Toys my 1yr old is obsessed with: - Noah’s Ark w lots of animals ❌ - Piano that plays tunes ❌ - Knitted llama on wheels ❌ - Shiny activity table ❌ - Sit on tractor ❌ - Dozens of cuddly toys ❌ - An old bag she can put stuff in ✅

Following on from this theme: Child has been bought a 100 piece Duplo set (she’s poorly and I’m a sucker). Is she most interested in: (a) The Duplo. (b) The shrink wrap it came in. (c) A hole she’s found in my sock.

I am just a lowly barrister, standing in front of HM Courts and Tribunals Service, begging that claimants be allowed to submit pleadings to the Employment Tribunal in PDF format.

They say that necessity is the mother of invention, and here’s my testament to that: Sickness has forced me to go sober, but I still want a cocktail. So I have invented my first alcohol free sipper. Which I am rather pleased with.

This comment is just so telling: You get a say once every half decade, and in between you are slaves to the state. There was a time that English conservatism trumpeted the rights of the individual over the state. Clearly, those days are past.

I see that the Green Party, who like to portray themselves as the good guys of politics, have resurrected their misleading voter information flyer.

Tory vote share now lower than under Liz Truss in our latest VI (30 Apr - 1 May) Con: 18% (-2 from 23-24 Apr) Lab: 44% (-1) Reform UK: 15% (+2) Lib Dem: 10% (+1) Green: 8% (+1) SNP: 2% (-1) yougov.co.uk/politics/artic…

There will, surely, come a day when mainstream political parties realise that moving your party to the extremes to try to win votes just doesn’t work. All you do is legitimise the extremists whilst alienating your core vote. But it seems that today is not that day.

That Angela Rayner story is really cutting through.

For reference, the £2.5bn annual cost of the Conservatives new national service policy is roughly twice as much as would be needed to return local authority spending on services for young people back to the level it was in 2010

Blackfriars looking glam tonight.

It literally says that the costings were "produced on assumptions provided by Special Advisers". Even the 'gotcha' clarification is misleading.

A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Cute.

It is completely mad that had McLaren shown the sort of practical ruthlessness Ferrari showed to bag Schumi five WDCs, Norris would be only 45 points away from Verstappen - absolutely doable. Just feels like the weekend was such a squandered opportunity. #F1

Spotted in the wild. Very cool.

I am delighted to have been ranked again in the latest Legal 500 and I am blown away to have been bumped up to Tier 2. Thanks as ever to all my brilliant clients who have said such nice things about me. Now off to gladly pay that old #humblebrag fine.

This is the humble jambon buerre from Naughtypiglets. It was life-changingly good.