The ECHR exists for a genuine and valuable reason!

ICE style enforcement gangs. Mass deportation. Removal of our human rights framework. Scrapping of the Equality Act. By racist, misogynistic, disability-sceptic, transphobic authoritarians and simpletons. Nothing could be more threatening to us all. It’s shameful that they hope it’s a vote winner.

These people are poison. They will unleash racist thugs on the streets of this country and call it security. They will subjugate us to the US and call it patriotism. They must be stopped. There is no more important task in politics.

"THE EARTH CREATURES ARE TO BE EXTERMINATED!" "Doctor Who: Death to the Daleks" part 1 (1974). #DoctorWho

Thanks for all your donations so far. Help me on the last push in the final week of the BHF #WalkForHearts challenge. I’ve done 35 miles so far!! www.justgiving.com/page/stephen...

There is nothing new, or original, in this blog. It is just more about what would have helped me as a new teacher. I don't know why I'm bothering with these blogs really, maybe it is my age... philsalisbury.wordpress.com/2026/02/22/w...

Illegal migrant in small boat stopped from entering sovereign territory without a permit.

“The guy did a great job for a competitive rate. I’m really pleased with it”

If you ever find yourself wondering how things like the Epstein story happened, consider the mid-level newspaper editor who admitted in a public judicial inquiry that he destroyed a woman’s life and drove her to suicide to try and impress Piers Morgan.

I like the Doctor. And I like Reno. And I like the Rufus Wainright. But #StarfleetAcademy really is not very good.

First they stole your EU citizenship. Then they stole your flag. Then they stole your faith. Don’t let them steal your elections.

This is simultaneously hilarious and terrifying

A week to go to the critical Gorton & Denton by-election which is a three-way contest between Greens, Reform & Labour. For the third week in a row the #BBC programme #bbcqt has a Reform UK representative. And over the same period a solitary Green. Not exactly public service broadcasting.

Oh look. ReformUK on #BBCQuestionTime. #BBCQT

Wow

Come, Sir Andrew, there’s no remedy

Author Jim Marion’s wonderfully insightful and contemporary suggestion is that the Kingdom of Heaven is really a metaphor for a state of consciousness; it is not a place you go to, but a place you come from. cac.org/daily-medita...

Trade Union Congress: "Young people: We can't afford our rent. Multi-millionaire Reform MP Richard Tice: We're going to cut your pay."

If only the sign writer had listened intently in case the instructions weren't repeated - Rene

Love those famous sitcom catchphrases

These two women are suing Andrew Tate, alleging he raped them. Here they visit the social media companies that created Tate. Please share. *one voice altered to disguise identity

Perhaps Rupert Lowe is a double agent, working to split the far-right vote so that ReformUK cannot win.

It seems to me that the only people who can handle power well are those who don’t need it too much, those who can equally let go of it and share it. The only people who can handle power are those who have made journeys through powerlessness. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...

I want to believe

It is 12 years today since my cardiac arrest. Every day is a blessing. I’m supporting the BHF’s #WalkForHearts campaign by walking 50 miles through February. Fancy donating? Cool. www.justgiving.com/page/stephen...

Tbf, it scares me witless when I see tired people out and about.

Nadhim Zahawi thinks London is now unsafe, because the other day a tired-looking man walked past him during the morning rush hour.

Fighting age man flees his homeland to seek asylum on overcrowded island.

Someone’s thrown up in front of the Home Office. Seems fair.

This is superb

Wednesday.

Death knell. Kiss off death.

Glad to be presenting another Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2. I talk about love as a habit of care. It's not enough to say "God is Love", we have to prove it with how we treat others. #Quaker #theology #spirituality @quaker.org.uk www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

An Olympics with much longer pauses between events. Pinter Olympics.

Preach

Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks. He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger. Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...

“He just wants to make money from far-right anger”

Does this put more or less pressure on Starmer to go?

The more we point out what massive wazzocks ReformUK are, and how much of a risible toerag Farage is, the more popular they will become. People will vote Farage precisely because of his nasty, vindictive rhetoric and his grubby halitosis.

Excellent points here

This is good news

Pleased with Week 1. This is in addition to my usual daily steps. Plus there’s an extra mile to add in because I didn’t wear my watch yesterday when I walked to the dentist and back. www.justgiving.com/page/stephen... #WalkForHearts

I’m doing the BHF #WalkForHearts, walking 50 miles during February. Thanks for all the donations so far. Help me smash my target: www.justgiving.com/page/stephen...

@stephenkb.bsky.social What’s your prediction? Starmer out this week? This month? At all? Most likely successor?

Well I don't think that's fine 🤬

I can’t speak for the us experience but our experience has seen public assets become victim to vulture capitalism - taken over, leveraged and run down.

I knew Matt Goodwin promoted the far right Great Replacement Theory but until @huwcdavies.bsky.social pointed it out, I didn't realise he'd actually interviewed the originator of the theory on his GB News show and plugged it like he's PT Barnum. A vote for Goodwin is a vote for white nationalism