The sort of writing I like best is the stuff with no opinion or even the suggestion of a mind at work. Just statements of fact one after the other.

Carbon has six electrons. Dogs are quadrupeds. Basse-Terre is an island in the Guadeloupe archipelago etc etc.

I'd pay through the nose for that.

Absent an independent pro-Gaza candidate that's what the Greens did in Huddersfield to see their vote share move from 3.8 to 26.3% at the last GE.

I mean, I offer the caveat that it's field recordings of singing in pubs!

Ellington's Nutcracker also in my top 3 along with this (which I acknowledge is niche and personal).

open.spotify.com/album/2BwmzH...

I love Here comes Santa Claus on that album.

How did this conversation start though? Was she trying to have a pop at Stafford Cripps?

Yeah, if you're clearing £2m in Huddersfield now it's something like Banney Royd, grade 1 listed, 9 bedrooms and huge grounds. www.onthemarket.com/details/1379...

Also, if you live in an isolated rural area and hate the effects on your of lifestyle of living in an isolated rural area might I suggest not living in an isolated rural area.

Everybody has unique circumstances which might make it a catalyst to make a break, but not out of nowhere.

Ken Clark (Stewpot in South Pacific) on the portrayal of noblewomen in early modern northern Europe.

Just need to check with Lord Glasman whether leaving home at 16 for a badly paid live-in Job severed my intergenerational ties or did that have to wait until I left again at 20 to go to university?

There is stuff being used but yeah, a long long way to go.

huddersfieldcivicsociety.org.uk/past-events/...

There is a bit of office space there, and they replaced some of the windows. But yeah a huge missed opportunity.

In this instance things are made difficult by a town centre where (gestures at everything) are listed but yeah there's a viable use case for parking plus large floor plate offices and the council has provided development loans previously to enable this stuff.