Given we have a huge number of people with relatives in Jamaica, Including elderly relatives in rural areas how come the #R4Today team can only rustle up tourists on on holiday? Mind the gap! #HurricaneMelissa

The Trump Action Tracker has an update! Main change is to break down the five authoritarian domains into ten - this allows for easier understanding of why actions have been logged and more tools for searching / filtering the now 1621 actions. www.trumpactiontracker.info? 1/2

It's that moment again for National Trust members to vote to keep the entryists out. Quick and easy to vote and please do so by 31st of October Quick Vote link keeps the AstroTurfers out. Then share. Thank you. secure.cesvotes.com/V3-3-0/nt25/...

I've signed this open letter. #CofEpeeps, lay or ordained, if you want the church to become more fully affirming of LGBTQ+ folks, please read this letter from Inclusive Church and consider signing it. www.inclusive-church.org/llf-open-let...

NEW! Episode 284 - The wind of Long Mynd (32mins) A stunning location on a beautiful day. In August we got the train to Church Stretton in #Shropshire. The path led us up the steep valley, slowly rising to the summit. Near the top we found a single tree, the only one on the path. > bit.ly/LenMynd

Life and death on the ivy today

If you or your children or pets find the sound of #fireworks disturbing, here are some episodes with lots going on. Listen to help with distraction and escape.

We've reached 600,000 downloads! 🎧 That's thousands of peaceful sleeps, focussed work tasks, virtual escapes to familiar + new locations, distractions from fireworks and building work, and meaningful connections with real places through sound. A big Lento thank you to supporters and listeners. ❤️

Just read about this podcast from the ever delightful Bill Nighy - about to go in & am sure joy awaits. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...

BREAKING: King Charles and Pope Leo will pray together in the Sistine Chapel next week First time a British monarch and pontiff have done so publicly since Reformation King also to be given own special chair bearing his coat of arms in a papal basilica www.thetimes.com/uk/royal-fam...

Do please cover on #R4Today Moral panic doesn’t help *anyone*.

There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system. Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts Spending is controlled, not spiralling Worklessness is near record lows My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...

Highly recommend this beautiful book. @nicwilson.bsky.social writes like an angel: a lost little girl, snickets, John Clare, memory, thunderstones, unpredictable illness, deep falling dives into bogs, wild clematis & so much more.. you can read my review @waterstones.bsky.social & order! #booksky

I just donated, again. One week to go before Judicial Review deadline. Please support these brave families www.crowdjustice.com/case/justice...

So glad to hear Mishal Husain on #R4Today really miss the substance and accuracy of her journalism A real loss to BBC News and Radio 4. Link to her podcast podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

Pope Leo in Dilexi te: Christians who “dismiss or ridicule charitable works, as if they were an obsession on the part of a few and not the burning heart of the Church’s mission, convinces me of the need to go back and re-read the Gospel, lest we risk replacing it with the wisdom of this world.”

The sun breaks through the gloomy day.

Increasing toxic algae blooms due to #climatechange caused warming oceans and nutrient-rich runoff is causing higher levels of 2,4-diaminobutyric acid in to accumulate in the brains of dolphins. A study found the this is causing Alzheimer's-like symptoms in the mammals. www.vice.com/en/article/s...

I hereby declare war on premature Christmassing. Any shop caught doing this before 1st December must be shut down and turned into affordable housing. Choose sanity. Vote Binface. (Photo dated 9th October 2025)

Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell is marvellous. I am delighted that Disney have the rights but above all this is a gripping story, which echoes without direct imitation the greats of children’s literature , has fantastic animals, a heart, snot, and contemporary bite.

Alas.

Who benefits from the abolition of stamp duty land tax? The first answer: people buying very expensive homes. Average saving for someone buying a £10m+ home is £1.7m. Average saving for someone buying a £250k-£500k home is £5k.

Hoping @sturdyalex.bsky.social @pimlicat.bsky.social and @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social will make time for this Report soon in @quietriotpod.bsky.social

🧵🚨 The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news. Today our report is published! www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n... 1/11

A minute with a gull, sea-side.

There’s lot of Covid going around at the moment, again. I don’t qualify for NHS jabs, which are now very restricted, but I just paid £90 for one at my local pharmacy. As a freelancer, that’s a lot less expensive than having to take a week or two off if I get ill, let alone risking long term issues.

Please read this thread very carefully. The BUT is BIG…

A *sleep safe* episode to take you to bed with the sound of summer in your ears. Episode 138 - Ocean peace above Folkestone beach (31 mins) Rising thermals, from far below, carry up the ocean's murmurings. The sound of a cricket merges with the waves. > bit.ly/LenFolk2

Couldn’t agree more with this para from @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Made a Bolognaise Sauce yesterday, but shock horror no nutmeg 😱 garam masala to the rescue 🛟 Can highly recommend even if highly illicit culinary act. Would @nigella.bsky.social approve of such naughtiness?

ME/CFS scored lower in quality of life than cancer, stroke & MS in one study. Millions, many post-COVID, are now disabled. This illness is real and requires greater recognition, research, and education. 💙Support these efforts today: https://batemanhornecenter.org/donate/  #MECFS #LongCOVID

Recording of the "On the Violence of Psychologisation of Postviral Illness: A Habermasian Solution?" talk - w. myself, @ffhambu.bsky.social, Sonja Hannibal & @privilegienschreck.bsky.social is now available online (with subs!) 😍 #LongCovid #MECFS #Injustice t.co/jQYqzfIQNe

BBC Radio Suffolk segment (13 mins) on #MECFS - @tinarodwell1.bsky.social speaks about caring for her son Angus, the daily challenges of the illness, and @jeremy-jeffs.bsky.social powerful exhibition Lives We Cannot Live which Angus took part in. youtu.be/bNw30eqfhvw?...

Very happy to hear this news! Congratulations to Bishop Sarah. I hope she will get considerable support in her leadership and in the change she brings.

We send our deepest condolences and love to Jewish communities across the country in the wake of this morning’s horrifying attack.

You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.

Thoughts with our Jewish brothers and sisters, following the awful stabbing incident in Manchester. Sending love, strength and solidarity to the entire community at this time ❤️

This is the judgment on the PPE/Medpro claim. A cracking £122m win for the Government Legal Service And is wonderful to see the government bringing a claim in contract against a shoddy supplier. This does not happen often, and it should happen far more. www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...

Mary Renault was a student of Tolkien, and in many ways, both are committed to the same high valuation of goodness. The Shadow is derivative. The Light is primary. Renault felt that so much c20th literature not merely depicted evil, but was fascinated by it, even fed on it. Renault resisted.

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. Except it doesn’t bend on its own—it bends because we pull it in the direction of justice. What keeps me hopeful during times like these is being surrounded by people who are doing just that.

NEW The Kneecap prosecution collapsed because police and prosecutors did not take terrorism law seriously Where "a technicality" hides a fundamental error By me Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/the-kneeca... Personal blog: davidallengreen.com/2025/09/the-...

There are millions of spiders’ webs in the Fenland countryside this morning. Zoom in for garlands of tiny diamond-ish water droplets.

Such a poignant and important article by @patrickbarkham.bsky.social on Lyme disease. Please do read and share...

This is the story of my daughter Milly and Lyme Disease. There was no rash, no "summer flu", NHS blood tests negative. And she's been ill for a quarter of her life. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s... Thank you @lymediseaseuk.bsky.social & @lymeresourcecentre.bsky.social for raising UK awareness.

Bonus episode @therestpolitics.bsky.social with Gerald Knaus on why we should be really worried re rise of far right in Germany and how MAGA are fuelling it, which should make us more worried still alastaircampbell.org/2025/09/453-...

Quakers in Britain have joined major church leaders across England in this statement rejecting the misuse of religious teachings by the far-right to promote hate.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Here's a BBC Sounds link to an excellent 4 part #Radio #comedy #mystery #drama starring Meera Syal "Mrs Sidhu Investigates" Can't go wrong here my fellow radiohead's 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

The whole series of #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems is incredible. I was unfamiliar with most of the poems so it was a delight to discover them, and hear Catherine unwrap and explain the words and their context. The absolute best of audacious empathy