweeper/keeper works when the players are world class. But even Pep is now going direct. When Liverpool did the same they scored their winner. Stop prioritising possession over winning.

Why is football obsessed with: ‘At this moment in time.’ It is meaningless. ‘Liverpool are playing well’ means now. The clue is in ‘playing’. Playing is current. Current is at this moment in time. It doesn’t need qualification. If you have to qualify it, say ‘now.’

The talk about autism as one condition is extremely unhelpful. It’s like talking about blue as one colour. No doubt in time we will come to evaluate conditions more accurately and define them better clinically. Right now it’s like the dark ages of medicine: ‘he died from malady.’

Attending my first literary festival in a fortnight and have two minutes to pitch my book. Which for someone in marketing and sales should be easy. So of course it’s impossible to even know where to start…

Here’s how you increase UK productivity: 1. An annual health check for every citizen. We MOT our cars but not ourselves. Diagnose and treat early. 2. Reform education to better identify skills and talents, not educate sheep-dip style simply to compare schools and colleges.

Some politicians are so disingenuous. Why has special needs education demand increased? For the same reason health demand has increased. We now diagnose hundreds of new ailments and conditions. People aren’t changing: diagnosis is not wrong. We just know more.

There are faster cars. There are more expensive cars. There are rarer cars…. But if this was on the Top Gear Cool Wall it would be at the freezing end of coolest cars. 🚗

Car makers. Stop making your cars so BIG!!!

Is any product more beautiful, promising and hopelessly unreliable than Sonos? I’ve started calling my speakers Lucan and Shergar…

Been gardening. Presumably we fixed the #saintsfc defensive frailties that have dogged us since 2020?

Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss…

Time and again the jockey with the best clock in their head wins. It’s why Cauthen and Fallon were head and shoulders clear of their rivals. An ambitious flat jockey should go ride in the states for a year or two. Learn the clock.

Next time they fly into NATO airspace. Shoot them. Bullies need telling.

Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading. Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own. Just. Keep. Reading.

Private Eye

Beautiful.

At a time when so much discourse is dark and negative, this is worth a read.

When people throw liberal around like an insult, show them this. At the heart of liberalism is evidence-based policy. Not ideology. Not dogma. Evidence. Evidence like 20mph saves lives. Vaccines save lives. Migration is economically beneficial. Crime is based on social factors…

Watching a lot of sci-fi right now. #Invasion on Apple is first-rate. Slow burn. No exposition at all. 9/10 #AlienEarth on Disney+. Excellent but benefits from knowing the original. A little exposition but well done. 8/10 #Foundation on Apple. A little too slow in parts. But very watchable. 7/10.

Now Gibraltar has won its way back into Schengen and a customs deal with more access than before Brexit, while the rest of us are stuck with queues, red tape and decline. And where’s the UK press? Silent. Once again it’s Washington Post exposing Brexit. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

I’m not saying #MadMen is having an impact on my habits, but…

99 months since we lost 72 loved ones in the Grenfell fire. Still no justice. As the Government begins to demolish the Tower, please keep Grenfell in your hearts. We will never forget — and we will not stop until justice is done.

New orders and ratings. Don’t forget you can read for FREE on Kindle Unlimited. And anyone can read the first 20 pages for free to see if I can write…

I mean, you could report that 66,900,000 aren’t protesting about some spurious racist bollox. But each to their own eh?

The Labour Party is in massive trouble. Because all we in the ‘middle’ want is: Fairness Tolerance Empathy Care Consideration Intelligence Evidence/science-led Integrity Justice And right now, they don’t seem to be able to deliver any of them.

Sad to read this from Ford. Henry Ford famously said ‘If I asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse.’ Where’s that spirit today? The spirit that delivered the groundbreaking Sierra? The segment defining Fiesta? The GT40… Give us what we never dreamed possible.

This - from Autocar 28/8 - is what so many manufactures seem to have forgotten. From keeping up with the Jones’s to mid-life crises, cars are so much more than just a means to get from A to B. So why is so much car advertising so abysmal?

I’ve had tinnitus for years. Turns out my wife’s new Apple Watch tells her that her laugh is painfully loud. I mean, I’m not saying anything…

A pint of Headbanger and raspberry ripple madam?

This morning’s coffee break sees me using AI for its intended purpose. Designing a beer label for the home brew we flog at the village fete. (With sincere apologies to all the real designers out there. Designers we use for paying work!!)

It’s not just the digital platform. It’s the world. Under governance from people who couldn’t make friends and are now responsible for coding our existence to oblivion.

For comparison my train to London takes 2’35 to do 100 miles. That’s a little over 40mph. But low UK productivity is (checks notes) my wife’s fault for not working full time…

Two despots and the world’s important economy are meeting up and we’re dancing to the tune of a tinpot Oswald Moseley. You couldn’t make it up.

Okay. I admit it. I’ve started watching Mad Men all over again on Netflix. Even though I’ve had the box set on the shelf for years. And I’ve seen most of the episodes twice over. It’s like art. It deserves regular appreciation.

Epping Forest District Council must have a hell of a budget for all these legal costs. Would be livid if I lived there and couldn’t access social care or housing or other key local services…

If there is 'a widespread perception among much of the public' that egg-stealing goblins hide in their attic you don't address their 'legitimate concerns' by declaring a war on attic goblins, you point out loudly & confidently the truth: that their beliefs are insane, propagated by nasty crackpots.

Councils worried about services would be petitioning government to change the rules to allow asylum seekers to work. Wouldn’t they?

Some Labour wonk on here was celebrating the rise in minimum wage. It’s now up to a whopping £12.21 Tonight two cod and chips and mushy peas cost me £23. In rural Somerset. Which means I could have worked two hours and after dinner all I’d have left is £1.21. That’s a wage is it?

In happier news, #Invasion on AppleTV is ace. Like M Night Shayamalan made Close Encounters. Zero exposition just storytelling. Waiting for everything to unfold just as it does in real life. Early days but very very good so far…