Probably as ready as we’ll be

Old defences against Hitler have exposed themselves again. Doubt they’ll do much good in the chemical and nuclear Putin age.

BJ says we are doing as much as we can - yes, as much as we can to make it difficult for any refugees to reach us. They turned back a man who has lived and worked here for years who is in Calais with his family. I assume he went back to Ukraine to bring them here where he works and pays taxes. Pritti Pathetic said she’d sent “a surge” of officials to Calais. BBC found 3 with a few bars of KitKat and crisps to give to the few who were able to find the place. Meanwhile BJ procrastinated to give time for his oligarch chums to get their money out. And Ben Elliot, Tory Party Chair and nephew of Camilla Queen in Waiting, has so many oligarch chums and fingers in lots of pies. I’m embarrassed I’m British and though not a tearful person, the sight of those men in Kyiv, trying to hold it together, waving off their families on the train, sets me off on a wobbly lip.

In another world, we took Dennis for a nice 5.5 mile walk from Warkworth toward Alnmouth and back. The sun was gorgeous though the wind was biting.