Dave and Boris at the Bullingdon Club

Lest we forget.

Chair-related hilarity

There are laughs a-plenty when a South African MP's chair collapses mid-interview ...

Learn English

Thanks to Richard Brown for this one ...

Bob Dylan, Kraftwerk and Joy Division

Paul Lay's article on the Guardian's arts blog today puts brilliantly why the music of Bob Dylan, Kraftwerk and Joy Division endures.

I'm currently obsessing over Dylan. Even though I own about 20 albums (including all his official releases from the 1960s), and have considered myself a fan since my early teens, there are countless albums I'm still not familiar with. Listening to recent albums such as Love And Theft, it's striking how Dylan draws from a deep well of familiarity with American roots music.

Cooking With Testicles

The Telegraph reports today: "A chef is publishing a book of recipes for cooking with testicles."

Tories Got Talent

Meanwhile, in Birmingham ...

Tories Got Talent
7.30-9pm
Austin Court Hotel, 80 Cambridge Street
Freedom Zone
Compere: Iain Dale. Judges: Jonathan Isaby & Nadine Dorries
The Tory equivalent of Simon Cowell's Britain's Got Talent.

No talent, as The Lovely Mrs Dennis points out, for punctuation or grammar. At least "Britain's Got Talent" makes sense.

And anyway, isn't Britain's Got Talent Tory enough already?

Top 50 London Websites

Time Out's guide to the top 50 London websites, which I reached via the ever-brilliant Going Underground.