Gordon Brown's new book.
Even at the beginning, in just the introduction, you will see what I mean. He quotes John Maynard Keynes, "The difficulty lies no so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones."
Now, I'm a slow reader as I am sure many of you know, but this is gripping stuff that is a rallying call to the masses and the few. Honestly I sometimes find I can only take so much of a good book at a time. Hilary's amazing The Mirror And The Light is a great example. I eek it out in a very pleasurable way because it is so good, but also because the pictures she paints are so extraordinarily painted. Similarly Gordon's book has so many ideas I can only do a bit at a time, but my oh my, it is exciting.
I hope you are all well. N x
No 10 has issued a statement asking people NOT to boo. Not quite the same thing as a full backing and it is a statement from No10, not Boris standing there saying it! Maybe he will at a press conference later.... Why do we have such a numpty in No10? Answers on a postcard...
For the last two days I have been reading about Gordon Brown making a difference. Actually on three fronts. Firstly, a minor but significant point about past Prime Ministers. How do they capitalise on their previous stint at No 10? Tony Blair, has made tens of millions as a property magnate and from speeches, David Cameron also a speech millionaire and as we all know from his morally dubious texting stood to make up to 200 million from Greensill Capital, (of course that hasn't quite come off, but we get the picture) and Teresa May, who could hardly do an interview without notes is now commanding up to £100,000 for a speech. (Thanks to The Guardian for all that info).
I got very good news for you yet again... The owners of BritBox, BBC and ITV, have just announced that there's going to be a second season of the Nigel Stangeways novel series written by Nicholas Blake, the nom de plume of poet Cecil Day-Lewis. The British streaming service said the first two episodes of the Jared Harris and Cush Jumbo drama have broken viewing records since premièring last week without giving any actual figures.