Ok - I may have had half a glass, but it's getting to that stage of Hogmanay where we all look ahead to 2021 with hopes and dreams.

"It's been one of the worst shifts of my entire life" The BBC has been given exclusive access to a London hospital to see how doctors and nurses are coping with Covid bbc.in/3ng0wbR

A lawyer using Zoom had to let a judge know that he wasn’t a cat after inadvertently activating a face filter

On Monday Boris Johnson’s Gov’t will rush the Policing bill through the Commons. It contains some of the most draconian crackdowns on the right of peaceful protest any of us have seen in our lifetime. Everyone needs to watch this so please RT. Johnson’s Gov’t must be stopped

Shouldn’t matter whether your politics are on the right, the left or somewhere between the two, a genuinely democratic country should allow peaceful protests or demonstrations, noisy or otherwise.

I asked my Year 1 classes to tell me a joke; Here is my analysis. A THREAD

Wow, thank you Screenwriters Network for advancing my TV pilot "Control" to the semi-final round of the Goldman Award! Chuffed to bits!

Into the semi-finalist round at #scriptationshowcase with my TV series pilot script “Control”! Thanks Scriptation Happy Wednesday!

Thank you for submitting your audition for the next series of #LineofDuty but we’re looking for a character with at least one redeeming moral principle and a performance that places even just a scintilla of doubt in the audience’s mind that he might not be totally bent

My TV Pilot script CONTROL advances to the Quarter Finals! Thank you PAGE Awards

The BBC has decided not to broadcast an episode of David Attenborough’s flagship new series on British wildlife because of fears its themes of the destruction of nature would risk a backlash from Tory politicians and the rightwing press theguardian.com/media/2023/mar…

ALASTAIR CAMPBELL not mincing his words regarding the BBC...

ALASTAIR CAMPBELL’s righteous indignation: “This isn't about Gary Lineker this is about whether we, as a country, understand the seeds that are being sown by this authoritarian right wing government that now has got a grip of the conservative party and a grip of this government. 1/

It isn’t first time The Guardian & others have been excluded fr taxpayer funded trip to promote controversial (taxpayer funded) policy We should be there to scrutinise. Disappointing lack of accountability Suella Braverman MP @MatthewRycroft1 Home Office theguardian.com/politics/2023/…

You can sign the petition here demanding LabourLordsUK back the fatal motion tabled by Jenny Jones to stop Sunak’s Government restricting our right to protest using an unprecedented abuse of power change.org/p/ask-labour-p…

I don’t like this sort of politics. Societies are made up of individuals with different backgrounds, opinions, economic interests and moral and philosophical positions. The primary job of politicians in my view is to at least try to navigate these differences (guided of course by

1/ 🧵Just did a network analysis of the "far right thugs unite" hashtag. It largely seems to be a simulated scandal/outrage to promote the Reform Party and Nigel Farage and - while also being an attack on Keir Starmer.

Prof Stephen Reicher, "I would appeal to you to not call these people protestors. They're not protestors" "To call them protestors is profoundly misleading. It is to discredit a long tradition of perfectly legitimate and peaceful and important protest that has made our society

Elon’s daughter is burning her Dad to the ground. She crushed it.