The language from Sunak re nurses - ‘caving in’ ‘digging in.’ Like they’re toddlers demanding chocolate before lunch, or teens arguing over curfew. These are adult professionals saying the job they do is worth more and that they can’t afford to live. #NursesStrike

My 92 yr old mother is lying on the floor at Warwick Hospital in agony. No trolleys. My brother, a doctor, is with her & said it is an absolute #ShitShow. Is this what we've let happen???? #NHSisBroken #GTTO

Your favourite #poems with a sense of things coming to an end, or new beginnings?

Patti Smith was born OTD in 1946. In a 2016 interview she said her favourite things include a first edition of Finnegans Wake signed by Joyce in green ink. "The book is almost unreadable," she said, "but as an object it’s beautiful."

Goodbye Vivienne Westwood. A ballsy lady who rocked the fashion world and stood defiantly for what was right. Love Paul x

Revisiting Vic Reeves' Big Night Out with the boys, & the endless inventiveness is just stunning. My eldest remembers EVERYTHING - every little one-liner - & has been just throwing them out every now & then as we go about our day & it has rendered me entirely unable to function.

The bloody cheek of this. The victim blaming. The deflection. The toxicity of this angle. What a bunch of bastards they are.

I disagree.

She amplified him, did she? Or did she just respond to someone who trolled her on Twitter? Why are we expecting the 19 year old to be the grown up here? She had every right to defend herself and frankly her response was bloody genius. You are misattributing responsibility here.

Lovely thanks. But there's currently a massive open goal here for you - start providing some audible and visible opposition to the collapse of the NHS. Hold the Govt to account. Challenge them on it. Your current silence is complicit, and people are noticing.

I’m wishing everyone all the best for 2023. Fuck all this skint, fearful, uptight, hating, snidey bitterness shit we get foisted on us by the controllers with their vested interests. It’s time for the roaring 20’s to really get going. Here’s to 2023! Big love 👍💚🕺🐊

2022 has been a tough year for many people struggling to get by. It’s also been an extraordinary year of solidarity, community & kindness. I will enter the New Year in the same way I left this one: with hope that we can build a more sustainable, caring & peaceful world for all.

This time Henson’s gone too far

Happy New Year everyone. May 2023 be all you wish it to be. Be kind to yourself, and others.

Scarborough Council has cancelled its NYE fireworks because there’s a walrus having a kip on the front, which is possibly the finest story to end 2022 we could ask for. theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/d…

Pay them appropriately. Fund the NHS properly. Stop insulting them. Stop being deceitful in your (mis)handling of the strike action. And apologise to us all, & to future generations, for the horrors we are seeing. The NHS is dying. You are killing it. Contemptible.

This has been my pinned tweet since forever. Let's start here, and proceed from this. Happy New Year everyone.