It may well be that she believes all these things to her core (and is therefore, by extension, as dumb as rocks).

Perhaps I'm being unfair. Perhaps I, as a left-leaning old white man, am robbing Kemi, a right-leaning young black woman & therefore the direct opposite of me on so many measures, of her agency in this whole process.

The incredibly transparent mental calculus which Kemi Badenoch goes through whenever she's asked a question of "What's the most red-meat, right-wing answer I can give?" has the interesting knock-on effect of making her appear as dumb as rocks.

Love this. There's so much to being a parent, but when you boil it all down as far as you can go you're pretty much just left with that final paragraph.

Fucking hell, it's not even September and we're already here. And yes, the Spurs fans are singing the same song.

This has always been the one for me and even now I'll occasionally quote it when the circumstances seem appropriate.

I keep glancing at it on my installed games list as well. There's something about all those worlds and the ability to fly around in your own spaceship that really appeals, even if I got about 5 hours in and just couldn't care less about the story.

I might also say something about dancing, given how few boys I knew at school who would dare to admit to knowing any dance moves Vs the amount of time my youngest and his mates spend discussing the emotes they've unlocked on Fortnite.

Cancer is a cunt and so it Trump. Sad to see Janey's update that she's moving into a hospice and into palliative care. What a bloody legend of a woman.

*Turns on Radio2* What's this? A new Manic Street Preachers song? With an anthemic chorus where the music tracks the vocal line? And it sounds like some kind of nondescript, cheapo keyboard? Thanks, I hate it!