Saturday 11th July 2026

8624/21543The power of Warming Up once again demonstrated. Within minutes of me publishing the blog a reader called Jonathan Ricketts emailed me to say the government were thinking of doing exactly what I suggested yesterday. You're welcome guys. It was my last day of being 58 today and by midnight (or technically 8am tomorrow) I had spent 59 years on this planet, as an autonomous human. As an early birthday present Jude Bellingham scored the winning goal for England a matter of minutes into my big day.