I'm a bemused Catholic priest who finds rather too many mysteries in his path

I walked past Stephen Fry in Soho one day. Thought, what a well-cut suit and coat, nice shoes. It was probably 10 mins before I realised who it had been.

Also this is awesome. Light in the darkness truly

Some true Christmas light in the dark

Happy Christmas if you celebrate! Have a nice weekend if you don’t. New year’s greetings will follow but have fun and be happy xx

If our government continues to acknowledge the damage of Brexit while simultaneously failing to offer any real solutions, it won't just be the Brexiters crying 'betrayal'. @implausibleblog.bsky.social @bremaininspain.com @grahambs.bsky.social

My Mac has updated to some ghastly new OS and I can't find anything. If I want to save stuff, it pushes me to OneDrive. Why can't they leave things alone?

NEW: Labour just announced the biggest change in planning policy in 80 years. My breakdown of the key measures and whether they will succeed. www.samdumitriu.com/p/labour-are...

A thousand reasons to love the French, and this has to be one of them

I think this might interest you! open.substack.com/pub/peteapps...

A Christmas Carol brought home to Leeds Charles Dickens’ much-loved tale of the perils of greed, the power of community spirit and of ultimate redemption is a seasonal feast By Ginny Gilmore @gingoddess.bsky.social

Does anyone in the Leeds area recognise this style of security pass? Found in Whitehall Road 9 December

I want to decorate our Xmas tree. I have our Xmas tree and probably not quite enough decorations.| I am in complete stasis - reading Bluesky - in case I do it wrong. I don't even believe in Xmas tree police

I only just realised that one way to support all the wonderful creatives that @garius.bsky.social is supporting would be to repost his thread. Fill your boots, there is lovely stuff to be had

Another Brexit economic verdict arrived last month in the form of an 83-page NBER working paper - and it is devastating. What shocks me more is how politely politics continues to look away from the person who drove the bus.

If you find yourself in West Yorkshire, any Yorkshire really, this winter, do try to see this starring @reecedinsdale.bsky.social . It's really fabulous. yorkshirebylines.co.uk/society/cult...

Could I ask you clever people a question please. I have an iPhone 14 running iOS18.? I used to be able to move an app into a folder on the home screen but pressing it and dragging it. I now can't get it to move into a folder, just move around the screen. What am I doing wrong please?

Quick note to anyone thinking of buying my books: please purchase the new Swift Press versions, NOT the relatively small number of Unbound versions still knocking about, & being sold by OOINYA. Unbound stopped paying me for my work early in 2024 and I will never see a penny for these books.

This is a fairly terrifying read, particularly if you have any knowledge of how the NHS tries to function. Just those six words: Flu has come five weeks early. www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/the-punish...

Can I please ask all my followers in the US (a surprising number from Kansas for some reason, which is epic) to pass two messages on for your orange grievance merchant in chief? First - Leave the BBC out of your lying mouth. Second - #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles. Please and thank you.

“My whole life, my real life, unfolded here. This is home, heart and bone.” A beautiful, uplifting thread. Shame on you, Shabana Mahmood

What Hannah said.

Gah! Order a jacket. Check website sizing carefully against another garment because 'women's clothes'. Arrives: too small. To return it I have to pay the return fee BEFORE I get a refund. And I can't get to a shop selling this brand and I live in a major city.

Very important article to read. And there will be more. So get ahead of the coming storm.

My GP practice seems to have had its repeat prescription service amended for it - again. More confusing than ever. I don't blame the doctors at all, but the software suppliers

I'm glad to see Roscoe is taking his CEO duties seriously.

I know zip about these kind of games, but he seems a nice guy

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.

Bear is on point as ever. open.substack.com/pub/iratusur...

Let's hope 2025 turns out to be an annus horribilis for this horrible anus of a man...

What we were discussing earlier, @yorkshirebylines.co.uk

My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.

‘Rescued’ random older couple on train. Booked 1st class from Stonehaven to MCR airport. Only told at York - where they expected to change - train went to Man Victoria and they would need to make their way from there. We all opted for the Wythenshawe tour tram - got us here but slow

As one of the world’s oldest parliamentary democracies, we might have to accept that we can’t take our country back, and if we do, they’ll just give us vouchers.

Had to call HMRC. Hold 25+ minutes. Two cheeful, helpful staff members. Query answered. If it doesn't work, just give us a call back and we'll have a look. My guess is they are chronically understaffed which is why the wait time.

I wrote something. Doesn't happen often. If you get a chance to see this, I really would. It's good.

In London, hate will never win.

As Chair, here is our cross-party joint statement from the Parliamentary Black Caucus, regarding the rising threat of racism and violence from the far-right.👇🏾

You get 1K characters so I did what I could. I’m so not the letter-to-the-Prime-Minister type. But dammit, he’s my Prime Minister. I actually voted for him so he’s my responsibility. contact.no10.gov.uk

It’s a good way of preserving carrots - if you can get them out of the glass afterwards

This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”

This context is important. Images of him grandstanding - again - are not

fundamentally the problem is that if you think "hotels are where I stay on holiday and I like being on holiday so living in a hotel must be fun and it's not fair others get to do it and not me" then you have the intellectual reasoning of a little child and it's going to be hard to engage with you

I’m am being to think that we as a species may not sufficiently appreciate our opposable thumbs. Signed, badly, someone with a staved* thumb** on their more dominant hand. *It’s Scottish, I don’t know the English word. **Of course there is a long story

but “financially better off” and “doing a job you love” aren’t synonyms. arts careers are underpaid (and that isn’t universities’ fault) but that clearly doesn’t stop people from wanting to be artists.

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

As an immigrant, disinfo like this pisses me off. We don't move here penniless. We can't. EVERY international student brings £150K for tuition fees & living expenses. Then we work hard to make that money back and pay taxes. Moving countries & careers is VERY HARD and we do it and we succeed.

Potentially controversial opinion: replacing the four cheeses in your Four Cheese Ravioli bake with vegetarian stuff - that all tastes the same, and is like eating glue - is not an improvement, even if it means you can stick a V logo on it. Thank you well known store

Dmitry explaining things clearly, as ever. Thank you