It doesn’t help that a lot of the segments come off as ‘bored American mansplains stuff he read in an encyclopaedia to a woman nodding along and pretending to be interested’. Like a particularly bad edition of Guardian Blind Dates.

Jeeeesus

A grateful nation thanks you for your service sir 🫡 Although I remain absolutely bewildered that it came up in focus groups!

Oh I’m definitely up for more Cambridge content, I think we’ve mentioned doing something on the busways before so definitely a contender!

As I posted the other day, criminals literally turned fields into a 150 metre long landfill site and Thames Valley Police suggested it had nothing much to do with them.

Yeah, similar thing near our train station

If you’re going to have cameras everywhere and fine people for pouring coffee down the drain you can’t then let organised criminals dump hundreds of trucks full of waste in a 150m long disaster and be like “oh, sorry, didn’t see anything, not our problem.”

Snooker is the true national sport and I will hear no argument to the contrary.

Yeah, the meat-packing district has some of the most consistently good restaurants anywhere

This is the institutional version of 'writing is thinking' - ideas need to interact with the world to breathe and take form. If your communication is stunted, so is the response to that communication, and ultimately so is your thought process.

One of the great tweets from blessed memory: ‘the Uk is a strange land where people think £100k is a very high salary but also £1m is a normal price for a family home’

A single shared source of truth is essential for a functioning democracy.

Without it you’re left with fragmentation, polarisation and a perpetual culture war where the discourse focuses on what divides us rather than what we have in common.

My column from last week: www.ft.com/content/5060...