It's Sunday, so time for one of my Nicely Abridged Books. As gloom and thunder threaten, how about a half-hour with the original Frankenstein... thehundredbooks.com/Frankens…

A good moment to repeat this glorious little reappraisal of the British Empire, from one its finest historians, Jan Morris... bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b7fps…

No, @BBCnews Truss isn't spending anything. We're spending everything.

An anaclitic telephone call... youtu.be/d4Ya57iyRNI

Thanks DuckDuck and Amazon, but no...

It’s Sunday, so time for one of my Nicely Abridged Books. Kafka in half-an-hour. The most famous 'existentialist' or 'surrealist' novel. Explanation is neither possible or necessary. thehundredbooks.com/Metamorp…

Why would a gov't deliberately set out to harm its country? Well, it's what rich Russians did in the 1990s. And they bought up assets cheap, then sold them dear, and made the richest people in the world.

Not the first time...

This 'How #Brexit Britain Saved the EU'? This one?

Just discovered that Her Majesty's Royal Train is now owned and operated by DB (Deutsche Bundesbahn) Cargo. Which seems to say something. Especially the 'cargo' bit.

I've been utterly entranced by 'Piers the Plowman' - it has given me a completely new and different idea of how the Medieval Mind conceived of God... thehundredbooks.com/Piers_Pl…

That Minford?