Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain. They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city. Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.

This had made me laugh more than it really should've.

Something we all need.

Amid all the stuff about ‘dangerous London’ and ‘broken Britain’, new figures show the homicide rate in London is at a 10-year low. Killings dropped by 26% over the last year, from 78 to 58. No one under 25 was murdered during the school summer holidays.

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The planning curse of secretly adding 18 stories to a building STRIKES AGAIN

Ignore the haters. London is the 🐐

A *white British* grooming gang. Let’s be consistent. www.bbc.com/news/article...

In Tower Hamlets, Aspire stooges have consistently tried to pin auditing problems on the previous Labour administration (problems the fab @mufeedah.bsky.social was brilliantly tackling) whilst ignoring the elephant in the room. Wilful? Or just ignorant? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Pursue engagement at the cost of credibility and you’ll deserve neither and lose both.

Nigel Farage has clearly never wandered around the West End after 9pm...!

I see we’re still ‘saving brick lane’ by spending insane amounts of £’s (which could be spent on services) on legal fees because cllrs are unable to perform their statutory duty to determine the lawfulness of planning applications. Ignorance of the planning process strikes again! 🤪🤯

Whenever I post about Gaza / Palestine, it's pretty clear a lot of people don't hear about what the UK government actually say & do - especially when it's on the world stage, like at the UN or other international orgs. So I thought I'd make a simple thread to post links as things happen. 1/

Labour Yimby are disappointed by the Government’s decision to concede to the Nimby lobby on the planning reforms this country so desperately needs. For the first time the Labour Government is backing the blockers, not the builders. 1/

We’re quoted in The Times voicing concerns about HMG’s planning concessions. We back protecting nature and building the homes and infrastructure Britain needs. These changes risk doing neither while adding delays, legal challenges, and uncertainty. www.thetimes.com/article/af8e...

Commentators: 'Labour's wasted its first year in office'. Ed Miliband:

Very pleased to see this! Well done to all who signed.

🏳️‍⚧️🚨 New letter from MPs on trans rights & EHRC Consultation on the #ForWomenScotland ruling. I have written a letter to the EHRC to urgently raise concerns about the Draft Code of Practice consultation after the ruling. I am proud to say that 32 of my colleagues have signed it too.

Incredible turnout and atmosphere in Budapest as huge crowds march in defiance of Viktor Orbán. Mayor Karácsony has shown tremendous leadership, and the organisers huge courage. It was an honour to march in solidarity with Hungary’s LGBTQI+ community.

Fantastic work from Rachel! Huge kudos to her, the supportive MP’s, & the team at LGBT+ Labour for convincing the Gov this amendment was necessary to fulfil our manifesto promise. This is how we create change. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

I told you HS2 was a good idea!

It is now nearly 3 years since Mayor Rahman & co. announced a new 'Joint Venture' to build "thousands of council homes". None of the deadlines for this project have been met and no brick has been laid. Every council home delivered since May 2022 was authorised by Tower Hamlets Labour's Mayor + cllrs

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

Wernher von Braun anyone?

Oh Liverpool. What a fucking awful thing amongst such joy. 💔

Merseyside Police urge people not to spread misinformation on social media. Some hope. The usual grifters up to their usual tricks.

It’s insane, no-one is saying you ‘can’t’ have access to that information/material …but follow the law and pay for it…as it doesn’t belong to you?!

Typically the vocals we get around the Opera House are of a different variety. Welcome Sport Ball. ⚽️🤷‍♂️

Here’s hoping it’s harder to argue with Lady Hale! Perhaps she can have a word with Baroness Falkner…

BRING BACK SURE START www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Just taking my birth certificate swimming with me in case the person hosing down the pubes and plasters in the changing village reckons I have the wrong shaped skull to go for a piss

There should be resignations at the top of the EHRC because of the way they have wantonly and purposefully misinterpreted this ruling.

This is terrible news.

Obsessed with this thread. Stunning casting from the brill Martin Ware at Nina Gold and lovely to see Roger B getting a shout out!

And now as I am fundamentally a Gay cliché, it’s Eurovision Day and as an extra camp bonus there’s a Eurovision themed Doctor Who episode 😍 So this evening I’ll be watching to be reminded that an inclusive, open & frankly fun society is what the vast majority of people here in the UK aspire to 3/3

Such an extraordinary human. Lovely chats and often an oasis of calm amongst the madness. He’ll be so missed in Tower Hamlets.

The absolute state of the EHRC leadership. Really encouraging to see a Commons committee and in particular staff standing up to its mendacious legally illiterate bullshit. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Exclusive: Equalities and Human Rights Commission expected to give more time to consider its guidance on the supreme court ruling on gender, after a massive backlash from staff and stakeholders. Rumours of a possible policy U-turn also. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Again, I don’t think the government is taking seriously the extent to which TikTok and Instagram Reels are pulling people into a completely different (and insane) information stream

This

In any other major city in Europe the streets of Soho would obviously be pedestrianised and businesses/visitors on a glorious day like today could enjoy al fresco dining. But thanks to Westminster Council and the way we give outsized power to absurd local complaints, not here!

Read my full statement on my website: loom.ly/eKMgcKE

This is ugly, unworkable, nonsense and frankly a mask slip moment. We are in substantial danger of slipping into a moment of mass hysteria and moral panic not seen in decades and it cannot stand.

I can think of one borough that won’t be doing any of this…🙄

Would love to get some clarity over whether cis women who appear masculine should laugh off challenge or whether they should be excluded from sex based spaces because those are the choices they have made. Both arguments made in the last 2 days by leading GC voices.

We need more Pedro Pascals in this world.

To remain safe in bathrooms all I have to do is simply show my vagina to anyone who questions my femininity. Thank you for keeping me safe from male predators LGB Alliance