my wife: today at work my colleague said i've been reading fairy smut and then my other colleague said when my irish grandfather was a child he was very scared of fairies because they said he'd steal him away. me: what did you say my wife: i had nothing to add to that

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so excited for this

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Favourite Patrick Stewart moment: as Lenin in the Fall of Eagles, a brilliant 1970s BBC series about the fall of the Prussian, Russian and Austro-Hungarian monarchies Do yourself a favour and watch all 13 episodes. Spell binding stuff www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP0o...

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Britain's universities are in freefall. If we go on like this a large number cannot and will not survive. Here's some ideas about how to save them. Clue: abolish the Office for Students immediately. www.arguably.uk/p/how-to-sav...

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Brixton Windrush and the two Kings Cross wards are not demographically that different, and it's just that in the former place the local authority has been de facto told 'you're on your own' and in the latter it hasn't to anywhere near the same extent.

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