Nightmare for a friend of mine. Please share.

Manchester and Warrington would like a word.

The NHS is a mess. Spent today with my sister in law at York. If people communicated properly or she was able to speak with her gp today she wouldn’t have needed to re-attend urgent care.

This is Lucy Stemp from Tonbridge in Kent. She is missing in Paris. No one has heard from her in a week. Her family are desperate to locate her. The police and interpol are involved. Please share. @pinkladies_uk

Can any of you lovely people who are in the Cornwall area please look out for this little dog. My friends are on holiday and he's run off Please retweet and see if we can get him home

That’s the prem rugby season over for us. Thank god!

First time making cinnamon rolls. Not a bad effort. Needs more cinnamon next time. Dough was delicious though. #baking

Dartmoor’s Hill Ponies face extinction. They need YOUR help now. - Sign the Petition! c.org/Trk2dVJQdG via @UKChange

@WrenKitchens do NOT use @WrenKitchens, they are incompetents, liars & crooks. I've had my installation date put back 4X now & they STILL have failed to complete. Items are STILL missing, & I've no idea when this job will end. I want a full refund from you lying bastards.

When did train etiquette go out of the window? Just let people off the train first you stupid fools. Especially those of us carting bags with us. I will hit you and I’m not sorry. MOVE.

Further to Blair. Literally every honest sensible person in all the main parties privately agrees with all these propositions: - welfare spending is too high and is throwing good people on the scrapheap - defence spending is too low - the triple lock is unsustainable - without cheap energy we cannot exploit the AI revolution - we should be investing in EVERY form of energy: renewables, nuclear and the North Sea - migration needs to be controlled to boost social cohesion and because the boats look like a huge failure of the state - any new relationship with the EU will be imposed on us until we are stronger and cannot involve the closeness some desire without freedom of movement - we are deeply embedded with America in ways which the public does not understand and cannot be told and however joyous it makes us feel to hate Trump, disengagement at the deep state level is not only wholly unrealistic but also undesirable - Whitehall needs a total overhaul so specific project expertise and political appointees can be brought in quickly Blair basically says all that. The one thing he doesn’t say and which the same group of people agree on is this and it’s something Blair left behind: - judges and quangos have too much power, are unaccountable and without redressing the balance in favour of parliament it is very difficult to do anything big fast - the bare minimum that needs to change in this regard is to reform judicial review and planning law so we can put building and economic growth ahead of newts and NIMBYs None of that above really ought to be up for discussion. It is all common sense but not one of our politicians will publicly say all of it Whatever you think of Blair, engage with what he’s saying not how he makes you feel. The bare minimum we should expect from any leader is that they have an analysis of the current situation and a plan to deal with it which is as coherent and realistic as his intervention. Pretty well every critique I’ve read so far has failed to meet this requirement. Over to Andy and Keir and Kemi and Nigel and Zack and all the others

A farmer dies in April 2026. His son inherits the farm. The farm has been in the family since 1847. The farm consists of: 300 acres of grazing pasture, a farmhouse built in 1892, a barn, a milking parlour, two tractors of varying ages, a Land Rover that runs about 70% of the time, and a herd of 180 Hereford-cross cattle. On paper, the farm is worth approximately £3.2 million. This is because land near him has been bought recently by a London hedge fund looking for carbon credits, which has dragged the comparable value of every field within forty miles upward to a number nobody local can justify. In cash, the farm produces a profit of about £28,000 a year in a good year. In a bad year it loses money. The son also works as a fencing contractor three days a week to keep the operation viable. The inheritance tax bill on a £3.2 million estate, even at the reduced 20% rate, comes to approximately £140,000 after the increased threshold is applied. The son does not have £140,000. The son has never had £140,000. The son has £4,200 in his current account and an overdraft. The son sells 60 acres to a developer to pay the tax. The developer puts solar panels on the 60 acres. The remaining herd cannot be sustained on the reduced land. The herd is sold. The barn becomes a holiday let. A different family eats Brazilian beef this Christmas without knowing why the price went up. The Treasury collects £140,000. The land never produces British food again.

I’ve been writing about Andy Burnham in Manchester for a while. We’ve had a few run-ins but I think he has qualities that many people don’t appreciate and weaknesses that spell trouble. I wrote this for @ManchesterMill - I hope it’s insightful and fair. manchestermill.co.uk/stop-lo…

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Manchester airport an absolute shambles again this morning. It pains me it’s so bad. What happened to my local airport?

If you live in or near NYC and have ever wanted to foster a dog, now is your moment. Hearts & Bones is desperate for 6 more volunteers to step up for this week's transport from Texas. There's also a takeover opportunity for the most amazing dog I met at last week's event.

Two adverts by the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) promoting British beef and milk have been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) after television presenter and environmental campaigner Chris Packham complained that they misled consumers about the products’ carbon footprints. Here are the adverts. Support British farmers. Buy British milk and British Beef. 🇬🇧 🥛🥩