The dancers on the biplanes, with Ginger riding hers like a horse with a saddle, is wonderful

Some improvement in our ranking for governance, after the damage done by that blustering bullshitting buffoon and his successors, but we are still languishing at number 13. And wait until the world finds out what the current government has done to our aid budget

Now why are we seen as less welcoming as a nation than last year? Beats me. I'm just off to put up some flags on lamp posts

Love that film. But Fred and Ginger’s first film together was Flying Down to Rio (1933). The extended Carioca number provided the blueprint for the much better The Continental in The Gay Divorcee

I’m afraid I’ve only just caught up with these episodes. Thank you. Kipling was one of Dad’s favourites: he would recite Mandalay etc. by heart. You have made me take down the oldest book I possess - 100 years old this year - and sent me looking for my copy of Kim

It gets worse 😆

At least we’ll get to find out who cites sources rather than reading the texts themselves.

But really, any “academics” who submit articles with fake citations for publication should lose their jobs.