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No, I am not being channelled directly into Andy Burnham. It just seems that way at the moment.

Why not let the public decide media ownership and regulation, so we can put limits on the bullshit we're fed. Then we wouldn't be panicking about perfectly normal levels of immigration in the first place. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

NEWS!! Woman Who Isn't Involved In Politics Experiences Consequences Of Policies We Support.

Tomorrow Baby's Breath goes back to full price. 99p until Monday. Hurry and grab a bargain

As Britain swelters through another heatwave, few people will have heard that ministers have quietly dropped plans for solar carports. Cars cooler in summer. Shelter from the rain in winter. Clean electricity all year round. A missed opportunity?

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Quite a lot of people lost someone, maybe an elderly relative, during the heatwave. My Aunt Barbara, very ill with advanced dementia, died yesterday aged 91. She was unmarried, no kids and I had been taking care of her affairs for the past few years. That’s the least interesting thing about her. 1

If you're in or around Altrincham, firstly, my condolences. But secondly, try Nostro Cafe, an absolute SUPERB Italian. Tiny, so book ahead. Highly recommended.

Today, the Sandbach Music Festival has broken out at the rugby club next door. I'd like to thank the participants for bravely having a go, despite clearly having never played any of their instruments before. And it's a bold artistic choice to depart so radically from established melodic norms.

Just went to buy it - says I already own it !!! Better find time to read it then

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Lösungen für alle Probleme

I quite like my little "I did this" bookshelf. Not bad for 2½ years' work. Next up is a six-week palate cleanser before Erin Callahan returns. It's about dogs, the little maniacs who live with us, as seen through my own experience. Baxter: The Wolf Who Chews Rocks. Coming in Sept/Oct

Baxter has only limited interest in the new covers for the Erin Callahan series. Baby's Breath is just 99p (I know, I'm amazed too) until Monday. Rip me off now and read it later, on a sun lounger, while pretending to listen to your partner. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G2CDCMV8

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The obvious word that's missing to describe him begins with the letter C.

In twenty years' time, the politicians who fought Net Zero so they could buy the votes of idiots and pocket those sweet, sweet oil donations will be remembered alongside history's great villains. Actually, scratch that. Nobody before them ever gambled with an entire planet.

The famous much mentioned 1976 heatwave. Given a little context

The Wet Bulb Globe Thermometer index factors in temperature, humidity, sunshine, wind and radiant heat. Central London: EXTREME RISK Outer London: VERY HIGH RISK Birmingham: EXTREME RISK Me, in Cheshire: VERY HIGH RISK Be careful. Watch your neighbours and animals. Shelter. Water. Rest.

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It's probably time European journalists wrapped their heads around Heat Index (temp + relative humidity). In high humidity, sweating is less efficient, making heat worse, e.g.: Experiencing 35°C in London UK (70% RH) is more dangerous than 50°C in Phoenix Arizona (15% RH)

If my job was stealing things that genuinely creative people had made, and repackaging it as magic intelligence rather than an average-word-guessing machine that eats everybody's jobs and water, I'm not sure I'd have the balls to beg for a billion quid so I didn't have to face the consequences.

Right, I'm gonna go and write my next book. Fuck Brexit.

(Hopefully) my final quotes from The Decade In Tory today. Reclaiming patriotism from the far right.

A reminder that Brexit's architects admitted in parliament that their key argument for Brexit was entirely invented. (From The Decade In Tory)

It took me eighteen months to finish reading The Decade In Tory. Not because it was a difficult read (it was brilliant), but because I couldn't read more than a page without having to put the book down, go out into the garden, scream loudly and kick something.

On the anniversary of Brexit, a brief excerpt from The Decade In Tory gives you a reminder of the man who led the official campaign. Warning: will cause head explosions. open.substack.com/pub/russinch...

A reminder of what came immediately after the vote (also from The Decade In Tory)

A reminder of this day in 2016, from The Decade In Tory

I read the first four books over one weekend - so ... you can imagine how much I am looking forward to the fifth one :-)

The first reviews are in for A Dry and Weary Land. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Outstanding ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fast-paced, with multiple twists I didn’t foresee ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I am hooked on this series (Baby's Breath, only 99p this week) www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H632G6WP

The first reviews are in for A Dry and Weary Land. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Outstanding ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fast-paced, with multiple twists I didn’t foresee ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I am hooked on this series (Baby's Breath, only 99p this week) www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H632G6WP

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It's odd hearing journalists say Starmer was "toppled by Burnham" or "ousted by his MPs". Burnham didn't challenge him. Streeting didn't challenge him. No leadership challenge was ever launched. A technical point, perhaps. But still a true one.

I am primarily here to spoil everybody's fun.

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I have read the first three, waiting for my holiday to read the next two, they better be good!!!!

Keir Starmer’s time as prime minister – in pictures

If anybody cares (you shouldn't): what I'd do to revitalise Britain: 1. Randomly selected people's assemblies of 299 people (like a jury) to decide media regulation/complaints. They hear expert witnesses, and then decide. Depoliticise it, and abolish Ofcom (too open to abuse and political pressure)

Quiz time! Who - in our democracy - was the last PM to enter No. 10 as the result of winning a general election, and leave No. 10 as the result of losing one? Answer: ❌ Starmer ❌ Sunak ❌ Truss ❌ Johnson ❌ May ❌ Cameron ❌ Brown ❌ Blair ❌ Major ❌ Thatcher ❌ Callaghan ❌ Wilson ✅ Heath (1970 - 74)

On a leadership training course years ago, I heard an expert say, "making no decisions is worse than making bad decisions." Having lived through Truss and Starmer, I am absolutely certain that's bullshit. Neither is great.

In the future, everybody will be Prime Minister for 15 minutes — Andy Narwhal

Wednesday marks 10 years to the day since Cameron resigned to let Brexit usher in a new era of stable self governance. Since then we've burned through: 5 more prime ministers 8 chancellors 8 home secretaries 9 foreign secretaries 10 education secretaries 10 defence secretaries Masterful work.