Looking forward to the broadcast. John Rentoul & I were series consultants based upon our Oxford Academic Heroes or Villains?: The Blair Government Reconsidered ‘A stunning achievement… It is a complete model of how to write a book’ Sir Anthony Seldon global.oup.com/academic/produ…

Splendid fun at #ENOPinafore this afternoon. Visually superb and given the trademark Cal McCrystal slapstick and added material, which pleasingly annoyed one harrumpher I overheard in the interval who didn’t think G&S should be played for laughs. Boo to people like him

That is that. The end. Of the TV series. Now buy the book. And join us next week to discuss

Superb discussion The Strand Group King's College London on BBC Blair Brown years series. Great insights by Ed Balls especially on achievements now mainstream such as BofE independence, minimum wage etc. Pleased to highlight huge contribution of Neil Kinnock & John Smith to 97 victory.

"Deakin... took pictures of me in a high wind in the church cemetery, one of me inside the railings of a tomb, my hair, uncut for months, either completely covering my face...or blown up like a great, dancing mousey busby" John Deakin photographs Dylan Thomas, November 12 1949

When Owain Wyn Evans did his drums to the BBC News theme 18 months ago he never would have expected it would result in something like this. What a wonder.

Another great loss to BBC journalism and its hard-won reputation for excellence.

Took a short nap and Looks like we won the North Shropshire #Byelection. Slightly surprised at lack of live coverage — only Sky News seems on the story

'I believed implicitly that this was a work event'

In assuming (and I have no idea why he did this, if he did) that he was involving Russia in a type of conflict that had worked for it before, Putin has dragged Russia into a war with devastating costs and which it cannot, in the long term, win. It’s a staggering mistake.

40 years ago, the Commons met for its first weekend sitting since Suez to discuss a national humiliation,the invasion of the Falklands by Argentina. Margaret Thatcher's fate as Prime Minister hang in the balance in Britain's last colonial war. Now read on: politicshome.com/thehouse/artic…

'What a blunder! Our country has been humiliated!' 40 years ago today, the Commons met in emergency to demand how Argentina's 'bargain basement Mussolini' had caught Britain napping and invaded the Falklands. Relive the debate here, starting at 21 mins in: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

This is so inept that it can't actually be being briefed by his friends and supporters, surely? This has to be malicious. telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…

Relatives of thousands buried at cemetery fear for the future after sale walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-new…

I spent a career as a BBC corr telling people around the world that the Corporation was independent of govt control. But this Sharp/loan/Boris business really doesn’t help. It undermines the global footprint of one of the British institutions that still commanded respect abroad.

Well done to all concerned, close to back of the net I’d say! ⚽️⚽️👏🏼👏🏼

Just left 11 Downing Street, after being invited to an urgent private meeting with Sir Jeremy Hunt MP to discuss mortgages. I can't detail the discussion, but rest assured all the points I've been making about the need for banks not to ramp margins & proper forbearance were made.