A reminder that Boris didn't understand Brexit until 2020.

Boris Johnson apparently had no clue what Brexit actually was until 25 September 2020

"Thames Water says without steep bill increase it’s ‘neither financeable nor investible’ Debt-laden company tells Ofwat if it cannot charge customers 59% more, it ‘would prevent company turnaround and recovery’" 59%?! Let it fail, nationalise it cheap. theguardian.com/business/artic…

Arkansas bans nearly all abortions, calling itself a "pro-life" state. It has the nation’s highest maternal mortality rate. One of the highest infant mortality rates. It's one of two states that cut off Medicaid to mothers 60 days after giving birth. How is this "pro-life"?

Just been to my framers - they have done a great job with my portrait of Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 It is heading up to Edinburgh for the Scottish Portrait Award exhibition, which opens on the 5th of September.

Reading the Mail (so you don't have to) is an increasingly surreal experience. They didn't just excuse the depravity & incompetence of Boris Johnson when he was PM, they rewarded him with a lucrative column when he wasn't. Yet their attempts to denigrate Starmer for not much at

Holy fuck Analysing 3yrs years of records, the IFS found the Home Office said it needed £110m a yr for asylum, border, visa & passport ops but ended up spending £2.6 BILLION. Labour aren’t lying. The Tories wasted billions, for what? Trying to be Farage? theguardian.com/politics/artic…

Also note, “closed all offices in Brazil” means in less than a month, without no prior notice, Elon Musk fired all his workers in Brazil, shut down buildings, dumped everyone and anything operating in Brazilian territory. And, as usual, abandoned contracts, left everyone unpaid.

Some good news for those who enjoy a drink at an English pub.

Not sure of your evidence for smokers being disproportionately fun people, Tom, but take it from me as a palliative doctor, they most certainly end up disproportionately dead - killed by the companies who grow so fat and rich from the deaths they cause.

My favourite discovery ever has just come online. Can I please tell you about some seriously wacky molecular biology? The story starts with a reverse transcriptase that SOMEHOW defends bacteria from viruses. (👇 I recommend sound ON for the video 🎹) 1/

The dark heart of this catastrophe lies in this simple, depressing narrative: the state stepped back, corporate greed stepped in and innocent people died. Bit by me for The Guardian: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

the idea of 9,000 millionaires leaving Britain sounds dramatic until you remember there are 2,849,000 millionaires in this country it’s literally a rounding error given the ebb and flow of migration

The botched Brexit deal we have is the fault of Boris Johnson. That's it. Good on Marc in Norfolk for pointing that out in The Times and The Sunday Times.

Hey look Tom Tugendhat you get a special mention in Private Eye Magazine Do you see how this works yet? You won’t be ever be taken seriously (by an audience wider than the Tory membership) if you propose unserious things.

Just one of the Brexit lies that 17million muppets voted for. Brexit was wholly based on lies. Brexit must be reversed.

BREAKING: In a stunning moment, JD Vance just said if immigration was the path to prosperity, America would be the wealthiest country in the world. All economic stats do show America being the most prosperous nation. Retweet so all Americans see this.

Holy sh*t, never realized how much Freebird needed bagpipes

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD Thank you, my friend! An excerpt from my book:

From this week's Private Eye: Nigel Farage has still reportedly not set up a constituency office. ~AA