Boris Johnson: "All guidance was followed completely in No 10." He lied to Parliament.

Buried on page 199 of the Department of Health and Social Care’s annual report published yesterday is the shocking disclosure that it has incurred £8.7bn of losses - £8.7bn ! - on £12.1bn of PPE bought in 2020/21. Think about how that money could have been…

the room next door - Nadine Dorries

.Boris Johnson just said the UK should be more like Germany, where workers don't have a "habit of going into work when not well" Key comparison: - Statutory sick pay in Germany 50% pay for 84 weeks. - Statutory sick pay in UK is £96.35 per week for 28 weeks.

The Russian parliament has voted to make a law, one of the most draconian since the collapse of the Soviet Union, which will see protesters imprisoned for TEN YEARS for the "crime" of "making too much noise" while protesting peacefully. Oh did I say "Russian"? I meant "British".

STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND WATCH THIS MOMENT FROM THE ONE SHOW

🧵 Something seriously odd is afoot in natural gas markets. There's a BIG glut of gas in the UK. Wholesale gas prices are the lowest in 18 months. There is so much gas no-one is quite sure what to do with it Yet far from falling, household gas bills are heading even higher. 👇

Message to Tory MPs. This is who you're voting on.

It's a simple idea: We demand the govt scrap the energy price rises and deliver affordable energy for all. We will build a million pledges and by Oct 1st if the govt and energy companies fail to act we will cancel our direct debits. Read more here: dontpay.uk

Well, well, well, Have a watch of this… Govt voted to relax laws on letting water firms pump sewage into our waters Why? Because water firms could no longer get the chemicals needed to treat the water Why? …BREXIT

NEW: income inequality in US & UK is so wide that while the richest are very well off, the poorest have a worse standard of living than the poorest in countries like Slovenia ft.com/content/ef2654… Essentially, US & UK are poor societies with some very rich people. A thread:

But "they’re all the same" yeah?

If Matt Berry were cast as the older Criston Cole of House of the Dragon

I keep thinking about this Matthew Parris column from August 20.

THREAD - Yesterday I posted a tweet of my disappointment in the black and brown (B&B) Tory cabinet ministers and PM. Many replied saying ethnicity wasn’t important. I will tell you why it is important. 1/3

So, a police officer has been found to have sent an image of Grenfell on fire to others, titled "The Great Muslim Bake off." As someone who was there and saw armed police on the streets that night, I am not suprised.

Still my favourite film of all time.

Two and a half years ago we reported a leak in our living room roof to our landlord. This is what we are obligated to do via our rental agreement and he is, both morally and legally, obligated to sort it. He did nothing. In March of this year, the ceiling collapsed. 1/x

In reality: - Just 0.1% of Don Valley residents can't speak English - Only 0.8% have lived in the UK less than five years - Less than 6% are non-white This is about blaming the government's failures on a tiny fraction of his own constituents. It is the politics of the far right

"One Jewish pupil recalls… Farage would sidle up to him and say, 'Hitler was right' or 'Gas ‘em all'" - p31, Michael Crick’s biography of Nigel Farage