Great piece by @Johnharris1969 on the miraculous alchemy of the great British festival (as in the 3-or-so-day, deep-rural, summer, rock festival) - As festival season ends, let’s celebrate their communal magic – and the fact they’re a rare national asset theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Truss's Mini Budget wasn't "governing from the left". Nor was the Rwanda scheme. Nor was cutting taxes when many public services were struggling. If the Conservative Party keeps misleading itself about why it lost, it will spend a long time in opposition bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

"Social care contributes c.£60bn to the economy, more than agriculture & utilities..an industry in its own right. It's a partner to the NHS, deserving the parity of esteem. It's time for the government to “think social care first” across policy depts. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

I'll be playing my last gig in Cardiff this year at St John's Church, Canton, next weekend, with support from Daudi Matsiko. Tickets available here: ents24.com/cardiff-events…

Is your child without a school place? At the start of a new school year, far too many children with SEND are without a school to attend. This is a worrying situation to be in so we’ve produced guidance to help parents & carers who are in this position. 🔗buff.ly/3ElGOUF

This is a really good piece

No songwriter occupies as much of a space in my soul as Stephen Duffy. And of all his albums, there are none that make me feel quite the way Astronauts does. This is three years in the making. Stephen put everything into these songs. The least we could do was follow suit.

365 days 132 cups of milky tea 64 packets of Drop Fruit Duo liquorice 14 journeys, from the hot dog streets of Birmingham to the hobbit hills of Glastonbury 8 crushed dreams 4 blazing rows 3 sleepless nights 2 people 1 Lawrence Street Level Superstar. Out today.

Good speech, must-watch for #SEND people

English teacher are brilliant, and this album is full of poetry, wonder & life. Totally deserved bbc.co.uk/news/live/ckgj…

NEW POST: The SEND “Emergency” debate: scrap safety valve, write-off high needs debt and stop piling trauma on to families- a recap of what happened in Richard Burgon MP 's parliamentary debate specialneedsjungle.com/send-emergency…

I'm on this week's Politics Weekly podcast, talking to John Harris about Grenfell - what went wrong, why, what should happen next theguardian.com/politics/audio…

Ooh!

The worst is being on a train when the delay is because of "major congestion", which is the picture in/around Bristol right now. The British disease in a nutshell: railways that run like roads

The Taxpayer's Alliance used to push this daft story every year, as if councils should sell off their museum collections. Bizarrely, the BBC is now pushing the same story, and of course quotes the Taxpayer's Alliance.

Anyone else stranded around Bristol cos of rail meltdown?

the idea of 9,000 millionaires leaving Britain sounds dramatic until you remember there are 2,849,000 millionaires in this country it’s literally a rounding error given the ebb and flow of migration

The problem with the DfE statement is that it’s disabled children who are often unable to access early years places, breakfast clubs and wraparound childcare, so their “solutions” exacerbate inequality. news.sky.com/story/three-ou…

Congrats to Nine Eight Books for this nice 1-2 ❤️ great work Will and Lawrence ❤️