This one feels different. in that it feels the same circa 2009.

I'm setting up a gofundme as I ride out the 568mph winds in. Kent. Pray for me (and the geeks at BBC Weather)

I’ve invented a better method of decluttering… don’t Kondo, Rudd! (Am available to write the resulting bestseller).

So veteran parents, tell me how this dropping eldest child at university thing works… is it slow to second gear, body roll and off or crying in the corridor while all his new mates snigger?.

5 days later: ORR is "aware of recent media reports" on Euston. The massive advertising LED has just been switched off (despite Network Rail claiming that the small departure boards installed on the concourse as part of a £1.5m upgrade helped with flow).

But on the plus side, this was the greatest family holiday… .

RT @LordOrk: Worst station in Britain? Welcome to the Battle of Euston. ⁦@LordOrk⁩ said: . “Imagine the danger of falling in that situation….

And follow rail engineer @GarethDennis who has paid a high price for giving his verdict on Euston… he said the station was unsafe and, after the alarming overcrowding I witnessed on Thursday, he’s plainly right. And should be allowed to say what he thinks.

I spent a day at Euston so you don’t have to… unless you have to get to Brum, Manchester, Liverpool, Crewe, Preston, Wigan, Glasgow… Nat Rail says Euston is safe. Not what I saw. As ⁦@frankcottrell_b⁩ says, “It’s an accident waiting to happen.”.

RT @sarah_wootton: “Law on assisted dying needs to provide greater explanation than it does currently. “. Sir Max Hill joins two other DPPs….

An addendum to the eduflap column… if your eldest leaves school and doesn’t change his Spotify email, then forgets the password, you need Oceans 11 style skills to sort it out….

An email from school….

RT @thetimes: The younger brother of the Princess of Wales was so depressed he came close to killing himself. He tells Matt Rudd about his….

RT @dignityindying: BREAKING NEWS:. England’s first ever citizens’ jury on assisted dying has overwhelmingly recommended law change. Over….

RT @guyshrubsole: It's publication day! . My new book, THE LIE OF THE LAND, is out today. Buy it here, or in any good bookshops! - https:/….

RT @Humanists_UK: It's almost time! The Voltaire Lecture 2024 – 'Free and equal', with Daniel Chandler – takes place tonight at 19:30, live….

Still summer

For fans of Freddie Flintoff’s Field of Dreams (everyone), here’s what its young stars are up to six months after that India tour….

This guy's flogging 4 tickets for first night at Wembley. £42,000. £40,000 profit. Can whoever is sitting on seat 99 tell me if the four execs sitting next to them know the words?