A League Of Their Own without James Corden. 2020 finally giveth.

Oh-oh-oh Jon Snow x.com/damocrat/statu…

We’re in a mess. Cases, hospitalisations and deaths are all rising. It's too late for test and trace to stop it. Things will just get worse. We have FOUR options: (1)

Government slogan writer, still stinging from criticism of their ‘be aware’ waffle, sits down at the keyboard, determined to make their next one more memorable...

The list of key cock-ups, simply stated, will soon extend beyond a single tweet.

2022: Philadelphia Phillies beat the Yankees to win the World Series. Biden presents Girardi with the trophy. Class of ‘08 are next to the stage. Biden *with twinkle and wink*: "and Jimmy, I got something to give back to ya". Somewhere in the distance, Trump’s head explodes.

Reading A Perfect Spy, as a sixth former, taught me that the line between heroes and villains doesn’t need to be a clear one if you’re a great writer. That you can confuse and entrance at the same time. That ‘spy stories’ are literature. That le Carré was a genius.

Le Carré: good at beautifully flowing spy literature. Also good at appropriately deploying ‘clusterfuck’.

Doctor friend of mine wrote this on FB. I don’t have anything to add, just read it.

This is unreal, incredible, your-mad-uncle-cheats-at-monopoly, level. Maybe a bit above that. Also: he talks like that *all the time*.

Starmer: Do you agree this is bad? BoJo: I do. Starmer: You’re aware it’s your policy? BoJo: Well, it’s not *that* bad and you’re a poo face. Speaker: You can’t call him a poo face. BoJo: OK, you’re not a poo face, but you don’t like big business so *sticks tongue out* prrrrp.

Child 1, whilst I’m part-way through writing a blog: “Look daddy, when I use whiteboard pen on my hands I can turn them both blue!”

“It’s been incredibly tough.”

The hardest hit ball by a Phillie in the statcast era is 116.6 mph by Jorge Alfaro in 2018. Prediction: Hall—who had a 117.5 mph batted ball in spring training this year—eclipses that.

You won’t get to see Gary Lineker on Match of the Day on Saturday night But don’t forget to tune into Lord Sugar on the Apprentice. 9pm BBC1 every Thursday!