So on the day that new figures show a million British children are now living in destitution, Rishi Sunak announces... a massive windfall for bankers

Judi Dench was on Graham Norton last night to push her new book about her life and work with Shakespeare. After making the point we quote Shakespeare daily without knowing it, this happened:

cambridge give history students their marks challenge (impossible)

David Cameron back in frontline politics again made me think about when he was asked this on The One Show

my housemates put birthday balloons up around my door with taylor swift lyrics handwritten on them and I just think that’s the cutest thing ever

Jodie Comer for British Vogue “The biggest change I would like to see in the UK is the end of a Tory government. Please and thank you.” 😊 🎥: British Vogue

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I cannot respect you if you’re shopping like this. Just absurd & thoughtless overconsumption while garment workers suffer & ecosystems buckle. I know sustainability writers must be so tired at this point

I am standing for Women's Officer of Labour Students! I want to unite, empower and organise women in the Labour Party! Join me! Nominate me: L3100405

This is a joy to watch. Ian Hislop, full-throttle, absolutely shredding Jake Berry on Peston. Hislop doesn’t give an inch and talks at Berry the way Tory MPs hate and just can’t cope with (“You can’t just talk nonsense and not be interrupted!”). Superb.

“We will push Labour to be bolder on the environment” latest

The onshore wind ban has been in place for 9 years. We've been in government for 72 hours, we've lifted it. That's the pace we're going to move at.

Scrawling 'Gaza' on a statue of Anne Frank - a Jewish teenager murdered by the Nazis - is not activism, it is antisemitism.

These fellas turning out coz they’re so determined to “protect” women and girls btw but listen to the way they talk to her

Last week weren’t the far right boasting about how much they cared about violence against women & girls?

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.