Stephen Farrow

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Writer, reader, grammarian, shower singer, theatre addict, news junkie, eyeball-roller. European. Powered by Vimto. Love language, hate sushi.

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A break for comedy. Watch to the end, because Wood saves the best for last:

Victoria Wood Appreciation Society on Instagram: "Staying In - Victoria Wood Presents 1989 #victoriawood #vicwood #jimbroadbent #80stv #comedy #funny #northern #northerners #80scomedy #northernhumour...www.instagram.com 396 likes, 4 comments - vicwood_appreciationsociety on July 7, 2024: "Staying In - Victoria Wood Presents 1989 #victoriawood #vicwood #jimbroadbent #80stv #comedy #funny #northern #northerners #80sco...

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Away with her, And pen her up.

Pure poetry.

No overall majority in France, but Le Pen and the RN appear to be trailing a distant third. Good.

French elections: Left projected to win most seats, ahead of Macron's coalition and far rightwww.lemonde.fr According to initial estimates, the Nouveau Front Populaire left-wing alliance is projected to win between 172 and 192 seats in France's Assemblée Nationale, ahead of Macron's coalition (between 150 a...

See you on the TV, Call you every day, Fly across the ocean Just to let you get your way, No-one understands me, Where I'm coming from, How could I be with someone Who's obviously so dumb?

I know I keep saying this, but it isn't simply that irony is dead. It's that people keep backing up their cars and driving them over irony's bloody, battered corpse.

Ah, romance...

OK. -- #waffle898 3/5 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⭐🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩⭐🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩⭐🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 wafflegame.net

Lucky guess. -- #Worldle #898 (07.07.2024) 1/6 (100%) 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉 worldle.teuteuf.fr

Not quicker than I got the English one, but not bad either: Le Mot (@WordleFR) #910 3/6 ⬛🟩⬛🟨🟨 🟨🟩⬛🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 wordle.louan.me

Not bad. -- Wordle 1,114 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Art, innit?

Nigella apparently Has Opinions about Liz Truss losing her seat:

The Torygraph seems to be throwing all the toys out of the pram. Bless.

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Braverman, on returning from maternity leave, was asked “What are your priorities, minister?” and replied, in front of half of the department, “Firstly we need to raise my profile.”

Amid the many Conservative losses this week, it's mildly depressing to note that the dazzlingly incompetent Helen Whately still has a seat in the House of Commons, albeit with a massively reduced majority:

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Starmer has already been in touch with the Independent Advisor on Standards to make it a key part of his government. Dodgy dealings and blatant corruption will be a thing of the past. (My words).

Oh dear.

Travel goals... (You should be able to read this without going through the paywall.)

All the Adventure, a Fraction of the Cost: The D.I.Y. Orient Expresswww.nytimes.com The luxury version of this classic train journey costs almost $50,000, but for $1,000 or less, you can book the rail trip from Paris to Istanbul yourself.

Calm, competent, inspiring, and dedicated to public service. For the first time since 2010, we have grown-ups in charge.

Change Begins Now | Foreign Secretary David Lammywww.youtube.com YouTube video by Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooosh!!!!!!! #waffle897 5/5 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⭐🟩⭐🟩 🟩🟩⭐🟩🟩 🟩⭐🟩⭐🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 wafflegame.net

It's come up before. #Worldle #897 (06.07.2024) 1/6 (100%) 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉 worldle.teuteuf.fr

Bleh. -- Le Mot (@WordleFR) #909 5/6 ⬛🟨⬛🟨⬛ ⬛⬛🟨🟨🟨 ⬛🟩🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 wordle.louan.me

OK. -- Wordle 1,113 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

This. Even taking into account the vote share and the advances by Reform, in the context of what this country's politics have been over the last fourteen years this was a MASSIVE victory for Labour, and a step-change for the entire country.

Maybe things don’t feel like they do because the press heavily influences narratives so they can appear to “be fair to both sides” when in actuality, the only side they’re playing for is themselves and their profits, the facts and our democracy be damned.

As a description of the Trump-thing, "neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath" is relatively restrained. Our new foreign secretary's name, incidentally, is David Lammy - and if he'd been white, The Hill would probably have included it in their headline.

UK’s new foreign secretary once called Trump ‘a neo-Nazi-sympathizing sociopath’thehill.com The United Kingdom’s newly appointed foreign secretary for the Labour Party called then-President Trump a “neo-Nazi-sympathizing sociopath” in a 2018 opinion piece for Time magazine. David Lammy, a…

Marine Le Pen says a prime minister from her party, National Rally, would prohibit Kyiv from using French-supplied long-range weapons to strike inside Russia and would block President Macron’s "suggestions" of putting French boots on Ukrainian soil. edition.cnn.com/2024/07/05/e...

Marine Le Pen promises French far right will rein in aid to Ukraine, slams soccer star Mbappé | CNNedition.cnn.com As Ukraine bleeds territory to Russia, support from one of Kyiv’s strongest backers looks set to falter if the far right sweep to power in Sunday’s French parliamentary elections.

Do better next time, Berkshire.

The liberal republic of Oxfordshire.

If you see this, you have to post a picture from your device without explaining it

I can go from zero to block in under four seconds.