All you need is a computer, an internet connection and the knowhow to search “[candidate’s name] running. He must be keeping his powder dry for a big athletic photo op on the morning of the first vote. The planter lady was nice for planting them, but should surely have been pleased and even proud when admiring neighbours picked a couple. The planter lady has got the hump and taken the flowers away, and that bit of pavement is bare again. “But I am an old punk, so what do you expect?”• Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster, writer and Guardian columnist

Source: The Guardian May 29, 2019 13:55 UTC