I’m torn as to whether to make a point in condemning this horrible example of sensationalist rubbish or to encourage ignoring the leader of this clearly spent political force of national irrelevance. Either way, this is especially unpleasant: theguardian.com/politics/2025/…

I have incurable bowel cancer too and I DON’T back strike action. Doctors are keeping me alive against the odds by now and I’m grateful but another big rise could make the uphill task of providing the best possible care impossible. How about looking at the pay review body rise?

Ok - I’m not far from early retirement. But without PIP, I wouldn’t still be working at all. That’s despite deteriorating health and rapidly growing cancers making the best guess of my prognosis that I’ll be in the ground by around March next year. You think I’m making this up?!

Presumably the outgoing leader of the official opposition is classing corporations as people for tax purposes. Perhaps this would make more sense in the USA where this is legally true. In the UK, the only people classed as people are actual people.

Now…Please would vigilante crime fighting force Bobby J kindly stop hanging round Stratford station bothering people? As well as painting a bit of a dodgy picture, TFL and the transport police have got this stuff covered. It’s their job.

That fellow campaigner Emma Bray chose to starve herself to death for the sake of her loved ones is an act of courage that couldn’t show more clearly the need for a change in the law. That Emma shared this with the media shows a different kind of bravery that I will never forget.

The hypocrisy of 💙Rachael Maskell MP is staggering. She has no problem with terminally ill people forced to take their own lives due to an unfit law she didn’t just oppose changing but attempted to block. It’s no surprise no party will have her. With such friends who needs enemies?

Well - if we still insist on holding elections despite Churchill’s observation that ‘The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter’ then why shouldn’t we extend that to population of the average Year 11 class?!

I can’t - or rather, shouldn’t - buy a pint either, on account of the multiple liver cancers. Why should the legal drinking age be a factor in any of this?

Grant ‘super injunction’ Shapps has a knighthood. Just let that sink in for a second…

After a ‘quiet’ stretch media wise, welcome back to Nat Watch: An interview piece with the excellent Dan Whitworth sound bited on BBC Breakfast at about 8:10 if you missed the other hourly news bulletins. Plus the whole BBC Money Box feature on BBC Radio 4 at noon. Marie Curie

For a ‘gifted communicator’ I can’t help thinking Farage has left himself open to quite the meme barrage, having repeatedly (and without interjection) told Laura Kuenssberg that he doesn’t know anything. Perhaps we need to wait and see whether [a lack of] knowledge really is power?

Now we’re getting used the concept of replacing failed ‘OF… ‘ regulators (ie OFWAT), perhaps it’s now time to dispense with the unfit for purpose OFSTED, which has been found to have committed corporate manslaughter.

I don’t remember Zarah Sultana calling for the inditement of Ghengis Khan or Vlad the Impairer. Such hypocrisy!!! :p

It’s not surprising that a regulator responsible for at least one death and refusing to do anything to shrug off its toxic culture is seeing employees leave in droves. Ofsted must be disbanded and replaced from the ground up. The education sector deserves and NEEDS better.

To my knowledge, Wes Streeting was the first Labour frontbencher to publicly state that the occupation of Gaza had gone beyond self defence. Now his voice is amongst the loudest in government calling out the illegal and reprehensible actions of the Israeli regime. Good on ya Wes!

It’s your party, but the question the public really want an answer to is if members can cry if they want to, cry if they want to etc. etc. You would cry too if setting up a two person political party happened to you…

Ok let’s workshop this: - Days of Yore Party - You’re Gonna Party Hard - Party on Jez, Party on Zarah! - Jez we can…party! - 24 hour [your] party people