This article is also about the embarrassment of the way people talk about Southgate, the mean-spiritedness and stupidity, the disrespect, character assassination. The press used to be vicious doorsteppers. Now it's anyone with a smartphone or a celebrity podcast to push

Pitch Invaders From the 1970s, didn't you just love them? No 1 Pitch Invader gets clobbered by Peter Lorimer, then the friendly policeman puts his foot down his Achilles! No 2 A Scottish pitch invader at Wembley gives the police the runaround! No 3 The Pitch Invader decides

My case for optimism is that history tells us Labour governments do focus on child poverty and do deliver real change. I worked with Gordon Brown as child tax credits were rolled out and transformed lives - over half a million children were taken out of poverty

Plus you can already see how policies of this Labour government will make a difference. Too many low earners not getting the hours work they want is a big feature of low income Britain today, and banning exploitative zero hour contracts will make their incomes more secure

#1976Top20 Number 10 Pluto Sherrington - Dat open.spotify.com/track/6n6L9paW…

#1976Top20 Number 9 Candi Staton - Young Hearts Run Free open.spotify.com/track/5XMMIxXW…

Has there ever been a drowning at an #OpeningCeremony Some of these boats look like they might sink

Dancing in Puddles and a human Smurf sat in a fruit bowl #OpeningCeremony

"Imagine there's no countries, it isn't hard to do." WE'VE LITERALLY JUST WATCHED A MASSIVE FLOTILLA OF COUNTRIES.

I wish Graham Norton was doing the commentary on this #OpeningCeremony

Remembering the Hovis Presley poem about a possible Manchester Olympics: Trumpets sound, Doves take flight, Lisa Stansfield sings, And Bobby Charlton's haircut forms the five Olympic rings #OpeningCeremony

#1976Top20 Number 8 Rose Royce - Car Wash open.spotify.com/track/0LoZsvlB…

#1976Top20 Number 7 Bee Gees - You Should Be Dancing open.spotify.com/track/7sPnknTs…

#1976Top20 Number 6 ELO - Living Thing open.spotify.com/track/2hdNya0b…

Feeling gladioli all over watching #TheSmiths on BBC4

He's definitely not the man we thought he was. sadly #TheSmiths

Reel Around The Fountain could make me cry. What a song #TheSmiths

Shelagh Delaney writing credit on This Night Has Opened My Eyes #TheSmiths

Oh Morrissey what a mess you made of your life. You had everything then. TeamJohnnyMarr #TheSmiths

Were Jive Bunny finished off by mixmastermatosis?#TOTP