Mark Minto

‘It was hard not to stare at him all the time’: inside the remarkable rise and shocking loss of Leonard Rossiter theguardian.com/culture/2024/o…

I’m recognised in a few licensed premises around the country, but only two where they remember what I usually order: the bar at Thorpe Bay Yacht Club, and the Bird & Signet at Glasgow Airport.

Today's anniversaries. 75 years of Bruce Springsteen, 50 years of Ceefax and 25 years of the West Wing.

The great Bob Fulton has passed away this week at the age of 101. I only got to know him during the last decade of his life, and those years alone could fill up the pages of a wonderfully surreal biography. Bob was larger than life. 1/

Hearing the Oasis reunion tour might not need to happen after all, since yesterday’s PRS cheque has arrived.

ITV confirms ‘Take Me Out’ will return in October with Paddy McGuinness replaced by comedian Stewart Lee

How the mighty have fallen. Great pub when I lived down there.

“Right, whose round is it?” Translation: We all know whose round it is and it's not mine.

Watching something or other at the Olympics - seems to be Junior Kickstart but with horses.

Everybody expected the Spanish Inquisition - they were legally obliged to give 30 days notice.

That's an excellent deal.

So now the Deputy Prime Minister is younger than me.

So now the former Prime Minister is younger than me.

So now the Prime Minister is younger than me.

@VictoriaCoren They could stop describing the ministerial car - which is fairly clearly an Audi - as a Jaguar while they're on.

I do wish the BBC would stop calling the prime minister’s wife “Lady Victoria”. That’s not the form. She’s just Victoria, or “Lady Starmer”. He got a knighthood from his job, he wasn’t born an aristocrat, which seems quite an important distinction for a Labour leader.

.@QueuesPub West, Glasgow

I, a random, member of the public not standing in the election, am challenging all party leaders to a debate on the best episode of Columbo. If they don't take me up on it I know they are not serious about my vote

Theorem: There is nobody currently working in government who is old enough (and/or curious enough) to have watched Yes Minister.

Ruining his suit as well.

Max Verstappen dedicates his victory at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix to late ‘Supergran’ actress Gudrun Ure. “I like to think I also have more bottle than United Dairies!” he smiled

“She chose the name Raiven because her family breeds falcons.” That’s the second time this week I’ve heard that stated as if it made any sense and it still doesn’t. #eurovision2024