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After he's completed Operation Scarecrow

Trump: "They're walking around with no legs"

Will be interest to see if the readership approves.

The Taste of Things French romance set in 1889, focusing on the enduring bond between gourmet chef Dodin and his cook of 20 years, Eugénie. Dodin resolves to woo Eugénie by cooking for her.

But The Taste of Things: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002rlpp via @bbciplayer 👌

The World's Largest Acidic Geezer.

Ah. But yes, it should've been King James' version - or is King James's version now de rigeur?

The BBC WAC Campaign's full submission to the Government's Charter Review is now online. We argue that policy changes at the Written Archives Centre fly in the face of the values at the heart of the Green Paper: trust, transparency, and the telling of stories. Read here: tinyurl.com/CharterSubmi...

Jeez! One typo and I'm damned! Anyway, no. Birdseye & Pugwash are benign fun, Queeg ultimately sees his failings.

Someone else got in before David.

Ahab, obviously. But without the ability to utter his obsessions as if rewriting the King James Bible.

Tin Can Stilts shoulda been the b-side to Bell Bottom Blues.

Timothée Chalamet now dissing the town planners...

As long as you've finished and saved your Julie Covington piece... #BonVoyage

A Roman mosaic depicting an owl with wide eyes, brown and red body, and blue feet, set against a cream-colored background with a black geometric border. The owl looks a bit deranged.

Just another Monday…

A Roman mosaic depicting a somewhat whimsical owl 🦉, found in Uzès, southern France, dating second half of the 1st century BC.

📷 Denis Gliksman, Inrap

🏺 #MosaicMonday

Only Women Bleed by Julie Covington

Later this week, I’m publishing a long Inventory piece about Julie Covington, the wellspring of which was this remarkable single. It seems fitting to flag it up on International Women’s Day. #IWD2026.

Glasgow Central Fire Sparks Travel Chaos Across the UK A major fire beside Glasgow Central has shut Scotland’s busiest station, triggering nationwide disruption and raising urgent questions over UK rail resilience.

Awful news about Glasgow Central, I'm still hoping the station itself escaped serious damage.
But while we're here, can anyone spot the problem with the news photo below, from thetraveler.org/glasgow-cent...?
We've really got to STOP using AI to fake things.

Does anyone use "The Traveler", knows that everything about it is AI (incl. "Wayne Hall") and is fine with that?

Nietszche in White Supreme.
Mood: Blue.

Straight, No Chaser?

Got stuck in. Probably the play's most perfect incarnation, in the place where it happens. The ultimate radio play? Gotta love #radio #drama bsky.app/profile/anot...

I wish I'd seen it! What a fulsome review!

Having just listened to the radio City Sugar and remembering my disappointment with Talk Radio at the time because it wasn't as good as the former... Probably.

It was!

Play was 75, West End w/Adam Faith in 76; TV 78 & the radio play (R3 but for the World Service) 79.

I'm up to Peters & Lee followed by Street Fighting Man!

Thank you. He ought to be available on the National Health.

Lynne Miller played Nicola at the Bush and on tour.

City Sugar By Stephen Poljakoff : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Drama NowBBC Radio 3, 21 January 1979 20.00City Sugar By Stephen Poljakoff'No need to worry, no need to be sad. Shout that out. So tune in. Tune in said I tune...

And before both was the original 1975 Bush production of City Sugar with the estimable John Shrapnel (not Johnny Walker as the photo implies); and here (radio adaptation 1979) *Julie Covington* as Nicola!! About to get stuck in. NB the Radio 3 intro is a hoot. archive.org/details/city...