Adam Curtis (1984), The Great British Housing Disaster, on how local councils dealt with unsafe new housing developments.

“Privately, they know that their tenants are at risk, but publicly they have to try to defend the decision to leave them…”

Local council elections today in many areas.

Don’t forget you now need to take some form of id with you (passport, driving licence, or something else from this list).

Big kid: “Dad! Dad! I killed the Ender Dragon, and I wasn’t even looking!”

Me: “What are you doing?”

Big kid: “Twerking backwards.”

First salad of the Sum…, er, Spring.

Dark Star, Red Robin.

Dark Star.

It’s grim up north.

Baked bread with my little kid using my pizza dough recipe (substituted wholemeal flour for white flour).

Turned out nice enough that we both ate it.

Finally got around to watching Our Friends In The North.

‘None of the issues the show mines so brilliantly – from inequality, deindustrialisation and the parlous state of Britain’s housing to homelessness and the corruption of our public officials – have gone away.’

Big kid’s current favourite song.