How do you feel about happy hour?

As I'm giving up processed food, I just had my last tin of baked beans, like I had my last fish fingers the other day. Till the old folks' home.

Got home from an appointment to find an email from a copywriting agency, offering me £40 per 1,000 words for articles about the financial industry. I'd be better off working at Lidl, madam!

The paper that backs the mutilation of children, drag queens in primary schools, men beating up women in boxing matches, and asylum for people fleeing France wants you to know it thinks Tories are weird.

It would be nice if the BBC could instead ask why the Equality Act and the Supreme Court bankrupted this council

Yes. If the Chinese money disappears, the house of cards we call Higher Education will come crashing down. And all of a sudden huge numbers of people who think EXACTLY THE SAME THING ABOUT EVERYTHING will be flooding the private sector with drama workshops for trans lesbians.

Being English is suffering performative oikophobia for online clout

1979 ITV

I bet the Tories will soon propose a Help To Buy programme for Oasis tickets, under which selected groups can apply for a subsidised, government-backed low-interest loan.

This reminds me, ironically, of the Thatcherite MPs in the 80s who said the BBC wouldn't need a licence fee if only it showed a few adverts per hour.

You never hear the word 'guerillas' any more. It never recovered from Jan Leeming pronouncing it 'gerr-illas' in news bulletins.

Rory Stewart does this thing where he catches up on something that has been obvious to most of us for years and then passes it on as if it is his own original insight. And then mid-wit liberals everywhere nod and stroke their chins.

6,000 tickets sold to a festival of tribute acts in Seaton Carew 🤔 gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-…

A live TV play from 1960 with Bert Freed as Lt Columbo. Not bad for what it is... The writers turned it into a stage play, which was then remade with Peter Falk in 1968. youtube.com/watch?v=gpG9An…

Watching all this old stuff, I reckon John Ringham and John Nettleton were the busiest actors in Britain for 20 years. youtube.com/watch?v=rV2khf…

It's the new millennium swastika.

JW this humdrum Keith Waterhouse/Willis Hall sitcom from 1970. I felt like switching it off, but then Roy Hudd turned up as Roy Kinnear's astonishingly camp and zany fitness instructor 😬😮😵‍💫😲 youtube.com/watch?v=7DDe6D…