Happy Friday!

Yes, there is football, England are in the final of the Euros for the first time ever. I’m excited but Italy are not pushovers.

If we talk about what we want our country to be and the type of people we want to represent it, we can start here. It Was All a Dream

If people want to write about my mum’s bathroom in her house, all I have to tell you is that 15 years ago, we were cleaning toilets in Stonebridge and getting breakfast out of the vending machine. If anybody deserves to be happy, it’s my mum. She came to this country with nothing and put herself through school cleaning bathrooms and changing bed sheets, and now she’s the director of a nursing home.

And her son plays for England.

‘Living with the virus’ makes no sense. Only half of the UK is fully vaccinated. Herd immunity is not for unvaccinated populations, herd immunity needs 85% of the population to be vaccinated. Current conditions are asking for more mutations.

Boris Johnson cries ‘freedom’ to fill the void where his leadership should be. And now “It’s coming home”

A Battle Between a Great City and a Great Lake. This is fascinating and quite scary…