I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

The Big Garden Birdwatch is taking place THIS WEEKEND! Who's in? Sign up here: www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

A little thread by Joel… bsky.app/profile/itsj...

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Not long to go… have you signed up for the #BigGardenBirdwatch yet? 👀 www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen... 👈

The Reform pitch is increasingly “the last government was terrible, so we’ve hired everyone who was in it”.

Keep watching - Trump and his circle almost have their precious goal: invoking the Insurrection Act. As per said before: a great deal of what is being done is simply Trump and his circle working backwards from this objective.

Reminder that in the UK an incoming radical, populist government would have immediate access to immense, unchecked executive power. And the current government is doing nothing to protect us from that.

The single biggest thing (in cost terms) I’ve changed my mind about is UK tuition fees. Dreadful system, need to scrap it.

The red dot is a baby North Atlantic right whale trying to migrate up the east coast of the United states. The blue streaks are fast moving shipping vessels entering and leaving New York City harbor. One collision and the whale is dead. We need *mandatory* speed limits for these vessels! 🧪🦑🌍

Tuesday

BREAKING: Technology Secretary Liz Kendall says creating ”non-consensual intimate images”, including with X’s Grok, will be made illegal this week

Nadim Zahawi arrived in the UK from Iraq as a child refugee. His family claimed asylum once they were here. Today he has joined Reform who will stop all in country asylum applications. Under his new party, his own family fleeing persecution would be immediately deported.

youtu.be/QmMjY6tXaEo Bob Weir ❤️

Apparently I am not lighting the fire quickly enough today..

I’m actually okay with not winning, they should all be in prison

Good morning here is your emergency sloth

Alternative headline: humiliating and abusing women on X by digitally undressing them is now a privilege reserved to paying users.

Stop using X Write to your local MP bsky.app/profile/elio...

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

It has become increasingly clear that X - a platform now actively producing explicit and abusive material against women and children - is not an appropriate platform to be using for our comms. I will keep pushing for action from the govt & relevant authorities in this area.

Not even the prompts. If you are a Twitter user in the UK and Twitter sticks a Grok CSAM image in your feed for WHATEVER reason, well congrats your device just downloaded child porn. And you are legally responsible for that.

Finding this horrific and incredibly upsetting. Inexplicable to me that X is not immediately shut down. This is not freedom of speech this is abuse and exploitation of children and women and there must be laws against it? There can be no more excuses for any decent person to remain on X

A List of Predictions Made in 1926 About 2026 🧵

Happy 2026 lovely people! May you find joy in family and friends, learn not to sweat the small stuff, have courage facing the big stuff and be surrounded by love x

Another new Midsomer Murders tonight on ITV1, this one taking inspiration from Kit Williams's treasure hunt book Masquerade - remember that? #MidsomerMurders

Midsomer Murders is back back BACK Terry Wogan would’ve loved to hear that someone wanted to see the priest’s hole

Happy Christmas Eve and wishing you all a peaceful and joyful Christmas x

Be nice to your postie at Christmas, they are doing a job you would probably find too difficult. 🙏

Sadness arrives uninvited. Joy demands more—it requires us to search, to kindle, to protect the flame against every wind. When we choose joy despite everything that argues against it, we don't just save ourselves—we illuminate the way for everyone around us.

As told by the late dancer and choreographer Agnes DeMille.

The most brutal way of telling someone they’re a few sandwiches short of a picnic that I’ve heard in French is t’es pas la truite la plus oxygénée de la rivière. It means “you’re not the most oxygenated trout in the river.” * read on for similar insults from around the world (a thread)…

“We aren't sending out any Christmas presents... I'm sick of Jesus, and don't see at all why he should go on being born every year. We might have somebody else born, for a change” D.H. Lawrence Letter to Else Jaffe 12th December 1927 Collected Works of D.H. Lawrence

More of this energy in the news cycle thx

Whenever the doorbell goes I scream then open it to reveal an elaborate trail of fallen dominoes which I keep like that for the occasion.

In 2007, a clip went viral of a man being stopped on the street by a Guangzhou TV reporter. The man was asked about a sex scandal that was all over the news at the time and his reply has been a popular Chinese slang phrase for not getting involved ever since. He said “I’m just here to buy soy sauce”

“Don’t waste your time on anything that doesn’t thrill you or bring you love. See you out somewhere in the cosmos.” This is the posthumous message left by Gil Gerard. The actor who played Buck Rogers in Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979) has just passed away at the age of 82.

To all parkrunners across Australia as you prepare for Saturday: be kind to one another, look out for those around you, and take strength from the simple act of coming together. Walk, jog, run, volunteer whatever feels right knowing that community, compassion & care are at the very heart of parkrun.

You lot need Dick Van Dyke singing Let's Go Fly a Kite on his 100th birthday more than you know.

As you may know, I have stopped using Twitter, and have decided to reproduce some of my more memorable threads here for posterity. Here’s one I hold wrote after a particularly engaging swordfighting lesson. Buckle up, swordfighting fans, because I *have* studied my Agrippa! [BIG ASS THREAD]

Rob Reiner was the consummate storyteller. Over and over, he revealed us to ourselves: what it is to be young and have friends, to fall in love, to feel misery and vengeance, to feel alive. And the laughs. So many laughs. The loss of Rob Reiner is... inconceivable.

As You Wish ❤️

Truly deserves to be reposted so that it can be shared with as many people as possible.

Postbox toppers. Used to think these were a bit bonkers when I first moved to a village but I am in awe of them now. All the intricate work. Really special ❤️

For UK #MidsomerMurders fans Series 24 is finally coming to ITV. Kicking off with.. 29 December at 8.30pm - The Devil's Work 30 December at 8.30pm - Book of the Dead

A Christmassy KC - Day Six On a cold Saturday in December, what could be more festive than George Bailey KC, creation of the fabulous @fionadolman.bsky.social. "Remember, no man is a failure who has Learned Friends"