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Race Across The World but it's Flávio and Bibi on the run from Lula and the ICC

Beyond excited that @theslowreadersclub.bsky.social are playing up the road from me in Bedford next year. And in Esquires, a fab intimate venue. IMHO very possibly the best live British band around. If you live locally, trust me: go and see them.

Harry Kane's become the best player in the world since he joined Bayern Munich. Shame he stayed with a second-rate team like Spurs for so long, rather than moving to a top club earlier in his career and fulfilling his potential sooner.

Easy for the media establishment to criticise cuts without making practical suggestions for getting the BBC's finances in order that don't involve big and unwelcome increases to the licence fee.

It would certainly suit Trump's agenda to have a pro-Russian head of NATO. This is ludicrous - and dangerous.

Arise, Sir Harry? Wonderful news that Kane won the Ballon d'Or.

Back in the US after a long break in the UK, I am suffering from total sticker shock after visiting a couple of DC supermarkets. I have never seen prices like it. Inflation numbers here are going to soar & are not yet telling the full story. The difference between late May & today is staggering.

I'm no fan of Simon Heffer, but his no-star Telegraph review of Liz Truss's new book is laugh-aloud funny.

Great news. Although it's two versus one, given Trump is a Russian asset.

Jenrick is surely a prime candidate for the most repulsive of the Tories / ex-Tories.

Thought Toy Story 5 was magnificent when I saw it the cinema earlier in the year. If anything, on the second time of watching just now, it's even better. Very clever and witty, but deeply profound and moving.

Funny. Not funny. But brilliant.

Prints available in my shop of this one from last year. The perfect Christmas gift for the philosophically-inclined office wall . Limited edition, numbered and signed giclee art print - link to shop in bio. #philosophy

Surely he deserves the George Cross. Wishing him a full recovery.

A month ago, Sir Jim Ratcliffe lectured the Prime Minister, telling him he should run Britain in the same way he runs Manchester United

When Man Utd sack Carrick this evening, it'll be as much for his petulance in leaving Bruno Fernandes unused on the bench all afternoon as for their latest awful result.

Love Araujo. Everything you'd want in a #LFC player. #YNWA

Cat cuddles while watching the football.

Very encouraging. Sensible politics + good communication + Farage increasingly being exposed + Polanski crashing and burning.

The first time I came to Bletchley Park many years ago, it was pretty much falling down. Back here today for the first time in a long while. Congratulations to all the volunteers and sponsors, and to the National Lottery, for the restoration work that's taken place. A remarkable and important place.

Station tannoy says if I see anything unusual to see it etc. Darlings, its ComicCon and the Lizzie line is packed with brightly coloured superheroes, monsters and elves. The only unusual thing to see l are the weirdos in boring clothes.

I think Scott McTominay scored three times in this sequence

Just had a very posh Tom Kerridge M&S curry for dinner. Tasted exactly like a box of Vesta Curry in the late 1970s. Loved it!

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Love this!

A Pythagorean date today. How fascinating. And rather sobering that it's the last in my lifetime.

Real post from the mountain rescue Facebook page

The nonsense of Brexit, typewriter-style.

The Times attacks Labour for restricting VAT relief for building works on churches. They illustrate it with a church in Sunningdale, where average household income is £79k, 63% higher than the UK average. And they don't mention that the CofE centrally have cash and investments of over £10bn.

People haven’t clocked how big the shopping list the Conservatives have built up in just two years in opposition - adding up to over £30bn a year

Outstanding article by Torsten Bell, laying waste to any claims Badenoch may make that the Tories are economically competent or responsible.

I know! Me! 1. The Tories left the economy in dire straits. 2. The Tories left public services in dire straits. 3. The Tories left us with hugely increased levels of national debt. I'm guessing that's not what Sunak says in the article. The Tories are absolutely shameless.

Forgotten Island is a remarkable film - very creative, absolutely weird at times, very intense and very touching. Went because our seven-year-old daughter wanted to see it, and possibly liked it even more than she did.

Blatant Tory corruption leads to suspended prison sentences. I haven't heard anything from Badenoch apologising for this on behalf of the party.

The Soviet flag is an interesting and somewhat jarring addition to #totp given Russia's current behaviour.

I only Googled the lyrics to find out who this is by. AI seems to have read far more into it... #TOTP

Five episodes a week, you say? Nice work! #totp

Best #TOTP episode in weeks, that.

I'd forgotten The Circus. Wonderful. #totp

The original of Rent is brilliant: one of my PSB favourites. But I heard this version a few weeks back, and it elevates the song to another level entirely. Absolutely magnificent. #totp

I always thought Bauhaus were so cool. Until I just learned here that they're from Northampton! #totp

I so love that the #totp contingent take over the world on a Friday evening! What must the Americans here think?!

Simply magnificent. The best song ever written about love?

David Gray was always better on the radio, when you didn't have to see him wobbling his f-cking head. #totp

Definitely not a Legend #totp

Richard Ashcroft with a song that's not even good enough to make it to his setlist on any of his interminable Oasis support slots. #totp

Idlewild: one of my favourite bands, and possibly the worst band I've seen live. #totp

Fun proofreading mistake in @thetimes.com Did you know Houdini's funeral is next month? Or maybe it was in November **19**26 ...