Full marks for Starmer setting out foreign policy framework. We need to make it quite clear to the US that we have no intention of letting them dictate our foreign policy.

Iran announce stricter punishments on women who do not wear their Hijab properly. In Afghanistan the Taliban has now banned women from studying medicine - hundreds more women will be in danger. These ruling men put themselves before their religion and certainly before their people.

I fundamentally disagree with my MP Shabana Mahmood @teamlabouruk.bsky.social. I passionately want the Commons to support the Assisted Dying Bill. I have been writing about this for years and years. I am still mightily pleased that boundary changes put me in her constituency; she’s a great MP!