- Green Party surge helps Tories win Hitchin N by 6 from Lab and saves them in N Herts Rural by 73 against LDs. BNP scum win in S of county. #
- Ruddy Norah – the Dutch have beaten England on the final ball of the opening match in the Twenty20 Cricket World Cup. Astonishing stuff. #
- Off to London tomorrow for a British Humanist Association event – the high priest of godlessness Richard Dawkins plus AC Grayling speaking. #
- Tried an early night. It didn’t work. Found a dead baby bird in the garden earlier and the blackbird nest abandoned. Nature sucks sometimes. #