Why are they calling Snakes and Ladders Snakes and Steps? #taskmaster

23 September 1938 | A German Jewish girl, Mirjam Helene Friedmann, was born in Berlin. The family fled to Prague in 1938. In 1941, Mirjam was deported to Litzmannstadt ghetto & in August 1944 to #Auschwitz. She was murdered in a gas chamber. --- Children at Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA

Just had a jolly fight with a giant bloke on the bus bcs listening to his phone on loudspeaker. (I asked nicely if he had earphones. He said 'it's not that loud' and LOOMED.) French have banned it, and now the Irish. When is it our turn? www.thejournal.ie/irish-rail-c...

Pleeeeease let Leoni be ok 😬 #lfc

Still fancy Ekitike to sneak a late one. He’s certainly working hard enough. #livsou

We made too many mistakes - that goal was inevitable #livsou

I’ve never heard of school cake. Is it a southern thing perhaps? #GBBO

Kent Wildlife Trust has launched an appeal to raise £3 million to restore habitats and halt species decline across the county, with more than 200 species under threat:

150 lawyers and NGOs report being 'pressured into silence' by death and rape threats from far-right - www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Right. After yesterday’s car accident and extended AA debacle I’m off to my happy place, Walthamstow Wetlands, to raise my spirits and lower my blood pressure. And travelling by bike 🚲

I am reading my way through John le Carre’s books at the moment and very much enjoying it - not least to see how much our society and culture has changed. Favourites to date are The Night Manager and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. The Karla trilogy was great too. Cracking thrillers all.

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if you're a woman and a member of the AA, now might be a good time to reconsider

It’s 7.25 now and getting dark and the AA are still not here. Apparently they will be another 25mins. Do not use the AA if you are a woman who travels alone.

Wow… shocker, these clips didn’t age well.🙄

My car was written off in an accident at 14.50 today. I reported it to the AA at c15.10. They said recovery would reach me at 17.30. They’ve just told me they won’t be here until 20.30. I’m alone on an industrial estate and the car won’t close. Livid does not begin to describe it. Shame on them.

And that, folks, is why I don't own any Dyson products.

So as I was parked at the local recycling centre about to unload my car, the idiot parked next to my drives off at a sharp angle without looking and almost takes my door off. It won’t close so now I’m stuck here waiting for the AA. Not how I planned my Saturday to go …

This is a beautiful piece. My close friends are family to me and I love them dearly. I simply cannot imagine life without them. So this resonates deeply.

Great to hear ex Vogue editor Edward Enninful on Radio 4 speaking out against the discrimination against women over 50 and actively doing something about it. Good man 👏🏼

Yup. I learned this in Nantes during a French exchange trip in 6th form. The family were amazed at how much more fluent I became after wine with the evening meal. Booze has its uses!

The UK's leading insect-conservation charities have issued a united declaration on insect declines, calling for urgent, co-ordinated action:

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

It is completely appropriate to create and air a programme such as #TrumpVtheTruth in response to what is happening in the USA, which affects us all. Lies and misinformation MUST be called out. But my God it’s depressing just how many lies, and how many people are falling for them.

Chilling on the sofa with the girls as the nights draw in ❤️❤️

“The Blitz was an absolutely beautiful way to grow up.”

In the face of our rapidly changing climate, it's often hard to imagine how anything you can do will make a difference. Well, here’s how… www.treesforcities.org/resources/ho...

Really enjoyed the documentary on Twiggy. How did I not know about all the things she's done & all the people she's worked with. Totally gorgeous - inside & out with a genuinely loving relationship with Leigh Lawson. So refreshing & uplifting ... at a time when such optimism is really needed. 🥰

UK folks with National Trust memberships: it's that time of year, the AGM is coming up and the voting packs will be going out. Given the state of things I'm sure the 'Restore Trust' bigots will be attempting to stage their usual take over, so make a note to vote before the end of October

So chuffed for Erin Doherty. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

How refreshing to have so many working class (for want of a better phrase) British actors smashing it at the Emmys!

Owen Cooper is a first-time #EMMY winning actor at the age of 15.

Jake Gyllenhaal surprises Owen Cooper ahead of the 2025 #EMMYs

Barrister cites fictitious case (from ChatGPT). When challenged by Tribunal, uses ChatGPT to confirm the case exists. This does not go well. tribunalsdecisions.service.gov.uk/utiac/2025-u...

Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:

I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.

This week's #FridayFeature, where we share work from an IG account that tags #discoveringfinland, features a set of wildlife in action shots by nature photographer petri_makitalo, best known for his portraits: www.instagram.com/p/DOggWT5DHgV/

Well THIS is going on my Christmas present wish list ⬇️

Happy #caturday from Jonesy as she discovers she has ears and legs. ❤️

This morning’s idle mind is contemplating why Brits say ‘a couple of (things)’ and American’s dropped the ‘of’ and just say ‘a couple (things)’. The latter still sounds very odd to me.

So after all that ‘hang the Dems high’ talk by Republicans it seems it wasn’t a leftist/antifa who murdered right wing extremist Charlie Kirk, but a white male Nick Fuentes follower who didn’t think Kirk was right-wing enough. There will be a lot of tweets being deleted right now…

Link to this obituary here: dflw.ie/on-the-passi...

The news of Conor Gearty's death has just been announced and I'm not coping. He was a mentor and the pole star in my constitutional thinking. He was also a great friend and fantastic fun to be around. I'm heartbroken for Aoife and the children.

I am frightened for the USA and frightened of the USA. It’s equally terrifying that this happened so quickly and easily.

New NAO report finds the cost of a place in a children's care home has nearly doubled in 5 years. The biggest private providers make average annual profits of 22.6%, many backed by private equity. And many children aren't getting what they need, placed far from home, in unlawful settings

Trial of X in Belgium for refusing to remove unlawful content. In the UK, X appears to be treated as above the law, as it actively defends so much extreme & unlawful content of many kinds, with so little challenge since those responsible for the rule of law seem to be indifferent or asleep

I met a beautiful tree today. I mean, c’mon…

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Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?

I wrote about what I think is a genuinely revealing document of elite depravity and impunity. It is shocking and sickening. But it's also a crucial moment. We're about to see what happens when conspiracy theorists actually get what they asked for but it turns out not to be what they want.