It’s no longer Left/Right. It’s Authoritarian/Democratic. We know where the Telegraph increasingly positions itself.

Fish gotta swim, bats gotta fly, Daily Mail readers gotta be angry. It’s nature.

They say that Paul Dacre used to say say “What’s making our readers angry today?” and then expect that to dictate to contents.

The main ”game” relating to WW2 was making eye goggled with your fingers and run in zigs zags and zooms pretending to be giggles shorting down the Nazis.

I have zero recollection of a single bit of so-called “banter” suggesting “Gas the Jews”. Let alone repeated over several years.

When you dive head first into a midden, you can’t click your fingers and find yourself in a meadow smelling of roses.

When will we accept that life is complicated? There are a whole load of conditions for which now have descriptions and names, which are spectrums from inconvenient, through liveable with support, to life threatening requiring social support/care.

Badge of Honour.

He’s frit!

This 3 year old is a prodigy. A perfectly constructed 13 word sentence.

It says a lot about us as a country.

I start next Monday. Thank you for enthusing me about participating in one of the most important civic duties.