How fair is the honours system? Few of the top honours go to people in the north or to people from poorer backgrounds, despite being framed as for ‘unsung heroes’.

On a train with the windows covered in graffiti. So at least can’t see all the graffiti along the tracks.

First Humanitarian Medals awarded. Anna Daniell, one of the first recipients, says it's a positive sign to honour humanitarian workers who respond to international disasters.

Sad to hear of David Lodge’s death. He captured that post war sense of social mobility and how higher education opened up alongside. Remember interviewing him in the early 1990s at his home in Birmingham. Unpretentious and kind.

@bobpadron I’ve seen that pre-paying in late night petrol stations, but never the dentist! Strange times.

At dentists and had to pre-pay before getting check-up, because people were doing runners after seeing dentist. Never had that before. What does it say about the times we live in? I suppose they’d make a clean getaway.

This must be where the over entitled shoppers go?

He must have turned up in the end?

@cflynam thanks Charlie

@RealGeoffBarton @RoehamptonUni Congrats Geoff. Well deserved.

The new Prince Andrew Newsnight interview film from Amazon @PrimeVideo has a powerful, bravura performance from @michaelsheen. Alan Partridge meets Richard III. Well worth a watch.

@TaniaRice Agree. Airports have just got so dehumanising.

@JustinOnWeb @mariannaspring Waitrose label seems to agree.

@JenCarsonTaylor It was a label on a plant. Slightly baffling though!

@diana_blamires Tempting! But they’d have given you the unamused Paddington hard stares.

@SeanSpurr Stoke Secondhandington