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I suppose you only have to look at the long list of child abuse cover-ups in the Catholic church to see how committed people can be to ensuring the ugly truth doesn't come out. But in that case at least the motivation is/was fairly clear, whereas here it's less obvious why nobody squealed - the power equation doesn't seem as hugely stacked against the victims, nor should the people employing Savile and co. have been worried about the possibility of hanging their bankable talent out to dry. In theory at least.

Love it!

All these people will probably never have heard of Toontastic before. Now they have. Cheers for the publicity, old bean

We don't even have Conservative rule at the minute.

Neither of these are particularly complex or necessarily the best thing you can do with squashes, but both are spot on for those chilly autumnal evenings. Replace the chilli powder in the first one with a chopped chilli pepper (added at stage 2) if you like more of a kick. http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/5302/spicy-butternut-squash-soup http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1456/roasted-squash-and-red-onion-pasta

Any Geordie who deals with a company called "Wonga" is basically a closet southerner.

That's a good point, if they don't look like limp, skinned fingers they're barely worthy of the "sausage" name.

Neither of these preclude my approach (two for £1 from the shop, cook them properly at home). I tried one of those season & shake things for chicken when they first came out and they were on half-price. Not bad at all, for that kind of thing - the meat stayed nice and juicy - but easy enough to do the same thing yourself (with much less salt) with a bit of effort.

Last's night dinner was a semi-improvised affair involving ultra-cheap dover sole from the Sainsbury's reduced aisle served in a creamy crab sauce. Very very nice, but I suspect the house may smell of fish until November.

So I was just Googling to find proof that the Germans have a popular brand of supermarket vodka named after Boris Yeltsin - very sensitive, right? - only to find something even better: http://www.ebay.de/itm/BORIS-JELZIN-VODKA-WODKA-3-LITER-BAG-BOX-37-5-/120620734310 VODKA BOX!

Some people's lives are that uninteresting that they keep on spending their spare time giving grief to people from the message board they've long been banned from while tweeting Joey Barton to tell him all about it. There's nowt so queer as folk.

Terrific.

@LewisHamilton Just noticed @jensonbutton unfollowed, thats a shame. After 3 years as teammates, I thought we respected one another but clearly he doesn't.

You have dangerous girlfriends, girlfriend. (Also thx for letting me munch your sloppy ricotta.)

Imagining you as Peter Mannion now. (Not literally, obviously.)

Canny. Just back from cheering on the better half at a fun-run in a park down the other end of the borough. Lovely middle-class moochings in the sunshine (and a bacon butty to undo all the hard work).

Mine was sushi. Fuck's sake.

Mind I'm all for fancy recipes, but sometimes there's nothing better than a big bowl of spaghetti aglio e olio with lashings of parmesan.

½ out of 2 ain't bad

I got accused of being heterophobic the other day because Paul Sinha is my favourite one of the Chasers.

Oh god aye. We'll do a Royal Hill crawl when the weather gets nice again (and there's no match to ruin the day), those beer gardens are lush in the sunshine. Plus by then you might have recovered from the exertion of the commute.

Hey, Greenwich is not a football place, but once you'd suggested it I could hardly say no.

Stevie knows a guesthouse on the wrong side of Lewisham...