Happy Friday!

This week a commentator on the radio said that the Government risked coming across as entitled and petty, I was surprised that they didn’t think they were already coming across as entitled and petty. The truth is the Tories think they were born to rule and they hate to be questioned, which is a problem because the country is falling apart. There’s nothing left to sell off, even the schools that aren’t literally falling apart are on their knees, councils are in trouble so services are falling apart not just social care, healthcare has been in crisis for so long I’m not sure it can still be called a crisis anymore, even air traffic control doesn’t work. We’re not quite a failed state but the things we used to rely can’t be relied on anymore. Things don’t quite work.

Some of that is Brexit, most of it is government not able to govern and please don’t get me started on Gillian ‘doing a good job’ Keegan, the absolute state of it!!

Here are this week’s links….

Inquiries launched after terror suspect Daniel Khalife’s prison escape. Of course it was Wandsworth, I don’t think anything good comes out of Wandsworth especially not since Youngs Brewery moved out to Bedford.

Amid prison break and collapsing schools, Tory backbenchers pray for the torture to end

Councils, sewage, school buildings: Britain has neglected the dull but vital stuff – and is paying a heavy price

Ultra-processed foods: the 19 things everyone needs to know. Things to think about, I maybe need to give up my root beer habit!

Councils going bust, schools crumbling, the NHS in crisis: the answer is more tax

Labour, we know how terrible the Tories are. What we need from you is hope for the future.

A different kind of pothead: the Le Creuset cookware supercollectors. I like Le Creuset but this seems a little extreme. (for the record I own no Le Creuset, I have two Lidl ‘Le Creuset-likes’ that I bought for the new kitchen!)

I have created a monster. Can nothing save me from the tomato plant from hell? The ‘joy’ of growing stuff!