The wit, the warmth, the talent, this clip is all of Dolly Parton in two minutes.
On Carson in 1977, she joked about playing her song at "78 speed," then did exactly that, fingerpicking flawlessly and beaming. Nobody did it like her.
Maybe at the moment we should all (me included) take a break from any discussion of Cambridge's policies, and reflect on the tragic human costs -- and remember with compassion the person who paid a dreadful price.
The disproportionate and bullying commentary and coverage of Jason Arday’s mistakes has been obviously dangerous for days. Yes it was a legitimate story, and in various ways a troubling one. But the relentless coverage, the vitriol and bile. The clip of a man talking about us needing more love in the world endlessly mocked. Compare it to the way others who embellished and invented life stories or floated seemingly naive ideas are forgiven. Obviously employers have duties of care. But spare us the pity of those who weaponised his story for social media clicks without a thought.
Absolutely horrified by this, but I reached out to his team last week as I was so worried about this happening. No matter what everyone thinks about this man and his career, he did not deserve to be hounded and smeared to death. I am already seeing gleeful comments about his death, claiming he was mentally ill, that he caused this himself, that he deserved it, and claiming the immense media storm around this is not responsible for his death.
I will not have been the only person who saw this death coming a mile off - who could possibly have survived this??
A reminder that this man committed no crime - he was hounded to death by media, and millions of people on social media who were criticising him, digging up information about him, speculating, investigating, finding new people to interview and ask about him, laughing and mocking him - and let’s be honest - we don’t even know what is true and what isn’t yet, but it’s too late. Again.
We treat abusers, murderers and rapists with more compassion than this. We need serious conversations about media conduct and the role of endless reports, speculation and op-eds that target one person repeatedly.
Did this man lie about his career? Maybe he did. Maybe he made the entire thing up.
Did he deserve to die? Absolutely not. Not in a million years.
This death is tragic and horrific. I just hope we don’t now find out that much of what was reported and speculated on was filled with lies and targeted harassment of this man, because then we are in extremely deep water. Again.
“The Winner Takes It All” is from ABBA’s 1980 album Super Trouper. The sweeping, melancholic ballad became one of the group's most successful and critically acclaimed hits, peaking at #1 in the UK, #1 in Belgium, #2 in the Netherlands, #3 in Ireland and #8 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Known for its emotional depth and soaring production, it stands as one of the defining songs of ABBA's later career, capturing the heartbreak surrounding Björn Ulvaeus and Agnetha Fältskog's real-life divorce.
This is fantastic.
He’s tried to do the news rounds for the first time in months, trying to piggy back off Starmer, but he’s actually been held to account and he just can’t handle it at all.
How could someone so easily rattled be PM?
Here's David Cameron in 2016 explaining that if we leave the EU we'll be economically worse off and so have less money for public services
Here we are in 2026, worse off, and with less money for public services
If you have a spare 3 mins and 45 secs today, watch this fantastic grilling by Sally Nugent on BBC Breakfast.
The very first time I've seen Farage questioned properly about his £5M bung, and it's fair to say, he totally fluffed it.
There are points when you can see Farage tremble and even accuse the BBC of putting him in danger. 🤦♂️
It was for security. It was for cars. Nobody cares. It's no one's business. He won't tell us. DANGER!
At one point, he let slip that the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards may 'disagree' with him on the rules around donations.
He knows he's going to be found guilty on this one. He's in trouble, and his face gave it away gloriously.
Top hats off to Sally Nugent. Stellar work. 👏