Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.

Pleased we were able to announce a trial of longer opening hours for Hampstead Cemetery, following local request at the environment committee tonight. Thanks to local councillors incl @shazknit.bsky.social and Lorna Greenwood for working on this this year 🌳🌹 @richardolszewski.bsky.social

It’s the job of the police to make people feel safe. Instead, Scotland Yard has caved in to the culture warriors | Danny Stone | The Guardian share.google/piITlLuMStMf...

Glad that someone has finally taken responsibility for the appalling assault on democracy that was the Jan. 6 insurrection. Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?

Absolutely. Chris Mason hyperventilating. Quite embarrassing.

The story undeniably has some significance, but it's hard not to conclude that the balance is unhealthily skewed when first-tier elections in major European countries no longer make the BBC News frontpage, but a third-tier US election gets top spot.

British journalists thinking that a US election is a bigger story than it is? Never!

Important piece by @byfordt.bsky.social @ecfrasia.bsky.social on the mistakes the EU is making by watering down rules on EVs. This will only slow the transition and leave European firms more exposed to Chinese competition. (Not to mention our security.) ecfr.eu/article/gree...

Politicians should probably get on Bluesky to get better in touch with the American electorate.

The World Service has been covering this every day for years — invaluable

The Times is at it again.

Visited the Bloomsbury-based Wellcome Collection with the Knowledge Quarter this morning - exploring “Thirst: In Search of Freshwater” and how water has always connected people and places 💧 Left with fresh perspectives and great conversations about working together in their 90th year 🙌🏾

Next week: is ok to be racist? And mass deportations - edgy fun or sadly necessary?

Good to see @dailymail.co.uk @thetimes.com and @telegraphnews.bsky.social all delete their articles - sad the lies went up in the first place

Late post from our time out and about in Fitzrovia today talking to residents. People very pleased with the green spaces investment, such as at Crabtree Fields, which now has clearer sight lines and a stronger feeling of safety 🌳🌹 Issues of antisocial behaviour & drugs we will continue to take up

Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.

Please check out the proposals for a "Cyclops" junction on York Way, north of King's Cross. This would completely separate pedestrians and people cycling from motor traffic, improving safety. Joint project with Islington! @rowchampion.bsky.social consultations.wearecamden.org/supporting-c...

China state oil majors suspend Russian oil buys due to sanctions, sources say www.reuters.com/business/ene...

To force Beijing to the negotiating table, European policymakers should take a page out of the Beijing playbook and move into offence | @ecfrasia.bsky.social @ecfrgeotech.bsky.social ecfr.eu/article/esca...

This is just a crackers way to analyse this summit, as if our only geopolitical interest in the world is “can you solve the small boats for us?” (Not least because the answer is no!)

Every child should start life with the same opportunities. But our state-funded school system is designed in such a way that some children are blocked from their local school simply because of their parents' beliefs. Others are sent to illegal, unregulated schools & denied a proper education.

Early start to check out Camden's new pavement jet-washing service in action, getting rid of ingrained dirt from our high streets and other hotspots. 😀 Here we are just off Kilburn High Road ⤵️ Part of our extra £1 million investment in street cleaning! Broom 🧹

Can't believe this didn't go to the local planning subcommittee :p

New tree map just dropped :p Check out our mapping of Camden's publicly managed trees 🌳🌱🌲 – click on ones near you to find out what species they are, how much pollution they remove and carbon they store 😀 lbcamden.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboa...

V late to this (it’s a weekend, family stuff, etc) but..I agree with Ben. Both Katie Lam’s interview about deporting people with legal status (and the way STimes treated it) & the Christian Calgie business are disturbing egs of forgetting that ‘normal on X these days’ is very much not normal

Early start joining one of our ace Bloomsbury residents (& superstar volunteers!) for a Bloomsbury Festival walk on the history & biodiversity of Brunswick Square Gardens Loved discovering London’s 2nd oldest plane tree & railings that dodged WW2! 🌳✨ #BloomsburyFestival

Britain’s Media Has Let Nigel Farage Reshape Political Journalism. Why? @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/79/b...

Apart from anything else, we're led to believe his dad - the finance director of a large company - took him to the away end at Villa Park and despite being no more than eight years old (born 1982), he had an understanding of the chants, the gestures & how the games were policed. Righto, Bob.

It's really telling that mainstream journalists are doing stuff about the *possibility* of the ADF or the Heritage Foundation starting to influence UK politics, when the reality is that they have been here for years, spending huge quantities of cash and succeeding in areas like trans rights.

Think I'm the only person still fuming about how The Traitors producers basically gave Miles away for his murder in plain sight in series 2 #CelebrityTraitors

The Times is making up news again.

Radio 4 PM now appears to be reading out random Twitter-esque opinions and presenting them as news.

"Domestic judges cannot undo the case law of the Strasbourg court that so irritates a section of the political class and its journalist outriders. But they are doing everything short of that to make human rights as much of a domestic legal irrelevance as possible." >> Highly disturbing.

Double kudos to @jonhenley.bsky.social and the @theguardian.com for: a) taking the trouble to report on a set of continental European elections where the far-right didn't sweep all before it! b) calling the far-right the far-right, not 🤮 'the hard-right'!

I open one PDF and it demands 4 times for me to use some sort of AI. 4 times I have to dismiss the insistent pop-ups before it lets me get to the simple search I need to do! 🫨

Trump not exactly unclear in his Knesset speech that he expects fighting to stop.

Only needs light editing.

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky. No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

October in local government world can mean only one thing: The start of the tree-planting season! Here's a new one going in on Grays Inn Road 🌳 All part of @camdenlabour.bsky.social's commitment to hunt out new places for trees 🪏

Slightly amazed at his description of this as a ‘low-level mistake’. Just a completely untrue implication of Government corruption on prime-time TV. No biggie! www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

The new Cycleway link between the British Library and Mornington Crescent is complete - just waiting for signage to be delivered. 🚲🚲🚲🚲 This nice little route goes along Crowndale Rd, Goldington St, Purchese St & Ossulton St in Camden 👏 @tfl @adamdkharrison.bsky.social & team

Feeling seen.

No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.

London's Network of Cycleways is continuing to grow and get even better. 🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲 Great to see the temporary cycle lanes on Haverstock Hill being made permanent by Camden Council - this includes new kerbs to protect cyclists, raised zebras and new bus stop bypasses. 👏👏 @adamdkharrison.bsky.social

"We should be more like Singapore" "But far more 18 years old go to university there" "Not like that"

*gasp*

BBC News leading with completely groundless claims by Farage. Absolutely ridiculous. What happened to journalistic analysis?

I remember being told that it would take 193 years to reach legal limits for nitrogen dioxide. I decided this was unacceptable. Thanks to the bold policies we put in place, we've managed to do it in nine years - 184 years earlier than expected.

Y'days post: Misunderstandings on the left (and elsewhere) about the OBR, independence and the bond market mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/09/misu... The government delegating some highly technical tasks to independent experts doesn't create a democratic deficit, but it does avoid wishful thinking.

It was good to be in the conference hall today for Keir Starmer's speech – taking on Farage, and setting out how we'll rebuild Britain! 🌹