Love Melbourne. Hoping to go next year again.

Meghan is a guest judge but must be later in the series if it's already started showing.

Tzatziki Athens

Loved last night's Athens tzatziki

View of Acropolis Athens

Sitting here at the hotel looking up at the Acropolis on a sunny Athens afternoon. Now have to find a bar to watch Liverpool.... maybe just stay here!!

@simoncalder.bsky.social it was odd coming into Athens on Wednesday. Some UK had to do fingerprints. Mine was swiped, I've been to Schengen with prints and photo so passport given straight back. Glad to see moved to no checks!!

🧪 We have a major new report out today with @wellcometrust.bsky.social on trust in science. While we find that the UK has so far avoided the polarisation of science we see elsewhere and science is a source of optimism. There are signs the public’s trust is becoming lukewarm & conditional.

Tice vs Neidle

I know who my money is on

Germany just activated its largest ever solar installation — one farm, 1.5 million homes, zero carbon. The #CottbusSolarPark covers 3,500 hectares and produces 2.1 tw-hours annually, replacing two coal plants that operated on this same land until 2022. #SolarPower #ActOnClimate #Renewables

If anyone needs more reason to visit Sussex and admire its beauty…

If you step back, it is truly extraordinary that so many people went to such great lengths and broke so many conventions and risked their political careers and the only outcome of all these efforts and risks was appointing a washed-up old spinner to an ambassadorial post

Why is it, when it was Starmer who made the decision to appoint Mandelson, that everyone else is having to resign?

For Mandelson to have failed developed vetting and for the PM not to be told, is itself absolutely extraordinary. Both the PM and the King should have been informed - and of course the appointment should never have been made. Just staggering.

New NHS stats for England, via the Health Foundation: ‘The waiting list for routine hospital treatment fell to 7.22 million in February, the lowest in over 3 years, with a further improvement in waiting times and the number of very long waits."

NEW Mistaken release of jailed asylum seeker Hadush Kebatu was partly caused by confusion over 3 letters: 'ERS', says Dame Lynne Owens review.
ERS stands for 'Early removal scheme', under which Kebatu was being deported AND 'Early release scheme', which did not apply to him...

One of the big problems the current opposition has is that everyone involved in it suffered head injuries that leave them unable to remember any events between 2010 and 2024.

The documentary series has been extended for three further series. Promotion this year, relegation next season including sacking "series regular" Phil Parkinson. Losing in playoff final then promotion? And then leave it there.

"Events have refuted every Eurosceptic myth. Britain has trudged long enough through the bog of Johnson’s lies, against the headwinds of false Faragist promises. The strategic, economic and political facts are now dynamically aligned for a change of course." /3

Just arrived at my hotel in Athens. I came straight through passport control. The machines are at the customs desk but because I've been through Schengen recently then passport was just read and passed back to me. It really was quick and efficient.

💔 #JFT97 💔

Latest news from the C**t Adminstration.

If Trump can’t tell the difference between Jesus and a doctor, we really need to see those cognitive tests he keeps “aceing.”

Every reference to 'welfare' ever should have 'including pensions' or 'excluding pensions' in parentheses next to the word.

All interviewers/articles should clarify at first use whether the word includes or excludes. Interviews should be stopped if unclear.

Because frankly it's getting tedious.

He's at the wheel

More than a fifth of UK’s ‘austerity children’ scarred by poverty, study says Researchers say hardship is a direct legacy of welfare benefit cuts imposed by Tory governments in recent years

More than a fifth of all “austerity generation” UK children scarred by poverty.

Children bear the human cost of refusal to tax corporations and super rich.

Tories want to reimpose the two child benefit cap to fund defence. Reform want to do the same to cut price of a pint of beer.

I once accidentally posted an image of myself as Jesus Christ instead of a Red Cross doctor.

Good grief

He's bringing Epstein back to life???

Another War Doctor?!

I really want Kemi Badenoch to lead a Tory general election campaign.
Seeing her deal with a country that is very different to her hermetically sealed X bubble would be TV Gold.