For the first time ever, I just got asked to take part in an opinion poll
One of the questions, after they’d done the serious ones, was who would I rather have as Prime Minister
- Kier Starmer or
- Rishi Sunak or
- Nigel Farage or
- Ed Davey or
- Taylor Swift or
- Ant and Dec
I should have said I wanted them all to job-share on a one-day-per-week basis
It would be a shame if Joe Biden is mainly remembered as the guy that enabled the second Trump presidency
Call me a pedant but this week I have been particularly irritated by BBC Radio 5 calling itself “the home of the Euro’s” when the Euro’s are actually on in Germany
I can’t think of another example where father and son have been current on the same team
I’m wondering what it will be like, for both of them 🏀
NBA draft: Bronny James unites with father LeBron at LA Lakers - www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp…
In defence of Rishi and Kier
A bloke called Robert, a member of the audience in the debate last night, got a lot of applause for asking this question
“Are you two really the best we’ve got to be the next prime minister of our great country?”
One of those two had a successful career in finance, the other had a succesful career in law, eventually running the CPS.
Both gave up very lucrative careers to go into politics. Both went onto lead their parties, replacing politicians who could be seen as disastrous
I don’t know what Robert has done with his life, but I’ve not done enough with mine to ask a question like that
#TodayILearned that
“The word “Bronx” originated with Swedish-born (or Faroese-born) Jonas Bronck, who established the first European settlement in the area as part of the New Netherland colony in 1639.”
Words I Like - Three Lions (Football’s Coming Home)
Jules Rimet, still gleaming
Three Lions (Football’s Coming Home) by Baddiel, Skinner & Lightning Seeds, The Lightning Seeds - songwhip.com/baddiel-s…
Here’s a cheery thought ⚽
If England don’t win the Euro’s this time, then, by the time if the next World Cup it will be 30 Years of Hurt since they first sang about the 30 Years of Hurt 🎵
Three Lions (Football’s Coming Home) by Baddiel, Skinner & Lightning Seeds - songwhip.com/baddiel-s…
I didn’t enjoy the football, but I did enjoy the Guardian’s headline ⚽
Woe de Cologne
This came up, from 11 years ago, in my Photos app
I was going to a work thing in Eastleigh, which I think was Benny Hill’s birthplace
The fact that the road named in his honour is called Benny Hill Close makes it sound like it might be a warning.
I like a good , flowery political metaphor, and this is a particularly vivid one, from Andrew Rawnsley
“Rather than scotch Reform, going early flushed out Nigel Farage to play the role of smirking fire ship smashing into the side of the creaking Tory hulk.”
www.theguardian.com/commentis…
A friend who is a painter and decorator introduced one of his colleagues as a ‘brother of the brush’
I thought that was cool
An Elvis story I hadn't heard before
Songwriter Mike Stoller was in a mid-Atlantic ship collision in the 1950s. He abandoned ship into a ‘broken life boat’, and was eventually picked up by a cargo boat
Stoller’s writing partner, Jerry Lieber, met him when he landed back in the US, and said that they had a hit with Hound Dog. Stoller said ‘With Big Mama Thornton’? No, said Lieber, it’s some white kid
Stoller tells the story better than I do - podcasts.apple.com/qa/podcas…
I may be a 1970s throwback……but the idea that there could be any debate about that being offside seems crazy to me ⚽
Some nice solstice pictures from the Stones and elsewhere
I’m wondering if opposition coaches tell their teams that England will always drop away after they’ve scored ⚽
I have one thing to say today, and it’s this.
‘Get Over You’ is a better song than ‘Teenage Kicks’.
Get Over You by The Undertones songwhip.com/the-under…
Well….I like it!
‘Pile of old wood’: Salisbury residents say sculpture spoils cathedral view - www.theguardian.com/artanddes…
I’m listening to Rolling Stone’s The 50 Worst Decisions in Music History. It’s good fun
Coincidentally I was scrolling through Wikipedia’s list of Chelsea managers, as you do, and it struck me that binning Anceolotti and recruiting AVB might be one of the Worst Decisions in Football History
As Dickens almost said, of all the good old days in the good old year, fixture list day is one of my favourites
Chelsea’s 2024/25 Premier League fixtures announced - www.chelseafc.com/en/news/a…
Allez les bleus!
Don’t vote for the far right, French sports stars urge public