And from a quick WWW search not even The Beatles' first No.1 anywhere?
But "Love Me Do" can be called The Beatles' first released recording which eventually became a No.1 somewhere?

I have fought a grizzly bear
Tracked a cobra to its lair
Killed a crocodile who dared to cross my path
But the thing I really dread
When I've just got out of bed
Is to find that there's a spider in the bath
--"The Spider" by Flanders & Swann
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZbr...

Not just left wing factionalism; also right wing, and maybe even centre factionalism?
Recall Emo Philips's religious joke which I, for one, believe has wider application than religion:
www.theguardian.com/stage/2005/s...

Proposing a bold new scheme replacing foster parents with wolves

I suspected as much :-)

I feel much of Beethoven's later piano music should sound as if it's being improvised.
Musician Hans Keller wrote of Furtwängler's conducting that he was the opposite of a recording.
(That said I don't know what Chopin would have thought if a pupil's playing was "too" different to the score.)
2/2

@yoonkim.bsky.social I recall from a talk that Chopin became irritated if a pupil played a piece the same way as at a previous lesson.
I heard Taiwanese pianist You-Chiung Lin play Chopin's B flat minor piano sonata twice within 8 months: in both she was very good, & very different the 2nd time.
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A line from a section of Ken Dodd's comedy act (I forget even roughly when, but I remember the actual line vividly):

And as we fly over the Bernard Manning Memorial Sewage Farm...

I suspect much of the time when anyone (including me) makes a "refreshingly honest admission" it's in at least part exculpation.
In ex-PM Johnson's case cynical me thinks it's 99.999% of the time and/or he hopes to get something out of it in the future.
"He has learnt nothing, and forgotten nothing"

@roberthutton.co.uk
"You eat one lousy foot and they call you a cannibal. What a world!"
--Driver of "The Big Bus" (1976 disaster movie parody, before Airplane!) on an unfortunate earlier experience driving a long-distance bus stranded in a snowstorm.

And it has the wonderful Stockard Channing!

I have a memory from years ago of hearing of a French slang term "parachutiste": someone with supposedly impressive expertise who arrives from afar, dispenses allegedly expert advice, and then quickly swans off before the quite possibly direly adverse results of their advice becomes apparent.

Always look on the bright side of life?

If they had got 27 seats?
Maybe:
Less than ten seats would have been disappointing, but would have been a start. But now we have a very solid foundation.

To be fair, I suspect many politicians or people would use that type of hindsight spin?