What’s it’s like to be human:

Natalie Elphicke tried defecting to me first but I said no. I’m taking the trash out, not in. #PMQs

The FBU is aware that pro-Palestine protesters are holding further demonstrations in Leicester.

Previously, firefighters have been asked to assist the police in removing protestors.

The FBU advises all members not to be involved in law enforcement activities.

So Natalie Elphicke is a Labour MP and Diane Abbott isn't. That's a clear message to antiracists.

Kids will love this!

Unbelievable on so many levels!

Some images bring back a glut of memories and emotions. There are times when it feels like we are all just a pay day away from this. Surely one of the most powerful tv performances ever.

RIP Bernard Hill.

Absolutely agree!!

Rt Hon Steve Baker FRSA 🗽 So let me get this straight… a brown man approaches you (a public official) in a public place to talk about your governments support for a regime that is likely in breach of international law, you acknowledge he doesn’t threaten you and keeps his distance…

… and you go on

Happy Penguin Day 🐧

When you’re always excited once a new poetry selection comes out and then two arrive in the same month!!!! Utterly brilliant but Jackie Kay always stuns me with her exploration of grief and the love for her people #poetry

Mick Lynch is 💯% right. There is not one single example of a successful Privatised Infrastructure or utility service.

Stunning performances and a very powerful, poignant play that left me weeping.
I hear many say the NHS has ‘failed’ - it hasn’t. It has been sabotaged by sustained underfunding because Tories are ideologically opposed to state provision of health care.

Desperate.
St George, born in Turkey to a Palestinian mother and who never even set foot in England. He ought to be globally celebrated today but not by these hating, ignorant numpties.
I doubt he knows anything of Shakespeare’s work either.

Taylor Swift has generated no interest from me, in any shape or form, for the last 20 years other than wondering what the hype was.

And now I discover she’s an actual genius!

FOUND - a Tory with a sense of morality

Former Tory MP Nick Boles letter to The Times slamming the rank hypocrisy of Ashcroft (non dom billionaire) and Sunak (formerly non dom super rich wife avoiding taxes until discovered) haranguing Angela Rayner.

He sees it as we see it 👀

Just wow!

I wrote about the resurrection of Port Ellen distillery for CNN Travel.
Thanks to Emily and Alexander and Diageo GB for showing me round the stunning new buildings and Roy Dramface for putting it all into perspective.
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Everybody should pay their tax in full. But the insatiable appetite amongst Tory MPs & their client journalists for details of Ms Rayner’s house sale lies in sharp contrast to their laissez-faire attitude towards the monumental scale of PPE procurement & Tory donor corruption. x.com/lewis_goodall/…