I guess what I'm saying is: don't wait. Don't start an interminable 5-yr strategy cycle. If you can inject money into progressive organisations, do it now, before things slowdown even more pre-election.

Strong Victoria Wood “ let’s do it “ vibes here ..

Intelligent piece by the consistently excellent Sonia Sodha “Not only is it ok to disagree w/ your friends & agree w/ your opponents; sometimes the world is a better place for it” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

When will people learn? The cover up always ends causing more pain than the original issue theguardian.com/uk-news/articl…

I ♥️ clean air. Thank you Sadiq Khan

But Khan has not lost support. His majority has increased. And despite the biggest Conservative pledge being to ditch ULEZ in the outer boroughs there was no swing to them even there. Even in Bromley and Bexley, the most conservative and most anti-Ulez area, the swing was 0%.

Susie Dent’s preparing a tweet like,

Word of the day is Sniggywongler (16th century): to lose all your seats in local council elections.

This is utterly chilling (she’s Lara Logan).

They mentioned this in the Great Lives anniversary programme and it’s really interesting. There’s a similar reluctance by men to buy books by female authors.

Today Kate Forbes voted FOR Stage 1 of the Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) bill. Humza Yousaf was absent. Just as he was for the final vote on equal marriage. So tell me again why Kate Forbes is being is vilified for her faith…

Exciting first sight of the 2nd edition of The Long Win - new cover, new subtitle, new chapter! Publication is 21 May, pre-orders possible, or contact me for personalised signed copies #thelongwinjourneycontinues

Now that’s a beautiful slice of Britain and what a bloody delivery 😊

Tom Richmond As Helen Lewis once said on Question Time: this government insists on ignoring reality, until it collides with it, and then reality wins - EVERY TIME.

Loving the Electoral Commission notices that have popped up on Spotify UK & Ireland alerting me to the May 2 elections

Adam Bienkov JessicaΚαθ@StandsWithUkraine 😷🇺🇦 Literally the first clause of the Editors' Code of Practice has been broken.

I think we massively underestimate the range of people who might - at particular moments in their lives - feel assisted dying would be a ‘good’ choice. #AssistedDying

A really important finding. theguardian.com/law/2024/apr/2…

If you think it’s been chilly for the last couple of weeks, you’re right. But this graph really shows how much more often warm spells approach the record versus cold ones. It’s still been a warm three months compared even to the most recent 30 year UK average.

Ripley is very good on what sheer bloody hard work murder is. Honestly. The to-do list is a nightmare. And people are so nosy…

And when the centre makes a mistake, it makes it for the whole NHS. Worse, it is incentivised not to analyse where it has failed and correct its mistakes...