“Eccentric talent” with varied public stances is an epithet which could do with more modern usage

Best television of the year has got to be Jet Lag: The Game’s latest series, Japanorama. Brilliant, fun, interesting, and so very well produced.

I’m assuming this isn’t from worst to best

also parochial church councils, the TRUE form of English democracy (stitch up in advance, bloc vote)

v sound 'For me, Choral Evensong is one of the crowning inventions of the Anglican Church, and one of the best free musical experiences to be had in this country.'

VAT free, too

this is so good!

great film to experience at the PCC. boos whenever the French appear

Baffling decision by Press Gazette to call these jobs 'journalists'!

Ordinary humans would be sunk by the allegations of lies, thefts, frauds, gussied-up CVs, expenses fiddles, charity swindles, plagiarisms, insider trading deals, funding illicit coups and – perhaps most unforgivable of all – unpleasantness to underlings that dogged Archer’s life.

Archer’s resignation from the London mayoral race after it was revealed he lied in court was the thing that got Paul Foot up from his sickbed and contributing again, having first started chronicling Archer’s lies and misdemeanours in 1969. From the Private Eye archive. Issue 992, December 1999.

Really great reporting Bron

It's easy, perhaps, to imagine that the days of open street homophobia in the UK are a thing of the past. And sure, things aren't as bad as they were even two decades ago, of course. But, as I find in a new piece for @thefence.bsky.social, abject anti-gay hate remains a familiar occurrence.