My book is out in paperback in a fortnight. It's set in a dilapidated country house just after the war, a house first built in the 16th century, but to which a new bit was added whenever the family happened to have any money. While researching, I found a cache of old... 1/4

Correcting misinformation: You can’t be MP if you’ve been to prison for a year+ You can’t sue police/cps/judge if you pleaded guilty & lost appeal You can be denied bail in middle of riot you admit inciting You can be recalled to prison if you breach the conditions of release

Thank you Netanyahu, we'll remember the word 'mishap'. A word useful for such things as a matter of a lost key, or a trip over a doorstep but you've now used to wrap up blood, murder, loss and horror. If this is a mishap the mishap is you.

Robert Peston x.com/Britain_People…

Right wing media has had it in for Angela Rayner from the start - they couldn’t bear a working class woman being so powerful & dynamic. She made a mistake & has paid heavily for it. Hope she’ll return at some point in the future - our politics needs more voices like hers

Urgent: people needed to justify this and flood social media with their comments.

Nope. This is how you engage with people - in person, in our actual communities - where you seldom hear the hate that fills social media. Through coffee mornings, knocking on doors, actually helping people with their housing, parking and just about everything else.

This is where Reform prove that they are less than bright Darren wanting ID cards because of the people on our shores but now we can have them totally against them......

Husband is reading a political biog which contains this fantastic anecdote about George Brown, the boozy Labour Deputy of Harold Wilson’s cabinet:

Manchester Synagogue attack was an act of terror — driven by hate, targeting Jews in a sacred space. It is heartbreaking. It is enraging Grateful to the police for their speedy action We will stand loudly, visibly, and unwaveringly — against antisemitism and hate in all forms.

Well said

This is a total lie repeatedly unchallenged on media The only reference to “arms” in the PM’s speech? “the wind fARMs of South Wales.”

This kind of disinformation helps no one. The BBC are better than that. For all the grief people give the lobby Zoë Crowther spotted this a mile off and had done all the leg work that Have I Got News for You’s researchers didn’t bother doing.

Increasingly certain that there should be a traffic exclusion zone around schools at start and end of day. Kids are coming to school in fear. And the message is ... we don't give one. This incident was extreme but not extraordinary.

This Thursday, one week on from the Manchester synagogue attack, we will take a moment to remember its victims and their families, and to stand with all those who live in fear of further attacks or reprisals. Hope not Hate!#britainstandstogether independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

BREAKING: Harvey & Wheeler, the lettings agency used by Rachel Reeves to rent out her property, said it had apologised to her for an “oversight” that led to a failure to obtain a licence.

Worked out that I am about £1.75 worse off p/week after the Budget. Half the price of a coffee. And I’m perfectly okay with that. On the other hand, 400,000 children will not go to school with an empty stomach. And if you don’t think that’s a wonderful thing, just block me.

For years, the Post Office and Fujitsu covered up the bugs in their faulty Horizon computer software, blaming the subpostmasters using it. Thousands had their lives ruined. Some took their own lives. Now Channel 4 News has obtained a 2006 contract between the two companies -