So, I dreamed that a) One of my friends had unexpectedly died, which was very upsetting b) I was selling Mariah Carey's toilet seat on ebay, which was somewhat less upsetting.

Cooking with Long Covid Tonight's dinner Stir-fried chicken with red and green peppers, onions, spring onions, fresh ginger, and garlic, in a sherry, toasted sesame oil and soy sauce.

We tend to think of 'green', pro-animal rights, activism and politics as being inherently left-wing, liberal and/or progressive, but the far right have always had a presence in the movement www.jewishnews.co.uk/revealed-the... #antisemitism #antisemitic #Jewish

The prominent presenter on Rupert Murdoch's British Talk TV channel, Mike Graham, has been sacked, for refusing to co-operate into an investigation into racist content on his social media feed www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

The area from the river to the sea is a homeland for both Jews and Palestinians. Is there a way for both peoples to enjoy sovereignty without carving up the territory? Join us TUESDAY, 11/18, as we host Dr. Fakhira Halloun & Prof. Oren Yiftachel of A Land for All. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

A reminder of how the esteemed philosopher and pacifist Bertrand Russell would have contended with a German occupation of the United Kingdom (via @equusonthebuses.bsky.social )

Excellent news for womens health promotion, world-wide 'More than 80 organizations that provide health care for women all over the world received grants Wednesday totaling $250 million from Melinda French Gates after a year-long application process' financialpost.com/pmn/more-tha...

Post someone who looks great in a hat

I was saddened to learn, last night, that South Woodford's lovely Hungarian restaurant, The Lakehouse, is closing next month. Try to support your local independent businesses.

‘I’ll be executed on Tuesday’: families reveal panicked last calls from foreigners on Saudi’s death row www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

I have no idea what these noodles have to do with the holidays.

Reform UK accused of embracing racism over its pick for head of student organisation

X is in clear + systemic breach of its legal duties in the UK to remove unlawful content from its platform. Proof: when X users abuse + harass others with the racial slur "paki", X reporting system defends the racist abuse in more than 90% of cases reported. A new thread documenting this.

Ukraine has long been known to have an issue with corruption, and, alas, corruption tends to thrive at times of war www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Who knew that harvesting olives could be so subversive? #Palestine #Israel www.timesofisrael.com/banned-from-...?

I think BBC Arabic can't really continue in its current state. It's too compromised a service. It probably needs a root-and-branch reorganisation www.thejc.com/news/uk/fami...

Birmingham Labour councillor Bushra Bi apologises after suggesting that Sir Keir Starmer is biased in favour of Israel ‘because his wife is Jewish’ www.thejc.com/news/politic...

Police officers should be bound by the highest standards. Everyone should feel safe to turn to them in a crisis, regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, sexuality or religion. If we cannot trust officers to deal with us all equitably, then our justice system is failing www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Dozens of settlers launch arson attack on town of Beit Lid, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank as attacks against Palestinians surge edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/m...

UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...?

Milan, Italy : 25 yr old man arrested after antisemitic attack on a group of US Ultra-Orthodox Jewish tourists at the central railway station. He also shouted antisemitic threats and insults such as “dirty Jews” and “you kill children in Palestine, and I’ll kill you" www.jpost.com/diaspora/ant...

Nowhere in Ukraine is truly 'safe' from Russian attacks, but Kherson is rather dangerous, with the front line being across the River Dnieper. It comes under daily attack. Kudos should go to Angelina Jolie for opting to visit it, instead of 'safer' locations www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrain...

Afghanistan is in a state of moral and economic chaos www.jpost.com/internationa...

Prominent American supporter of President Trump, Melissa Rein Lively, and her partner Philip Ostermann, have been named as the suspects in an alleged racist attack on a family at Bond Street Tube station, in central London, on October 11th www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/b...

Unsurprisingly, Jeremy Corbyn has finally come out as an anti-Zionist, which, essence, means Your Party (or whatever it will be called) won't accept a two-state solution for Israel/Palestine, and will, I assume, seek the dismantling of Israel as a sovereign state www.jewishnews.co.uk/corbyn-says-...

Staffordshire Reform UK cabinet member, Cllr Peter Mason (member for for Burton South) has apologised for a series of 'disgusting' (his own description) posts, which included racial and homophobic allusions, to social media, prior to his election www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“Since Donald Trump descended that golden escalator in 2015, the Republican party has devolved into a cult of personality that mirrors the worst authoritarian regimes of the last one hundred years" : Veteran GOP fundraiser Miles Bruner www.newsweek.com/veteran-gop-...

There is still much to be revealed about what happened in Gaza, as there always is after wartime. Once the dust has settled on fighting, mouths begin to loosen www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

In 1973, a law was passed in the Swedish parliament that all men in the country who dressed like this were granted tax breaks. This explains why Swedish men looked the same from 1973 until 1977.

People who are born with intersex conditions should not be subjected to surgeries to 'clarify' their sex until they are old enough to make an informed decision. Let them decide how they wish to present, and how they wish to live their lives www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Well, the last week has been quite...interesting. I was hit with gastroenteritis, which, I can easily say, was not a wildly enjoyable experience, and is not something that I would recommend to the curious.

Tonight's dinner Khoresh-e karafs (a Persian stew of chicken, celery and onions, in a saffron, turmeric rosewater and lime sauce, with parsley and mint)

I only learned, today, that the skeletons used in the 'pool sequence' of Poltergeist were real www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...?

Well-meaning Americans in my mentions: kindly do not recommend extremely illegal actions that could land people in the UK with a ten year prison sentence

When an Israeli top military official does what law and moral requires, the result is that she gets arrested. Today, we should stand with Maj Gen Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi. www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.bbc....

Det Sgt Derek Ridgewell (who died in 1982) is known to have framed 13 men (mainly Black) for crimes in the 1970s, but a former colleague believes that he may have framed c. 100 more. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Unlike Mr Farage, I disagree that the minimum wage should be cut for young people bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...

Bots, AI memes and Reform councillors: How foreign Facebook pages are hijacking UK patriotism

MPs urge minister to adopt definition of Islamophobia amid rise in hate crime

Let's take a ride... My next book is coming out with @faberbooks.bsky.social. Tales of the Suburbs: LGBTQ+ Lives Behind Net Curtains will be published March 12 2026. Preorder links in profile, and lots more on the book and the remarkable stories people told me to come over the next few months...

For it is indeed this weird ‘un

So, the guy who wants more cousins marrying each other also says poor people deserve moldy and damp housing.

star trek and famous art: a thread

Nancy Mace's outburst could be summarised as 'Do you know who I am?!' The Republican politician, representing South Carolina, has developed a reputation for confrontational transphobia in recent years, which has recently tipped into (unsurprisingly) homophobia www.wired.com/story/nancy-...

Why did the polls get the Caerphilly byelection wrong? They ignored the fact Reform is an English nationalist party

A movie you’ve seen more than 7 times with a gif

Huntingdon - This comment from Simon Calder is worth repeating. My thoughts with all involved

*facepalm*

'Reform has lost 36 councillors at the time of writing. Since May, when it won a total of 677 councillors, 11 have been expelled, six suspended, nine have left the party, one has defected to UKIP, and nine have resigned from the council altogether' www.politicshome.com/news/article...