Canal Street, Spinningfields, Northern Quarter, Ancoats, Deansgate

Maybe Gillian can pick up Nadine Dorries and bring her into work while she’s at it 🤦🏼‍♀️

We can have a debate about the quality of university courses. But the first question to a politician advocating fewer kids go to university is to ask them where they went/where their kids go/went. Too often they’re not talking about themselves or their kids, but someone else’s.

It’s a class problem. If there were more people in power, those making decisions, who knew what it was like not to be able to afford to provide something as basic as dental care for their children, the problem would either not be there, or it would be much improved.

Amanda, have you ever written about those 4.2m Brits living in food poverty, and why that might be? You're a columnist in a national newspaper, so it must be an issue you've addressed previously? Or are you just trying to pit struggling people against one another?

Politicians whose only contributions to the criminal justice system are to defund it and then to call for the deaths of the people convicted within, are not the sort of people with your best interests at heart.

The Prime Minister’s rabid support for defunding criminal justice means that rape cases now wait five years for a trial. We don’t have enough courts, judges, lawyers or staff. Record backlogs, record delays. Lives on hold for years. Public safety a top priority? Prove it.

Someone should ask Chris Philp MP - minister for actual crime - what would happen if someone walked down the street holding this item that he so boldly tells the public is ‘currently legal’ for his weird macho photo op. The answer? They’d be arrested. And he knows it.

“Except fund the criminal justice system.” 5 year delays for rape cases to be tried. Record backlogs. Record delays. Rishi Sunak and his ministers are taking the public for fools.

Fair play. This is very good.

Imagine an intelligent, thoughtful drugs and anti-social behaviour policy that asks *why* young people are hanging around the streets taking these substances? How could we better occupy them? What is the link to the decline in youth mental health? Have cutbacks had consequences?

This is for the 3.8 million lives that were ignored. The freelancers and the self employed. The Conference are trying every trick to have this taken down…so I’ve just deployed large digital vans as well, to keep circling the area.

So to summarise, the Government has just announced plans to scrap the biggest public transport infrastructure project planned for any Northern city, while taking part in its conference in that same city, which its Chancellor chose to travel to by plane. news.sky.com/story/northern…

This is a goodie…

Grim. The responsibility for any violence today lies solely with the Home Secretary and the Prime Minister who is too weak to deal with her dangerous chaos

When was the last time Sunak got slammed for his expensive suits, which unlike Rayner in this Vogue case he actually owns? Answer: He doesn’t because he’s posh.

In all the noise about jury trials today - know this: If you drive a car / go to work / socialise / use a mobile phone / go to the pub / date / interact in any way with other humans then you could be wrongly accused of a crime at any moment. And you’d want one thing: A jury.