Will Rayner

Journo #c4News footie fan @ChelseaFC rock and pop bore.

[Will Rayner @BillyRay65]

@francesbarber13 @TfL I was on 91 in central London the other day and it was unbearable. Then the driver turned the air con on. Game changer. Maybe he forgot he had it

[Stephen Pollard @stephenpollard]

Oh but this is SUPERB

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

Elite mentality from Arsenal. They take a moment to celebrate, then immediately go back to practising their corner kick routine.

[Will Rayner @BillyRay65]

What year was that? Shouldn't you just pick your favourite Arsenal goal from a corner this season?

[Blacki.e @beingblackie_]

No goal in the premier league can beat this one

[Sam Coates Sky @SamCoatesSky]

NEW - YouGov Labour members polling

If there is a leadership contest, your first preference:
Burnham 47%
Starmer 31%
Rayner 8%
Streeting 4%
Miliband 3%
Cooper 3%
Mahmood 1%
Carns 0%

Head to heads:
Burnham 59% v Starmer 37%
Burnham 80% v Streeting 10%
Miliband 58% v Streeting 28%
Rayner 70% v Streeting 19%

On Keir Starmer, should he:
Take party into next election 28%
Remain as leader until closer to GE 33%
Step down no / in months 33%

YouGov polled 706 Labour members, May 14-18

[Matt Lucas HQ @RealMattLucas]

good morning

[Ed Balls @edballs]

…ndrew Pearce

[Tony McNulty @Tony_McNulty]

Why did you do in the Labour Wars daddy?

Well son I was a Cabinet minister’s PPS from ten past nine on a Monday night until five past eleven the next morning - proudest moment of my life !!!!!!

[Will Rayner @BillyRay65]

@SamaHoole What utter bilge. Bit like the actual custard we ate in the 70s.

[Will Rayner @BillyRay65]

I know it's not quite the point here, but have you seen Churchill's bricklaying at Chartwell? Could have done with a bit of expert advice.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up.

He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour.

Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself.

Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it.

Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows.

Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result.

Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing.

The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.

[Kitty Donaldson @kitty_donaldson]

* Somewhere in the Balkans Dame Karen Pierce blows dust off her suitcase *

[Kate Ferguson @kateferguson4]

Cravat man is back!

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Bee Gees without music.

[Paul Schleifer @PaulSchleifer]

Please let this be real.

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

The Integrity space capsule made a successful splashdown in the Pacific Ocean Friday night, bringing an end to the Artemis II mission that sent astronauts orbiting around the Moon.

After landing in the water, all astronauts emerged into a raft before being taken by helicopter to a nearby ship.

[Mike Scott @IrkthePurists]

Worst Proclaimer ever

[Danny Baker @prodnose]

Ok, so I have seen it now. It's a howler. It's an outrage. It's an ocean going stinker.
But the worst?
Let us not toss these titles around lightly.

[Ian Copeland, PhD @IanCopeland5]

What is the lightsource for the far side Moon pictures?

I gotcha Naomi...

A perfectly ordinary, medium-sized G-type main-sequence nuclear fusion reactor 93 million miles away that continuously converts hydrogen into helium while dumping obscene amounts of electromagnetic radiation in every direction.

You may know it as...THE SUN🌞.

Hopefully that wasn't as hard for you to grasp as vaccines.

[The National Pulse @TheNatPulse]

🌙This young man just gave the best reason as to why he's excited about space and NASA's Artemis II launch today.