Happy Friday!

Ministers face calls to explain delay in closing schools over concrete crisis. In the very early 90’s, at 6th form college, we had to have lessons in portacabins, they were not in great shape and I remember one had a massive hole in the back of it. So large that there were always less people at the end of the lessons than at the beginning of it, as the less interested would just disappear out of the back of the portacabin. In 1997, one of the reasons that the Tory’s lost was the absolute state of public buildings, schools and hospitals were falling apart. Here we are at the end of 13 years of Tory government and public buildings are in a bad way again. Yes there was a Labour gov in between that last Tory government and the absolute shower of chaos that’s been in charge since 2010. I’d like to remind you that Michael Gove shut down the school building fund in 2010.

Greek temple-style house rescued from two centuries of Northumberland damp. I love Belsay, I need to go and visit again.

‘Oh my God’: live worm found in Australian woman’s brain in world-first discovery. Oh my god, that’s horrifying…

Ex-Tory MP threatens to sue Cambridge University over slavery research. It’s interesting to me that the MP in question feels so threatened by the truth about her ancestors. I don’t know how I would react, although I’m pretty sure that my ancestors didn’t do anything of the sort (too poor).

Cleverly’s humiliating China visit was the perfect symbol of isolated, ill-led ‘global Britain’ James Cleverly is the most misnamed man in politics right now. He’s also (typically of his peers) completely unable to see that the world is not as he would wish it, it’s a special talent of this crop of Tories that they seem to think things are so because they wish it was so. And this is why and how we got in the current state.

Trinny Woodall: ‘I didn’t stop caring when I turned 50 – I stopped worrying’ It is terrible that the thing that stood out for me was that she sold £60,000 worth of clothes? I don’t think I have £600 of clothing in my possession…