I completely forgot that Tom Stoppard was also responsible for adapting Anna Karenina for Joe Wright’s film (2012). I don’t feel that Tolstoy mixes particularly well with TV and film, but that film really wasn’t bad at all. (I’ve read AK 3 times so am reasonably qualified to say this).

Although with 4 kids and one modest income, he needed to!

When I was a child my dad would watch the budget coverage on the BBC with paper on a clipboard and a retractable pencil, working out how it would affect us. Nowadays the BBC website has a calculator on it. Dad was performing fiscal responsibility, I now realise.

I have had this exact same issue today, where it threads individual replies to a bcc email I sent. Extremely annoying!

If, like me, this utter betrayal by Labour is making your blood boil, can I ask you let them know your feelings here www.gov.uk/government/c...

Genuine hotel corridor carpet I saw in France once. I think it contains the souls of former guests.

I am both intrigued and repulsed 😆

A date latte??