Today's vintage ephemera tat: Belka and Strelka, plus an idiot who would definitely fail the cosmonaut training programme

Don't know why the Bank of England doesn't just swap out 'food' and 'heating' from the inflation basket and replace them with bored ape nfts and Tesla stock, job done

TBF it took just over two weeks

Lefty mooncalf dreamers will no doubt moan, but actually the vast majority of decent hard working voters want the current glorious status quo to continue forever, because we live in a golden age, and we've got the graphs to prove it

Today's charity shop lesson is: always worth flicking through a book just on the off chance

Wow that post credits scene in Anatomy Of A Fall 😲 talk about a twist

Then in a week's time half of you Highly Reasonable crazies will be quote tweeting a new Matthew Parris article with an approving 'good centrist points here' wise nod, and so it has gone, since the beginning of twitter until the end of times

Just been mugged for half my bacon sandwich, Sadiq's lawless London

Today in the charity shop: the single biggest influence on how I have accidentally spent the last twenty years

Come on Ravensburger, give them a taste of their own medicine and sue the shit out of Spelling Bee

Jacking in the writing to become a daily mail body language expert, happy to analyse dogs and any of the larger rodents as well as humans, very reasonable rates