If you spent the last few years campaigning against the RNLI, the National Trust, the NHS, bicycles, loft insulation, railways and scones, please forgive my somewhat sceptical expression now that there's an election and you want to lecture me on Our Great British Way Of Life.

Boiling the kettle before pouring water from it onto the teabag is not the same as pouring the water, then boiling the kettle. Some of the asymmetries in the laws of the universe run very deep indeed.

If, like Truss, I had spent most of my time as PM being compared unfavourably to a salad, I would not have chosen to relaunch what remains of my political career on the Ides of March.

Elephants on the former church gate at Tremadog. Sadly, the church is now a travel agent and the elephants have lost their trunks. #ichabod

The grave of Beatrice Blore Browne at Llandudno always reminds me of Asterix, for some reason.

Carreg Cennen in 2022. Better weather than today.

Always good advice.

This one is going on every #Labour election leaflet from Birmingham to Berwick, isn't it? #HS2 #NetworkNorth