For some strange reason the first reading of the new Mental Health Act bill yesterday didn’t get coverage. But it is a milestone- 6 years after our Review, interrupted by Covid and elections, paused to consider the Nottingham tragedy, we are finally here theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

📚 We have scoured the Mental Health Bill over the last 24 hours. There’s lots in it to talk about. Some good, some bad. We've outlined all the detailed analysis you need to know into one handy article on our website 👉 bit.ly/3UGEVwM

“He invested in Britain…in golf courses!” Says Tim Montgomerie 🇬🇧 desperately as Bonnie Greer dismantles his appeals to convince the #bbcqt audience that the election of Trump is remotely positive for the UK.

Very much liking the Hartlepool audience and their total takedown of Trump. Hooray for Hartlepool #bbcqt

In other news, the Mental Health Bill 2025 has been introduced to Parliament. It makes important changes to the current MH Act, the first since 2007. It updates the Act in line with evidence & human rights. It is vital to safer care. Short 🧵 gov.uk/government/col…

Calling Trump "a fascist" is too easy writes Francis Fukuyama in @ft essay -- the coming Orbanisation of America is about the decay of institutions: courts, free media, the rise of a rentier state. Orban is interesting...I've covered him a lot/1 ft.com/content/f4dbc0…

It was a good week to be Labour. While the US welcomed back the far right, Starmer’s government took 6 important steps towards a fairer country. The list:

Massive trap that Labour must steer well clear of.

“Just as social justice campaigners have abandoned the struggle for material betterment for that of cultural empowerment, so many of their critics [ignore] the real material roots of power” Excellent from Kenan Malik⁩ | The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

At least there’s still American pancakes…

Consultants, economists, media personalities, pundits, campaign professionals, PhDs on Twitter today blaming each other for being out of touch with the working class

The Venn diagram of people who supported Brexit because *UK sovereignty* and those now willing #Trump to sell the Ukrainians out to Putin is a hideously perfect circle.

Not seen this before. Really shocking from Danny Dorling News's 'Seven Children'. Average height of five-year-old boys, 1985–2020

Got to be Gabby Logan all the way to the park. Very knowledgeable, smart, good-humoured and unflappable #motd

Thoroughly shameful.

I’d fully support #AssistedDyingBill but not until the #NHS and #SocialCare services are fully functioning again. This is not the right time. #Newsnight

You can find me over on Bluesky bsky.app/profile/jowarn… Let’s try and get back some of the magic.

It seems timely to repost one of my favourite tables: cdc.gov/vaccines/imz-m…

For the first time in 80 years, voters associate the Democrats more with sociocultural issues than with class and economic solidarity. John Burn-Murdoch looks at how the American left was sent spinning in 2016 and is yet to recalibrate: on.ft.com/3AQJn5e