Manchester United should get in Antonio Conte or Roy Keane to try and kick some arse and firestart this entire shitshow. No other options are left.

A conveyor belt of failure since Sir Alex Ferguson left. 13 years of dysfunction and decay. Total shitshow. #COMMUN

On this day 60 years ago on October 21, 1966, a coal waste tip collapsed onto the Welsh village of Aberfan killing 116 children and 28 adults. 💔🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #Aberfan

This is utter nonsense.

The Green Party have accused Andy Burnham of “climate vandalism” over approving the Jackdaw gas field in the North Sea. This is disingenuous and based on ideological emotion, rather than facts. The Green Party’s “climate vandalism” accusation is pure political theatre - an emotional slogan that collapses under the weight of basic energy and economic reality. Britain will still need substantial oil and gas for decades, even on the most ambitious net-zero trajectory. Heating homes, producing goods, powering industry and providing reliable backup for intermittent renewables cannot be wished away. Approving Jackdaw - an already advanced North Sea gas field, not a brand-new licence - is a pragmatic decision to use British resources rather than import the equivalent (or more) at higher full-lifecycle emissions and with zero UK tax or jobs benefit. Burnham is absolutely right on this: maximise responsible use of existing UK reserves, protect skilled British workers and maintain energy security. That is realism grounded in facts. “Climate vandalism” is the language of people who prefer slogans to the hard economic and energy security trade-offs of keeping the lights on, homes warm, and the British economy functioning.

Common sense.

The Government has officially approved the Jackdaw gas field for North Sea drilling. Common sense at last. Now do the same for the Rosebank oil and gas field.

Our island sits on coal and is surrounded by oil and gas, but yet we import them from afar. And all because various individuals in government have decided to tick a net zero box. Madness.

The vast majority of people in Britain are not extremists. They want the same thing. They want safe streets where children can play and women can walk without fear. They want an NHS that treats them when they are sick, not a system collapsing under demand it was never designed to absorb. They want homes they can afford, wages that keep pace with the cost of living and schools that teach their children rather than lecture them. They want a country that feels like home - cohesive, recognisable, and ordered by the quiet British virtues of hard work, fair play, and looking out for your neighbour. They want immigration that is controlled, selective and matched to what the country can actually sustain. Not the open-ended massive numbers of illegal migration of recent years that has left services strained, housing unaffordable and social trust frayed. Those who arrive illegally should have the incentives removed. They want crime punished rather than explained away. Free speech protected so ordinary people can discuss real problems without being branded or jailed. Fairness over grievance. Entrepreneurship rewarded, not punished. They do not want their history rewritten as a catalogue of sins, nor their future managed as government surveillance or stealth tax punishments. The extremists - the open-borders activists who treat national identity as a problem to be solved, and the racial obsessives who reduce debates to the colour of skin when playing for the national football teams. They dominate timelines, television studios, and too many institutions. But they are not the country. The country is the quiet moderate majority who simply want Britain to function again for the people who built it and the people who show up every day to try and improve their lives. They want to pay their taxes and get a return on investment - the basics - civic pride and infrastructures that are fit for purpose, rather than feeling that their ever increasing tax burden is being spaffed away to the corporate donors of whatever colour of government. They want governments to spend less time on TikTok videos and more time fixing the cost of living crisis. That shared desire still exists. Politicians have failed to deliver it. The question is no longer whether most people want the same things. It is whether anyone in power will finally act on them. This is not radical. Poll after poll shows it is ordinary common sense.

If you can bring back one person for one last conversation, who would it be?

No. Nobody is.

“I can’t be arsed with this shite.”

You will probably put a tax on the extra hour.