Robert Hutton

Extraordinary Correspondence: coming June 2027. A new game is afoot.

Does *nobody* actually think more than a step ahead any more? When people on the right started calling their political opponents "NPCs" that was actually revealing. Because in any video game if you treat a human opponents like an NPC you generally get crushed

My simplified BOE monetary policy function staffing structure: 9 people making a decision. 15-20 experienced people they want to discuss that with. Another 300 or so mostly producing the charts and data inputs which can now be vibe coded and hoping to eventually become one of the 15-20.

New Liz Truss book doesn't disappoint. Thrust is blaming the Bank of England for the Sept 2022 market fallout, especially its quantitative tightening announcement the day before the mini-budget. She claims that she and Kwarteng were "caught off-guard", blindsided by the BoE's announcement.

I absolutely love the photos in this. www.londoncentric.media/p/oxford-str...

This is great, because most parents think of their children as callous dullards who hate animals, so it's really picked out the traits that makes her daughter unique, here.

Saw it. Cinema packed with people of all ages. Lots of laughs: these guys really know what they're doing. Definitely not one of those disappointing TV spin-offs. Ideal half-term fare, I'd say.

Strongly agree. It's not unreasonable of the government to ask grown-ups to give half an hour's thought to what they would want to hand if the power or water went out overnight.

My great-uncle, ex WWII pilot, is still turning out pretty amazing art, aged 102. And at the peak of his artistic career!

This, from @roberthutton.co.uk, made me LOL several times: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I just want 12 posters in the windows of the empty carpet shop in town. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hALB...

I adore my plushy black death

It's the weekend. Time to take your baggage to the tip. www.theguardian.com/...

Coffee. The biggest ad campaign of my teenage years seriously suggested that instant coffee was something that sophisticated urbanites offered their neighbours in the hope of getting them into bed.

What are you stockpiling? Burnham and Badenoch have spent the week taking policies to the tip, but at least Farage is playing in stores of racism. Me for the Guardian...

Ondřej Surý fixed PHP. Open source is completely wild.

RIP Tom Skerritt, a reliable and enduring actor who you probably remember from...everything, basically. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

"Let's go." "Why not?"

There was a whole rabbit hole I fell into years ago about how the British Army going into WW1 were very into the idea of indirect fire by rifles and MGs, and calculated the ballistic trajectories and angles the soldiers would need to fire their rifles in the air to hit the desired spot.

Lefty Twaddle was of course the foley artist on The Wild Bunch, famous for his ability to recreate the sound of horses hooves using only his left hand, which was badly disfigured in the battle for Iwo Jima

*Edward Woodward sees Wicker Man.gif*

He's going to talk about the friends he lost in the retreat from Stalingrad.

Hoyle's War: my SKETCH of Mr Speaker going nuts over has. thecritic.co.uk/hoyl...

I think it may be a feature of modern populism? So to be an heir you are either in or out the party. In, you have to take falls for the leader and are shown to be incompetent. Out, you must say increasingly radical things to be relevant that make the mainstream allergic to you.

On both sides of the Atlantic, populist movements get their shelf-life from their leaders. Reform has no heirs to Farage, and no other Republican can pull off Trumpism.

My unshakable conviction is that America could fix its politics by importing a dozen British journalists to sit in events like this laughing loudly.

For a while I made Christmas video messages for people (usually as Geoffrey Geoff-Geoffrey) which were a lot of fun and quite popular. For various reasons I haven’t been able to do them for a couple of years but I think I’ll have time this year if anyone is interested? ko-fi.com/mattgreencom...

Please consume the sketch carefully. I don't have enough readers that I can afford to lose them like this.

The wrong man in the wrong place: my SKETCH of Farage in Plymouth. Or, as he calls it, Portsmouth. thecritic.co.uk/fara...

Danny Kruger's words on Muslims, if you replaced references to Islam with 'international Jewry' or 'the Bishop of Rome', might appear familiar to fans of Western Medieval and modern history

Rookie mistake Nigel

"There is a big fishing fleet here in Portsmouth," Nigel Farage tells a Reform rally in Plymouth, which actually boos in response.

I'm happy to pay a licence fee surcharge to keep this case going for as long as is humanly possible

Robert Kenrick now telling event that John Healey 'is coming for your mum and dad'. Which given that the average age of the audience is about 70 suggests he is branching out into undertaking