This made the "6 music" news. It's a brief news bulletin yet the suspension of someone we don't really know from a programme nobody in the UK watches is newsworthy enough. BBC journos really need to get over their USA obsession. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

These defections would seriously help a tory party willing to re-establish itself in the centre right, should it ever want to do so. If it continues trying to grab Reform votes the defections will sink it.

Finally got to the end of the “1001 albums to listen to before you die” daily album generator. One a day for the last 1090 days (all the albums from each edition so a few more). It’s been my daily habit for nearly three years. Luckily there are now 320 albums recommended by fellow completors

Well I did want to look at the NHS data but ...

Emily Thornberry under the impression that there is a big space at the top of the Labour Party for a North London Lawyer.

The organisers in the PLP are desperately trying to coalesce around one candidate. I’m hearing the name ‘Owen Smith’.

A nicely knitted post pox topper just outside @richardosman1.bsky.social old school, Warden Park, in our village.

This is a very good reshuffle so far. Makes me wonder why they didn't do it last week. Feels like something they have thought through properly and put some round pegs in round holes.

It's an absurd anachronism that Foreign Secretary is seen as a "Great office of state". MoJ much bigger/more complicated. In the modern era the PM is the Foreign Secretary.

This is the thing. Advisors always put a dreadful caveat that they might, of course, be absolutely wrong. Most people would think they didn't have a house and the tax advice made sense.

Nigel Farage giving one of his "off the cuff" speeches is a great advert for speechwriting and actually having a text.

In the dealings I’ve had with Angela Rayner she’s a decent, warm human being who is not at all self important. she was open to ideas, thoughtful. That’s why she got to the top of the Labour Party. It’s a great shame.

Everyone should stop reading politics and listen to the new CMAT album and everything will suddenly seem a bit better.

One sub-note here is that there is currently no Spad policy head in either HMT or No10. Though the briefing suggests Torsten is now really the head spad in HMT . www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

It will be of no surprise at all to those used to the ECB that they have sent out a survey about county cricket membership that crashes at a certain point after answering loads of questions.

Does providing kids with meals at schools increase their performance? This new meta-analysis addresses this question very rigorously. They find that school-meal programs in high-income economies have minimal impact on students' behavior, health, and education. www.iza.org/publications...

In my premiership the Government will subsidise world test cricket to a level that will make sure all the nations can have their best players playing and every summer series is 5 tests.

Extraordinary game, fantastic series.

I'm clapping at the television. I have lost my mind. #thecricket

The umpires have got to calm down here. Neither of those decisions should have been given.

Oh my - umpire's call. On a different day with a different decision ...

There has been a real run of fantastic test series. This has been so competitive and evenly matched.

I'm very much in doom mode for England now. They are not going to get the runs. #thecricket

Imagine Dragons tonight with the boy at the Tottenham ground. Music is better than politics.

Strong Agree. Nobody can seriously complain that the age verification process isn't a good thing and this version of it is not onerous. The positive impact of starting to sort out online verification is very far reaching.

Right let's all go to the pub for a couple of hours eh?

Oh no, Ozzy's gone. I was a massive fan as a kid. Probably my first "favourite" artist. I got my parents to buy me Blizzard of Oz for Christmas when I was 10 years old.

Yeaaaaaaassss.

I’m just off for my last school run ever.

A UK wealth tax sounds simple: "tax the super‑rich, fund public services" But it's not. Our 16,000 word deep‑dive shows revenues are fragile, it puts growth, investment and jobs at risk, and there's no revenue before 2029. Here’s the evidence:

What’s the story?

Does Sweden have Pizza Hut?

On the one hand it's no way to win a Test match, on the other it's exactly why Test cricket is such a fantastic sport. #thecricket

So much of the Philadelphia leg of Live Aid to 14 year old me was "old blokes I'd never heard of". Iconic bands and artists I now know really well but at the time I'd no knowledge of at all.

I know Live Aid ‘so’ well. I recorded it all on video and watched it over and over. I created my own highlights video using tape to tape.

Duneroamin

My dad died of PSP. I have a good experience of its, as yet, untreatable symptoms…

Just got my Mid Sussex electoral registration email with the link to my entry and with "both" parts of the security code all in the same email. <sigh>

I think the next killer app online will be an identity verification/KYC tool that takes what currently exists to a level where you don't just check I'm "verified" but by fingerprinting my messages/devices etc you can tell it was absolutely me sending a message or paying or being paid.

Olivia Rodrigo was absolutely on it as a headline act. Joyous.

AND ANOTHER SONG WITH @robert.thecure.com I now love Olivia Rodrigo more

Robert Smith of the Cure coming on with Olivia Rodrigo do do Friday I'm in Love is monumental. #Glastonbury.

This Neil Young set has had sound issues. It needs more barn. #Glastonbury.

I don’t understand why Beabadoobee isn’t the biggest pop star in the world. She’s got a lot of songs. #glastonbury

Come on BBC, wake up. I know that the stages at Glastonbury have started but there is nothing live on TV. #glastonbury

Well the kids at Glastonbury absolutely love Pink Pantheress.

I'm on Gracie Abrams on the Other Stage and it's a pretty good set. #Glastonbury

Lewis Capaldi walking out at #glastonbury is such a joyous moment.

In my new novel, THE ART OF A LIE, Hannah Cole is struggling to run her confectionery shop in 18th C London after her husband's murder, and she believes an Italian delicacy called 'iced cream' might be the answer to her problems. So yesterday I made ice cream the Georgian way!🍦A thread...

BBC 6 Music rubbing it in that I am, once again, not at Glastonbury. One day I wll make it back. In the meantime at least I can watch it all.