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In the car with the 10y.o listening to Tim Minchin's "White Wine in the Sun" and chatting about its poignant message, and how strange it will be not seeing my mum when we go home after Christmas. A lovely moment. Then Spotify autoplayed "The Pope Song" 😳

Nice day for a spot of #jogging

If you order a steak to be brought to your desk for lunch you need to be on some sort of register.

Autumnal muddy rainy walk today

Sod it, stick Vince in as Secretary of Defence. Ultimate Warrior as Secretary of Agriculture, and Rey Mysterio as Secretary of the interior

If the government swapped IHT on family farms for an enhanced CGT (with appropriate reliefs), paired with restrictions on overseas land ownership, would solve multiple issues. Land wouldn't be seen as a hedge against tax, value would reduce and cash poor farmers wouldn't have to pay until disposal

Nice day for a bit of jogging

Gladiator 2 is a bit good 👍

If you see this, post a concert pic you took

Going for a full-scale Day of the Jackal binge. Stopped watching the TV series at ep. 5 to watch the film. Loving the Parisian polis speaking in plummy English accents, and marvelling at how badly Lawrence squandered the gifts of the Fox acting dynasty

Hope there are fewer Temu adverts over here