#jonathandaviesmp.bsky.social What is labour doing? 2 new runways (London obviously). Ed Miliband trying to find ways to drill baby drill.

Today is the feast day of St Robert of Knaresborough, who died today (September 24th) in 1218. He's my favourite saint, and I visit the cave where he lived whenever I can. Here's a thread of some poems I wrote about / for him.

I'm sick and tired of people in politics telling us they 'accidentally deleted' 5000 WhatsApp messages, 'forgot' they owned seven flats, 'couldn't recall' taking a £6m loan or didn't declare £700,000 in donations due to 'administrative error'. What do they take us for?

#BlueSky #BookSky 😬🙈

I’ve heard it say that Nigel Farage has no less than seventeen nipples spread over his chest and back. I’m, of course, not saying it’s true, but we have no evidence saying otherwise. It could be true, we just don’t know. That’s how this works, right?

Millions spent on Trump visit. Red carpets, Royals in coronets and golden dining services too. And all he offers in return are petulant racist insults about our capital city and our mayor. What a singular lack of decorum, grace, and courtesy. Fuck him and his damp hands and his nicotine yellow wig

Authors, academics, anyone who writes professionally, needs to sign up to @alcs.co.uk now to get their fair share of royalties. (Today is the day for anyone who already did this.)

Somewhere in Hell Qaddafi smiles knowing his will never again be seen as the most demented speech in UN General Assembly history.

These three are clearly up to shenanigans. I can tell. I know what to look for.

I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again. Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐

Mick Lynch "Nigel Farage is a racist." RT if Mick is right.

Steve, based on the novel Shy by Max Porter, is now in select cinemas. On Netflix 3 October. 'This film – and Murphy’s devastating performance – exist in a class of their own.' Observer

Sadiq Khan on Farage’s plan today - “Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain. They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city. “Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.”

Thank you everyone for the kind words. It's never easy, but this one was hard to cope with. jamesoswald.co.uk?p=1607

Sadiq Khan’s response to Farage’s deportation plan 👏

Small boats: TV coverage - day after day after day after day.... PPE scandal: TV coverage - let's stick this powerful, enraging documentary on at quarter past ten on a Sunday night.

My son starts a bookshop, and business (from me, at least) is booming. observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Had high hopes Lisa Nandy would sort this 💩 out but nope .. why ?

If you write professionally in the UK, make sure to sign up to ALCS for your fair share of royalties

Can we also stop supplying weapon parts to Israel, suspend trade and impose a sports and cultural boycott to try and ensure there's a Palestine left to recognise?

The horse spoke for all of us.

Yet not one of them has been punished, Johnson in particular. Imagine the public finances if they hadn’t pocketed our cash. “Let The Bodies Pile High In Their Thousands”

BBC headline signed Chris Mason at Farage conference: “Reform conference shows party's growing ambition like never before.” Laura Kuenssberg, BBC headline for LibDem conference: “Ed Davey loves clowning around, but is it time the Lib Dems got serious?” Fuck you, BBC.

On X I used data to show London does not have the highest crime rate in the world. 10 mins later a right winger linked to my book. 10 mins after that I got 40 1-star reviews from unverified accounts (previously 4.9 star avg). Fair play to Amazon - they removed them all. But that's how it works.

This suggests that the royal family were neck deep in the Epstein world. All of Epstein‘s (and his accomplices) victims deserve justice. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Drill, baby, drill.

Pallid bats hunt and eat scorpions, showing natural immunity to even the most venomous species, like the Arizona bark scorpion. They use their large ears to locate scorpions on the ground and then, unfazed by the venom, deliver them to the ground to munch on them. Their resistance stems from

James Dyson lives in Dodington Park - a 35000 sqare foot mansion he paid 15 million for in 2003. He is not, in any sane reality, vacuuming his own home.

Today's artist w/out a (known) birthday: Anthonie de Lorme, born in Tournai but mostly of Rotterdam, whose Laurenskerk he often painted. As here in 1669.

Did u know? More jobs to do before winter arrives - I need to ensure that grass growth in our wildlife pond stays to a minimum, or it will fill up with the stuff & become a sterile grassy clump, rather than a rich aquatic ecosystem. It's a job I find strangely relaxing to do, too..😁🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍🐸🦎

Proud to contribute frontline testimony to tonight's enraging @itvx.com documentary "The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money". Boris Johnson's govt squandered £8.7 billion on unusable PPE, while grifters like Michelle Mone made millions. Tonight, 10.15pm, ITV1. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

My Great Aunt Anne nearly died of polio as a child. She spent a lot of time in an iron lung. She survived, but she had to wear leg braces and use crutches her entire life. Today, her suffering is 100% preventable through vaccines. Vaccines work.

Stand up. Fight back.

"Take a beat" - Blue Lights is nearly here. Yipee

Power is the rock on which truth founders. The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital. Here's what I've learnt about the industry in 40 years in journalism. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Donald Trump suggests he blocked Sadiq Khan from attending the state banquet. Source close to Khan says he made it clear weeks ago that he had no desire or intention of going to dinner with Trump

On Sept. 18, 2020, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a towering women’s rights champion who became the court’s second female justice, died at the age of 87. On the same day in 1970, Jimi Hendrix died in London at age 27.   RIP to both rockstars

I’ll be chatting to my hero Sara Paretsky about the new Jimmy Perez with @barnesandnoble.com on September 30th. My only US event! Details here: BNTheKillingStones.eventbrite.com

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

My favorite difference between cats and dogs is that people regularly describe dogs as "well-behaved," whereas no one in history has ever used that phrase to describe a cat.

A rare colour photo of the 3rd Royal West Kent Acorn Regiment prior to their mass airborne jump of 1944

Hugh Skinner is to return alongside Hugh Bonneville in the BBC’s Twenty Twenty Six, which follows preparations for the next World Cup.

Plans for Pheasant shoot criticised in @telegraphnews.bsky.social by me, @leagueacs.bsky.social @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social & Richard Negus under byline of new envt. hack @patrickgalbraith.bsky.social Blog: markavery.info/2025/09/19/p... @guyshrubsole.bsky.social @righttoroam.bsky.social

In 2020, I learned how to walk again and my breakthrough moment was walking from my hospital bed to the loo without using a stick. To inspire me I sang to myself 'Search for the hero inside yourself'. Today, on camera, I met Heather Small to thank her.

I fancy being a Knight, can you make me a Knight Chuck? Or a prince. I'd make a great prince, probably the princiest prince ever. Everyone would love me. In fact, people often say to me, "You know Donald, you'd make a great prince!"