Peter Rhodes on a vanishing bar, a talking snack and a PM on the Tube
As Joni Mitchell famously put it: “Don't it always seem to go / That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone?” Nestle has axed the Caramac bar. A nation mourns.
The day after tomorrow the Supreme Court will rule whether Britain's plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is lawful. If I were a betting man I might risk a small punt on Their Supreme Magnificences voting it down. As I put it some time ago: “Something must be done about the Channel people-smuggling trade. But if sending migrants to Rwanda is the answer, I'm Ramsey MacDonald.”
An online video denounces three estates in Walsall as some of the roughest in Britain. One viewer suggests local councillors should “take a walk around, like Joe Public, and experience the real world.”
