The boss of the Sam Smith's pub empire has died, per the York Press: www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/2624097...

Starmer steadfastly not saying the words “Andy” or “Burnham” here

He should be doing the 'covering his mouth' pose.

Multiple mentions of "lift off in Houston" tonight when EVERYONE knows the rockets go up from Cape Canaveral, Florida while Houston is home to Mission Control.

That *pass*, wow, but absolutely gutted for Japan

Wimbledon royal box today: David Beckham, Tess Daley, Carol Kirkwood, Mark Rylance, Alexander Armstrong, Mary Berry and Andre Agassi

I can help: they were rubbish

Now let’s never speak of this again

Hell yeah it’s coming home. Anthony Barry’s searing halftime insight is coming into your home live on ITV

it wouldve been funny if goldfinger wasnt a movie and just a crazy song about a guy shirley bassey made up

I’m not thrilled that apparently the secret to success in basically every field right now is “be really good at short form video”

Is there anywhere better to spend a summer Saturday

The answer to this is “Ermine Street”

Heat getting to everyone latest, from the Metro: “Sir Sadiq's plan does not include turning the capital's famous Gherkin skyscraper into a water-holding Arizona cactus imagined here - but”

If there’s gonna be a new winner, it really could be this time l

This happens with basically every high profile incident now. It’s horrendous

A decade on from trips to North Ferriby and Southport we’re going to West Ham, Wolves, Blades etc. Tears in my eyes.

Oh

Trump on Burnham: "I don't know anything. I see that he was, I guess, the mayor of a town" Adds he believes he's "extremely liberal" so won't "open up the North Sea"

Ah you have to warn the parents before playing this one guys. Cant drop it on us unawares

Keir Starmer with the first ever mention of Count Binface in the Commons there

Best bit of that was when the onscreen graphics revealed there had been more minutes (35) than Ghana passes (32)

Ex SNP chief executive Peter Murrell gets five years and three months for embezzlement of more than £400k from party funds

The World Cup!

Trump on Starmer: He’s got two problems, energy and immigration. And crime.

This commentator has a unique style

Having some Weather here in South London

Well I certainly wasn’t expecting that

England's goal music being Planet Funk's "Chase the Sun", games starting with Sia's "Titanium", it's a World Cup sure, but they're channelling the PDC World Darts

Saw Burnham and entourage arrive in Portcullis House, first person he saw was ex defence sec John Healey who got a hug and a handshake

🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham’s train has arrived in London 21 minutes late He can now claim Delay Repay from Avanti West Coast

The MP with Euston station in their constituency is of course…Sir Keir Starmer

Welcome aboard your Avanti West Coast service, calling at Stockport, Stoke on Trent, Stafford and the Finland Station

Oh no my “Burnham v Streeting” emergency podcast, which superseded my “Prime Minister resigns” emergency podcast, which superseded my “Prime Minister to resign?” emergency podcast has been superseded

Streeting is backing Burnham, he says in a post on social media

What happened to Liz Truss’s spiral lectern. Bring it back

Half of my Bsky right now

Expecting a statement from the Prime Minister shortly

It is a LECTERN

The nights are drawing in

The president of the United States says Keir Starmer will resign

Ebikes really are the best way to get around in the heatwave. Everywhere you go you get a nice 20kph cooling breeze

Have to admire the Netherlands kit designer for creating a colour that sends my TV absolutely haywire. They all look blurry.

USA v Australia is a plausible fixture in the world championships of basically any team sport isn’t it

Nice of Frasier to let the BBC use his apartment

BBC reporting that in a conservation with Sir Keir Starmer earlier today, transport secretary Heidi Alexander suggested he set out a timetable to leave office.

🔺 EXCLUSIVE: Sir Keir Starmer will this afternoon be told by members of his cabinet that it is time to set out a timeline for his departure in the wake of Andy Burnham’s victory in Makerfield

On one level, it was an absolutely bizarre case, but on another it was incredibly simple - people being recruited online to commit crimes for money, by people whose identity and motivations they neither know nor care about This is becoming commonplace, and I will be reporting more on the trend soon

Veteran!