Tory leadership race

Theresa May has stepped down, now it is certain we’ll be getting a new prime minister.

I for one am dreading her replacement.

It seems to me it can only get worse, with the likes of Michael Gove and Boris Johnson in contention.

As if to prove my fear correct Boris Johnson is offering a higher rate tax cut if he gets in.

Yes, that’s exactly what we need in Austerity Britain, more wealthy people getting away from paying tax into services like the NHS.

The Nest Collective

I went for an entrancing evening with The Nest Collective round the campfire.

Every year the Nest Collective hosts artists round the campfire in a variety of London venues.

I was privileged to see Seckou Keita at Glengall Wharf Gardens.

He plays the Kora, a very delicate string instrument and indeed it was hard to hear it at times above the passing planes.

Keita played a selection of his solo work and got us to join in with some of the songs, which was really fun.

All in all it was a magical evening and The Nest Collective will be hosting more over the summer.

The Queen’s favourite

Olivia Colman has been awarded a CBE in the queen’s honours list along with a host of others.

Colman is a truly talented actress and definitely deserves the award.

I look forward to watching her play the Queen in The Crown.

MPs and historians were also honoured, in total there were 1, 073 Birthday honours.

Mohamed Melehi

I went to see Mohamed Melehi in conversation at The Mosaic Rooms last night.

His work pops with modernist energy and looks like it could have been created last week, though most of it was created in the 1960s.

Melehi treated the gathered crowd to a quick sweep of his life working in New York and Morocco.

He has used his work to protest the government, he says politics is like Oxygen it can’t be avoided.

The exhibition of his work and the rest of the Casablanca school will be on at The Mosaic Rooms till the end of the month.

There is an art class coming up wheee you can learn to paint like Melehi.

D-Day

So we are marking D-Day with Trump.

I can not think of a less worthy individual to mark such a historic event with.

We didn’t bomb away the nazis to invite a closet one over.

Anti-Trump demo

At 11 o’clock today a diverse group of people amassed in Trafalgar Square to protest against Donald Trump’s state visit.

By 12 o’clock around 1,000 people were ready to march down Whitehall.

Stopping at Horse Guards parade for speeches by the likes of Owen Jones.

The atmosphere was brighter than the weather as the assembled throng said no to Trump.

Donald Trump

Donald Trump has already insulted Sadiq Khan and he’s barely touched the runway.

Labour has thankfully boycotted the official visit from Donald Trump and Donald Trump has illustrated why by insulting Sadiq Khan.

There will be another protest against President Trump’s visit.

We are stuck with Trump, but we do not have to roll out the red carpet.

Watch Sadiq condemning the idiot.