Your annual reminder that BBC’s London Marathon music was originally from 1966 film ‘The Trap’ set in the Canadian wilderness with Oliver Reed as a fur trapper. By Ron Goodwin of war film music fame (633 Squadron, Where Eagles Dare, Battle of Britain) youtu.be/KdGTotgEfag?si…

I spy trouble ahead if Thames Water get what they want 😡 🤬

Omg it’s now a ‘thing’ you can buy in Marks

Sounds of the 60s Saturday morning cat 🐈‍⬛ Tony Blackburn OBE. BBC Radio 2

Me gonna have a superloop at the end of the road 💪🏼

Or, in other words, “send me images of how bad austerity has been for the nation’s fabric”

Show me London’s newspaper desperately trying to make it a close contest for the sake of filing their column inches

Sorry Count Binface - much that Grade I listing for Claudia Winkleman’s fringe is a policy I fully back, my vote is for Sadiq Khan and Len Duvall AM 💪🏼 🌹 🗳️

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So, ferrets join the UN, OBR, EU, ECHR, lettuces, lefty woke civil servants, the Bank of England on Truss’s blame list. She grew up in Yorkshire - she should know that no one from God’s own county must ever diss a ferret.

The organisers of the conference in Brussels can seek a legal remedy but first must exhaust Belgian domestic law. It only gets to Strasbourg if that hasn’t occurred. And even then the ECtHR are likely to defer to Belgium law. The Convention isn’t just a preventative instrument.

A lettuce that outlived a PM and Mrs Slocombe… what a front page

The irony that extra trains needed on the Elizabeth Line to cope with more passengers at Old Oak Common because of the government’s dithering on HS2 saves the Alstom factory

Thing is, she’s not alone. Boris Johnson. Robert Jenrick. As John Major put it in 1997, “when the curtain falls, it’s time to leave the stage”. No comebacks. You had your chance and fluffed it. Off you tot.

Stop it. I can’t resist posting this

Yesterday’s interview with Gordon Brown in the Financial Times contrasts with Liz Truss’s delusional self-entitled book promotion tour. She’d be wise to take tips from Brown’s response to life after No 10 instead of blaming others for her failures & plotting comebacks ft.com/content/7c0fb9…

The white Lotus. Always the white Lotus

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In which right-wing, rabid free marketeer Liz Truss discovers sovereignty doesn't mean much in the face of full force of international capital markets....something her predecessors - Wilson, Heath, Callaghan, Major, Brown etc - all learnt the hard way.

Bit sad for Gary Davies who’s been doing a good stand in job these past weeks. Not ‘arf!