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@GeorgeWParker @LOS_Fisher @AArmstrong_says Let's hope not 🤞

Exc - Rachel Reeves has been surprisingly quiet since last week's elections. Her supporters think she might be able to stay on as chancellor after a leadership change to stabilise markets. with @AArmstrong_says ft.com/content/dda9a7…

@lady_valor_07 Weights for mechanical clocks e.g. cuckoo clocks

@MannGeorgia @MikeHBates It's much more likely that I'll be sitting in the garden with a very cold beer xx

@MikeHBates I am indeed going to force myself to go - and I went yesterday!

It’s a glorious Thursday morning! We have just the music to accompany it @BBCRadio3 9.30: @VikingurMusic plays Bach to start, Ravel’s Feria, Perlman plays from Brahms’ 🎻 Concerto & in the Playlister Madeleine Dring’s Festival Scherzo, written for the Festival of Britain 🇬🇧

@Callum_Trades @david_hollas That's where grid scale battery storage comes in.

@david_hollas Is there a paper for this would love to give it a read to fully understand the matter? As currently the issue with these prices for renewables are they are not constant and fluctuate greatly depending when the sun is shining or the wind is blowing.

Oxford University has done the maths on "drill baby drill" vs a fully renewable UK. Maximum North Sea extraction: saves households £16–£82/year. But ONLY if the government takes every penny of tax revenue and hands it back to households. If they don't, zero benefit. Full renewables: saves households up to £441/year. Recurring. Every year. Indefinitely. The North Sea runs out around 2040. Renewables don't. The analysis was done using January 2026 prices — before the Iran war sent oil to $116 a barrel. Even with cheap fossil fuels as the baseline, renewables win. This isn't ideology. It's arithmetic. Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford. March 2026.

@Zulu800 @leonbosch @MannGeorgia @Spectator_LIFE @BBCRadio3 Exactly the same here. Still thrilled to sit in an orchestra after 47 years of playing

@leonbosch @MannGeorgia @Spectator_LIFE @BBCRadio3 I’m a working class raised classical musician, it was never forced on me, I just liked it, first time in a symphony orchestra was the greatest sounds I’d ever heard and still is.

Just re-sharing this piece I wrote for ⁦@Spectator_LIFE⁩ about ⁦@BBCRadio3⁩ Thanks to everyone who’s been in touch about it already spectator.com/article/stop-t…

@MannGeorgia @BBCRadio3 @Spectator_LIFE Great article Georgia. Please keep doing what you're doing ❤️

Morning All! I’m on my way back from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 so not on @bbcradio3 this morning. I wrote this for The Spectator ⁦@Spectator_LIFE⁩ Please read. I felt the need to respond to a certain line of criticism… spectator.com/article/stop-t…

@katiecboulter Big congratulations! ❤️

Make that title numeroooo 4 🥹🥹🥹🫰🫰🫰🫰

@Matt_Pinner 19! Just the boombox that I failed on. But, I have listened to music outside on a Bluetooth speaker so almost 20 😃

7 for me!!….I feel confident nobody Has all 20!! How many for you?🤔

@ClarksonsFarm1 Music lessons in schools ☹️

@ClarksonsFarm1 Cheers!

@ClarksonsFarm1 Lewis usually looks like he got dressed in a charity shop in the dark, so you will always win this one @JeremyClarkson 😃

Who wore it better?🤣

@ClarksonsFarm1 Nope. They'd have to scrap the anti - environmental 3p per mile and "luxury" EV car taxes. And I still wouldn't be tempted enough.

No.

@CeliaBedelia We've got one the same

She doesn’t want to sit with me or be held, but she does want to stare at me until I’m uncomfortable while I try to clean our kitchen. Maybe that’s love?

@ClarksonsFarm1 And the same to you!! 😃

Hoping you all had a lovely Christmas Day! and if not, there’s always next year. Or if you don’t enjoy Christmas all together, there’s always the rest of the year. Love, happiness and well-being to you & all your loved ones.❤️

@MannGeorgia @BBCRadio3 Hi Georgia. I'm way too late for today, but I was going to suggest the Lullaby from Peter Warlock's Capriol Suite, arranged for choir. It's a beautiful piece. Maybe I'll find a connection for this another day. So glad Nancy is back!!

In the Thursday Playlister @BBCRadio3 our listener Arni has suggested an Icelandic Christmas song called 'Children Should be Given Bread'. He's hoping you'll come up with ideas around christmas food or presents...Where next?

@ClarksonsFarm1 Hey guys. I've bought a Diddly Squat t-shirt, and the dispatch email says it's coming from Curdle Hill Farm, not Diddly Squat. Who are they?

@JeremyClarkson Well done sir. I've never managed that, but I start with the most common word used and they'll never use that!

Wordle in one.

@RobertLogan86 @Lauratobin1 Until it cracks your windscreen...🤣

@Lauratobin1 Boiling water from the kettle works a treat

🧊 🚗 (my) Top tip to defrost your car! instagram.com/reel/DRMH6qJDe…

@MannGeorgia @BBCRadio3 I have an amazing recording byhim and the LSO. Handel's Fireworks music for winds and percussion. 26 oboes and 6 side drums. Amazing sounds!

As we contrinue to mark the astonishing legacy of Charles Mackerras @BBCRadio3 today's Playlister piece was sugested by listener Bren in Luton, Sullivan's ballet Pineapple Poll, arranged by Mackerras himself. It's all about a lady who dresses up as a sailor...Where next?

@MartinSLewis @itvMLshow I bought 2 cars during the relevant period from Toyota. I complained using your claim form (easy!) and eventually had a reply saying I had been charged discretionary interest. Then I had another email saying I didn't. They only referred to one of the cars...

Tonight's poll via @itvMLshow 8pm: Had a car, van, motorbike or campervan on finance between April 07 and Nov 24? If so, have you put in a mis-selling complaint yet? #MartinLewis