And it’s been a while since housing associations and innovative non-profit solutions could be mentioned in the same breath

also: ‘Hugo’s father was the 2nd Baron Milford and the only member of the Communist Party of Great Britain ever to sit in the House of Lords’

Quite the obituary - includes the wonderfully euphemistic ‘During the marriage both parties had, to a greater or lesser degree, enjoyed the attentions of the opposite sex’
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Record low death rates in England & Wales in first quarter of 2026, actuaries say. Mild winter, better prevention or continuing effect of abnormally high rates during pandemic?

www.actuaries.org.uk/learn-and-de...

New two party system just arrived in Cliftonville. Wonder how many wards will become Green vs Reform battlegrounds in local elections next month. Suspect quite a few (plus plenty of other new two party contests springing up)

Interviews with rock gods are not what they were …
Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson in @theipaper.com

‘very smart guy, actually’

Congratulations Tony Gallagher - your mission to turn The Times into the Daily Mail is now complete

Sadly and no doubt due to pressure of space @thetimes couldn’t find a more prominent slot for this ad than p34 opposite the obituaries

‘Team Kemi or Team Miliband?’ asks Simon Jack on BBC R4 Today re North Sea drilling.

It’s matey Boris all over again …

Reform spokesperson sacked after Grenfell comments A group representing the bereaved of Grenfell call Simon Dudley's comments

Goodness gracious he was a board member of Homes England for almost five years and its interim chair for 15 months!

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

the significance of this seemed wholly to elude the assembled press pack

surely Rita Fairclough and Elsie Tanner in the Rovers?

predicting one heck of a hangover

if only it wasn’t for those pesky evidential thresholds …

BBC insisting they only pay £150 (and then only to non-politicians) - so either he is ‘mistaken’ or something funny has gone on

Thomas Skinner has tweeted at the other place that he was paid £2k to appear on Question Time. Excellent use of licence fee payers’ money.

Scary
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The unique & irrepressible @clentonf.bsky.social battles through tech problems to tell a @local.gov.uk seminar that social care reform must be all about Place, Power (for the individual) & Possibility

I do hope it was a letter

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What to believe in today’s @thetimes.com ??

Private Eye

killer last line

RIP Tom Georgeson aka Detective Harry Naylor in Between the Lines - still the best TV police drama ever. I shall be taking no questions.

No one was panicked then and no one is panicked now — this is a fake narrative that the media is peddling to sensationalise their stories,” says White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers. “The president and his entire energy team have had a game plan to stabilise the energy market since before the operation began.”

"and is this game plan in the room with us now?"

I’d go for abusive

Woman fined just £2 under Victorian law for 'indecent behaviour' at police station An abusive woman appeared at the Isle of Wight Magistrate' Court was punished under a law dating back almost 200 years

Maximum fine 40 shillings

www.countypress.co.uk/news/2592704...

yes, one by someone I know is not at all how they usually speak or write - it reads like a hostage statement

£1.80 from April