Paris

It's a tough life being a sports presenter on a current affairs programme. One minute it's the war in Ukraine, and the next it's: 'Now over to Mike Williams with the sport'.

I had vowed not to return to these, but so much happens day-to-day in the miscellany of life that it seems a shame not to jot anything down. One change from previous format: nothing party political.  

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Worth returning just for this. In a pub in Kentish Town, tried out for the first time. Really a bar shoe-horned into a former proper pub. A search for at least one hand-pulled ale. There is one. Just one, the house bitter. Bar staff member (gender reference not appropriate) approaches:

'Two pints of bitter, please', I ask.