Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)

I do the NYT sudoku puzzles every day. Just did one on paper and twice I tapped on a number to try and highlight it 🤦‍♀️

"There is no shame in being ignorant, but to remain so requires a great deal of effort."

10yo has started putting his summer day trip demands in, but they're all places we went to years ago and decoding where he means is serious mental gymnastics. Yesterday he got upset at bedtime because he wanted to go to "the place we went to instead of Brimham Rocks." 🤷‍♀️

Took 10yo swimming this afternoon. Why is just being in water so tiring? All he wanted to do was splash about and now I'm struggling to stay awake.

Just explained Count Binface to 14yo. We really do live in a weird country.

2pm, a berobed Farage emerges from the dry ice, peering into the scrying glass he grasps before him as he intones, ‘What doth the future in public life hold for me, o dark lord, o worm i’ the night…’

Heat waves. Thanks to @climateadam.bsky.social's most recent video, which helped inform this comic and gave me the kick I needed to make it.

I would kill or die for Larry

Anyone else having issues with images not loading on here? I've tried clearing my cache and force stopping the app and have now exhausted my technical expertise.

Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

Can we just stop with this? Most of us eat packed lunches and avoid putting the heating on, that alone won't allow you to give up work at 40. I wish the media would stop the narrative that we're all frittering our cash away and could just try harder. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I have to say, it's making me feel a little insane hearing commentators say Ed Miliband shouldn't be chancellor because of his "ideological zeal" for Net Zero, in a week where temperatures are so extreme that my kids are being sent home early every day and it's regularly 30 degrees inside my house

Hang in there guys. One more day and we'll get to temperatures I would usually dread but by comparison will be ok.

Ah thunderstorms. That's better. For now.

want to see a magic trick

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

Fair play to BBC for changing the schedule for a special news report on the European heatwave. Taking it as seriously it should be taken.

"I have been physically, the most attacked & endangered politician in Britain for now well over a decade". Two MPs have literally been killed in the past decade Nigel. I imagine Sally Nugent didn't mention that because she's got the basic decency not to try & capitalise on horrific murders.

Exactly 10 years since the Brexit vote, the verdict is in.

Listening to the beautiful sound of church bells wafting up the hill and thinking about the guy who periodically goes on the local Facebook group to complain about the noise 😂

nobody in British politics seems to want to say it but the single biggest driver of their inability to keep a prime minister for any length of time is that Brexit was stupid and ruinous and made everyone’s lives worse

It's almost exactly 10 years since David Cameron announced his intention to resign. We've had 5 PMs since then. Call me crazy but I would rather have a consistent PM who just listens to people and is willing to shift positions for the benefit of society.

Got a stressful week ahead which is going to be just lovely in a heatwave.

In 1908 the Lancet called for an 18+ age limit on reading in bed for U.K. children.

Oh heck. How am I going to break it to the kids that the government is taking their beloved YouTube away? I hope it doesn't include YouTube Kids, 10yo genuinely learns loads from that (in between the dreadful prank/trick shot videos).

You can’t do this - assume ill intent and social damage springs from uncontrolled tech - and also push AI.

Wild daisies. Are more interesting than football.

Who decided to time the end of the school day to coincide with the mid-afternoon slump? I've got to leave in 5 minutes and I'm here fighting to keep my eyes open.

Yorkshire, indeed the world, has lost some of its colour today. Garrowby Hill, a Yorkshire landscape by David Hockney, 1998. So long, David.

I'm not Catholic but I really like this pope. It's great to see a Christian leader preaching this message, which is far more consistent with the gospel than most of the 'Christian' posturing we're seeing from right wing politicians.

This planet is just ridiculous www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Really interesting how the same people who said you can't blame all white people for slavery suddenly want to blame any particular crime on every immigrant. "Individualism for me, collective guilt for thee."

So Russell T Davies decided to bring Billie Piper back as The Doctor with no explanation (other than his conviction that everyone just wants to keep reliving the Tennant years) and now is running off and leaving someone else to figure it out?

Famous authors asking you out

This is a lovely story! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sat in a bar for the next 2.5 hours while 14yo plays D&D. I brought my crochet but not my hook 🤦‍♀️ been doodling aimlessly but I'm not an artist and am running out of ideas. Any suggestions?

An autistic woman is reportedly devastated after discovering that her doctor was right and that exercising is genuinely really good for you.

Whooooo lives in a house but can climb up a tree? (Grace-Pop Meow-Pants) Adorable, lengthy and noisy is she! (Grace-Pop Meow-Pants) If peace from her meowing be something you wish (Grace-Pop Meow-Pants) Then give her some fusses and feed her some fish! (Grace-Pop Meow-Pants!)

I'd forgotten this. Oh my.

Some huge scientific news announced in my house this morning.

Now I'm no expert but it seems a lot less effort to save earth than to colonise Mars.

I read Persepolis just a couple of months ago and I'm so sad this is how her story ends.

ME: “I don’t want to just work to exist, but I also don’t want to exist just to work. Wish I had another way.” MY CAT: “What if I told you that someone else could pay for everything while you nap in sunbeams?”

Only bollards can deliver this much happiness. #WorldBollardAssociation

Over half term 14yo has been getting up between 6.30 and 7.30 every day. Today, when we have an appointment at 9.30, they're still in bed.

Fantastic church service this morning hearing from two asylum seekers. They were both slightly younger than me but I felt like a child compared to what they've lived through.

Well isn't this just lovely. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...