Oh no!! Tories win Teeside mayor’s job for Ben Houchen. Bad luck, Sunak. Another ticking time bomb ticking on theguardian.com/politics/artic…

steve richards Gordon retired. Labour chose the wrong Miliband. Then the near fatal accident of Corbyn happened. The Tories have been crap, but Labour often crappier…

Pity the poor Tory expendable spokesfolk put up to defend horrible election results. Floundering, rightly so, but painful to listen to theguardian.com/politics/live/…

We all have different ideas about what constitutes a good birthday, Val !

I knew Trago Mills but didn’t know about the stocks policy. Coincidentally I saw some village stocks on display in N Yorkshire only this week . No shoplifters in them, mind you

MichaelWhite I was at the till of a London shop recently, paying for a few household items. A customer said 'that man's just walked out w 2 bags of stuff' and the assistant shrugged. 'They do it every day', she said, 'and there's nothing we can do.' I saw him outside, his mate had 2 bags too.

I thought this was a thoughtful column on this complex issue of identity and tolerance ( Times)

Shoplifting 2024 style

Mean, but at least funny. ( Sun Times)

How old are you, Stuart ?

Ah well, then we are right to fear this bogeyman, he’s the kind of rogue who gets your kids or their kids killed when he’s run out of other ideas to avoid the reckoning

Fear of what, dog ?

Was it an opinion ? Sorry, I hadn’t noticed

There was snd it was made in 2016. But that train has left long ago and we are doing our best to improvise assorted deals where we find we need them and can make them. Meanwhile Brexit ‘s left behind voters suffer most. Mogg is fine

That sounds more like a rant from an exhausted child minder, Geordie, so let’s stop. Sleep well

Now he tells us

Thomas Gordon MichaelWhite The UK checks non EU goods coming in. So they have to check EU goods too. Otherwise they are favouring the EU. That's against wto rules. When we were in the EU it was allowed because the whole EU is one member. So goods from madrid to london were just domestic goods.

His time will come when the bills arrive

No, I think you’ve got that back to front. U.K. has insisted in “ taking back control” of food safety after decades of relying on EU to protect us

More of the same , we live in credulous as well as unserious times , don’t we ?