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It is with shock and genuine sadness that I learn of the passing of my good friend, long time colleage and just a really kind man, Quentin Willson. He will be sorely missed by many who knew and worked with him.

well it is that time of year again...

If I wanty to read extreel fascy and cruellymost posts from twittle, I wouldn’t have deletey my account there. So many unfalollowits today. Folly folly.

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Thinking of the Pogues response to Laurence Fox.

“Save £5,000!” is doing some real heavy lifting on the Black Friday sales at Andertons Music store 🤣

When I was first elected, evidence showed it would take 193 years to bring London's air pollution within legal limits. Due to our policies, we've done it in 9. In Brazil this week, we showed that cities are giving the world reason to hope when it comes to tackling the climate emergency.

Murdering humans in the Caribbean Sea. Risking starvation of tens of millions of Americans. Urging abusive federal agents to use deadly force. Can Americans agree to never again elect a man who could not care less about human life, except for his own?

“Why Bill Gates’ climate memo is being celebrated by skeptics while frustrating scientists" | Article by Ryan M. Katz-Rosene for @us.theconversation.com: theconversation.com/why-bill-gat...

Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...

Respectfully, Bill Gates needs to shut up [via @slate.com]

Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.

Here's a thought experiment: if you could become the richest person who ever lived, but the price would be that you have no friends, nobody to love, no sense of humour, no human feelings a- no, wait, sorry it's not a thought experiment, it's actually been done by Elon Musk.

Looking for something to cheer you up this winter? Good luck with that. Meanwhile, read my chilling psychological thriller, Stone Heart Deep, and give yourself a scare. “As if Iain Banks rewrote the Wicker Man,” according to one review. Audiobook also available. www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1785...

BBC News - Joey Barton guilty over 'offensive' X posts www.bbc.com/news/article...

60% of the British public agree: our voting system is not fit for purpose. The upcoming Elections Bill is a chance to fix it. I just signed a @makevotesmatter.bsky.social petition to the Democracy Minister, calling for Proportional Representation. Add your name: actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe...

Fixed that for him

Turns out he was allergic to tacky decor. (Photo by @andyharnik /@GettyImages)

Dr Grace Brown of Glasgow University explains where 25% of your ticket and millions of pounds of the country’s goes to: [spoiler alert, it’s into wealthy executives and shareholders pockets] bsky.app/profile/weow...

BBC News - Pauline Collins, star of Shirley Valentine, dies aged 85 www.bbc.com/news/article...

And one of the blokes moaning on here actually voted Reform. They stated they were going to take the Doge shears to our public services and that is what they will do Making personal fortunes. Heartless grifter bastards who conned people into voting for them. Helped amongst others by the BBC.

We need a wealth tax now www.oxfam.org.uk/get-involved...

I hope these copyright thieves go bankrupt as their morals

Sky News's data forensics team has spent 9 months examining the algorithm on Elon Musk's X platform, and found it clearly promotes right wing views to new users of the site, even to those who deliberately only follow left wing accounts. This short film explains more www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq6M...

Absolutely insane. Labour would have purged and smeared someone like Zohran Mamdani. Wes Streeting's politics align far more closely with Andrew Cuomo. The lessons from Mamdani are about how to defeat both the right - and the bankrupt "centre".

I hate Guy Fawkes Boxing Day, when we have to eat up all the unexploded fireworks. Bangers for lunch with rocket salad.

If Zohran Mamdani was a British MP, he would’ve been expelled from Keir Starmer’s Labour Party long ago. That’s a fact.

He's a South African Jewish guy who's married to a Buddhist lady of Indian/Kenyan/Mauritian heritage. They live in England yet teach their kids they can never truly be English. And he's copy and pasting far right filth disparaging "unusual" family set ups. The state of the Bravermans.

Thank you, New York City. Together we made history. Now let’s get to work. transition2025.com

Samir Zitouni saved passengers’ lives — now I’m urging the government to honour his bravery with the George Medal. c.org/JrGz4PMyfS

RIP Gilson Lavis. www.instagram.com/p/DQtzhbWjH5...

Jools Holland's Hootenanny bandmate and Squeeze star Gilson Lavis has died

We see something similar in the UK. Most benefits go to people IN WORK. Because there are not enough properly paid jobs. Rather than insisting employers pay decent wages, governments use taxpayers’ money to subsidise employers who don’t. Welfare was not meant to support employers. This is wrong

🎬 The arts aren’t a luxury - they’re an export. At #Lab25, @aiannucci.bsky.social reminds us that the UK’s Creative Industries make up 6% of our economy and 7% of our workforce - the GDP equivalent of oil + car industries combined. 🎥 Watch more clips from the Creative UK Pavilion hubs.ly/Q03QVhV90

A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Get your colleagues and friends off it, folks.

And so to bed. A figure of hope arises in the UK. @countbinface.bsky.social #Nerdlings

Guy Fawkes took the brilliantly original pseudonym “John Johnson” for his attempt to blow up Parliament today in 1605 We should make sure that anyone of that surname should not be allowed within a mile of the building.

LIBERALS: oh dear what can we do to defeat rightwing extremism and fascism? THE LEFT: socialism. LIBERALS: whoa, let’s not get carried away here, but we’ll give your suggestion careful consideration, keep your details on file, and get back to you when it’s too late.

Rachel Reeves says we have a £25 billion black hole Rachel Reeves knows Brexit makes us £40 billion poorer Rejoining the EU would give us a £15 billion surplus Why doesn't Labour want what's best for the UK? Tax rises? That'll be Brexit

Do ask any Labour MPs or centrist commentators congratulating Mamdani what they can possibly learn from some of his policies. Like these for instance.

So Yaxley-Lennon is not guilty of terrorism offences but grannies holding Palestine Action placards are. Go figure.