Transgender hate crime goes up

The number of transgender hate crimes recorded by police forces in England, Scotland and Wales has risen by 81%, latest figures suggest.

Whatever progress the LGBT community has made is always marred by hate crime.

It proves it is still very hard to be transgender in today’s society.

There is no evident reason for the rise, people are just becoming more hateful.

There is a separate Pride for the transgender community, let’s hope it goes off without a hitch.

Children returned to horrific border station

About 250 migrant children were moved from the overcrowded Texas border station after lawyers granted access by a judge said the children were "severely neglected".

The New York Times reports the 100 children were transported back to the facility after it made changes to alleviate its overcrowding. They had been held there for weeks.

The children do not have a toilet or soap to wash with.

The top US border official meanwhile has said he is stepping down.

Though he’s not stepping down in protest, he has defended the organisation he has worked with.

Donald Trump is posting a new US border official and is not contrite about the conditions of these children.

The border stations are not designed to house children and are suffering from the surge in migrants.

Something needs to be done to end this, but nothing is forthcoming.

Royals raid public purse

The Prince Harry and Meghan’s home was renovated with £2.4m of taxpayers' money, as reported by the BBC.

It is easy to forget that these immensely wealthy people take money from the public purse.

I want to know why I can’t get a couple of hundred thousand to buy a house if they get so much for renovations.

The Royals are not on benefits, they can afford to renovate the house themselves it is a travesty.

We’re in austerity Britain, yet this austerity obviously doesn’t extend to our ruling masters, just to extremely poor benefits claimants.

Andy Murray wins at Queens

Andy Murray has won at Queen’s with a metal hip.

“This is very different for me and it's more special than a lot of the singles tournaments that I have won for a lot of different reasons," Andy Murray said to the BBC.

"It's a cool thing to be able to have done, because of where I was a few months ago.”

Murray is not ruling out playing singles.

This is a wonderful victory for Murray after his hip operation.

Andy Murray hip health restored

Andy Murray has played and won a match with his new hip.

Andy Murray made a successful return to action after six months out following hip surgery as he partnered Feliciano Lopez to a first-round doubles win at the Queen's Club championships on Thursday. 

He is readying to play at Wimbledon, but has been turned down, quite politely, by Ashleigh Barty.

He says in his BBC blog “she said no because she is already playing in singles and doubles, so didn't want to play in three competitions.”

He also says of his injury: “Because of how professional sport is, you end up telling everyone you're OK and you're feeling a bit better. But you're not.

You say things like that to try to sound optimistic and not tell everyone how much you're struggling.

I might have had to play against those people asking me how I was, so I wasn't going to tell them that my hip was killing me and then play them the following day.”

I for one am delighted he is returning to Wimbledon as I am a massive Murray fan, so I will be watching the doubles and cheering him on.

It’s sad that I’m unlikely to see him as Wimbledon champion once more.

England: women’s football

I’m a moderately better feminist, I watched the beginning of the England v Japan game and saw them go 1-0 up.

They were later to go 2-0 up and win the game.

Scotland were to be heartbroken.

They were 1-0 up against Argentina when I left proceedings.

They then stormed to 3-0 up in the second half of the game.

Only they lost their lead, Argentina equalised with their massive advantage, leaving the Scots heartbroken.

I’m surely missing some awe inspiring football.

Royal crash

An 83 year old woman is in hospital after a crash with a Royal convoy.

The police were to blame, with a police motorbike in the convoy causing the crash.

The Royal couple William and Kate have been in touch with the woman, Irene, to convey their sadness at having crashed into her indirectly.

I think the policeman should have phoned as well to express his apologises.

This time it was not a Royal driving the car, but the second crash in a matter of months you begin to wonder whether the Royals are a menace to the roads.

It remains to be seen whether a call from the Royals made up for Irene being involved in a crash.