Dusting off slides from a decade ago about Russian information warfare definitions including "physical" interventions against data centres and communications hubs. It seemed to generate some pretty blank looks at the time.

I have enormous sympathy for American friends and colleagues trying to communicate comprehensibly with the outside world after their Supreme Leader randomly changes the name of the topic they are working on.

Oh well that makes it all perfectly all right then.

The Censorship-Industrial Complex theory is an embarrassing misreading of complex dynamics, and (ironically) it's quickly become a tool to shut down legitimate discourse and criticism by framing it as a conspiracy against free speech.

Canadian journalist David Pugliese firmly rebuts any suggestion that he is knowingly working with Moscow. A set of documents (if real) suggest that in the 1980s he was a person of interest to the KGB - no more. A murky campaign to discredit the documents as forgeries has achieved striking success.

Do you know if it has been censored?

And the British Museum's current debâcle will be doing wonders for their tourism figures once it is all over.

Yes, a whole lot of people (including me) discovering that in fact it is easier, cheaper and much more pleasant to go and see it where it actually lives.

They appoint people exactly like them. (They have to, because it turns out that everybody who isn’t like them is a far-right thug.)

Yes I was interested to see the Bayeux Tapestry was coming to England. Yes I made an attempt to book a ticket to see it. Yes I've read about the experience, including the chance of being told to sod off AFTER you've travelled to London and stood in the queue. No I won't be trying again.

TB, or CPR without the P?

First aid and defibrillator training night in the village. I expected updates to CPR best practice. What I didn't expect was the instruction NOT to do the breathing part of CPR if no masks/dams, because of likelihood of communicable diseases like tuberculosis, now once again a problem in the UK.

Stuff you need to explain about phone calls EVERY TIME. To Europeans: no you can't WhatsApp, we are in the English countryside, data signal is something we have heard of but not experienced. To anybody under 35: when we arranged you would call me, you don't need to ask permission again to DO IT.