Been in the oven since before they split up

The thing about Norman Tebbit, who has died at 94, is people could disagree passionately with him on fundamental issues but there was basic civility in the debate. This has largely disappeared from modern politics, a problem made 1,000 times worse by social media. End of an era.

I’ve said it before and I will say it again. The extreme left people on here are every bit as crazy, unpleasant and dim as the extreme right. There is not even a wafer thin piece of tissue paper between them. Extremism is extremism and is deeply ugly in all its incarcerations.

29% pay rise in the last 3 years still not enough? Hard to see how waiting lists will continue to fall now. Yet any talk of using more private provision is heresy. We need to get a bit real about things, soon.

Superb. Decades of sober living. 👏

Good thread. Ultimately, the outcome will be a Reform government. Careful what you wish for!

Reminder that one of the best ways to stop a Reform government is to urgently replace Kemi Badenoch, who is as hopeless as everyone but her cat predicted she’d be.

There's so much new corporate parlance these days that I'm seriously worried if you 'lean in' to something whilst also 'pivoting' to it you might derail your 'level-set' and end up 'circling back' into the 'deep dive' from where you began. Please, in the name of God, stop it.

Nature is healing.

Extraordinary that we had a Prime Minister, sorry I mean lettuce, who said the jury was out on whether France, a NATO ally, was a friend or foe. She looks even sillier today.

Astonishingly boring

I never understand why all these classic car brands are going full chav.

Just paying off the wedding.

The news from Texas worsens by the hour. The most unbearable loss for those poor families. Like gun control after a shooting, it’s never a good time. But at some point we will need to discuss climate denial and also this. It cannot continue, as these events will only intensify.