A rather unusual set of local by-elections today. Apart from a Con defence in Dudley there is a Green defence in Bristol and a Vectis defence in Isle of Wight. (View Post)

Progress. I have finally got to Winston Churchill level in Civ 6. (View Post)

My local football team have signed a Dutch forward called Delano Burgzorg. He will wear the No.7 shirt - and had already been called DB7. (View Post)

Another holiday-affected local by-election programme today. We have just a Lab defence in Middlesbrough and a Lib Dem defence in St Albans. (View Post)

Completely off topic but another musical find in the forests of eastern European composers. The Rebirth Symphony by Wieczyslaw Karlowicz. Written when he was 26 - but he died 6 years later in a avala… (View Post)