I have a friend who had always wanted to be a sound engineer. He is also quite a big drinker - or at least thought he was. After paying his dues for a bit, he managed to get a job touring with Therap… (View Post)

If the covid hearings start questioning the BBC line of lockdown good, freedom bad, the BBC will go strangely quiet. (View Post)

My view is that Piers Corbyn is the worst Piers, but not the worst Corbyn. But they're all three awful, and I'm not going to fall out with anyone who ranks their awfulness differently. (View Post)

If I may offer some unalloyed good news as a counterpoint to all this, my plum tree - planted in lockdown - has so far this August yielded 4lbs of plums, with at least as many to come, and they are p… (View Post)

Indeed. With exactly the same tine of seriousness and mild fury. (View Post)