When you are up on the high boggy stretches of Pendle Hill, Seamus Heaney and Liam O’Flynn are steady companions.

Like the man said

An update: a delivery. #jazzsky

#nowlistening #stilllistening

#nowplaying For a sunny morning.

And relax.

Time to restart an old project. The European Parliament 2009 bookmark is coincidental

“How do I make a Reform UKer. I start with a Conservative and then take away reason and accountability.”

He has been weighed in the balance and found wanting.

…..etc…..

She knows all about betrayal , arrest and accusation. Not in a good way.

The ultimate Daily Telegraph headline ?

#nowplaying At the moment if it isn’t Monk, it’s Duke.

True dat.

At last, an Allister Heath headline I can get behind.

He seems nice.

I assume this is not from the #BAFTA catwalk yesterday.

#nowplaying Now Herself's family's venerable bequest, The Loneliest Monk

Additionally, The Daily Telegraph puts their Rayner scoop on Page 2 even now. About Nigel Farage and his 17 breached ? Not a single word.

Angela Rayner: ‘inadvertent’, one case, £40,000. Daily Mail: ‘Sack her !’ Front page. Nigel Farage: ‘inadvertent’, 17 cases, £384,000. Daily Mail: not a single word.

#nowlistening

Like the joined up narratives one sees in (**checks notes**) Simon Jenkins.

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