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Grant Shapps is playing a blinder! Dealing with every question clearly and concisely, not lying too much about the police, or contradicting himself and the PM, very little muttering about the A66 - three fantastic media performances on the trot. #statesmanlike

So we have her detailed account of their time in London with the child, no mention of babysitters or their virus-riddled record-breaking no-refuelling or toilet-stop-for-a-four-year-old drive to Durham. A trip not mentioned even though they claim it was okay, when the government instruction was to not leave home for any reason..... The sister and niece arrived late to the party when the parents-angle didn't wash, now we hear of family in London who could have helped, as well as people like Sainsbury's, as the main issue was for shopping to be left at the door of some farm building in a plague town. Add in Durham police not speaking to his family and this is starting to become the sort of version of events that senior cabinet ministers might want to distance themselves from. At the moment they're standing shoulder-to-shoulder with him, sticking two fingers up in the face of isolated voters, ignoring the health secretary, medical advisors and the PM's own words, and calling the police liars. Not a good look.

His story has already changed, it has the potential to unravel. As for the Bot Farm launching Kinnock stories to distract, they miscalculated and released so many tweets that Cummings didn't even trend. It's gone all Thick of It.

During full lockdown a man who had the virus, who was too ill to care for his own child, but well enough to make a 500-mile round trip, a journey now claimed as above board but mysteriously written out of his wife's detailed account of their week, perhaps because it clearly breached all guidelines and contradicted the PM's own concise instructions?.... No sane person can defend that.

Boris is playing a blinder! He managed to swap a few ****s for taxpayer cash, then batted away the inquiry with a couple of honours, leaving his staff to face the music. He's not bothered by Starmer, plucky Boris has passed every test! Both of them, or is that four? Could be twelfty-five-three if Patel announces it - let's call it 100,000 x 2, he can post the rest.

The Coogan attack is an attempt to distract simple folk away from the big story of the day, the enquiry around the conduct of the Prime Minister. A simple Cummings tactic, and it seems to work. To knock Johnson enquiry down the search rankings you can also expect to hear Covid 19 announcements using the word enquiry, nothing reduces damage like confusion....and the bots will be out. Welcome to politics in 2020.

Nothing has made me chuckle more today than reading the phrase, Liz Truss has played a blinder. Thank-you for that, comedy gold. Some may have different opinions, but the ability to make strangers laugh out loud is a precious gift that unites humanity.

Not sure I believe either of them! Had Reed made up the story about a transfer request, Jose just had to deny it. Reed would have looked a right tit.

Ancient history. He was great for us, a key part of a wonderful era, and his career died the day he left.

62 days after I developed those symptoms. Thankfully Dr Google made the link at the time as he'd been listening to advice from abroad.

Michael Gove just guaranteed the safety of teachers - you have to admire his bravery. He also praised the brilliant job Matt Hancock has done on PPE, care homes and testing. Which is an interesting new way to view facts.

So their plan is to end the season for most of the division because they can't guarantee players' safety, but set up some self-isolated masked-up mini-league, slightly extended beyond the current play-off system - a pioneering virus-friendly format change which coincidentally would be the only method by which pompey would still be in contention to go up? It's understandable that when the European Championships and the Olympics have been postponed, League One must go on, whatever the risk to public health.

It does seem that one point would have changed everything. Unlucky. At least they've had the humiliating local derby 4-0 home disaster wiped, as I keep getting told by dentally-challenged simple folk. Unless of course that competition had already completed, which would be doubly unlucky.....

My first ever gig, at the Gaumont in 79. A proper band. thanks Dave.

So posting something is now a completed test?

73,191 people tested. The insulting bit is that they think we are all so gullible we'll gobble down anything we're fed.

Great site. Massive amount of work I would imagine. Well done.

Only 14,000 people were tested yesterday.

They thought they could get away with pretending they promised capacity but now they've been reminded of the original pledge, it'll be difficult. If Cummings does deliver 100,000 tests out of the blue I'd be curious to see the detail. It was just another promise made to satisfy the easily-led. Ditto the PPE debacle and all the financial support for small businesses that doesn't stack up. It's easy to stand behind a lectern and read out cliches and promises, but delivering on the detail requires talent. And integrity. And organisation.

While this is an incredibly difficult crisis to manage with many factors to balance, we can't even organise a basic delivery of PPE from A to B. Hancock is so far out of his depth he's nearer to France than the UK, Patel is dangerously incoherent, Raab has no answer to any question, Boris doesn't understand basic medical advice, and when you get into the detail of the Chancellor's grand rescue plan for the economy, it amounts to a small tin of beans. This is not a team performing well. And if you still believe the nonesense we are drip-fed everyday, that we lead the world in everything - see New Zealand or Germany.

Putting him up there in front of a small stand-up audience and letting him vocalise every crazy thought is just wrong. It's getting to feel cruel now, like paying half a crown for a family day of merriment at the asylum. The poor man should be allowed some dignity - at the moment he has none, and every time he opens his mouth something ludicrous spills out.

Well done, they could probably do with a rinse pretty soon.

The old bus station - I was on a bus and a wino was sat on the kerb opposite having just been sick on the double yellow lines. Just as we pulled away he started picking through the puke and triumphantly located his false teeth. One of those moments that remains with you forty years on.

Subway Records.