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I liked The Division Bell.

Watching HIGNFY on Friday, Ian Hislop made a remark that the only Labour policy was "We're not the Tories". His guest said "Well, it's a fucking great policy". Big applause.

Angry biker claims council should repair limited edition motorbike damaged by pothole on Northumberland road

OK Lance...what about the other races? What's the excuse there?

Now it's Labour's conference. Having seen last week how not to do a conference, what will Labour offer? I'm old enough to remember Labour's 1996 one. That's the bar they need to reach, I think. "Education, education, education" might have been a slogan but it stuck.

Airplane! Simply the funniest movie ever made.

I sat through the game on BBC Alba. I missed out on watching the world paint drying championship on the other side.

Had a bit of a drink-fuelled disaster this weekend. Saturday night, pished on Leffe. Talking to the wife, who was also pished. Somehow we started talking about hair. I needed a haircut and was planning on going for my usual 1-all-over. The wife asked if I ever thought of anything else, considering I've had the same hairdo since the 90s. I confessed that I wondered what I'd look like completely bald. In my mind I'm thinking that Walter White looked better bald, as did Ben Sisko and a few other TV characters. This led to a very fast escalation from "Why don't you do this?" to "I bet you won't do this, you'll chicken out" I had my clippers from lockdown. 11 am on a Saturday night, pished, taking all the hair off my head. Then shaving foam and razor. I utterly scalped myself. I'm amazed I didn't cut myself. I woke up the next day with about 85% of my head shaved, and a few bits I had missed completely. I had no choice but to go back and shave all the rest off. And I do not look in any way good. My scalp is utterly white. My face isn't. I look like Lex Luthor just released from the jail. Or a football hooligan. The wife is horrified, and spent yesterday reminding me of all the meetings I have this week at work. What I wasn't prepared for was how the scalp would feel. It's like leather. I imagined something silky smooth under my fingertips. Instead, it's like an old slipper that a dog has chewed. I might go into hiding for a couple of weeks until some of it comes back.

6 for Monday.

6 for the cup

Drove to Alloa and back today. Treacherous, tbh. Loads of flooding.

Are the trains still running in the civilised parts of the country, though?

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The Tories really belong in a political version of the Head's Gone thread. They've been completely taken over by UKIP, folk they used to see as "swivel-eyed loons and fruitcakes". Just look at Suella Braverman's speech at the conference. Stoking racial tensions because it furthers her own personal ambitions. Sunak's "agenda" seems to be a list of pet projects, like making people take maths to the age of 18. They need to be out of power, and as soon as humanly possible. I just wish Labour could see this, and not constantly get spooked by 1992. Sunak will not pull it out of the bag. Labour will win and they can crack on and offer something for people to believe in.

My daughter brought home her Hone Economics food yesterday, and was trying (and failing) to get us to try it. "It's pasta, made with ka-joon". Ka-joon? Took us a few minutes but we realised she meant cajun. She read the label but hadn't heard it pronounced.

My brother's first car was an Opel Kadett. Just like this one, same colour and everything: Absolute heap of shite.

Huddersfield driver fined £100 after rushing to doctors with poisoning says he 'won't be bullied into paying' Man refuses to pay parking fine. That's it, the whole story. Phone the papers, quick.

Female British Airways staff 'are furious over cheap uniforms designed for non-binary crew' saying the first update in 20 years is purposefully 'androgynous' Never fear, they're on the case...cretins

Surprising 10 for Friday

Fury as it is revealed Rishi Sunak filmed video cancelling HS2 from Downing Street days BEFORE chaotic Tory conference announcement - as he refuses to apologise to the North for axing train line to Manchester