Don't suppose he worships at Newark's Odinist temple, does he? 'As Odinists, we practise and perpetuate England's native and national faith, which is the original, Old Religion of the English people.'

This afternoon in 1957 in Russia, at the Mayak plant in the closed city of Chelyabinsk-65 near Kyshtym in the Southern Urals, a stainless steel tank holding 70-80 tons of highly-radioactive waste from extracting plutonium for nuclear weapons exploded, releasing 20 million curies of radioactivity.

I think the probably unique thing about Palgrave was the extent to which he dominated at school level -- a comment by my aunt on the post notes that he was *the* poetry book at every school she went to in the 50s / 60s. So for many people who only read poetry at school, the pattern was set.

Just read it. Non-state schools, at a guess. I wonder how widely adopted it was in state schools. Don't remember seeing Palgrave in my schooling in the state sector from early 70s on. I wasn't much interested in poetry then, but am sure that for O level lang & lit, it wasn't in my classroom.

Sir Keir Starmer on Good Morning Britain, 2021.

One time my dad was walking back from the supermarket in Oxford and saw a man beating up another man in the street, and couldn't believe none of the people standing around were breaking it up. So he dropped his bags and went straight in. And that is how he spoiled a take for an episode of Lewis.

Is that what they call 'doubling down'?

Be fair. He's effective for some.

Sorry. I thought you were endorsing the idea that all ‘people that still opt for Home births… are utterly bonkers’ and that in many cases this was due to their having ‘been fed a lot of dangerous nonsense’.

Doesn't seem to be available on Netflix in the UK at present tho.