The big annual Autumn tramp across the North Yorks moors starts tomorrow, but the choice between tent and bivvy bag is a tough one this year, given weather forecast uncertainty. Light travelling vs dry arse dilemma.

I'd like to have a look to see how the referencing works, as I did with Goodwin's though nobody was interested) but can't morally buy it. Perhaps get a pool copy?

Today it is 1,257 years since Tu Fu wrote the best ever poem about being really miserable in Autumn after giving up drinking (trans. Arthur Cooper).

I didn't know that. Thanks.

This, from an official Reform Facebook account, seems like a deliberate visual metaphor for violent insurrection. Imagine if Labour under Corbyn had put this out (with the arrows pointing the other way).

The greatest advice to comedians and comedy writers in history comes in the preface to the second edition of Jane Eyre (1847).

I see Kemi Badenoch's calling me and my colleagues bottom wipers now. Well yes, we are bottom wipers. It's just we're quite proud of it. bickerrecord.medium.com/carers-agenc...

My new pet theory is Labour are quite happy to be doing so badly in the polls, as it means the Tories are less likely to fragment and thereby bring about a new more powerful far right Reform-NatCon party.

Was this shift not also about the same time as news of data being harvested without consent for the 'Grok' AI came out? That may also have specifically accelerated.

You read it all the way through? Wow. Habermasian Labour has traction.