Really think manager should dress like Captain Haddock.
60th birthday breakfast cooked by son. Barista style coffee provided by daughter. I’m a lucky man.
Bumped into old friend and Godfather of modern stand up Alexei Sayle on the train to Hay Festival – so ended up having a joyous chat for his fab Strangers On A Train Radio 4 show.
60. FFS. Thank heavens for Carroll Baker.
Some extracts from upcoming memoir in The Times. Link in bio.
Thanks to @facecakeslondon – back story you need to know is that I and @facecakeslondon were an item for some years when young – for this cake version of me now old.
@therealbaddiel takes to his column this week, to remind people that whilst the spike in antisemitism is “extreme” and “bad”, “we do ourselves no favours by reaching for the Third Reich analogy”. 🔗 Check out the full article at our link in bio, and tell us your thoughts in the comments below 👇🏻 #davidbaddiel #antisemitism #jewishchronicle
@therealbaddiel takes to his column this week, to remind people that whilst the spike in antisemitism is “extreme” and “bad”, “we do ourselves no favours by reaching for the Third Reich analogy”. 🔗 Check out the full article at our link in bio, and tell us your thoughts in the comments below 👇🏻 #davidbaddiel #antisemitism #jewishchronicle
@therealbaddiel takes to his column this week, to remind people that whilst the spike in antisemitism is “extreme” and “bad”, “we do ourselves no favours by reaching for the Third Reich analogy”. 🔗 Check out the full article at our link in bio, and tell us your thoughts in the comments below 👇🏻 #davidbaddiel #antisemitism #jewishchronicle
@therealbaddiel takes to his column this week, to remind people that whilst the spike in antisemitism is “extreme” and “bad”, “we do ourselves no favours by reaching for the Third Reich analogy”. 🔗 Check out the full article at our link in bio, and tell us your thoughts in the comments below 👇🏻 #davidbaddiel #antisemitism #jewishchronicle
@therealbaddiel takes to his column this week, to remind people that whilst the spike in antisemitism is “extreme” and “bad”, “we do ourselves no favours by reaching for the Third Reich analogy”. 🔗 Check out the full article at our link in bio, and tell us your thoughts in the comments below 👇🏻 #davidbaddiel #antisemitism #jewishchronicle
@therealbaddiel takes to his column this week, to remind people that whilst the spike in antisemitism is “extreme” and “bad”, “we do ourselves no favours by reaching for the Third Reich analogy”. 🔗 Check out the full article at our link in bio, and tell us your thoughts in the comments below 👇🏻 #davidbaddiel #antisemitism #jewishchronicle
Rishi Sunak’s electoral address to the nation gets somewhat undermined by wateryness.
The first copies of this have arrived on my birthday. Which is a nice present.
This is a great city.
View from my window, Llangoed Hotel, near Hay.
Had to leave the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia yesterday due to childishly giggling at a guide’s repeated pronunciation of Balzac.
Stockholm.
A wall at the offices of Jewish Culture in Sweden, Stockholm.
Philadelphia going well.
In Salisbury tomorrow lunchtime…
Nice view from the top of the FT Building.
DSoing this with the estimable Neil.
New kids book, out in the Autumn. Enjoy. In the Autumn, obviously. Illustrations by the great @coryloftis.