There’s going to be 87,000 football fans at Wembley tonight to watch England play Germany in the Euro final. I didn’t know there was 87,000 people prepared to watch women’s football but I’m pleased there are. Because it makes up for the almost unforgivable but completely understandable indifference of most of YOU, so-called ‘football fans’! COME ON ING-LUND!!! (It’s the Germans FFS, that’s gotta be worth a shout even if it was tiddly-winks).

The Truss/Sunak conundrum continues apace. Though not a conundrum for us mere mortals to solve, only for those exalted ‘members of the Conservative Party’, the retired colonels, hospital matrons in Oxfordshire, Hampshire and Surrey, blue-rinsed twin-set wearers from various market towns, anyone who belongs to ‘a hunt’ and even, so I’m led to believe, one or two ‘young people’ (I’m thinking a juvenile Jacob Rees Mog here, or that revoltingly precocious version of William Hague, the image of which, as he addressed ‘his’ party, aged about 14, still gives me nightmares on occasion to the point I always have a bucket next to my bed).

Rishi has now… errrr… has now… ‘amended’ his previous stance to allow for the possibility of taking vat off of fuel bills. Stating, quite rightly, that ‘this is not a reduction in the tax which I’ve been banging on about since I stabbed Boris in the back to start this whole debacle’, its just… pragmatic). So its not a u-turn at all. He’s still opposed to any reduction in taxation whilst the covid debt is so high, but is prepared to make concessions because of the tragedy facing so many people. Which may look like a tax reduction but only to the uninitiated.

And I realised that I know virtually nothing about Liz Truss. With Rishi, we’ve seen his bank statements (very, very large) and his and his wife’s tax returns (very, very, very small) for the last 20 years. Even though they’ve only known each other for 12. But Lizzy? Is she married? Children? We know she went to a comprehensive in Leeds because that has become a rod for posh kid Rishi’s back. But we need to know the dirt. We really do. How can we not-vote for someone about whom we know so little???

Happy Sunday

A xxxx