Scene: The Bull Jolene: Hello, Ian, what can I get you? Ian: Oh, I think I'll have a bitter top. J: Haven't you already got one of those, darlin'? #TheArchers

Oh Anna, I get this. Having lost a sibling, there was a lot more said by silences than by words. #TheArchers

Oh yeah, get him sectioned. That'll soothe family relations. #TheArchers

There is a new block at the end of the Woodberry Down redevelopment road that boasts "independent living for the over 55s" Sounds awful, and frankly if you have kids, these days you'll be lucky if they've moved out before you turn 70.

Ugggh. Enduring a journey on a shitty hot Boris Bus. Fuck that man.

Ugggh. "Being NEET used to be something that happened to other people's children. Now every parent worries." Does Milburn realise how that sounds? It was ok when it was just people in pit villages and stell towns, but now it might be middle class kids too, it's a crisis?

Boasts on the #radio4 news about how quickly some migrants were brought to court and sentenced. Imagine, if instead of trying stunts to please hardliners, the government put the same effort into cutting waiting times for all court cases. Victims and accused are in limbo for months or years.

Brian sounds like a man who's determined to alienate all his children. #TheArchers

If regulators can take action against dark UI patterns that trick people into subscriptions, or make it hard to cancel things, why can't they insist that the systems for parental controls on phones & PCs meet certain standards? Or are they just afraid of confronting tech companies?

I see Wes was banging on about a social media ban for kids again today, as if it's not having a clear and obvious effect on adults too. BoomerSlop AI tempting people with images of an all-white Britain isn't aimed at teens, Wes!

Hot day to be chatting. #proofofcat

It's a bank holiday weekend, so why not take a little while to write to your MP and explain why they should object to the new guidance on trans issues from the EHRC? I've written to mine, so perhaps you can find inspiration in my words. Download the PDF from nigelwhitfield.com/resources/

Nobody is free until everybody is free

Definitely an episode for the ages, I think. Up there with the Post Office robbery, I reckon. #TheArchers

I this Tamsin's last appearance, do we think? #TheArchers

Ooooh! Brian! That's a charming bomb to drop. #TheArchers

Oh deary me! Knives out at Home Farm! I vote for a murder, and then Anna Tregorran as Miss Marple solving it. #TheArchers

Cake-ism alive and well, I see.

Across my various social media accounts, I have seen dozens of organisations and indviduals reacting negatively to the EHRC guidance on trans people. I wonder just how long an organisation like the EHRC can reasonably continue, when it's lost the respect and support of so many.

I have exercised great restraint in not quoting that post about Attenborough warning against bottom trawling to point out that as well as fish stocks, it has devastated gay bars.

Don't let your pussy dry out in the hot weather. Leave a bowl of water in the garden

So my feeling from reading what @goodlawproject.org said yesterday is that if, as a gay mens group that allows trans men to join, we describe ourselves as a group for men and trans man, we should be ok?

Oh dear. I guess #WomansHour is going to paint this piece of shit as a triump. Only for the Mumsnet drunks. Sure, let's make the lives of disabled people worse, as well as trans people. What the fuck is wrong with these idiots? #radio4

If a Labour government reckons you can exclude trans people, simply because they might cause "discomfort or distress" to others, how long before a Reform one decides you can chuck non-white people out of your club, because the feelings of the racists are more important?

Another day and once again the BBC rolling out their nasty "biological man who identifies as a woman" crap, because they absolutely have to shit on trans people whenever they can. Fuck the BBC and their institutional transphobia. #radio4 #bbcpm

Today the government is expected to unveil it's new guidelines on equality, widely expected to be a backwards step for trans people. And here's what they're presumably going to use as part of their deflection.

Call this what it is: Phillipson's Charter for Bullies. This will give license to vile bullies who want to harass anyone they see using a toilet who doesn't meet their standards of feminity. Lost your hair? Got a 'strong' jaw? Very tall? Flat chest? Tough luck ladies. Bridget's put a target on you

Wht's a year? Best to ask Johnny Logan about that one, Den. #TheArchers

2043 for the completion of HS2? This country is pathetic; the planning started in 2009. So that'll be 34 years. My first TGV trip was Lausanne to Dijon in 1988. By 2022, look how extensive the French network was.

Nick Robinson is just an ill mannered bully. #r4today

This is horrible www.thebookseller.com/news/rising-...

Setting up a new Stripe account for a business; asked why I want to disable Amazon Pay, which is turned on by default. Have selected "Other" and filled in "Jeff Bezos is an awful human being"

Wondering how much I could make by publishing erotic fiction about Wes Streeting on Amazon. Is it worth bashing some out at the weekend?

If a leadership challenge were to paralyze government for months, as Starmer's supporters claim, would we really notice? At least it would stop it doing anything stupid, like abolishing juries. #r4today

Trying to find out some questions about a Square card account I have for one business, and the fact that there's an AI chatbot for support, and no actual email address to contact is enough to make me think "Fuck you, my new business will use someone else."

I cannot think of a reasonable problem to which the answer is "Wes Streeting"

I'm starting to feel that, in terms of the damage to political discourse, rolling news is just as bad as social media. New opinions have to be offered up all the time, no matter how crackpot. The #r4today programme is awful these days. 3 hours of largely pointless bullshit and fevered speculation

I have resigned from the frontbench that you appointed and which you were probably hoping would last Forgive me I have run out of fucks to give

If you're going to pretend to be "VISA security department" you need to do a bit better than to make your spam calls from a UK mobile number.

The government has a huge, virtually unassailable majority. Had it used that to be radical and work for ordinary people, it might not be in this mess. But instead it's tried hard to make racists love it, and finds itself riven by division.

I would eat one of my own feet before I'd vote for a party led by Wes Streeting.

Ten years ago, in the aftermath of the Brexit vote, Labour formed a circular firing squad and fought over leadership while May decided to go for a hard Brexit. And now they're going to fanny about again, while people are struggling day to day.

Angela Morley arranged the magnificent score for ATV's "Zoom 2" ident, widely considered the single greatest piece of identification used on British television. It's fucking brilliant. Original by Nostalgia's Television Bits: youtu.be/dGfgOt-ycgI?...

The problem with being "a party of power, not protest" is that when you use that power to shit on marginalized groups of people, like migrants, or trans people, voters are going to wonder if you can be trusted with it.

For a moment, I thought that was the man from Del Monte

Thank god! Now I know I have a future. It's like he's making plans just for me.

If Streeting runs for the leadership, I hope he crashes and burns. I bet all the other gay politicians in Europe have a WhatsApp group that he's not allowed to join.

I received an email this morning that was so full of business speak, I had to reply.

What sweet summer child came up with the title for this article?

Surely one of the big failings of recent years is not pointing out how much of the shitness is down to the massive hit to the economy caused by Brexit. Too timid to point that out, unwilling to criticise a result that has somehow been sanctified by the right wing.