.Today clergy have been giving evidence to MPs about the claim that asylum seekers are being baptised to bolster their application. One cleric asserted that was happening nobody else agreed with him. Guess which opinion the BBC has highlighted on every news bulletin.

Perhaps it's time to become one of those resigned elders you see in disaster movies, living off-grind in a cabin in a remote wood with an unreliable wireless radio, surrounded by books, spending the last days of civilization getting pissed and listening to Mozart and Pink Floyd.

The poor are being hit, the city and schools closed, businesses hit, children and the elderly suffering heat exhaustion. Thousands of people have died across India.

In Dhaka the temperature of 42 degrees was 5 degrees above seasonal normal. Here in Orissa, east India, it’s 44.6 degrees, 6.8 above normal. This is not just El Niño. It’s a global crisis of appalling political and financial neglect.

Don't vote for anyone you wouldn't trust with your dog.

I think we sometimes forget about the torrent of hate and lies poured out against immigrants from the EU and elsewhere poured out by the tax-dodging Brexit billionaire press during the Brexit debate.

It wasn't news. It wasn't comment. It was pure fascist hate propaganda. Had it…

Young women sitting down in protest. Unbelievable.

We fucking hate you

I'm of the 'never, ever pass up the opportunity of a great sandwich' school of thought.

Shoutout to Katsouris in Manchester, purveyors of some of the sublimest examples known to man.

#enjoyeverysandwich

Got news for ya - they're at it again

Really good, detailed reporting on what Brexit means in practice for food imports from the EU.

Nicely summed up by: “'Now we’re back to the mid-70s,' said Christian Pedersen, head of operations for the route at Danish shipping firm DFDS, referring to the new Brexit checks.'

Lol. I was at Cardiff University in the late 80s. During my time there I protested against the apartheid regime in South Africa, violence against women, the nuclear arms race and the introduction of student loans. Apparently this was all due to ‘indoctrination’

Police are looking for an overweight man with a dishevelled appearance and a tendency to outbursts in ancient Greek. He is likely to be staying at somebody’s expense.

Every so often I buy sweet potatoes, telling myself I'll do something tasty with them. Inevitably, I don't. Or I just make soup. They're vegetables I feel I *should* like - or maybe I just haven't found that receipe that is THE ONE.

Any ideas, tweeps?

The most important news anywhere - as reported nowhere.

This is, by far, one of the most spectacular things I've ever seen. So magnificent!!

I pray the world keeps saving the whales.🐳🙏