Amazon are partnering with Comic Relief to sell their red noses. Last year Comic Relief raised £34 million which is how much Jeff Bezos makes in six hours. Dig deep everyone.

Do they think people have literally no memory of past events at all?

I hope as Tommy Robinson flees Dubai he settles in the first safe country he arrives in

Boris Johnson has defended the Duke of York after he was criticised for spending time with the paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein after his release from prison "Let me tell you something, I've worked with Prince Andrew, I've seen the good he has been able to do for UK business overseas and other than that I have no comment,"'the prime minister told ITV News. "I have no comment, or indeed no knowledge of this other stuff."

Just like the great crash of 2008, a rock has been lifted to reveal elite corruption dailymail.co.uk BORIS JOHNSON: Like 2008, a rock has been lifted on elite corruption

Boris Johnson on elites:

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Nadhim Zahawi thinks London is now unsafe, because the other day a tired-looking man walked past him during the morning rush hour.

I’m gonna subtweet all over the place

Yes.

So.

WHAT SHALL WE TALK ABOUT?

I think it’s the way the app works - it doesn’t create the connectivity in the same way. And so people don’t respond much. And so people stop posting in the first place.

Churlish Meg
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Who else?

Ha. Yes!

And here we are!

No-one replied to this and that is why I miss Twitter

Please actually start one

I miss Twitter

Ah yes

Read that as Norway

Ha, that’s very kind of you to say so. I took extra care!

To ensure that young people - and, if you think about it, all trustees - have the conditions they need to really say what they think and feel.

And even then, that there might be better ways to get those voices heard and their desires realised.

And (**this is where the second asterisks come in, because I obviously don't 100% think we need to stop putting young people on boards) if we're serious about doing it well then we need to radically rethink the way boards, and board meetings (and maybe charity governance overall) works.

I talked about how a young trustee without the conditions to express themselves is, at best, a box ticking exercise, a token. And how if we pretend that they were active in decision-making it just becomes misrepresentation.

And maybe even exploitation.

I talked about how without those, young people on boards get shut down/sidelined, and end up either withdrawing or affirming everything the adults say.

(this looks like young people's theatre in which young people pretend to be adults, rather than expressing themselves for who they are now.)

I talked about the essential conditions for human self-determination - the things we really need to feel confident to express ourselves and speak up, and how hard it is to find them in traditional board meetings (especially if you're young).

I was asked to be a bit provocative, so I talked about why we need to stop putting young people on boards.

* Here's where the asterisks come in. By young people I mean teenagers, especially those under 18, not 20-30 year olds, though some of the thinking might be relevant to them too.

Today I did a presentation for 50 relationship managers at the Arts Council about that often overused and misunderstood phrase, 'youth voice'.

(I figured they probably spent too much of their time looking at powerpoint presentations, so I did my slides in felt tip pen instead.)

I was talking to my hairdresser about The Sopranos today. He hasn’t seen it so I asked him do you know what the premise is and then we had a long conversation about a drama series that doesn’t exist called The Premise because it was too awkward to tell him that he’d misunderstood.

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

There needs to be a word for the long deep sleep that terminates a snotty cold once and for all.

Here's Farage saying that he would 'pick up a rifle' - www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.