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What's probably more disturbing is that I'd never heard this song until I actively sought it out yesterday (and I do like a few Sam Fender songs). The whole culture-by-osmosis ecosystem is borked.

Counterpoint: The Restore vote is the 10-20% of the most despicable people in the country, and they've been catered to by the Conservatives/ Reform/ Ukip in the last 20 years. The right only gets to power by ostracising them.

The Tories probably need to reconcile with how many ex-BNP voters they soaked up post-Brexit vote.

*whispers* For a Labour government, it is tactically astute to transfer powers and money to city/ metro mayors, as that's where the voter base is. Let the the Lib Dems and Conservatives scrap over bumpkins, nullify Reform in the racism-hungry towns by tying them to newly-powerful cities.

Of these, the best three are chocolate, banana and rum and raisin. The public should not be trusted. Also: Strawberry is the one that can be great, but is the most frequently disappointing (My favourite? The wild cherry cheesecake flavour from the dairy a few miles away).

For Missouri, it's Montana. For Arkansas, it's Colorado. For Ohio, it's Pennsylvania. For Delaware, it's New York. For Mississippi, it's Minnesota. What is it for Colorado?

Morgan McSweeney prepares to win over mint choc chip voters by making every food on earth taste of toothpaste.

Democratic Republic of the Congo Papua New Guinea New Zealand Netherlands Equatorial Guinea

There's something quite Shakespearean about AI being genuinely useful for lots of (mostly dull) things, but financially unsustainable unless everybody uses it all the time for completely unnecessary things.

Burnham is very lucky to have unearthed Starmer's genie at exactly the time the public is realising Farage is a crook and Polanski is a twat.

Howe Away Man!

The great thing about the summer holidays is being asked "when's lunch?" every five minutes between 7.45am and 12 noon.

Blur's There's No Other Way is about the A30 in Cornwall.

Blur's Ernold Sane is about Dave Benson Phillips.

Denis Villeneuve's My Friend Billy

On kids' reading, a few half-formed thoughts from experience. 1. Give them a shelf with plenty of variety to choose from. Different genres and styles. Allow them to gravitate to what they fancy on any given day. (World of Books is good for keeping costs down - www.worldofbooks.com/en-gb )

The Odyssey would have been better with a wisecracking, talking dog, voiced by Jack Black or Eddie Murphy. By me for the Very Serious People's Fanzine.

The Prestige is one of my all time favourite films. I thought Inception, Interstellar, Dunkirk and Memento were great. I found Tenet baffling and ultimately quite dull, and Oppenheimer so ploddingly staid that I didn't bother watching until the end. Will I like the Odyssey?

I would like to see a thesis on how you never properly get rusty at pool, but you do at darts and ten pin bowling.