After thirteen years of Tory rule, an unprecedented number of people are sleeping in tents. The Tory response is to ban tents.

We could get angry at Suella’s latest piece of performative, pandering cruelty or… instead: let’s promote the excellent work done by Shelter, Centrepoint, The Passage Charity and other fine charities actually trying to help homeless people, especially now, as winter approaches.

Homelessness could be the perfect ‘lifestyle choice’ for Suella Braverman | John Crace theguardian.com/politics/2023/…

Who are these people who want to ruin the anniversary of when a war ended, by wanting to end a war? Have they no respect?

🎵 Here’s tonight’s final Midnight Mixtape playlist from Weeknights. Theme was ‘From Jamaica To Birmingham’, in tribute to Benjamin Zephaniah, who sadly passed away today. Thanks so much your thoughtful, wonderful suggestions. I think the final result is pretty special. ❤️📻

Absolutely superb speech from Chris Bryant who takes just 4 minutes to completely demolish the #RwandaBill 👏

Chris Bryant, "What's worse? Losing your WhatsApp messages as a tech bro, losing £11.8 billion to fraud as Chancellor, presiding over the biggest fall in living standards in our history, or desperately clinging onto power when you become even more unpopular than Boris Johnson?"

Ian Dunt It makes me feel like I'm losing my mind. This whole media ecosystem now dutifully interpreting the legal ramifications, the political nuances. Why? For what? Whether it passes or doesn't, whether eight people end up going to Rwanda or not. It's ersatz governance. It's horseshit.

This is not normal.

Three years ago, Bath Publishing were the only people who would take on the legal and financial risk of publishing a book about The Great Post Office Scandal. Now they're being interviewed by the BBC. David, Helen and Hannah have been wonderful. I wish them every success.

Russian embassy, London

#CeasefireNOW 🇵🇸

But David. Surely with all that extra NHS money that Brexit was going to deliver (remember the bus) you should be proud of it all. Not to mention the amazing deal you helped BJ get. You incompetent charlatan. How you have the nerve to pontificate about anything is beyond me.

Dear Mr Sunak, On behalf of pretty much every doctor in the land, pretty much every person on a waiting list in the land, pretty much every sick person in the land, and increasingly most voters in the land...

Sam Freedman ‘The hole to dig us out’ - what does that even mean? This is the work of an ex government minister and ‘qualified’ barrister with the assistance of a national newspaper sub-editor. God help us.

What has the ECHR ever done for us? Quite a lot actually, and we wrote it too.

Election Special 4: The Conservatives.

Just because you’re loud doesn’t mean you’re popular. The thugs on Britain’s streets last night tried to shriek and bully us into thinking they had a majority on their side, when the only thing they had on their side was bricks. The rest was noise. They’re a tiny fraction of a

DIONNE WARWICK • WALK ON BY • PARIS, 1964 youtu.be/7NHFidD6IYo?si… Morning Eiffel Tower Friends, Written by Burt Bacharach & Hal David . So great & Dionne voices is magic -Edwyn, PS Off too bed, in the Highland of Scotland, on the east coast called Helmsdale by the sea