As Christmas approaches, gift buying is underway. Shops are full, and atmospheric Christmas markets entice you with their beautiful, expensive, but ultimately unnecessary items. You return home with nothing - except perhaps a glass of mulled wine and a mince pie.
What to buy? Back in the day, the physical gift of music was an easy choice: a CD, a tape, or an LP, but now it's all accessed through streaming services. The other physical choice used to be a book, but has that disappeared too?
I am part of a reading group that is great fun; however, when we choose the books we read, we include this essential criterion: is it available on Audible?
'Keir Starmer, please don't apologise to me'
Keir Starmer has apologised to me.On 2 July, he stood up in Parliament and apologised to mothers and adoptees …