Yeah, free soloing is the one. I climb all the time, totally happy doing anything at any height with a rope but without one? Nah.

I climb to keep fit and because it’s really fun. It’s a moderately dangerous activity, but no one ever says I should consider the pressures on the NHS before I go and maybe fall off a boulder problem and break my ankle or whatever. I think this is just standard fatphobic finger-wagging, to be honest.

There used to be a very similar shop near me that was actually just a front for selling cannabis.

Do you mean where people use it as an adjective? E.g., ‘This house is very aesthetic’ where they mean ‘beautiful’?

Man, I hope she does this. It’s not something a future government would realistically undo.

It’s also not the kind of thing that would be obviously life-changing for anyone but it would be a permanent change for the better!

Bit boring, I thought. Last year’s was better.

I was basically happy with the content, but it needed more hope spots.

I thought we were gonna get away without some wanker this year, but there’s always some wanker.

Problem is that continuing not to invest = austerity. So if he doesn’t announce some new spending or at the very least something that will boost growth somehow, there will be more austerity. Something’s gotta give!

How deep does the rabbit hole go?

Oddly, it’s also true of me and my wife. Maybe I was on to something?

I thought that women drank tea and men drank coffee, because that was what my mum and dad did.

Yeah, it’s a fair point. I think the downside of caps is that it feels like the article is screaming at you!

The Greens very much do run on nimby platforms, including their co-leader, mentioned in the article. And it is just deeply aggravating when they oppose green infrastructure for nimby reasons, whether it wins them votes or not.

Also, lots of words start off as acronyms and then lose that status. ‘Laser’ is a good example: originally ‘Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation’, but now always written in lowercase.

Rough sleeping is a specific category of homelessness, meaning people who are sleeping actually outside, on the street. Homelessness can refer more generally to people who are shuttling between different temporary accommodation or couch surfing. Obviously there’s some overlap and people often go from one to the other.

Next they’ll realise giving people food stops them being hungry!

Definitely the right decision. I criticise the Greens a lot for letting their nimbyism trump their environmentalism, so it’s only fair that I praise them embracing their yimby side!

Keep the picture but turn it sideways, then everyone’s happy.

Makes official what we already strongly suspected, I think.

All 72 deaths were due to decades of negligence and in some cases active deception.

Whether or not George Mallory summitted Everest.

Mallory was a great climber. People who knew him think he had the ability. Another member of his expedition saw Mallory and his partner, Andrew Irvine, close to the summit, but not close enough to be certain whether or not they made it.

Neither man returned from the mountain. Mallory’s body was later found, many decades after he died. but Irvine was never seen again, dead or alive.

There are various other bits of circumstantial evidence, but the fact is we’ll simply never know for sure. I like to think they made it.