#OTD 2000. Labour's first attempt to scrap Section 28 is defeated in the House of Lords. Blair claims the law is a "piece of prejudice" The journalist Boris Johnson says children shouldn't be "taught some rubbish about homosexual marriage being the same as normal marriage."

how about a curfew for men mylondon.news/news/south-lon…

Centuries-old rivalries, a president’s show of strength, shirty neighbours and slurs on players’ mothers - good luck keeping geopolitics out of football this year thetimes.co.uk/article/politi…

EXCLUSIVE: The brother of Gina Coladangelo, the Whitehall director whose alleged affair with health secretary Matt Hancock has prompted calls for him to quit, is a director of PHL Group, a private healthcare provider which has won several NHS contracts. news.sky.com/story/matt-han…

"The iconic image of the final, from an English perspective, is surely the embrace that Gareth Southgate gave Bukayo Saka – it was the embrace that Southgate never received at Euro 96." Moving reflection by Stephen Bush on England's progress. newstatesman.com/politics/sport…

"men don't gossip" ok explain the transfer window

Amazing foresight from Benjamin long before Johnson was PM.

This week’s column. I was never going to splash the The Observer’s money on one of Salt Bae’s crass £800+ gold leafed steaks. Instead I got an £8.50 take away kebab, a really good one from Kebab Kid, and ate that outside while musing on the stupidity inside theguardian.com/food/2021/oct/…

Adele gets Spotify to take shuffle button off all album pages bbc.in/3cA9UUI

Home Sweet Home. I’ve always dreamt of doing An Audience With… There was so much love in the room for eachother, it felt like such a gig! Everyone was raucous and bang up for it! And my teacher Ms McDonald was there, it was just heaven ♥️

I've spent the past couple of days reporting from Dunkirk and Calais after a boat full of Iraqi Kurds sank on Wednesday in the English Channel. Some 27 people drowned. Here are their pictures and stories. A haunting tale of hope and loss theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/n…

Mason Greenwood should not be on a football pitch for the foreseeable future. What his girlfriend has posted is beyond horrifying. No 'two sides to the story' defence for this cos the audio clip proves what he was doing. Another highly talented footballer going the wrong way...

“I just wanted to say ‘Thank You.” “I’ve gotten heckled before but heckled here, I watched a video of Venus and Serena getting heckled here. If you haven’t watched it, you should watch it.” A tearful Naomi Osaka after a fool fan heckled her vs Veronika Kudermetova #BNPPO22

Only eight initial public offerings took place on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) between July and September, raising just £565m telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/…