First time in history that there are more people in the cabinet who were born in Sunderland (Bridget Phillipson and Jonathan Reynolds) than went to Eton. Result

On the lookout for the final few participants for the next leg of the Coal Face project. We're back in Washington, speaking to and photographing people with a mining connection - details below. Just 3 slots available now, all on Weds 7th August. Please share/RT, thanks!

The only good thing about this ceremony so far is that you could have gone for a wee AT ANY POINT in the last 90 minutes and missed fuck all. #Olympics

Still, our opening ceremony had commentary from Huw Edwards and Trevor Nelson.....

Fuck off theguardian.com/uk-news/articl…

No thanks

Ooh, another Met officer acquitted of murder! ACAB

Concentration camps. They're talking about concentration camps.

Sainsburys Group makes £35 billion in revenue a year. This is less than 0.5% of that, grow up

REVEALED: Saudi 2034 death data wrong, and how Qatar pioneered a liar's playbook substack-proxy.glitch.me/articles/sport…

Bad people doing bad things often resort to bullying and threats to try to stop journalists reporting what's happening. The piece above includes three legal letters that tried (but failed) to stop reporting on migrant worker deaths in Qatar.

Never mind Frank. #TilTheEnd #sunderland

After more than 60,000 dead - including 18,000 children - I'm pleased to see that Kneecap and Gary Lineker have finally been brought to account.