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Me: well it's past my bedtime, I'd better put on my pyjamas and settle down Senator who has been speaking for over 24 hours: And another thing!

This is what actual experts have to say about "overdiagnosis" and it differs significantly to Wes Streeting's blatant misinformation. www.rcpsych.ac.uk/news-and-fea...

As I'm certain Wes Streeting is aware, a diagnosis of a mental illness is not sufficient to be awarded PIP. You have to explain in detail how your conditions prevent you from tasks like washing, toileting, and eating, and then usually have an assessment via video or in person.

If the government takes away my disability benefits, I will continue to be disabled on a pro bono basis. Some of us are in it for the love of the game.

If you use #obsidian and want to import your highlights from Kindle into your notes, there's a really useful plugin available: forum.obsidian.md/t/new-plugin... I used it for the first time today and it's really useful if you want to reference a quote or just read through your annotations.

Starmer has said that we're spending more on the benefits system than on prisons - inexplicably, he believes this is a bad thing. Many crimes are born of poverty - if you can improve the lives of the unemployed and disabled so that we don't have to turn to a life of crime, we could spend even less.

Sebastian Gorka has all the charisma of a failed magician who isn't allowed within 50m of a school and legally I think Victoria Derbyshire should be allowed to melt him down for scrap. #newsnight

Cutting foreign aid is an extremely short-sighted move by a UK government obsessed with reducing migration. Foreign aid isn't given simply to be nice - supporting stability and living standards abroad reduces the need for people to take difficult journeys away from their homes.

There's a simple answer to all the confusion: it was a Roman salute but only representing the leadership in Rome from 1922-1945.

Here for a long time, not a good time.

Someone needs to make a wheelchair or mobility scooter with 8 mechanical spider legs instead of wheels. I long to go for a scuttle through the woods.

There's a frog in the garden!

People are good #nopasaran www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gall...