The sub-headline describes him as a “Professional Yorkshireman”! Are Yorkshiremen representatives of the only county in England of which that can be said? Roy Hattersley, Labour deputy leader and writer thetimes.com/article/6168bfa…

Never lets you down! Mike floors that bass pedal at 2.20 Afterglow youtu.be/6SZhGeBoPVQ?is=WmNG… via @YouTube

A whole new set of placement issues for the fielding captain. Putting the deep back in deep extra cover…. instagram.com/reel/DYvfh1Wsm…

My letter to the Prime Minister

Ruby has just woken up from her nap! Looks like it’s time for her second walk of the day. Still sprightly at 15!

Just beautiful. Romancero andalusí I Sephardica (Andalusian Music) youtu.be/c3JBLCyxuLw?is=kufB… via @YouTube

Lord’s pitch is a shocker – they must be radical and dig the square up telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2026…

The best thing to come put of Queensland, period!

Genius at work! This is an outstanding live performance. Want Of A Nail - Todd Rundgren youtu.be/tj6xjbv7lKk?is=IMy7… via @YouTube

They don’t make them like hm anymore. Legendary! Norman Balon, notoriously rude landlord of the Coach and Horses in Soho telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2…

One if his best IMHO! Desmond Dekker & The Aces - It Mek (Official Audio) youtu.be/5JXwN1HrnFY?is=cwh8… via @YouTube

Happy Birthday to the great Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin born on this day in 1799. His statue in Moscow and portrait in the State Tretyakov Gallery.

🚨YouTube just removed 13 years of WWII history. 🚨 Panzerpicture, a channel with 155,000 subscribers, veteran interviews, tank archives, and a Silver Play Button, was permanently banned after being flagged for child-safety violations despite being dedicated to historical content. If this was a mistake, YouTube needs to conduct a thorough human review immediately. Educational and historical archives should not disappear because of potential moderation errors. @YouTube @TeamYouTube please review the Panzerpicture case and provide transparency about the decision. RT if you support human review for historical and educational content. #YouTubeCensorship #SaveWWIIHistory

A Furore That Was Whipped Up. That Is What Alexis Boon Called It. Henry Nowak died in handcuffs on a Southampton street. The Prime Minister said he felt sick watching the body cam footage. The Commons Speaker ordered the government to make a statement. The chief constable of the force responsible described the national outcry as a furore that had been whipped up. Alexis Boon, chief constable of Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary, spoke publicly for the first time today. He apologised for his officers handcuffing and arresting Henry. He said Henry could not be saved. He said his force had been subjected to unfair criticism. He said he does not accept the term two tier policing and does not recognise it. He will not resign. The University of Reading evaluated Hampshire's mandatory Inclusion Matters diversity course, completed by 6,250 officers and staff. The findings were published by the force itself. Nearly twenty percent of officers said they felt they would have been rejected for saying the wrong thing during the training. Nearly fifteen percent said that if they made a mistake it would have been held against them. Fifteen and a half percent felt controlled and pressured to be certain ways. The University noted that individuals who did not respond well to the course may benefit from further intervention, monitoring or coaching. Read that final observation carefully. Officers who retained their own judgment during diversity training were to be monitored, further intervened upon and coached until they responded correctly. The training was not designed to inform. It was designed to condition. Hampshire's own commissioned research documents that conditioning precisely. The Metropolitan Police has gone further. It commissioned HR consultant Shereen Daniels to write a structural review of systemic racism within the force titled 30 Patterns of Harm. The Metropolitan Police described it as a key document in its race action plan. In a section on neutrality Daniels writes that neutrality is not neutral. That it reflects dominant norms, particularly whiteness. That claiming neutrality is claiming distance from bias but that distance is not real. That neutrality is a myth. The Metropolitan Police told its officers they could not be neutral because of their whiteness. Officers trained that neutrality is a myth, that their own whiteness prevents impartiality and that failing to respond well to diversity training would result in monitoring and coaching arrived at the scene where Henry Nowak lay dying. They were not neutral. They had been trained not to be. Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, said policing had been infected by an extremist ideology that calls itself anti-racism but is in fact racist itself because it urges ethnic minorities to be treated more leniently. He said the doctrine is enshrined as official police policy and in his view contributed to officers prioritising the allegation of racism above saving a young man's life. That is the argument Alexis Boon refuses to engage with. He apologised for the handcuffs. He described the outcry as a furore. He said he would not resign. He did not address the Inclusion Matters course whose own evaluation shows officers were afraid to say the wrong thing. He did not address the neutrality document that told his officers their whiteness prevents impartiality. He did not address the training that the University of Reading documented and that his force commissioned. Henry Nowak is not a furore. He is an eighteen year old boy who died in handcuffs on a Southampton street while his killer chose his food in a police kitchen. The furore is the appropriate response to that. The chief constable who cannot see the difference has not understood the question. "Alexis Boon said his force had been subjected to unfair criticism. He said he does not accept the term two tier policing and does not recognise it. He will not resign."

My word that’s some quality schmutte right there!

Rereading this outstanding biography, one of the best I have ever read, about a man who remains one of America’s most brilliant, charismatic and controversial political figures. The model for Willie Stark in Robert Penn Warren’s superb novel All The King’s Men.

Always interesting to hear from Chappelli. As Australian captain he hit 2,550 runs at 50 with 7 centuries and 10 fifties and had a winning ratio of 50% from 30 Tests - W15 L5 D10. youtu.be/tjN7qX-PSRI?is=w_JT…

The groove here is deeper than the Mariana Trench!!! That bass hits like a Mack truck. Insanely funky and one of the greatest tracks Sly and the group ever recorded. youtu.be/tF3TQlgybz0?is=cbbW…

I just love the Hammond organ and this LP always gets a lot of airplay in my house. Harry was a terrific musician and composer and famously led the house band on Michael Parkinson’s BBC chat show as well as writing the theme tune too. youtu.be/bhvfay6TZbo?is=ICUg…

Still one the greatest TV soundtracks of all time! An absolute banger from start to finish. youtu.be/FcjIKLH_TpU?is=D35K…