Fell over and badly hurt my knee earlier. I find it irksome that the event hasn't yet appeared on the BBC national news.

Probably time to move away from the internet for the evening.

33 years ago the Daily Mail described the prospect of eliminating homosexuality as a ‘hope’.

Any second now, Reform will come along and condemn the police for wasting time arresting people over "hurty words". Any ... second ... now ...

Just had meeting with kiddo's school. She has been fully supported, treated with full equality & dignity for years. All of that changes from September. Full segregation & humiliation across the board. The school staff cried in the meeting. This will absolutely lead to children's deaths 1/2

🚨The UK-US pharma deal with Trump will cost 229,000 lives in England. The deal is so bad that the editor of the British Medical Journal says it suggests "We’ll kill our poor people to make your rich companies richer”. Dear Andy Burnham, tear up this deal as Prime Minister. Thank you.

*Farage removes all his clothes in public and takes a dump on the floor* Chris Mason: "some might say this is not the act of a PM in waiting but others note in today's politics the public appreciate authenticity."

"Amber Heat-Health? Gad, how I love that woman!"

Never underestimate the self-pity of the ruling classes.

I'm so disillusioned, I almost don't even care who gets the FIFA Peace Prize next year

After I wrote last week's column, I learnt that a neighbour with severe disabilities, an extremely tough & resourceful woman who lived to the full, died in the heatwave. Everyone here is devastated. I can scarcely express my anger towards a mindset that treats people like her as collateral damage. 🧵

This is exactly why we have Pride. Because a few years ago this would have just been a hateful fringe figure - but this is where our politics is heading with a Government that kertows. We will resist. And bring hope (*and* electing progressive politicians.) We will win. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Just now and then, @manchestereveningnews.co.uk.web.brid.gy comes up with tiny works of genius:

"In this heat, please remember to put out a small bowl of water for data centres." 😂

Ten years ago today the whole country and its future were sacrificed on the altar of Boris Johnson’s ego, David Cameron’s stupidity and Nigel Farage’s prejudice. A decade thrown away and a nation left angrier and poorer. Thanks, you absoute pricks.

We have now gone from six prime ministers in ten years to seven - so roughly a new one every 18 months. This cycle won’t stop until we actually fix the fundamental issues that have been plaguing this country since at least the 1980s.

Look after yourselves this week, in our record-breaking heat. And don't let this or any government backtrack on its climate commitments: both to prevent the worst and to help us adapt to the escalating impacts to which - unfortunately and infuriatingly - we are now committed. #35YearsOfFailure

Does anyone know what time we can expect Nigel Farage to start saying the by-election was rigged? #Makerfield

If you say “I support Palestine Action”, they might put you in jail. If you incite a racist riot, they put you on TV.

The average ‘terror suspect’ now arrested in England is a white woman in her 50s.

A policy billed as banning social media for under-16s in practice means requiring ID for all over-16s to use social media.

That Nazi venture capitalist Elon Musk is the most dangerous person in the world is beyond question. His companies should be banned by any society that respects human rights and dignity. He should be sanctioned and arrested for crimes against humanity. Any government failing to do so is complicit.

Ffs, as if this year wasn't wretched enough already 😢 BBC News - David Hockney: Tributes paid to a 'giant' and 'true icon' of British art - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Can’t help thinking about all the children who are going to bed tonight, frightened. All thanks to Farage and little Tommy 10 names.

This is Sam Fahd Abu Haikal. A 7-month-old Palestinian baby killed by Israel. If this were an Israeli baby or a Western baby, his face would be splashed across front pages. Western leaders would condemn the perpetrator's evil. Here? Silence.

Tax wealth, not work; capital, not labour; property, not poverty.

The tick-tock of this clock is getting louder and louder - this is where it starts, it is not where it ends. Reform UK is a clear and present danger to LGBTQ+ people.

This is exactly what we have been warning about. But oh no, anyone who objects to the changes is a selfish, privileged nimby, a zealot, a blocker, an elitist. Let's trash the lives of England's poorest communities, and smear anyone who complains. Thanks Keir. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A policeman who had the nickname “the rapist” kidnapped, raped and murdered a woman and the reactionary right went “look away, nothing to see here, leave the boys in blue alone, ladies, just flag down a bus if a policeman tries to murder-rape you”.

If you say "I support Palestine Action", they might put you in jail. If you incite a racist riot, they put you on the news.

Hence the onslaught from governments in this country from Thatcher onwards on higher (and other) education.

The worst possible way to honour the memory of Henry Nowak, victim of a horrible murder and a grave misjudgement by the police, is to do what Nigel Farage appears to want: turn it into an excuse for racial conflict.

Britain now welcomes apologists for genocide - and bars those who oppose it

I'm dying of hay fever. No flowers at the funeral, please

At what point does the news stop illustrating UK heatwaves with phew-what-a-scorcher photos of people dancing in fountains to cool off and ladies all in bikinis and that in the park and replace them bits of melted infrastructure and pensioners who died in their unventilated flats of heatstroke?

The Israeli regime summed up in one photo

I simply cannot stress deeply enough that if I am dictating text to a computer, and I say "Hi", and the computer writes down "I hope this finds you well" instead, I am going to delete every trace of that software from my machine and then hunt down every single person responsible for creating it.

Old geezers playing Go in a city park in Kowloon at night. Our insane world needs more moments like this.

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

Labour has decided that they stand against the LGBTQ+ community. So be it

Every word 👇👇👇. Labour is now a party of performative cruelty. Wasting a huge majority, using it to punish people instead of building a fairer society. Excluded those who dared to challenge the rot and stand up for socialist principles. Right wing rhetoric has cost thousands of loyal supporters.

If Streeting is the answer, Labour hasn't understood the question.

The good news from Manchester is that so far, the Greens seem to be gaining a lot more than Reform.

Starmer says he's "not going to walk away". So that's another hope dashed.

He promised change and gave continuity. He promised to clean up politics and takes bungs and hires nonces. He promised to improve lives and has sacrificed every opportunity to do so at the behest of PE, CEOs, and the rich. He promised to be a grown up and is in fact a petulant toddler.

A please @labouruk.bsky.social, stop saying that it's up to us to stop Reform. YOU could stop a Reform government in 2029, by introducing the proportional representation so many in the country have been clamouring for. The only way Farage can win is through our crazy first-past-the-post system.

Make Hate Weird Again.

"Late have I loved thee" – I first heard Brahms, if my mother is to be believed, in my cradle, but I think I was in my 50s when I really began to appreciate him: his technical genius wedded perfectly with his Romantic heart. Here, interpreted perfectly: youtu.be/wxB5vkZy7nM?...

I’m sure Starmer will be out at any moment to condemn this antisemitism