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Stand by for next week’s scandal when it emerges that someone once bought Andy Burnham a Mars bar.

Yes, I’m due back next week. Still in SW France but I start to make my way home tomorrow. On the subject of short attention spans, which you touched upon, I read Pride and Prejudice earlier this week. Some of the long sentences would potentially be a problem for today’s youngsters.

Please let today be forever known as Bin Day.

Why would previous Tory voters who switched to the Lib Dems two years ago revert to an even more right-wing Tory party?

Many of the seats won by the Lib Dems in 2024 have been Tory seats for many decades, if not for ever.

The closer she moves towards Farage, the closer she gets to writing off the 60-odd seats the party lost to the Lib Dems, as well as risking losing even more.

The Reytons’ album is really good. Hope it holds on to thee top spot.

So I’ll be back in time for the obscure song that was Christmas number one that year.

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Doors - Moon Of Alabama (and the Bowie version) Eagles - Hotel California Mamas and Papas - California Dreamin’ Billy Joel - New York State Of mind

A leaked document shows that the international Olympic Committee is considering changes to some events for the 2028 Games in Los Angeles. Athletics Some of the races will be split with hydration breaks in between. For example, the 5000m will be run as three 1500m races followed by 100m and 400m. The times will be combined to determine the winner. There will be no hydration break between the 400m and 100m races. If all US athletes have been eliminated, the events will resume their traditional format as no US network will show the race, thereby eliminating the need for a hydration break. Marathon This will be run over 13 days with competitors running one mile in the morning, and another mile in the afternoon. There will be a hydration break between the end of the 26th mile and the final 385 yards. Some athletes will be exempt from the final 385 yards with their time for that distance officially recorded as zero. Those athletes will be selected by Donald J Trump. Javelin This will become a more archery-based event. Competitors will aim for a target on the ground, centred around a picture of someone Donald J Trump doesn’t like. The bull’s eye will be in a place yet to be determined, probably the heart or the centre of the forehead. Diving The rigid system of scoring will be abandoned. All dives will be judged by Donald J Trump. Baseball Only countries with a team that has won the World Series will be able to take part. Golf Donald J Trump will be presented with the gold medal at the opening ceremony. Cricket The International Cricket Council has been instructed to consider new ways for dismissing a batter to provide more opportunity for hydration breaks. This includes allowing the fielding side to obstruct batters running between wickets, thereby increasing the number of run outs. This may only be allowed if three complete overs have been bowled without a wicket being taken. Football Before the Games begin FIFA will auction off “bonus goals”. At the end of each match there will be a hydration break which teams can use to decide whether to use any of their bonus goals. Gianni Infantino will claim a 20% commission from each payment. The host nation will be given one free bonus goal for each match. Penalty shootouts will be abolished. If a match is tied after 90 minutes in the knock-out stage, the teams will bid for an extra bonus goal. The higher bid will win. If both teams make the same bid, extra time will be played. If the teams are still tied, there will be another bonus goal bid. Bids will continue until one side wins. Again, a 20% commission will be awarded to Infantino. Under the terms of the agreement with the Trump administration, this commission is payable to Infantino personally, not the incumbent president of FIFA. Bigly Good This new event will see gold medals handed out to any athlete judged to have done bigly good. The event will be judged by the host nation’s president, Donald J Trump. There will be no limit to the number of medals awarded.

Master and Servant Madam Butterfly The Day Before You Came Seven Seas Lament Worst I Just Called… Agadoo Agadoo again

No doubt Infantino will still claim it as a success as the idea lasted longer than the European Super League plan.

After various changes in the rules, I never thought Frankie Laine’s record would be beaten in a single chart run. Last Christmas will surpass 18 weeks in the next few years, but those will have been accumulated over many chart runs. It’s also extraordinary that a song that took so long to get to the top in the first place has broken the record. I’ve been a fan of Sam Fender for a number of years. Rein Me In is far from his best piece of work, but congratulations to him on beating a record that has stood for nearly three-quarters of a century, longer than even you and I have been alive. The fire near Bordeaux has mostly been contained now, although it is still raging. I remain thankful that I decided a few months go to take an alternative route home, avoiding Bordeaux.

Because of streaming, “sales” are now calculated to a number of decimal places. Therefore, a tie is highly unlikely. Even if the figures for two songs were the same when rounded to the nearest whole number, I suspect the OCC would round one figure up and the other down to give a winning margin of one sale.