One of my favorite scientific discoveries in recent years is that among domesticated animals, dogs recognize the difference between themselves and people, but cats just think the people who live with them are terrible incompetent cats
A very good morning from Gibraltar 🇬🇮 A nice sunrise on arrival ⚓️ Enjoy a wonderful weekend ☀️ 🏝️ 😇 🍀 🕊️
Coming soon to Channel 4! Join me for Ottoman Empire by Train - a 5-part series where I explore the fascinating, expansive, turbulent history of this empire. I can promise beautiful architecture, bloody battles, medieval magnificence, plenty of trains and, of course, Turkish delight.
I constantly bang my head on the desk at the inability of an administration to employ the most basic communication strategies to sell their positive story. Yes, sell. Yes, positive. Yes, story. These aren't taboo terms developed by one's chosen demon from the political past. It's Comms 101.
Starmer’s government must learn from leaders who transformed Britain: Attlee, Blair and, yes, Thatcher
Rare friday visit to regional shopping centre. Grim. People in a daze. Are we all drugged up? Respectable woman with baby in Pret, but dressed in something close to pyjamas. Students wandering in aimless packs as local college has work from home friday. Where's the spirit gone?
Does anyone follow local social sites like Next Door? So many complaints about peoples behaviour with dog to dog interactions. Puts me right off ever having a dog.
Sky News reports Starmer has farted in the presence of Kemi Badnicks.
In the last week, Labour hit a crucial milestone on getting rid of hereditary peers, unlocked £1bn funding for social housing insulation, initiated plans to regulate buy-now-pay-later lenders and started to coalesce around an HS2 replacement. Barely any chat about this at all.
Robert Jenrick says he would reduce immigration to "the tens of thousands, or lower" if he was in Government. A reminder that when he was actually in charge, as immigration minister, net migration to the UK rose to 685,000.
