Your turn to beat me to it!

That seems reasonable to me in many circumstances.

Wine was allowed to be served to under 14s in French schools until 1956. We knew how to reach the youth market back then...

Yes, so 0.48 of a bottle is 3 glasses. My glasses seem to be the same size as yours.

I don’t think it takes much figuring. You did tell him to get in the sea!

133 litres per year = 177 bottles (75cl) per year = 0.48 bottles per day = about 3 glasses per day. But I imagine this isn’t just adults as wine was only banned for under 14s in schools three years later.

Olly Robbins's revelations are a dangerous moment for Keir Starmer Drawing a line under Lord Mandelson's appointment is proving impossible for the prime minister.

This has just descended into unedifying civil service arse-covering tittle-tattle, now that the PM's account has been shown to be true. This wouldn't have even made the front page once if it had been Sunak, Truss, Johnson, Badenoch or Farage. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Finally made it to a bluebell wood this spring and am now listening to Elgar while I cook.

It definitely will, while the foreign funding, electoral interference, corruption, tax evasion and demonstrable lying of Starmer's political opponents receives the square root of fuck all in coverage from most of the media (or comment from you).

...while the bunch of racist, fascist, chaotic incompetents of Reform UK Limited lie in wait for just this sort of scenario.

It would need a Woodward or Bernstein to establish a paper trail back to Starmer, which doesn't seem to be on the cards here. And I don't think bringing down this government a year and a half into its democratic mandate over an ambassadorial appointment would be in the national interest...

LIV Golf: Is this the beginning of the end for the breakaway tour? With speculation continuing over LIV Golf's future, BBC Sport analyses whether the breakaway tour will continue.

Let's hope so - the gutless, immoral, sports-washing, money-grabbing little shits.
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/golf/a...

Mass Protest: Where Are the Kids? - The American Prospect The latest No Kings marches attracted a record eight million people. Most of them were of an advanced age that suggested they personally remembered the 1960s.

i think it would be productive for the boomers that feel compelled to write these pieces to grapple more honestly (or at all) with how anger and disgust over their generational failures on climate, housing, transit, labor, power transfer, etc. may be affecting youth turnout at no kings

But I do sympathise with writers who have built up followings on what turned out to be a terrible website - see also X.

This reminds me - I don't spend any time on there now but I must delete my account.

"My, how you've grown!"

Today is a good day.

He doesn’t actually oppose Ukraine’s EU accession, which is an improvement on Orbán, and I doubt he would veto EU aid.

Orbán concedes defeat in Hungary’s election.

This is enormously good news for Europe and the free world. Trump, Putin and Netanyahu have lost their man in the EU. No blocking aid to Ukraine or further EU cooperation and integration.

They are such charlatans.

Great photo.

Gentleman’s Relish is toast after its maker axes the pungent anchovy spread Falling sales end production of condiment created in 1828 – but London restaurant Simpson’s keeps it on the menu

Another blow hot on the heels of the Marmite announcement.

You’ll still be able to buy a version at Fortnum & Mason which is owned by the Westons, the same family that owns the company closing down Patum Peperium.
www.theguardian.com/food/2026/ap...

Exactly.

A legend that helped put the Languedoc on the map in the 90s and noughties. Sadly it’s moved out of my price range now.

Claudette Hubbard, a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Ellen Thomas, holding a glass of red wine.

My Better Half regularly advises me on matters relating to popular culture. Today she tells me that BBC soap opera Eastenders prominently features wine drinking pretty much throughout each episode. Let’s hope we hang on to the soap market.

It's always someone else's fault, isn't it?

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Kanye West travel to UK blocked by government West was due to headline London's Wireless Festival in July but drew criticism over past antisemitic comments.

Good
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

That’s certainly how it looks. It’s also incredibly arrogant that he thought he could just waltz in and play in Finsbury Park, which sits very close to at least two large Jewish communities in north London. He had already been turned down by two nearby stadiums, so he knew.

Yes, blaming his mental health (and doctors for not diagnosing) doesn’t really cut it. He’s not prepared to do the work which is particularly necessary in a repeat offender.