My problem with the BBC is that all the people I used to look up to have been succeeded by people I look down on. This is, alas, an inevitable consequence of ageing and applies equally to adjacent di… (View Post)

I am not a number. I is a letter. (View Post)

Red Sea latest from US Central Command: https://twitter.com/CENTCOM/status/1731424734829773090 No serious damage. Yet. (View Post)

I was thinking about Liz Truss today (as you do) and realised that her life expectancy at 48 is at least 35 years. That means another 35 years attending the Cenotaph on cold November mornings. By the… (View Post)

He starred in an unforgettable movie, The Man who Fell to Earth, (1976) which traced the Musk-like adventures of a commercial genius from another planet. (View Post)