Political parties aren't taxis that you hire to take you to your individual destination. They're buses. You pick the one that's going closest to where you want to go.

Had a lovely birthday thanks. Walk I. Sunny woods. Cocktails, dinner and theatre in the West End with my love. Fab day. 🌲🌞🍸🍴 🎭

They are malevolent, or they are morons.

I hope people understand that if Trump gets his way America will soon be part of the global axis of evil if we aren't already. You see it in the Caribbean, you see it in Ukraine, and you see it with Trump trying to buddy up to Xi. We are a malevolent force.

Step 1: get rid of McSweeney Glasman, Starmer and Mahmood., Step 2: start doing what the people who voted for you actually want, rather than aping Farage.

Kremlin: The new US security strategy is “largely aligned” with Russia’s vision.

This @lewisgoodall.com interview with Mr ‘Pro Russia’ Hutchinson is excellent. Skewered right through the middle. Did not know @lbc.co.uk did comedy hour in a Sunday Morning. #traitor

Sign of how bad things are going right now in this country. Even the hot water bottles are fashy.

Invasion of purple lupins drom Alaska threatens biodiversity jn Iceland www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Take note, opponents to a wealth tax in the UK.

Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇

Spot on! @bjennings90.bsky.social

We became a ludicrous country when we left the EU, elected that lying twat Johnson as PM and began to consider the racist Farage as a respectable politician.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social tell Pat she should download the full show podcast daily and listen to this whilst she's away in Tenerife - this is what I did whilst in South Africa for the last fortnight, keeping me amused, informed and in touch with whatever nonsense was happening back in the UK.

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

Wow that was a proper 12 hr sleep. Needed that. Makes a change not having the ‘car alarm bird’ go off at 4:20am. #safari #dawnchorus

Thank you for having us South Africa. You’ve been amazing. #southafrica

This was a fantastic conversation- really thought provoking and powerful. Highly recommended.

Baroness Heather Hallett, "Had the lockdown been imposed one week earlier than the 23rd of March, the evidence suggests the number of deaths in England alone in the first wave, would have been reduced by 48%, that's 23,000 fewer deaths"

From swimming pool to waterhole is just a few metres. Look who just showed up.

God I wish they’d shut their mouths and stop speaking. For ages I’ve been wishing they’d be a bit more vocal, a bit more visible… BUT NOT LIKE THIS YOU IDIOTS.

Dear Mahmood/Labour, Once the strutting fascist, Yaxley Lennon, is taking credit for your policies, you must know you’ve completely lost your way. You need to get your head out of your arse and your account off X. Yours The real silent (fair-minded and ignored) majority of the UK

We saw all three of these signs today in South Africa. Not sure which one is the funniest?! Reader: we did not swim in the river, used hands to flush the loo and haven’t (yet) called the number! 😅 Please share your funniest signs found on holiday.

Gorgeous skies over Franschhoek right now #sunset #southafrica

Delightful to meet the penguins at Boulders Beach today. #penguins #capetown

As seen at the London Tesla showroom.

"the Gestapo, but for a good cause" This is the story of how democracy died. #ICE bsky.app/profile/righ...

Hello from Cape Town

Hello from Cape Town

‘It’s unbelievable!’ exclaimed my 91 year old mother in law incredulously - since her 92 year old husband died last December, at least 7 other people she knows have died! I did not know how to respond…. 🙄

This shouldn't need pointing out, but immigration is not the cause of some arsehole attacking people with a knife. The, not insignificant, detail of said arsehole being born in UK aside. People claiming it is, e.g. Goodwin, Hannan et al, are showing themselves up for being ethno-nationalist racists.

Kemi Badenoch is absolutely right about this. At the time she hacked Harriet Harman's emails it was an offence carrying a prison sentence of up to five years

Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community. Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.

Farage: epic grifter

Liquidambar Envy. Went to visit a client today and check in on our new planting in the walled garden but this stunner stopped me in my tracks.

Absolutely loved this short but highly evocative novel recommended by @chrisbryant1962.bsky.social. Clear by Carys Davies is a beatlutiful but haunting story told sparingly but with such a delicate touch. Highly recommended.

Forest bathing taken to a whole other level today at #SheffieldParkNT with sumptuous autumn colours turned up to eleven. #autumncolours

I am beginning to think God has a Trump Complex.

Oh so nice to speak to my friend @mrjamesob.bsky.social on #mysteryhour about trees and soil just now. Thanks for the 👏

You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.

One reflection talking to other Jews today is how unshocking this is. Numbing, upsetting, scary but not shocking. We all knew it was coming. Given the enormous rise in antisemitic incidents in recent years, it's a surprise it hasn't happened more often.

Mel Stride on cutting welfare beyond the bone: “We really need to do this, because the country is living beyond its things.” Oh well when you put it like that, I’m convinced… 🤷‍♀️ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Gorgeous walk at dusk this evening. Ducked out of the gym cos my arms are aching after two travel jabs!

perfect detail

Answers on a postcard. Farage - who is currently in line to be the next Prime Minister of the UK - won't explain this mounting ties to a hostile foreign power. We need more investigation and public inquiry before its too late 12/12 bylinetimes.com/2025/10/04/t...

🔥 Britain is about to launch a new GCSE in natural history – a vital step toward restoring our knowledge of and respect for the natural world.

POV you meet your all time musical hero and he greets you by name and asks if you did Chelsea again this year … 😁 😍😘 my teenage self would not believe this possible @nikkershaw.bsky.social

Farage's latest spasm of ugly, senseless xenophobia made me reach for this recent thing I did for @bylinetimes.bsky.social If you want to shrink immigration, you need to explain how the country keeps working. Here's the reality. What's the plan? www.bylinesupplement.com/p/russell-jo...

Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage should be apologising for helping cause this problem in the first place" "Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with EU countries and we could return people" -Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats