Time for the new series of MasterChef (which is no longer called MasterChef Goes Large, for some reason). This is my favourite place to hear the mysterious phrase “plates of food” repeated endlessly for half an hour. It sounds like it should be Cockney rhyming slang. Plates of food = dude (or something). Sadly, it [...]

Kirsty Wark on Newsnight just confronted the Cowley Street Vampires (Vince Cable and Simon Hughes) about the demise of Sir Menzies Campbell as Liberal Democrat leader by quoting a fellow Lib Dem MP’s reaction to the news. Unfortunately I didn’t catch the full quote, nor the MP who spoke it*. But it included the line
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