The day the music died.

So much nonsense talked about mental health care this week. Now Anna Soubry 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦🇪🇺🖤🤍 claiming there is reluctance to section people on BBC Radio 4 Today. This country has ramped up use of psychiatric incarceration having hollowed out many community services, so people’s crises explode

Back in 1970, Basil Bernstein wrote an influential article entitled ‘Education Cannot Compensate For Society’. As this article shows, it’s as true as ever - more or less. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Gotta be a small black dog from Brighton. Gotta be Wales. x

I'm a seaside Southerner born & bred, yet every time I return after visiting family & friends in the North, it gets tougher. Home is a feeling, not a place.

Some of us are still young enough and from sufficiently modest backgrounds to remember our parents believed it was immodest to brag about their kids modest 'o' level results.

Delightful from Ian Penman on the wonderful Arthur Russell-& "a time when vinyl wasn't an overpriced luxury, but a mainstay of daily life...". Indeed. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

Fascinating to see public reaction to Kirstie Allsop and the middle classes experiencing what social workers are statutorily required to do: protect children. … Or they’ll be pilloried by the very same public. And the Mail+ who are of course horrified by poor

Old Lewes is the lad behind the bar recommending to visitors the kebab house over & above any of the fancy other places. We prefer old Lewes.

In the 1970s, local authority social services were set to be the final part of the welfare state. The Tories set privatisation in train, no government since has taken any interest in the ensuing failure. Why?

Could your playlists be anymore repetitive BBC Radio 3 #bbcradio3?

Ffs

I'm old now Old enough to remember the smoke free legislation Everything said today: End of the British boozer A fundamental assault on our freedoms and liberties World stops turning etc Was all said then Almost as if someone dusted off the BAT PR playbook and amplified it...

Only a current affairs programme #r4today that has spent 45 years giving a free pass to those who've disassembled the UK's public service infrastructure could now be asking why it can't be fixed overnight.

The real choice on immigration is between a chaotic, punitive system based on political dishonesty, and a well-managed one that takes advantage of our good fortune as a place that can draw people from around the world - worth reading Jonathan Portes⁩ argument theguardian.com/books/article/…

A good day up London for werk is when you come home with two more Sharpies than you left with.

Everyday.

In what sane world is this even a story? The media can’t cope with a working-class woman holding political power. How very dare she?

It’s easy to imagine foreign people glancing at this morning’s Telegraph, Mail and Express, seeing the stupid, malicious stories about Lee Carsley and Ian McKellen, and thinking that England has gone completely insane.