Just having my usual leftie night of guilt and (given my poor health) despair of our world. And the highly connected people who can just ruin people’s lives. So strangely get drawn (for some reason) to injustice. This song always does it for me. It’s another extraordinarily beautiful an powerful work of one of Nelly’s songwriters Boff Whalley – Chumbawamba’s “waiting for the bus”. Gary Tyler wrongly accused spent 42 years in prison (until he – after never doing so - finally “confessed” to get out) for a crime he didn’t commit. Unless you’re one of the right wing trolls that have been thumping me ... tell me this isn’t how you write songs ... youtube.com/watch?v=tDekZfeQ… theguardian.com/artanddesign…

“Let’s not waste Time and Energy on Jeffrey Epstein, somebody that nobody cares about.” Donald Trump. Can't think why he thinks that ...

Although Barbara in my Nell Gwynne musical is selfish & money-grabbing (it's a musical - no space for nuance!) my Nelly who impersonates her; which Nell did in real life - does it so funnily...As Nelly says: "Barbara was undeniably beautiful. But she was also very...intense!"

Not sure why but sometimes images just get me. Normally move on but as I'm ill in my bed I dwell. But Joni Mitchell backstage at a festival just seems to capture her creativity and brilliance. And as a writer, I simply don't know why. It just does! And it's Gray ... not Blue! x

Keir Starmer: "One of my first acts as Prime Minister will be to put the Hillsborough Law onto the statute books"

Whereas here's the seven sisters ...

Having been having some - shall we say - "exchanges" with right wing fuckwits on the impending resident doctors' strike (a disgrace... they're on £43k a year). I suggest they just want £17 an hour to become £21). I got blocked. That's the way to argue your case. Badge of honour?

Today in 1984, Arthur Scargill tells Neil Kinnock: “You have only one lesson to learn from Mrs Thatcher - when you do become the Government of the day show us the same loyalty to our class that she has shown to their class.” Good job we've got Starmer now: Toolmakers rejoice!