spokesperson for Sadiq Khan: “We are not going to dignify his appalling and bigoted comments with a response. “London is the greatest city in the world, safer than major US cities, and we’re delighted to welcome the record number of US citizens moving here.”

Agree. Totally baffling.

This made me well up all over again. Naomi's list is wonderful. Mine would be different and equally wonderful. And we wouldn't have exhausted all the wonderful things there are to see and do in London.

subsequent to the orange man shooting his mouth off about London, I did the second part of my 100 things I love in London. because I mean, really: open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...

The President of the United States of America is an idiot. And the world is laughing at him.

I agree with this – it has shock value, but isn’t that relevant to people in the UK. I understand why it’s the biggest story on Bluesky: this place pretty much selects for neurodivergence (complimentary)

Worth remembering many people will be unfamiliar with terms like "indefinite leave to remain" and "settlement". People know what immigration is + citizenship, but settlement is less intuitive So its important for those countering the proposals to put in schoolgate language what is being proposed

Is it really *that hard* to say that it is totally morally wrong to say to people who have come here legally, worked, paid taxes, built their lives here, contributed to Britain, that they have to fuck off now, rather than "unfunded".

3D depiction of rainfall distribution across Great Britain. England is a very dry place: London gets as much rain as Jerusalem. With climate change, the south will need to prepare for even more acute water shortages.

Avoidable self-harm, in a para

I would never have thought that being anti-fascist would be a controversial political choice.

Like the President, I too have been denied proper credit from the ivory tower elites for the conflicts I have halted between Costa Rica and Papua New Guinea, Portugal and Atlantis, and the United Federation of Planets and Klingon Empire.

Disappointed that this BBC news piece about Trump not wanting Mayor Sadiq Khan at the State Banquet doesn't once mention Khan's race or religion. If you leave out that Khan is a brown Muslim man, you gloss over why he's targeted by Trump. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Customer feedback this week; ‘Please can you get some more diversity at the National Trust by encouraging more hot men to visit.’ Ideas for how we do this v welcome. Nothing too racy please - we are the National Trust not the National Tryst.

Read and weep. And then share.

i would like my government supervisors to know that i now think slim fit is good, dress sneakers are great, and "fun socks" are cool

AT LEAST HE HAS GOOD TABLE MANNERS!

Has Melania joined witness protection?

The cowardice and complacency of so much of the UK political class in the face of what is both an obvious moral evil and a serious socio-political threat is as discrediting as it is dispiriting

All of the episodes of season one have been absolutely cracking. This one made me laugh out loud, too. but as ever, @sturdyalex.bsky.social makes the trivial deep and the deep accessible. It's wondrous stuff. Thank you. Will subscribe now. Can't wait for season two.

Feeling rather leaky anyway - so not surprised this made me cry a little. Thank you, Mayor Khan, thank you London - let's stand up against the bone headed bigots.

Late to it (it's a busy "Welcome Week" at @qmul.bsky.social) but, as per, our honorary degree holder @stephenkb.bsky.social absolutely nails it. (Source www.ft.com/content/fbbd...)

If you think you'd like to listen to two women having a quiet conversation about a difficult illness and a hopeful outcome due to the miracle that's stem cell donation, this is just lovely. observer.co.uk/listen/the-s...

I honestly don't get that. You could have such a nice life. Stay in bed with your partner every morning. Get an allotment. Make your own pesto. Just live. Why hang around other tech bros and psychopathic politicians?

Tha werld haz become so stoopid. SO STOOPID.

Here’s a poem called ‘English Roundabouts’.

Summer just absolutely fucked off didn't it. Gave us a really good few months, hit September, pulled down the shutters and said: That's your lot mate. Clockwatching bastard.

I don't think Peter Mandelson is PM's biggest problem. The biggest problem is not standing up to the literal violent racism on our streets, supercharged by the richest man in the world, and threatening the very fabric of our society. If he and so many commentators can't see this, we're truly lost.

@oliverchantler.bsky.social - trying to get hold of you for a wee chat for a client. Let me know what channel might work...

When the young people marched for Palestinians we were repeatedly told this would intimidate the Jewish community in London. What about all the people who were made to feel unsafe yesterday, and still feel so today?

I am feeling deeply upset and enraged by these embittered bone heads taking to the streets of my city, making it less safe for my partner and his children, or my daughter and her girlfriend. we are way past the point where this requires a serious response.

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

Wow. The baseness of what we are encouraged to consider as normal. Wow.

We need democratic leaders now who can say what's what.

Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔 on.ft.com/3K05vhS

The behaviour and characteristics of our so called leaders are not just politically wrong, they are pathological.

The state of our political and economic elites is truly shocking. I always thought democracies deal with the worst of this better than other systems, and maybe they do, but currently it feels like we are lumbered with a shocking amount of pathologically selfish and antisocial 'leaders'.

This is a historic moment. As the Lords debate the Assisted Dying Bill, our presence outside Parliament alongside @humanists.uk, fellow campaigners and members of the public, shows the strength of support for this bill.

The current law "causes terrible suffering and lacks compassion". During today's historic debate , Lord Falconer set out why the law must change. #YesToDignity

We're absolutely delighted in Barking & Dagenham to have been chosen as one of the first places in the national neighbourhood health implementation programme. The link here has more details from our ICB: northeastlondon.icb.nhs.uk/news/barking... 1/

Today is a good day to stay off the internet. But if you really can't help yourself, this thread is just wonderful.

Absolutely bloody heart breaking.

On time and on budget? Whaaat? Make this man prime minister immediately www.ft.com/content/639a...

society would improve immediately if we just seized the assets of every person who wrote jeffrey epstein a birthday note

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How deep can the hole be that this government foolishly digs itself into? Not as deep as the despair felt by the overwhelmingly civilian victims of the ongoing violations of human rights and decency committed by the Israeli Government. But still!

It's almost like young people are interested in institutions facing up to their history in a frank and nuanced way www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Lords’ scrutiny is important - but so is their constitutional duty to respect the primacy of the Commons, which has twice backed this Bill. MPs listened to dying people; reflected the public mood. Families up & down the country now call on Peers to follow suit. www.thetimes.com/article/565b...

Lucy Connolly, jailed for urging people to set fire to hotels housing refugees, is speaking at the Reform party conference today. All the worst people.

Saw this by the river today. Felt relevant.