Midnight on the Water, played in a guitar in dropped D tuning. It's a fabulous, dreamy little waltz and only a little cheesy.

Very LRB.

Where on Earth do they source this sort of copy from? They seem to use industrial quantities.

Also, is this what the Leader of the Opposition means by 'our culture'?

Is it curtains for the Windows?

The Silver Spear. An Irish session classic treated gently on an acoustic guitar. #irishreel #acousticguitar #gavinatkin

Same problem.

(I was a provincial country boy at the time, btw.)

Nobody taught me 'liberal values' at university (I studied sciences), and I'm prepared to bet in many subjects liberal values are not taught now. What does he think he's talking about?

Singing.

Distraction?

You'll have to ring it. We have landline for that purpose only - but the time saved easily justifies £6 per month!

Nah. Surely 24%+19%.

"The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction."

~ Samuel Johnson

That was five decades ago!

I loved the carillon years ago. I hope it still plays!

But I think they were pretty well dead before Johnson; I'd guess what killed them was the political discovery that you could say anything in support of Brexit, and there was no need to demonstrate plausible evidence.

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I was just thinking that.

Me too. It's a messy looking thing, and I'm still wondering how you eat one.

Obviously, though still not to my taste. But on their recent form, competence would be going some ;-)

That viewfinder!!!

A photo of a lifetime. I wonder whether Ponting forever wished he'd been able to lower his camera by another foot, so the mast didn't clash with the icicle. Or was that deliberate?

Wasn't the same argument often levelled at the series of ineffective Conservative governments that Labour replaced? Has something changed that forces governments to be this way? 24hr instant news, perhaps, or social media, or the most partisan news media I've ever seen in my lifetime?

Nice work Martin!

Also, leftover mince pies make you slim. The clue is in the name; ask any French speaker.

They're for carolling. Old local carols are best.

Were the photos taken for blackmail purposes?

All true. They're good for all sorts of things, and take up very little space.

It's the entire liberal middle classes who are to blame. But tell me, who reads her newspaper? Is there a little discussed group called 'the illiberal middle classes'?

It's almost as if the EU is not a left wing organisation. Imagine that...