Treat yourselves to a remarkable listen, in the company of two remarkable men…
Dr Rangan Chatterjee & Nihal Arthanayake

Number crunching: Water restoration fund vs water company dividends, from the new Private Eye, out now.

Happy publication day to the wonderful Lucie Whitehouse
#LastWitness is a book that lingers: haunting, intricate, and shot through with humanity.

Just one of the crippling legacies of the government of the last 14 years…
(The government that cut 44,000 officers and staff from policing in England & Wales).

Excruciating lack of honesty here. A real grown up would have said ‘Yes, because of Brexit which people voted for and which I ran away from and here we are’.

Just off for a hearing in a rape case. Allegation reported in 2021, trial not before 2025, if we’re all lucky.

No podium speeches from the Prime Minister about this. No promises to magic up more judges, courts or lawyers.

Just silence, and the threat of further cuts to come.

“If the Channel itself - a known risk of death - isn't a deterrent, the prospect of 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 people being sent to Rwanda is even less of one.”

Is the gov't kidding itself to think Rwanda will be a deterrent?

👉 global-player.onelink.me/Br0x/TNANewEpi…

emily m | Jon Sopel | Lewis Goodall

Never off duty… bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Having now seen the longer video of the police interaction with Gideon Falter, I see that we have been misled.

The officer may have been more careful with his words, but Mr Falter was provocative to the point that an arrest for breach of the peace might have been justified

If only we could learn to take a breath before we start to blame...

Er… no… bbc.co.uk/news/business-…

Coventry won everything except the game…

Happy Birthday Puffin!
8 today x

Post-match analysis…
It’s a wonderful thing to spend the afternoon in the company of the Red Roses.

Quite the view
#RedRoses
#TheseGirlsCan

Today will mostly be spent in the company of my wife, my three daughters, and the England Women’s Rugby team.
See you at Twickenham.
#RedRoses
#TheseGirlsCan

Today’s news in summary:
A government that couldn’t care less about people who are suffering blames people who are suffering for the fact that the government couldn’t care less.

To paraphrase President Andrew Shepherd: Whatever your particular problem is, the Conservatives aren't the least bit interested in solving it. They are interested in two things: making you afraid of it, and telling you who to blame for it.

Single biggest thing government could do to reduce number of economically inactive people who are long-term sick is sort out our mental health services.

Two million people in England are on NHS mental health waiting lists. theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

After all the corruption we've seen from the Tory party and everything they've done to bring our NHS to its knees, Sunak dares to suggest it's the sick who can't work who are the problem? The very people he and his party have let down so badly? The sheer nerve of it.