It was ludicrous but also magnificent: the coronation stirred every emotion theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/m…

The rich have forgotten to be afraid of the poor.

Boris Johnson likens Ukrainians’ fight to British people voting for Brexit. I can still remember the enthusiasm of Putin and Trump after the referendum. Boris, your words offend Ukrainians, the British and common sense.

An opera choir in Odessa sing ‘Va, pensiero’ (Choir of the Hebrew Slaves) from Nabucco, as the city braces for a Russian attack.

I don’t want Johnson to go because of a party. I want him to go because he is an idle, unprincipled and incompetent liar with no vision, statesmanship or sense of duty who has hugely damaged the future and reputation of this country.

I’m no statistician, but could the relative slowdown in the number of those tested +ve for Covid be because you can’t get a LTF test for love nor money.

#ThePartyIsOver be careful what we wish for…interim PM would be his deputy, Diminic Raab

#ThePartyIsOver BJ on R4 PM repeats lie he told Commons that we are the fastest growing economy in the G7. Also that there are more people in work than before pandemic.(500,000 fewer). But hey ho.

We have to hold onto the fact that most of us; left, right or centre, still care about truth.

And in the end, the lies will destroy the liars.

Instead of making offenders wear high viz jackets in chain gangs, how about helping them get a real job instead? In my shops we employ lots of ex offenders and they wear a shirt and tie. Same people, different approach, a much better outcome.

As Sierra Leone's parliament prepares to vote on the abolition of the death penalty tomorrow.

Aminata, a teenager when she was sentenced to death for killing her abusive ex-boyfriend, shares her story: deathpenaltyproject.org/aminatas-story/

#SierraLeone #deathpenalty

As I understand things, in the area where I live and cases are roughly doubling every week, there’s no change until we reach Northern levels of infection. Then we do something.

Covid and exams - but at least they’ll be doing the Brexit trade talks competently, one assumes.

I have disliked Prime Ministers before. There have been some I have not thought to be very good. But never before has there been a Prime Minister for whom I have no respect at all.

I woke up in the small hours with this thought. If this was a real ‘war’, this lot would be running it.

This is funny. And scary.

Right. Tomorrow I’ll work on colour coding the clothes pegs. #theeternityward

Does anyone else remember Asian Flu? The schools were closed, there were 15000 deaths in the U.K. and more than a million worldwide. Don’t see it mentioned anywhere but then it was 1957 and journos and pols aren’t 74 unlike me.

I think I would have remembered the day not so much for discovering Woking as for the fact that it was my daughter’s birthday. #dukeofyork #PizzaExpressWoking