Don’t agree with nationalism much at all but I always quite like Humza Yousaf. Clearly dealt an awful hand of cards taking over when he did.

I see the whole country, including BBC news is being calm and rational about a mum photoshopping a photo of her family.

Tell me you’re a joke political party without telling me…

Was listening to a really good programme on radio 4 earlier about aging leaders by Jonathan Freedland and someone on it mentioned a Roman emporor called “Pupienus” (I looked up the spelling) and I started doubting the whole thing.

Was going to tweet about the 6mo sentence a Just Stop Oil protester got (see Jo Maugham) which seemed very wrong, then saw this and it leaves me a lot less sympathetic, you can’t do this at the house of someone who isn’t even in power.

Please join #Together4Humanity on Sunday at 3pm for a vigil opposite Downing Street - to stand against antisemitism and anti-Muslim hate, mourn innocent lives lost in Israel & Palestine & share a message of unity. No flags, no placards, just people. togetherforhumanity.co.uk

Good news! I really hope both sides can see this is working and extend it to a permanent peace somehow.

Tommy Robinson has been escorted away from the March Against Antisemitism after Jewish groups said he wasn’t welcome

Good to see hostages coming out and aid getting in to Gaza on #Newsnight , hopefully leads to more and in the long term a peaceful solution.

I really liked the early series of The Crown, and could forgive it a lot, but my god it’s awful now. Terrible writing and somehow the acting has got significantly worse despite having every good actor in the UK available to it. Arguably pretty bad taste. Think I’m done.

Nazis rioting at the cenotaph on armistice day incited by the Home Secretary and a PM either too weak to stop her or complicit. Conservatives should be ashamed.

Finished Bodies on Netflix UK & Ireland, definitely highly recommend, has not been widely advertised so didn’t really know what to expect but it is very good. Stay awake as you need to concentrate a bit to keep up.

I can’t imagine how awful it would be to be a kidnapped or orphaned Israeli child, I can’t imagine what it would be like to be a child in Gaza and see your house blown up or family killed. No easy answers but Save the Children UK feels like right place for donations.

#OTD 24th October 1900, Emperor Wilhelm II drove a test train on the Wuppertal Suspension Railway in Germany before the monorail’s official opening. So it’s an excuse to reshare this 1902 film of Schwebebahn upscaled using AI to 4K by MoMA The Museum of Modern Art👌

The only positive the Tories will take away from the Jenrick interview on #bbclaurak is that there really aren’t that many voters left to lose.

The BBC cutting newsnight seems foolish at the moment. I think if we’ve learned one thing about news in the last couple of weeks it’s that rolling 24 hour news is the problem, not the solution to the BBCs news funding problems.

Did anyone else’s 5G phone turn them into a zombie yesterday or is it just mine playing up?

If Andy Street doesn’t resign from the Tory party after this then he’s just another Tory and the semi-independence he campaigns on was just spin.

Minus the word “rich” this is basically me.