‘Pick up a guitar and not a knife.’ Quote of the day from the Oasis documentary.

Is anyone else irritated by Floella’s Benjamin’s saintly goodness. Dear me.

Marcus Stewart has MND. What a lovely man! An absolute hero. Incidentally, he was also a great striker.

Putin and humanitarianism are polar opposites.

The Reform Party may wish to join Europe as it’s all of a right wing persuasion.

I filled my car up the other day and immediately doubled its value!

Children need confidence to hold their own in all kinds of situations. Building oral confidence, the ability to speak in public, the ability to articulate, to argue, and to discuss is crucial. Performing arts help youngsters to support one another and give confidence when needed.

Katie Zachariah, Trump’s press Secretary, is even more outrageous than her boss. She claims that eight out of ten women suffered miscarriages after the Covid vaccine and that the abortion pill, Mifepristone, has the same chemicals as were used in the Nazi extermination camps.

So Trump used footage of the young man in the tiger enclosure and said, ‘Don’t mess with nature.’ If ever you wanted a measure of the man, this is it. Thoughtless, heartless and totally lacking in humanity. He is a mess of nature, an abhorrence!

How can screens, as in interactive whiteboards, destroy oral skills when much of what is on the screens is designed to instigate thought, analysis and discussion?

‘Mother’s Pride’ - possibly the most cliched, predictable film I’ve ever seen. The script was pedestrian, the acting at best average, BUT I loved the it. Warm, sentimental, old-fashioned but a huge feel good factor that makes up for all of its flaws. Watch it!

Like a bird on a wire. Like a drunk in a midnight choir. I have tried in my way to be free.🍷🎵

Seaburn beach in all of its glory this morning.

To live stream an execution takes the USA to a new level of barbarism.

Zak Polanski’s car crash of an interview on radio 4’s Today programme will lead to him losing his position with the Green Party.

That must be one of the few ‘Pep’ talks that won’t work. Sorry, Mr Guardiola.

Please explain. Lisa Nandy says that Music, Dance and Drama are back in the heart of the curriculum. Are they? Where? How? They should be!

I’m minded of Neil Kinnock’s speech to conference many moons ago. Who is Andy Burnham’s mentor? You guessed it - Neil Kinnock.

The best PM’s speech to conference I have ever heard.

What an absolutely brilliant speech from Andy Burnham. Superb.