My first piece for Arguably! 🎉 Freedom is the defining condition of our generation, but it's also a privilege. On class, broken meritocracy, and who really gets to step back from work 👇 open.substack.com/pub/arguably...

For Trans Day of Visibility, we have chosen to lift up the work and voices from the trans+ community. First up, the excellent @smartypantsmarty.com Trans History Week runs 4-10th May, and there is an excellent, free workbook packed full of resources to help you www.wearequeeraf.com/dotheworkbook/

Whisper it, but the populist right are showing signs of global decline. Perhaps the Trump effect. All eyes on the upcoming Hungarian election in April and our local elections in May.

Not to go all Luddite on main but I could totally see a position now where companies / brands / shops / software have no AI as a policy. Could be part of the ethical shopping genre. Some brands already promise their marketing and photos are "human made".

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This was my fave story from last week 🐦‍⬛ European Robin spotted in Canada www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Shirley Raines was a lovely neighbor who saw beauty in so many people.

I remember watching a news report about her here during COVID and then followed her work online. Her service to community, feeding homeless people and her tireless advocacy. What a loss, RIP

Glad to see the back of 2025 honestly but optimistic about 2026! Wishing you happiness for the New Year ahead 🥂🎉

Wishing you a wonderful festive season and Merry Christmas, whatever you are doing and however you are celebrating. Hope you have a good one ❤️🎉🎄🎅🌲

I've been thinking recently about how there is so little empathy to others and compassion left in the world. We are in severe empathy decline and it causes statements like this to happen, classless and low. All we can do is fight against this tide

From 20 Jan 2026, Amazon are allowing publishers who opt out of DRM "protection" for their titles to have their books downloadable as PDF or epub files >> Amazon is loosening its grip on Kindle book downloads, if only slightly www.androidauthority.com/amazon-is-lo...

Is it “flu like symptoms”?

Thinking about the victims and survivors today on World AIDS Day.

Madonna has a long-standing relationship with World AIDS Day, honoring her friend and flatmate, artist Martin Burgoyne, who died of an AIDS-related illness in 1986 at age 23. She wrote two songs in his memory, "In this life" and "This used to be my playground" ❤️ #WorldAidsDay

On World AIDS Day, we remember all those we've lost to HIV/AIDS related illness and unite in our battle against the virus. We’ve committed to zero new transmission of HIV in the capital by 2030. We’ll continue to work with partners to tackle the stigma of getting tested and treated.

Parts of the web appear to have stopped working amid a technical problem at Cloudflare. www.independent.co.uk/tech/cloudfl...

Happy Halloween 🎃 Happy Samhain 👻🎉❤️

The French always do the most French things

TLDR, we need to be more fucking woke!!!

My first article for @newstatesman1913.bsky.social is about what Ricky Hatton’s death meant to me personally www.newstatesman.com/culture/spor...

“We don’t have to approach and criticize this album as art, because it isn’t art. The Life of a Showgirl is made of Shein quality rip-offs of other people’s songs that are constructed shoddily and sold in ginormous quantities. Art takes time and care. This is profit. It’s content.” WHEW.

Hollywood stars, unions and fans criticize Disney's ABC for indefinitely pulling "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" off the air after pressure from the FCC over his comments about the death of Charlie Kirk.

Trump Administration going for a true "Free speech for me but not for thee" policy www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Record numbers of Americans have applied for UK citizenship because of London’s values, says Khan

Wishing you a wonderful Carnival weekend if you are going to the Notting Hill Carnival this weekend ❤️☀️💃 nhcarnival.org

The BBC is showing Chappell Roan's headlining set at Reading Festival at 10:40pm on BBC ONE.

Anyone who belongs to any minority group needs to be aware that what is being done to trans people can and will be done to them. In a decade we have been stripped of our rights to exist in public spaces by a press campaign and a well funded lobby.

Kitty the tank engine… 😂🤣 So cute…. 🥰 🥹

King Charles schedules Trump state visit for when UK parliament is in recess

Happy Summer Solstice 🌞🌅🌻❤️

I loved Faithless for years and their headlining set at the Isle of Wight festival was just perfect ✌️, watching it on TV. It is so difficult to get the tone right and they honoured Maxi Jazz cleverly and also showed they can keep going. It was strangely emotional ❤️🎶

By far my favorite part of South Korean elections: election night graphics. SBS television station kills it EVERY. TIME. They play these clips all night and they get more and more unhinged and creative as the night goes on.

🚨🚨Breaking: New #EU-UK deal is now done. Things are slightly confusing so I will try to clear key things up here with support of this @skynewsrss.bsky.social report. 🧵 news.sky.com/story/uk-and...

Someone has finally been held accountable for the war in Gaza, and it's Gary Lineker www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The FPA is dismayed by Sir Keir Starmer's press accreditation policy for the EU-UK Summit of Monday 19th May. The vast majority of EU news outlets have been denied access. We have written to @10DowningStreet to urge him to reconsider. @EUdelegationUK, @EU_Commission, @RSF_inter

[8] It has been widely noted in the UK LGBTQ media & amongst the community that the UK govt meets regularly with anti-LGBTQ groups who claim to represent LGBTQ people but are in fact lobbyists for the far right dark money funded Tufton St cabal.

There is an EU petition to ban conversion therapy 👇 It ends tomorrow and you need to be from an EU country to sign it. eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...

Happy Birthday @gazgravy.bsky.social 🎂 🥳 🍾 🎉 ❤️

The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced the theme for the 2025 Costume Institute Gala as “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style," which will honor the African American dandy. The style of dress being celebrated reveals a complex history of race, class, and identity politics.

Happy birthday! 🥳🎈🎁🎂🎉😘 @danieljuk.bsky.social

Some observations about the Marine Le Pen verdict: 1) WOW. They really went for it: prison term (w/electronic tag) and 5 years of ineligibility. That's almost exactly what the prosecutors asked for, so she's seriously guilty. 2) Will this halt the progress of the far-right in France? No. But... 1/

Things are not so healthy in the UK either 😬

Yes - but say no to the album version without Left-Eye kids!

So pleased Seb Coe didn't get this 🙏🏆 www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2...

The poorest people in the UK are now worse off than the poorest people in countries such as Slovenia and Malta 💷 🇬🇧 📉 Living standards have plummeted due to welfare cuts and stagnating wages, the National Institute of Economic and Social Research have warned ⤵️ buff.ly/zWP2rua

The whole story about Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa is so sad. Keep thinking about why was no one checking in on them more often, this is a wider societal point really but this is an isolating world when we need more community 😭

Dolly Parton and Carl Dean, 1964.

In these times I find it hard to be my normal moderate and diplomatic self. Like you want to react but just so much insane stuff is coming out of America right now. I really admire some of the Euro (and non Euro) leaders desperately trying to keep a bridge to America and to keep them involved....

Having a little extra Maple Syrup on my pancakes today 😋❤️🇨🇦