When AC/DC ‘Thunderstruck’ comes on at a wedding reception. The lads are on it. 🍺 🎸🕺

The New York Times ha finalizado su lista de las mejores series del siglo. Breaking Bad tomó el primer puesto.

Prince Harry has been patron of WellChild since 2007. After nearly twenty years, he still cannot describe what the charity does. At this year’s awards he was asked, in effect, how exhausted parents get a break. His answer was not specialist nurses, funded respite, or the Better at Home training that helps families safely care for seriously ill children at home. It was this: parents need a day off and a night off and a date. So find your neighbour. Or your neighbour’s neighbour. “Train them up.” Learn to look after their child. Knock on the door. They can ring you and say they need a few hours. “It’s like, I’m there.” That is not an explanation of WellChild. It is word salad delivered with the confidence of a man who has never had to be the neighbour. WellChild exists because these children are not ordinary babysitting situations. Some have complex medical needs requiring specialist equipment, medication and highly skilled care. The charity’s specialist nurses and Better at Home programme help families develop the skills to care for their children safely at home. It provides specialist support and works to give families access to respite because informal goodwill is not a care plan. Harry flattened all of that into a village fete. “Community” is a beautiful word when you have never needed the clinical version of it. He grew up with nannies, protection officers and a household built around his needs. He now lives behind gates with private security. He has spent years arguing that his own children cannot safely visit their family in Britain. Yet the same man is telling British parents of medically complex children that real support looks like handing their child to someone down the road whom they have “trained up.” The language gives him away. “Train up” is how you speak about staff. Not a neighbour you recruit for date night. Combined with “I’m there,” it is the performance of usefulness from a life that has never had to be the person who stays. This would be merely tone-deaf if he were a passing celebrity. He is the patron. He has visited WellChild programmes and spoken extensively about the pressures faced by these families. Then the microphone went live and the organisation he is supposed to represent disappeared behind a TED Talk about knocking on doors. That does the families a second disservice. Their problem is not that Britain forgot how to be neighbourly. Their problem is the need for trained support, reliable respite and people who know what to do when a child’s medical needs cannot be handled by good intentions. When the patron turns that into date-night advice, he makes a complex care problem sound like a community-spirit problem. It isn’t. WellChild’s work is serious. It deserves a patron who can explain that work clearly and understand why it matters. After nearly two decades, “find your neighbour’s neighbour” is not the answer. It is a remarkably revealing description of how little the patron seems to understand the difference between a village and a care plan.

🚨NEWS: The BBC have removed a number of sketches by Mitchell & Webb as they are now deemed offensive This sketch which features a Burqa and Blackface purposefully to make fun of how offended people get has now been ironically axed, because people may be offended.

I personally love this #OnlyConnect question but how can a young team be expected to know this?!

If you think Ravel’s Boléro needs a full orchestra, listen to this version: just one cello, yet it’s every bit as captivating.

Charles come get your boy. He’s embarrassing himself and the Royal Family

Imagine being 62 years old and writing a book about a 5 minute argument you had with your dead sister’s ex 29 years ago. Meanwhile in that 29 years he has been married 3 times, had 3 divorces and ruined his relationship with his 4 adult children. But apparently the 5 minute argument is what he still focuses on 🤔 I wonder why 💰💰💰 #charlesspencer #kingcharles

New ad by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products.

Jolyon Maugham focusing on @michaelgove - with a particular focus on the 'gove'

In case you’re wondering why I turned out this way, this is the birthday card my dad sent my daughter. Leaves me a technical note 😆