Wife: 'You need to take out the trash.'

Me: 'Can we change the subject?'

Wife: 'Fine. The trash needs to be taken out by you.'

Belated birthday treat to myself tonight... 28 years of listening to Fascinating Aïda!

My timeline is full of supposedly sensible people sharing this as if it were a real quote, which I’m pretty certain it isn’t.

A fascinating watch: Tony Benn, Denis Healey, John Silkin husting for the Labour deputy leadership, 1980
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Fascinating interview on why the Covid recovery funding for education didn't happen - which covers a lot of the challenges facing schools on a daily basis. A key problem being system capacity for change and improvement for those schools not within excellent MATs or local auths

Andrew Scott is simply mesmerising in #Vanya The play is fine, but the acting sublime. Brilliantly filmed too

So what results do you get if you ask Sir Humphrey's polling questions? Ipsos UK decided to try it. We showed 1,000 Brits his pro national service poll and 1,000 his anti national service poll. Results:

Sample A: 45% in favour of national service, 38% say no.
Sample B: 48%

All this talk of bringing back national service and the home guard and whatnot made me wonder which actors today are roughly the age the Dads Army actors were when the show started for some reason

Does the shark's head poke through the ceiling in #Headington 's shark house?! 🦈 we went to have a look inside! 👀

🔊 Listen to more on @bbcsounds ⤵️
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Sweet results as a baby explores Speech

It would take someone with a lot more willpower than me not to go straight to ep.2 #thetraitors

Can't think of a better way to see out 2023 than with Slow Horses season 3. A rare adaptation in which the TV series is sublime and the books even better
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Really fitting tribute to Tim Brighouse by Chris Cook.

Anyone interested in improving public services - and turning soulless talk of 'reform' into something purposeful - should read it.

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