The first Clacton opinion poll puts Count Binface at 20% which is unlikely to unseat Bungface (unless things change) BUT it will make Farage a figure of ridicule - something he will never shake off. Meanwhile I’m still rooting for the Count.

Give Clacton a break

You never know 🤞

Think this is it - called the Electrone

This looks hopeful - Andy Burnham set up the big care debate in 2009 - I was involved in a small way acting as a facilitator for the Dept of Health - there was a lot of cross party political support so🤞

He is worried about his falling poll ratings. Hoping the bin takes his seat.

Three New Year’s resolutions out government should follow

My favourite line from JB Priestley’s play ‘When we are married’ (now in the West End).

While the sash may have been co-opted by anti trans bigots (which is a shameful abuse if the women’s suffrage movement) Vera Hobhouse has spoken out against transphobia.

And Mondays too

I like to stretch but on a more comfortable surface

My album of the day: Eric Coates - storing and soothing music.

All councils provide office chairs often marketed as ergonomic - cheaper than the payouts for injury. Perhaps he wants people to sit on hard Dickensian high stools

In Nazi occupied countries schoolbooks and education practice reflected their evil ideology. Was a big job to purge all of that when Hitler was defeated.

We could send Liz Truss

One of the sounds of my early youth was the factory hooter - in my case I could hear the CWS Crumpsall Biscuit Works hooter at various times of the day - more reliable than a wristwatch. Swindon people had something similar.

Come on George

Wondering why would the UK would want a deal with Trump given the imbalance in his favour - see below. UK should boost its trade with Europe & Commonwealth instead.

I’ll keep my eyes open while you get some kip

I’m old enough to remember the short lived 1967 campaign ‘I’m backing Britain’ started by a group of secretaries who volunteered to work an extra half hour a day to help the economy. There was a song and a drive to buy British. Didn’t last too long but caught the public imagination at the time.

A parade something like this?

US stock market plunges thanks to Trumps idiotic tariff chaos and the day is not over

Sweet dreams

Trump taking dictation from his Russian handler?

Caturday greetings from two of your feline fans.

Too many similarities between these two pairs

Listening to Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Hiawatha a fab recording and would love to see the whole thing performed live as it was over a fortnight annually between the war in the Albert Hall. Perhaps the chorus would not dress as native Americans as they did back then.