Me: I have asked you to hang up the washing *three* times. Daughter: Yes, but you aren't reading this book so you don't understand

£5k COMPETITION BET 15.15 BURANO MURANO 17.45 SILVER WRAITH If these two win, we’ll pay out £5000 to a newsletter reader tomorrow. Like & retweet (and be a subscriber obvs) to win. Equinties.com

The wife and I recently got the squits whilst at Center Parcs. We soon ran out of underwear and were left with no choice but to put them in the dishwasher - worked wonders, would definitely recommend.

Went to Alton Towers, while on Nemesis, my Apple Watch thought I had fallen and called 999. Awkward conversation afterwards with the police.

‘Andrew Tate is an important voice for men.’ Nigel Farage

If Liz truss lives to 96 she will have spent more days at the cenotaph than in Downing Street

NEW - Jonathan Powell, Blair's former chief of staff and architect of the Good Friday Agreement, back in No10 as Starmer's National Security Adviser. Big beefing up of the Downing St operation. Scoop with William Wallis ft.com/content/308792af-7fb7…

Jew hunting in Holland last night. But they’re only “anti-Zionist” right?

Not news = those hugely benefitting from a tax exemption, despite never being the intended beneficiaries, are opposed to reform of that tax exemption

Does Gen Z have it tougher than previous generations? ft.com/content/db076232-b674… via @ft

A Yale review of 29 studies found that 1-27% of kids under 21 develop Long COVID (PASC). Risk factors: asthma, obesity, severe infection. Common symptoms: fatigue, headaches, chest pain. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…

Statistics that shame the world.

There was a vigil for October 7 today in Glasgow - one of the speakers was @blairmcdougall. Unfortunately it was almost impossible for him to be heard as police allowed pro Palestine demonstrators to set up next to the vigil and attempt to drown it out. PLEASE CAN WE HAVE 24 HOURS TO MOURN OUR DEAD.

At today’s anti-Israel march in London, a man was seen with a sign that appeared to declare his “love” for “October”. Also on the sign are the words “long live resistance” alongside an inverted red triangle. In recent months, the inverted red triangle and its emoji variant have been used by some anti-Israel activists to signal support for proscribed terrorist organisations such as Hamas, inspired by the appearance of the symbol in Hamas propaganda videos to indicate targets for attack.

The Taliban are now overturning divorce rulings pre-2021, forcing thousands back into abusive marriages. Women are silenced, stripped of any autonomy, and left in grave danger with no legal recourse. Gender apartheid is accelerating in Afghanistan.

After spending a lot of time this past year looking at school systems in other countries, the UK's obsession with school uniforms seems bizarre to me now. So much time/energy wasted on arbitrary infringements which would be far better served on other things. The idea that anarchy will reign without school uniforms seems to be an article of faith with many UK school leaders but I'm not sure what the evidence is for that. Many countries have no uniform requirements for example United States, Germany, France, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Denmark, Austria and Switzerland. And there is no real evidence that it leads to better academic outcomes either - the top performing country on PISA for example is Estonia which generally does not require school uniforms. There is also a cost-benefit imbalance where the level of resentment that strict policies instil in some kids seems to far outweigh any benefits. A lot of kids are completely turned off school for having a long fringe or hair shaved too short. That's ridiculous. I'm aware of the purported benefits of uniform and there are many strong arguments in favour of them but the opportunity cost just doesn't make sense to me. 🤷‍♂️

When I send a work email to multiple people, I add their email addresses in the order of which of them I hate the least.

Only county cricket does this to people @SomersetCCC

Presumably Robert is furious at whoever was in power for the last 14 years and didn't implement this simple solution in time to stop this day of shame.

Your manifesto in 2017 was to remove it and many of your colleagues were proposing it recently. More faces than the town hall clock