It’s been another really depressing news week. A 15 year old got stabbed (boys are afraid girls will reject them, girls are afraid boys will kill them), Suella Braverman thinks all refugees and immigrants liars and criminals, which given that both of her parents are immigrants says something and none of it good. Rishi Sunak is going to abolish inheritance tax and not finish HS2 and we’re opening a new oil field because apparently what the world needs now is more carbon. Modern life is indeed rubbish…
Here are some links
Are you single or in a ‘hard-working family’? Your answer counts for a lot.
Water firms in England and Wales ordered to cut £114m from bills. Thames ordered to repay £101m, as a Thames customer, I’ll believe it when I see it. My bill has never got down, it only ever increases every year.
London apartment block that deviates from plans must be torn down, says council. Nice to see a council exercising it’s authority against a developer for once!
Smirking Suella trashes 70 years of human rights in 30 minutes
Michael Gambon, star of Harry Potter and The Singing Detective, dies aged 82. I did see him on stage and he was great, he also nearly ran me over before the play!
Justice for Neanderthals! What the debate about our long-dead cousins reveals about us
Loose lending and inadequate auditing: central government’s role in the local council disaster
My first time in a float tank: ‘the only part of me I was sure still existed was my head’. I’ve done this once and I came out saying that I ‘felt like a dolphin’. It was great.
‘One size fits nobody’: markers of high-quality clothing are getting harder to find
The austerity influencers of TikTok: ‘I wanted to share the things I have given up’
‘He swam, hooking my arm with his penis’: inside the dolphin sex scandal that outraged a nation
‘I didn’t want to be Bubbly Bonnie Langford for ever’ – the star relives her career highs and lows. Everytime I see something about Bonnie Langford, it reminds me of my aunt, who used to clean her house
Nic Dempsey 