Very sad to hear of Ming's death - he was such wonderful company, mordantly cynical at times, and with a sensationally dapper wardrobe - he and Elspeth were a very glamorous pair - and it's quite a life story www.ft.com/content/891e...

Through her creative platform, Saint Heron, Solange has launched The Saint Heron Library, a digital archive dedicated to making rare and out-of-print works by Black authors, poets, and artists accessible to all. 🔗 library.saintheron.com

Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets. • Joy Reid • Don Lemon • Melissa Harris-Perry • Tiffany Cross • Jemele Hill • Marc Lamont Hill • Karen Attiah • Amber Ruffin

see also my recent thread on the vulnerability of UK structures to this sort of scepticism bsky.app/profile/chri...

Ed Davey, "Nigel Farage is on the side of Elon Musk, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump" "The LibDems are on the side of the British people" "Unlike Farage I love Britain, I'm proud of our country"

Steven Isserlis has told the story that his pianist grandfather, and father (aged 5), arrived in Vienna in 1922 and found a flat. The 102-year-old landlady didn’t want to take in a musician, because a previous musical tenant was noisy. Some guy called Beethoven.

The Royal Society for Blind Children (RSBC) urgent appealing to children’s authors, writers and publishers to donate stories to its new bedtime stories app. The charity relies on stories in the public domain but are running out of books. Anyone willing to donate should contact [email protected].

‘I’m a refugee who works and am never idle. Farage labels us lazy scroungers’ - The i Paper

Important read. Refugees caught in a bureaucratic nightmare. Nothing to do for months or years. Cooking in the bathroom instead of eating constant chips and chicken nuggets. Forced to take taxis no matter the length of the journey, long or short.

23 September 1919 | A Czech Jewish woman, Zuzana Böhmová, was born in Prague. She was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 September 1943. She did not survive. --- Women at Auschwitz. Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_kobiety_en/ Podcast: https://youtu.be/ijTxtbNlJO8

I was tucking myself into bed & a fleeting thought flashed through my mind. For the past 17y* we have all been bombarded with a 21st Century version of ‘free speech’. It’s the idea that we all listen to the guys who lost WWII & respect their opinion. Which, frankly, is insane. Yet here we are.

This should be the line

What an interesting "case study" Sam Coates provides. Apparently, protecting children is boring, especially since most people agree with it. Xenophobia, on the other hand, is eye-catching and creates division. What a depressing state our media is in. ~AA

Liberal Democrats will not see our animal welfare standards sold out in a race to the bottom of dodgy trade deals with Donald Trump's administration. youtube.com/shorts/zJyJh...

In his interview with Ed Davey BBC's Mason was far more challenging about the Lib Dem claims that the BBC is soft on Farage than he ever is when he interviews Farage about his spurious claims on immigration. QED!

Anthony Olubunmi George, who arrived in 1986 and has no criminal convictions, given right to remain Previous poor and (unknown to him) fraudulent legal representation and a couple strokes made him vulnerable to deportation. The Home Office had wanted to deport him before he won his legal appeal.

Responding to terrible proposals from terrible people with variations of "we're doooomed" gets us nowhere. Argue against them. Organise. Join/support parties, candidates, NGOs, trade unions that oppose the terrible proposals. Point out that much the media is crap. Fight back FFS.

26,000 YouTube views for Sinclair’s Charlie Kirk tribute special. Just for comparison, Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue on any average Wednesday will get between two and four MILLION YouTube views. Right wing culture is fringe stuff. It is not American culture by any stretch.

It's amusing to think there are people shitting themselves at the prospect of being left behind on rapture day. I'm sorely tempted to leave an old pair of shoes and a pile of clothes outside one of the evangelical churches down here just to fuck with their heads.

The truth: we need migration. The problem: too many politicians are terrified to say it. Why? They're led by a) toxicity of the charlatans & b) wealthy media organisations who demand these useful distractions rather than us talking about inequality. Reject it. Draw the line.

I met Dr. David Ho! He’s responsible for the fact that HIV is no longer a death sentence and his work has saved tens of millions of lives. Why he doesn’t have a Nobel Prize is beyond me. AMA.

🇵🇱 "We know that you disregard international law and cannot live in peace with your neighbors. Your extreme nationalism is a thirst for domination that will not end until you accept that the era of empires is over and yours will not return," — Sikorski told the Russian representative at UN meeting.

There’s a complete lack of people impacted by policies ever on the news tbqh When was the last time you heard a trans voice in the so-called “trans debate”? The biggest stories in our national conversation and apart from advocates like @zoejardiniere.bsky.social it’s primarily far right voices

#BBCNews LOL! It's Lib Dems' conference week, BBC News are broadcasting a Reform UK Ltd press conference live. When I tell you that there's an organised conspiracy underway to have Nigel Farage installed as PM in the UK, believe me. This is outrageous. Corruption at the BBC.

GAY LOVE IS BEAUTIFUL AND TRANS LIVES MATTER. OUR EXISTENCE IS NOT UP FOR DEBATE. WE DESERVE JOY, SAFETY AND CELEBRATION 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❤️

17 September 1931 | A French Jewish girl, Colette Rosen, was born in Saint Dizier. In February 1944, she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber. --- Watch a short video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck

Chiitan loves all transgender people. I've received a lot of criticism for expressing my support, but what's more important is that all transgender people live happy lives. Blue Sky cannot display long posts, so please read this post if you'd like. love you all 🤍 ↓ www.instagram.com/reel/C9qppva...

"What is happening in Gaza is a genocide. And the President of the United States, who wants a Nobel Peace Prize, is doing nothing to stop it." @EdDavey.LibDems.org.uk

multiculturalism has been a success for the UK. Austerity should be blamed for failing the country. It's not a hard message to communicate

Do please join a stellar cast tonight for our live Climate Assembly, online and in person. www.theguardian.com/guardian-liv...

Days after the UKGOV declared Israel is not comitting genocide in Gaza, the UN declares the opposite. The UK cannot keep sending weapons, training IDF troops in UK and flying reconnaissance flights over gaza helping Israel.

Why what is happening in the United States shows the need for the United Kingdom to repair its own constitution Our polity is there for the taking Substack emptycity.substack.com/p/the-pointl... Personal blog davidallengreen.com/2025/09/the-...

Let me know. Don't have to be in education research. Would love a youth or media researcher who can simply speak to it as advice for what teachers/parents can do. I'm asking because the algorithm is throwing up the live assassination in kids' feeds. The blog gets google news aggregated

Fantastic column by @stephenkb.bsky.social "Racism in the UK remains the preserve of an extreme minority — but one that is emboldened and growing louder. It is the result of a year in which neither the government nor the opposition have been willing to draw red lines." www.ft.com/content/fbbd...

The only refugees Reform seem to like are people fleeing the Tory Party.

Tim never missed a day of his relentless efforts to report genuinely on the 1300 days of ruSSian imperialism, the equivalent of days of warcrimes. Keep supporting Tim if you can, every ko-fi helps, because Tim, too, cannot survive on oxygen alone. ko-fi.com/twmcltd

Read this and tell me how this isn't going to END BADLY? open.substack.com/pub/charliea...

TLDR: Make racism shameful again. While you’re at it add fascism too.

A packed Westminster Hall debate is getting underway into a petition signed by more than 120,000 people calling on the government to "retain legal right to assessment and support in education for children with SEND". www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

15 September 1904 | A Frenchman, Maurice Foubert, was born in Gisors. A radiotechnician. In #Auschwitz from 8 July 1942. No. 45552 He perished in the camp on 18 September 1942. https://t.co/CBQoZ4iG46 https://t.co/kmoJZFXpGt

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Lol over 48 hours after he says them www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The latest image shared by the moronic patriots in the UK. In other news Peruvian bear comes, via a small boat, to the UK to seek a new, better, life

Look at the list of ‘dangerous’ goods that weren’t allowed in to Gaza even before the invasion.

Cis people: Over 2 days the media has widely reported a rally of 100,000 fascists but did not report Trans Pride London which was also attended by 100,000 people. This should tell you that UK mainstream media is dangerously biased against trans people & it’s reporting about us totally unreliable.

Nigel Farage (Dulwich), Danny Kruger (Eton), Richard Tice (Uppingham) and Isabel Oakeshott (Gordonstoun) aren't 'standing up to the elite'. They are the elite.