Call me old fashioned, but I think a charity established to maintain London's bridges should maintain London's crumbling bridges. Instead, £840 *million* of its endowment has been spaffed on spurious “social justice” causes.

You'd be forgiven for thinking that 'oracy' is an ancient term. But did you know that it was dreamed up in 1965 by a Birmingham academic? What followed were decades of untested educational experiments which left children worse off. Now Lucy Powell wants to do it all again.

OPEN LETTER: Sally Rooney is a writer, not a terrorist. Her books must be available to the public. Their withdrawal from sale, on the basis of ill-conceived and draconian anti terror legislation, is an affront to basic principles of free speech and expression so long taken for granted in this country. We categorically reject censorship - whether direct or indirect - and urge the government to change course, amending the legislation which has led us to this point of repressive absurdity.

Wow. Andy Haldane explicitly endorses Tory approach to economy - 'In today’s hostile environment for borrowers, the route to growth comes from priming the private sector, not pump-priming the public sector'.

I’ve been in London Fields tonight, watching the first ever Lime Bike joust - here’s a thread of my best shots: