Sir Lindsay Hoyle is going blue in the face moaning that Jackdaw announcement broke in the media last night - rather than in Parliament - ignoring 2 things 1] we've all been reporting the go-ahead for months 2] some decisions have to be made at 7am for market reasons, when Parliament doesn't sit

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my prep school - straight out of Jennings & Darbishire; our latin master wore bow ties & had leather patches on his tweed jacket elbows - taught us cookery, boys and girls alike. And how to wire a plug. Admittedly it was done in the spirit of "you simply can't get the staff these days" but still

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SUCH a great film. And those of us who grew up watching the series* were so worried. But no, they smashed it. *premiered before I was born, but my dad loved it

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Not gonna lie, kind of excited that we’ve got a new Miss Marple book this year. (Yes. I am choosing to read that rather than some depressing headlines tonight.)

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Burnham wants to end “40 years of neoliberalism”. Great. For universities, one very welcome - and stabilising - step would be the re-introduction of the student numbers cap. (Some would stop overflowing; some would stop shrinking; all of them would benefit). Is there a reason this isn’t an easy win?

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