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If old pop music is your bag, my mate does the Giddy Carousel of Pop podcast, which is devoted to Smash Hits. They've had some good guests on over the years, Miki from Lush, Helen O'Hara from Dexy's etc. https://giddypoppod.home.blog/

I was a bit pissed off that they replaced the classic 200m sprint with this chaos but I have to admit it's way more fun to watch, and probably to do!

On that note, it will be interesting to see the jail sentences handed out for this stuff compared to the JSO folks. Is planning to block a road a more serious offence than actually burning down a Citizens Advice office?

Graham Thorpe. 55. :( I was at Sixth Form college with him. My mum was very good friends with his mum, who also died not that long ago.

Surrey born and bred. My nan lived in Milton Keynes or thereabouts and bought me an Easter egg in a Wolves mug when I was 4 years old, so 1973... And the rest is history. First game was also at Aldershot, August 1986, 2-1 win for us. I didn't get up to Molineux until sometime in the late '90s...

Good article in the Guardian today about the life of low-ranking tennis pro. Sounds a right lonely grind - https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/jun/27/the-loneliness-of-the-low-ranking-tennis-player

l would recommend a strongly worded complaint to your local PALS (Patient Liaison service). We did this recently on the advice of a GP friend when my wife was struggling to get the proper care from our local mental health service. Like your wife, she was about to run out of meds and her...

Same here in true blue Guildford. I haven't seen a single Tory poster (or Labour) but Lib Dems are everywhere. It'll still be pretty close as the Guildford MP is pretty nondescript and hasn't done much to make herself personally unpopular. I'm more aligned with the Greens politically these...

He's ideologically opposed to giving the right wing media the slightest leftish-sounding thing to attack him on. I have no idea whether that will change once they're in power - I certainly hope so - but the current strategy is pretty clear.

So sorry to hear about Paul. Very obviously one of the good guys. My condolences to his family.

"Remember what they did to Steve McClaren."

I think he was fairly unflattering about them subsequently - probably because they had some of it remixed by Scott Litt.

My F-i-L has lived in a village in Crete for the last 25 years (doesn't speak a word of Greek, is basically a hermit and is going blind - fun!). He'll be leaving his house and some land to my wife when he pops off in the next decade or so, which in theory is great, but it's going to a...

I think it depends on your situation. If you have a secure and adequate income, an affordable housing situation and relatively good health, the UK is fine. Plenty of things to be cross about but you can live your life in relative comfort. If you are challenged in any of those areas, then it's an...

After 5 years of cancellations and false starts, we finally completed the Devizes to Westminster Canoe Race last weekend, the longest non-stop canoe race in the world. We completed the 108 miles in just over 20 hours. Unfortunately the race was forced to stop 17 miles short of Westminster due to...

That was him shamelessly trying to hang on to his Surrey seat. Even here, it won't be a vote winner.

I did an coroner's inquest jury a few years ago, which is slightly different, but I was actually quite impressed with how seriously everyone took it and how keen they were to get it right. Of course there were a range of personalities, backgrounds and abilities but I think that's the point of a...

I don't go often enough to leave early, the exception being Fulham away in 2012, 5-0 in the pissing rain with a seat nowhere near a roof. The pubs of west London were a much more enticing prospect.

I'm in training for the Devizes to Westminster canoe (kayak) race at Easter. 125 miles non-stop, 22 hours (assuming things go well). Death seems quite a real possibility at this point.

I got a dry robe for Christmas for when I finish kayak things. Bloody lovely it is. But I would never in a million years consider wearing one in normal life.