Not even the hottest part of the day yet. This is baaaaaad.

My Mum, when in her 50s, used to work at a place with a plumbers' merchants. Every day she'd walk the takings to the bank, not worried she was going to be robbed because she described herself as invisible.

I walked to the shops. This was a mistake and I don't recommend it.

Ahahahahaha 36C on a work day absolutely the fuck not

I made a zine! With cats! This is my case for buying as well as building the supply of council housing. I am calling on the Govt to deliver a massive fund for councils to buy existing properties and transform them into real council homes. ✍️Sign my petition: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fu...

I was so happy yesterday when I realised the swifts were back at my house.

I was the Londonist 'politics correspondent' during the Johnson mayoralty and I will say this: pay attention to the regional people who were paid to pay attention during the periods when the national media weren't paying attention.

A timely repost. A friend transitioned 30+ years ago. Our circle was puzzled, uncertain, ill informed, but without today's toxic attitudes in the media, most supported our friend because this wasn't about us. We soon realised what made us friends was unchanged, and they were right about their gender

I don't think it's a good idea to legally privilege someone else's discomfort over another person's rights.

I've never seen MAFS so reading the format description leaves me astounded. They put two strangers in a house, in a setup with an expectation of sex (because they're 'married') and aren't CONSTANTLY monitored? WTAF?

I fucking love Moldova, every year they're mad as a box of frogs #Eurovision

One city. 9 million people. All of us Londoners. We will never be divided.

I did mediaeval lit at college not politics, but in myth, the first test of a king-figure is usually to defend a village against a giant or dragon, which stands for how much unfettered strength and power can make ordinary people’s lives miserable. Only when the king understands this, can he be king.

A flashback to Parkin being silly about how badly he wanted a bite of my choc ice.

Soooo. Vast numbers of brand new councillors and a mayor who was previously a councillor for about 5 minutes. This is going to be interesting.

That's quite the... accolade? for my local area? Last in the country to declare.

Just a reminder that Labour was out in Lewisham 6 weeks ago trying to use Reform to scare people into voting for them, demonstrating that the party had no fucking idea what was happening.

“When 9News spoke to Cherry Hills Village Police, officers confirmed Dausman has done nothing wrong. What’s happening, they said, was that the man’s license plate was erroneously connected to a warrant in the Colorado Crime Information Center database.”

I feel like this is probably a sensible appointment but the optics of doing it now are very much wtf

this really does make me despair. this is a woman who has just got elected as a Reform councillor. she works for the NHS and wants to know “where the money is going”. it’s going on social care, babe

Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

And here we have it - another Green mayoral win in London, this time in #Lewisham. Now suppressing small urge to say to Keir Starmer of results in the capital in general - "you had it coming". (the PM isn't actually in my office at this moment, just to be clear).

I was in my mid 20s when I found this out. In that same election I also found out they'll let you vote when you're visibly pissed.

Kash Patel is just Tom Haverford in shittier merch.

A 19-year-old neo-Nazi, Dihan Rahman, has been jailed for 4.5 years for terror offences, stalking and possessing indecent images of children He was an admin for a neo-Nazi Telegram group that encouraged international terror attacks. Its 24-year-old man leader was jailed in Belgium last year

The payoff is … perfection.

People who are critical of Zack Polanski (and I’m increasingly one of them) need to be able to recognise that, even if you think he’s handling antisemitism within his party really badly, he is himself a victim of antisemitism.

"Posts liked by Polanski include one asking “how much does Israel pay him” of Starmer, and another claiming “Labour has been bought by and happily promotes an apartheid genocidal state”.

*beats table* SIAN BERRY GREEN SIAN BERRY GREEN SIAN BERRY GREEN

If Rudy is on the way out it's only fair that we remind ourselves of this, the funniest thing that has ever happened. People are sometimes gaslit into being told that finding this amusing is "cringe" or "resist lib" and that is wrong. It was an absolute, cast iron, day of absolute hilarity.

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it’s worth reading every word of this brilliant, excoriating column by Fraser Nelson

Hopefully Acaster doesn't get murdered or banished immediately for being too clever, because if he couldn't handle baking a cake his brain is going to fritz out on The Traitors.

Ah, I don’t know why I didn’t think about posting my earlier 17-post thread as a screenshot of my tweet at the other place. Thanks, @rj-palmer.com!

Radiohead/Idioteque REM/E-Bow the Letter PSB/Left To My Own Devices Idlewild/American English Mint Royale/Don't Falter Suede/Animal Nitrate Pulp/Do You Remember The First Time Martha & the Vandellas/Nowhere to Run Florence & the Machine/Dog Days are Over Teenage Fanclub/Sparky's Dream

Can't get in here to read so - has this been costed, as far as anyone can tell? What I loved about the London Assembly Greens when I was at Londonist was that had some out there, left wing proposals but always, always costed.

Oh Christ. Oh bloody hell en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_gr...

Yeah this is grim. Govt puts up taxes, because we need to. Business that can easily afford to pay it reacts by cutting loads of jobs, then blames the taxes as if it's been left with no choice, rather than their own refusal to accept anything other than "number goes up".

Thames Fuckin' Water, man. They closed my street on Friday, no warning or information (even the sign says 'tbc' in the date). They've dug a trench and this evening there was nobody around. Right now, 11pm, there's a TW van parked next to the roadworks running some kind of noisy pump.

Banana Three Hour Teams Meeting I can imagine John Peel playing it at the wrong speed.

I’ve been hearing so much anger and disappointment from frontline workers about the BBC investigation into fraudulent asylum claims. One of the most damning responses has come from one of the experts they interviewed, solicitor Ana Gonzalez. It’s really worth reading her response in full:

You don't hate Mount Everest climbers enough -- The ultimate prestige symbol for unprepared outdoorsmen, the deadly mountain thrives on morbid arrogance and disrespect. At least people are required to bag their poop now, though! #MountEverest #climbing www.jezebel.com/mount-everes...

Going after Parkrun – a non-competitive event which has no changing rooms – perfectly illustrates that it's never been about fairness in sport, women's safety or anything else. It's about bullying and demonising trans people, hounding them out of public life in every space possible. It's disgusting.

My main takeaway from Rome is that it was great when I stopped trying to go anywhere and see anything and just bimbled around the back streets, ate and drank. But the inevitable conclusion is there are plenty of other places in Italy to do that, that are way less annoying.

I'm sure this is fine 👀

FFS can nobody in the Green Party use Google?