Since I’ve been Mayor there’s been a seven-fold increase in employers paying the London Living Wage and an almost 60% increase in the London Living Wage. It’s great to see more than 4,300 London businesses supporting their workers by paying them a decent living wage.

Some politicians and commentators continue to talk our great city down. The facts show a very different picture.

Looking towards Start Point lighthouse with an easterly swell #Devon #coast #autumn

#bantham evening #devon #southhams # autumn

#dartmoor #openspaces #autumn

Some politicians and commentators continue to denigrate London and talk our great city down, but the facts show a very different picture. The number of homicides in London in the first nine months of 2025 was lower than in any year since monthly records began 22 years ago.

Where the mountains meet the ocean! I’m an uphill trail wimp, but sometimes it’s worth the effort for views like this! #BlueSkyMonday #MountainMonday #ocean #pacificocean #mountains #northerncalifornia #photography

BLEA CALM - first dawn at Blea Tarn in the Langdales on Saturday morning. A short spell of colour before the fog and mist descended for the weekend. #FSprintmonday #Sharemondays2025 #Appicoftheweek #SonyAlpha #landscapephotography @fotospeed.bsky.social

Not #fungifriday but not bad for an autumn walk in the #chilterns

"London reported the lowest number of homicides of under-25s for more than two decades. Overall, murders are at a five-year low, and the rate is much lower than in other international cities such as New York, Paris, Brussels, Berlin and Madrid" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia. Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?

Bisham Church, cormorant and #Thames in #autumn sunshine

#Chilterns #walking #autumn yesterday

Sickening

And look at the smooth, balanced, simple and unique form of this jug from Gordion. Perfect. 🏺

This is a lie. There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years. But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

Whaling Ship - Grytviken, South Georgia #SouthGeorgia #Grytviken #Whaler #WhalingShip #WhalingStation #HarpoonGun #HeritageSite #TomMartin #Nautical #Nature #Travel #Landscape #Photography #BNW #BlackAndWhite #Monotone

A brief wet and wild visit to Elgol for #Sharemondays2025 #Scotland #Photography #LeicaQ343 Remember you can get last years winners book here amzn.eu/d/cO3NtNL

She was arrested for holding a sign reading: “I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action” How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.

Don’t expect a match report - could have been written from a dark cellar Saturday morning.

There is a long tradition in European art in portraying happiness; with Albert Marquet's depiction of the Dune de Pyla near Arcachon, on France's Atlantic coast (1935) he has created a picture the mind can play in.

Actual footage from when I was abducted✨🛸 #MushroomOfTheDay #FungiFriday

This old fallen tree in the woods makes a little haven for Shaggy Scalycaps. 🍄 #FungiFriday #FunguFriends

A day off of my tour on #FungiFriday, so braved the torrential rain to visit Oakhill Nature Reserve in #Goole. Surprised to find so many lovely things! AM very happy for any corrections to my IDs in the ALT text. #fungi #nature #Yorkshire #mycology #mushroom

Perfectly purple, Amethyst Deceivers, Laccaria amethystina are looking glorious in the woods! 💜 #FungiFriends #FungiFriday

Which one is AI?

For the first time ever, London has met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide. When I became Mayor, we were told it would take 193 years. We did it 184 years earlier than expected. Cleaner air means a healthier city and big savings for the NHS.

AUTUMN

More encouragement to support the Greens. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

For too long, South East London has been underserved by public transport. The Bakerloop is here to change that. From Saturday, you can try this brand-new bus service for free for a week.

Keir Starmer's aides are reportedly telling him not to go to the COP30 climate conference, because Reform would attack him for it. Yes, they might. And he should wear it as a badge of honour. Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet. Where's the hazard in that?

Reform’s plan to deport hundreds of thousands of migrants with legal right to remain wouldn’t save the UK money – it would collapse services, rapidly shrink the tax base and cause an economic crisis that would make the £234bn look like pocket change.

Amazing field of Birds Foot Trefoil near #Marlow #wildflowers yesterday

In London, hate will never win.

#blueskymonday #Guernsey

Les Hanois lighthouse off Guernsey in the winds today

September by the sea in Guernsey

A helpful graphic for No. 10.

This is infuriating. What is the point of a Marine Protected Area if trawlers are allowed to keep ploughing it? Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Beautiful Jay feather found in woods by grandson

#Lorient #France External sculpture at the Church of Our Lady of Victory - Notre Dame de Victoire, Lorient France, photographed 24th August 2025.

I am sickened by the relentless demonisation of refugees. No refugee underfunded a school. No refugee closed a hospital. No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled. We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!

The silence from Yvette Cooper , Lisa Nandy & Starmer etc about Far Right 'demonstrations ' & attacks on asylum seekers is shameful. Quick to condemn & criminalise those protesting genocide but unable to string a sentence together against mob racism & vandalism .

What a Summer for figs

The best ridge in the #Chilterns? Up above the valley leading to Stonor Park

Moulin Huet #Guernsey great beach last week

Brilliant

“this £85 billion represents a direct transfer of value from the public to private owners — a sum extracted while storm overflows proliferated, leakage targets were missed, and river health declined”

The remarkable sight of rain over the Chilterns today