Rob Bingham

This marmalade thing is quite confusing. Who buys imported marmalade? Surely it’s a quintessentially British product? Cutting import duty will hurt UK marmalade producers. It makes no sense at all.

So glad they’ve sorted out the comms.

I’ll soon be able to add the pedestrianisation of most of Oxford Street to the things that have got better in my lifetime. Shame it’s taken most of it.

Never has a night felt more like the one when the clocks go back.

Watching Big Brother. They keep going on about there being a hierarchy in the house and now one of them is talking about a “lowerarchy”.

Tonight’s theatre was about a sexy economist. Thoroughly recommended.

He really is taking us back to the 1970s.

Wes Streeting on Newsnight, wearing two poppies and telling us to stock up on emergency supplies. Don’t have nightmares.

Leonard Rossiter was born 100 years ago today. Three weeks late, staff shortages, Nine Elms.

If Musk wants to merge SpaceX and Tesla one of them must be failing. I think we can guess which one.

@stevewhitehill.bsky.social You are worryingly quiet. Please make a noise.

Measly - can you tell I’m spending a lot of time with Dickens at the moment?

Doing yet another tax return. The most difficult bit is getting tax certificates out of banks for the measly interest they’ve paid.

Tonight’s theatre has five clowns bringing a blazing inferno of physicality, electronica and uncompromising personal testimony from the frontlines of the UK’s food banks.

The Covid inquiry has found that the Government's claim to have put a "protective ring" around care homes from the very start was “unfounded”. We all knew this at the time. At the very least Matt Hancock should be making a public apology. He should probably also be prosecuted.

I would pay £400 to never hear from Amol Rajan again. He should rethink his business model.

France, closed three days a week and everyone wants to retire at 50. Les pigeons rentrent au nid.

“Lime bikes are designed for getting around the city, not for jousting” sounds like a call to arms to me.

Tagpole.

John Cleese should be a case study in how the internet drove a generation mad.

Is Gordon Brown the first prime minister to feature on a top 20 album? Good pop quiz fact if so.

Hard to feel sorry for Uber drivers worried that robotaxis will do to them what they did to the black cab drivers just a few years ago.

Hannah is proof that being a clever clogs is no help in this game, as the other Fry found last year. #celebritytraitors

You can see now how Jerry managed to keep marrying unsuitable men. #CelebrityTraitors

City need to bring Guardiola on as manager at half time.

lol (One of my occasional football tweets)

The new Troye Sivan is a sublime pop album.

Just remembered the Russell Brand/Ed Miliband interview during the 2015 election. Maybe the Ed Stone wasn’t the most cringe moment of the campaign.

Just spent 20 minutes making a padded envelope out of stuff I had lying around in order to save the cost of buying a padded envelope. Quite relaxing. Would do again.

Connecting fridges to the internet was always a stupid thing to do.

Extremely inappropriate earworm of “Blame it on the Houthis”.

An Essex wedding. Everyone was beautiful, there was soul music from the 1970s and the 2000s and there was a drunken argument about politics on the way back to some 19th century inns after midnight. All one could hope for really.

It feels cold, for maybe the first time since March. I don’t like it.

If inheritance tax on primary residences was abolished I think you’d see some of the richest pensioners using their savings to buy the most expensive houses they could get. Upsizing instead of downsizing.

Badenoch much better at the grievances part of the speech than the policy part.

Already this week I must have heard Kemi Badenoch say at least five things that would be career-ending for most politicians and we’ve not even got to her speech yet.

I watched that War Game programme on Sky where Michael Gove is prime minister and manages to get the UK involved in a nuclear war with Russia. Seeing the Tory policy ideas coming out of their confereence, they watched it too.

Very surprising that the British Museum chaired by George Osborne cannot organise an exhibition of an 80-metre long tapestry in a large room without buggering it up.

Nine albums that made me/saved me.

Everything makes sense if you believe Trump is a Putin puppet. He might not be, but he keeps playing the part.

A sky of steel and glass.

It’s in Sunak’s real voice too. Future historians will be able to judge how we fell so far and so fast as a country with the help of stuff like this written by our accidental prime ministers.

I’m just the latest in a long family tree of people waiting for the potatoes to boil.

“Cos upstream timeout not gonna give it to you.”

You have to wonder who Kemi has been talking to if she thinks childcare support for people earning £100,000+ is a vote winner.