Up for helping with #SlowWays this weekend? This map shows 900 routes across Britain that need just one more good review to be verified🐌✅⭐️❤️ Could you check one... or even a trail of routes? And inspire others to follow in your footsteps? Take look: beta.slowways.org/user/waylist...

We are delighted to announce the #GoldsmithsPrize2025 shortlist. Congratulations to our six brilliant novelists! Find out more about the shortlist: www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...

Congratulations to Nottinghamshire & Hameed on winning the title - the cream of the crop 👏👏👏 www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...

We. Are. Champions 🏆 #Champions25

We take another priceless three points from a strong opening day with the ball. #NOTvWAR

#crossword people - does anyone know anything about Serenos the new Guardian setter? Seems an accomplished debut...

That was a fantastic game & brilliant win by Notts against Surrey. What a priceless advertisement for the game! #countycricketmatters #survNotts

Two very important graphs. Net migration reached record levels in 2023 - and has since halved. The vast majority of arrivals comprises students and workers. Arrivals in small boats and asylum seekers - less than 5%. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

618 low hanging routes! Are you close to one?

🚨 UK PRE-ORDERS ARE OPEN 🚨 Roll up roll up - assure yourself a copy of Unch now! Visit: unchcrosswords.com#shop

OK! Let's see how many count(r)y paths we've collectively travelled over the summer! This is the South West Coast Path in South #Devon #UK. Your turn!

Andrew Davies hikes Land’s End to John o’ Groats on Slow Ways! "To those thinking of following in my footsteps, I would say: do it!" buildstories.slowways.org/andrew-davie...

I wouldn’t have thought many Labour MPs came into politics to strip the rights of torture survivors to be reunited with the spouses & children. They need to take a long hard look in the mirror & ask whether Starmer, Cooper & Reeves are really the leadership their careers should be remembered with.

Gotham (village) is very proud of its favourite son.

August is Booker longlist time for me, and thanks to my friends at @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social, I have now started my last book, having finished Misinterpretation yesterday. So far, my favourites are Seascraper and Endling, for very different reasons, and it is an unusually strong list.

I set today’s cryptic crossword in the Guardian. I wrote it in August 2022. Drug case for Supreme Court (6) crosswords-static.guim.co.uk/gdn.cryptic....

I set today's cryptic crossword in the @financialtimes.com. Sample clue: Grandpa goes once around school field event (3-3-5,4) Solve the puzzle on the FT app, or print the pdf here: www.ft.com/content/750b...

Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".

Letter of the day (in the Times)

Arresting 400+ people for the "terrorist" offence of protesting against mass murder while large segments of the right are openly encouraging riots against immigrants is a tale of a very unhappy country and government.

North Downs.

I set the cryptic crossword in this weekend's @financialtimes.com. Sample clues: Sol happiest switching to missionary position (11) Alec and Les tickled to acquire a bit of Liberace memorabilia (11) www.ft.com/content/a38e...

Presenting the #BookerPrize2025 longlist. Find out more about the books and authors that make up this year's Booker Dozen: thebookerprizes.com/bp2025

Guinevere makes a second appearance in the Indy today - hope you enjoy! Where you can get work temporarily?(7) As some Glaswegians' speech can be - deceptively angelic but missing a point (6) God is aggrieved after holy man has a last night of debauchery?(4,2) #cryptic #crossword #independent

Last week, I took a mini-vacation to visit Cambridge, England, and walk a few #SlowWays public footpath routes. The 7-mile journey between Waterbeach and Cambridge followed the River Cam and made for a perfect Saturday morning adventure. As an added bonus, it was super easy to get to by train!

Sloggers & Betters York 2025: www.fifteensquared.net/2025/07/07/s...

I set the cryptic crossword in today's edition of the weekend @financialtimes.com. Sample clue: Punch in the mouth? We click "UK" and "NHS" to get treatment (7,8). Solve the puzzle on the FT app or print the pdf here: www.ft.com/content/a4bf...

New by me, a Name That Tune thematic #cryptic #crossword 👍 mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/2525 Sample clue: It was the absolute rule for some time (4) No spoilers here, thanks! Thanks as ever to the nonpareil @mycrossword.co.uk for enabling such arrant nonsense

I set today’s cryptic crossword in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/crosswords/c... They might form impressions of believers carrying holy books (8)

The downside of rewatching and bingeing Julia Bradbury's Wainwright series on BBCiPlayer? I seem to have constructed a #SlowWays Coast To Coast. No idea when or how I'll ever do this, but there we go... beta.slowways.org/user/waylist...

Chuffed to be back in the Indy today, with clues including... Mock orange leader of nationalist government visiting country bordering Israel (7) Solve for free here: puzzles.independent.co.uk/games/crypti...

Calling everybody who walks, runs, wheels, cycles and rides! Who's up for helping to create the ultimate walking, running, wheeling, cycling & horse riding network for Britain and Ireland? Please check out, back and share our new #SlowWays crowdfunding campaign 👉 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/slowways ⭐

There's some gorgeous walks on the #SlowWays National Park Trail to try in June. This was CatOxt 2 from #Caterham to #Oxted. Quiet and sometimes remote, even nesting ravens! And yet a short train trip from central London. And what a view from Oxted Downs! beta.slowways.org/Route/Catoxt...

I set today’s Prize puzzle in the Guardian. I do hope it works for you: Sex maniac cycling in skimpy clothing for work (8) Strange planet shown by NASA? (3,5) Small breeds get to enjoy Crufts finals (4) www.theguardian.com/crosswords/p...

Decent politicians need to push back against Farage's comments on Lucy Connelly. "millions of mothers after Southport feeling exactly the same way"? No. Millions did NOT feel the need to call for mass murder of asylum seekers & we simply cannot allow the idea to be normalised.

So much for writing up a log every day. The book is untouched so I’ll start here with a memorable photo and a highlight of each day. #TGOC25 #SlowWays #hiking

Methuselah on a Monday with a weird looking grid... What fresh hell is this? puzzles.independent.co.uk/games/crypti...

Sample clue from today's Knut puzzle in The Independent: "Internet relations beginning to corrupt Yankee bishop" - Gaelic Times (8). Solve the puzzle for free here: puzzles.independent.co.uk/games/crypti...

A tree at Shirley churchyard on last week's #SlowWays walk from Hilton to Ashbourne (AshHil 2)

Got a connection with #Exeter? Live, work or play in the city - past, present or future? Please sign this petition I've started for Exeter Council to lead the co-production of an "Exeter Citizen's Plan" - to empower everyone to improve life in our city. www.change.org/exetercitize...

I'm delighted to be back as Amoeba in @the-independent.com today, with clues including: Rickety old car hit entrance to college, leaving youngster in cast (5,5) You can solve it for FREE here: puzzles.independent.co.uk/games/crypti... I hope you enjoy it!

Prediction Trump: We have an American Pope cos I made America Great Again Pope: Nationalism is bad, Jesus didn't like capitalism, and tariffs hurt the poor Trump: The Pope is a bad Pope, what a nasty Pope, I call him Fake Pope, etc Just watch.

I set today’s cryptic crossword in the Guardian - my 50th puzzle for the national dailies. Huge thanks to everyone who has supported me. I hope this one will grow on you: Spooner delivering paper for mistress (4) Pleasant spot close to Epping Forest (6) www.theguardian.com/crosswords/c...

I forgot: I set this month’s Guardian Genius puzzle. uploads.guim.co.uk/2025/04/24/G...

I need you lads to understand that Europe has an average birth rate of about 1.4 No charismatic politician bothered to tell you how fucked that makes us. But as we get older, we need more care, more GP appointments… Without immigration we will have no pensions very quick.

As Liverpool win the Premier League for the second time, they complete the opening of a quite remarkable sequence, 33 years in the making. #Fibonacci

I set the cryptic crossword in today's Independent. Sample clue: Reviewed Jacobi Lear, simply captivating National (7). Solve the puzzle for free here: puzzles.independent.co.uk/games/crypti...

Are Muslims really banning dogs in parks? 🤔 Let’s look at this perfect example of how rage baiting works, and how disinformation spreads, sticks, and fuels division, even years after being debunked… 🧵1/22 (1/1)

A few pictures from Wednesday's #SlowWays pleasant but unspectacular walk from Retford to Sutton on Trent. I have just one Nottinghamshire SlowWays route left to do, and hope to do Rampton to Gainsborough tomorrow to finish the set (see link below for a map). beta.slowways.org/user/waylist...