“They [the Taliban] keep saying they will open schools. But it's been almost two years now. I don't believe them. It breaks my heart.” A very bleak article, but please read and share it. Girls in #Afghanistan need to keep their story in people’s minds

🧑‍⚕️More than half of Brits support junior doctors taking strike action over pay, according to IpsosUK. This is not necessarily the position Rishi Sunak expected to be in four months on from first NHS strikes

🌹Labour are now the largest party in local government, overtaking the Tories for the first time since 2002

Tories lose control of three Berkshire councils bbc.in/3AVnoGW

So pleased she won, but how sad the BBC cut brilliant ending of her speech

A case study on what is wrong with tabloid journalism in Britain: This Daily Mail story reports that a Lib Dem council in Surrey is close to collapse due to massive overspending. Fact: the Lib Dems are only recently in control, all the overspending happened under a Tory council.

Last winter I lost my laptop in a snowy Shetland. This led to a short story featuring Perez & Tosh. As I’m in Shetland, it seems a good time to share it. Sign up here for your free download: buff.ly/3p6EGOO

It's Friday night and it's MIDNIGHT so it's time for a special #midsummer episode of 'How light is it in #Orkney at 12am this week?' Believe it or not, it's THIS LIGHT! 🌞

I called so many people on the phone to tell them their loved one was dead or dying in December 2020. "Can I come and see them?" "We have to protect everyone we can from this. No visitors are allowed. I'm so sorry." "I understand." Meanwhile in CCHQ…

Even rock royalty knows that there is no better way to travel to Glastonbury than by train! 🤘 You never know who is going to churn up on board our trains! #FooFighters #Glastonbury23 #TheChurnups

Beautiful ❤️

What a pairing of headline and picture.

As we all know, Parky was from Yorkshire, as was David Bowie's dad. This is a corker 👊

Rishi Sunak certainly seems pretty pissed off with whoever it is who's been running the country recently #CPC23

the room next door - Penny Mordaunt

The speed with which former Cabinet ministers forget they are former Cabinet ministers is extraordinary. Is political amnesia a recognised medical condition?

Productivity UP… unfortunately it’s the productivity of sewage pollution on one of our lovely beaches. Is it too much to ask the “regulator” to regulate?

Lest we forget.

The greatest trick Gareth Southgate ever pulled was getting England to play so badly during the group stages that there wasn’t a feelgood bounce until after the election

It mattered how people voted in your constituency- they got rid of you.