I’m midway through the Andrew Marr show – did the papers and am going back on in a bit to nod appreciatively at Sting – and the main topic is Miliband as EU Foreign Secretary. That Banana boy is being spoken of is not a compliment. The person they want in that job will be a cipher who will obey the orders of the ministers and visit cities that only Robin Cook* would have heard of. But it wil keep him out of the running to challenge Ed Balls for the Labour party leadership.
Sting is banging on about how “we need the winter” and it is somehow under threat from global warming. The pity is that this nonsense can stop a guy buying his album. But it does sound quite good – we heard him rehearsing.
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