Nick Pepper

And not a second older. Or younger.

No one has seen a bigger hat. They say "if you want to see a big hat then go and see Trump's hat". It's a big big hat.

Some societies use their surplus resources to build beautiful monuments and places of worship, other societies use their surplus resources to bomb them.

The biggest hat that anyone has seen

"I love that my girls are.... discovering so much of the geopolitics of this troubled region"

Yes... it's pretty much just like the time we went to the Isle of Wight for a 6th form geography field trip.

Who hasn't tried this?

Schooled by Louise Mensch. I imagine her comments will have echoed through the halls and corridors of the Vatican. Lots of frantic deliberation about what this now means for Pope Leo XIV.

If the UK ever came under direct attack from an enemy state we'd be utterly screwed wouldn't we?

Goodwin on @lbc.co.uk banging on about campaigning in Urdu has put the UK on a short road to an electoral system akin to Sierra Leone's. There is a superb book called Revolt on the Right that he should read on the hows and whys of the rise of Farage.

I am convinced that the proponents of the urban dystopia idea, anti-social behaviour, threats around every corner, decline of civil society, are really just judging others by their own standards. They're the self-entitled, they're the danger.

Top night out with my valentine who does proper working hours and doesn't have a TV anyway. I knew who you were though. Hope Heart of Northumberland lived up to its billing.

Really fun night though, we laughed a lot which is good, right?

An otter leaping out of frame

Just one of those lucky moments... it was a day of almost brilliant photos at Washington Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust.

An adult and juvenile coot mirroring behaviours with a bit of grooming at Washington Wetlands.

Regret the focus not being sharp enough on this snatched moment... bah. I still like it though. #BirdsBeingBirds

The solution has to be two-pronged. Education (including critical thinking -- so humanities in schools is vital and educating parents). Holding the SM companies properly accountable for content. But we cannot favour a solution which pretends none of this exists until you're 17.

Problematic for adults too. SM is here to stay. AI is here to stay. The genie is out of the bottle. Banning it is pointless, both AI and SM now require a raft of education around safe / appropriate use and proper parental management. And yes, critical thinking as a taught skill.

Not really the same. You've already listed the range of risks to under 16 year olds. What in your opinion makes a 17 year old who has never used social media before uniquely disposed to avoid the pitfalls? Your argument is more akin to banning driving lessons and just letting people get on with it.

Yes! But it's going nowhere. So imagine a generation of vulnerable 17 year olds suddenly being let loose on social media having no previous practical experience, no online networks, no understanding of the pernicious nature of it. Banning things often (not always) has unintended consequences.

So what do we do about a 60-something Brit radicalised online to make a bomb and blow up ULEZ cameras? Evidence that over 60s are highly susceptible to being radicalised. The difficult answer is that social media needs regulating, not teens.

Disregarding complexity is the leitmotif for political decision-making these days. Boils down to 50-somethings saying "well we managed with just a landline and we survived" on social media threads.

Martine McCutcheon stole my pint in the Penny Theatre in Canterbury. I marched over and took it back. On reflection 30 or so years later I hope that it was my pint.

Not just the far right... part of the failure of the 'remain' campaign was the antipathy felt by Corbyn towards the EU as he reluctantly forced himself to be pro-EU. And, as an acolyte of Tony Benn, his views also have its roots in a deeper pre-Brexit history of the left.

It'll say "blah blah blah ECHR" a lot. As if Express "readers" had even thought of the ECHR when they cast their stupid vote.

Ha! You're spot on. Not just Gove... man of the people Rees-Mogg even wrote a terrible why-oh-why-can't-we-be-more- like-them "history" book about Victorians.

That's it! An absolutely pointless pissing competition.

-I was Brexit before I was even born.

-Well I was Brexit before the dissolution of the monasteries.

That's Professor Goodwin 101.

Yes... remarkable how they managed to fit all that on the ballot paper.

They are trying to sell newspapers to people who insist they knew what they voted for, got what they actually voted for, and are now in a deep funk. The penny will never drop, and the Brexit grift will be never-ending. We're 10 years on and we probably have a century of this relentless BS to go.

Moira Rose was a masterpiece.

I'd binge it all if I could. I watch it as soon as I can after it hits iplayer on Sunday. So good. And yes, grudgingly, I have to concede the weekly wait is nostalgic and does something.

“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment