Am still smiling after an unexpected meet-up with Roger and Oscar Lewis last night.

What the country needs right now to bring us all together is a disappointing Winter Wonderland.

Sadiq Khan successfully using an escalator

There are still a handful of places left for my Alexander Baron/Lowlife walking tour of Stoke Newington next Saturday. Tickets here! www.faber.co.uk/product/walk...

"I know what we're doing is wrong but we're teenage kids, we're going to have a bit of fun," she tells us. "I'm sorry for most of the people we have damaged, but I have no sympathy… it's just one way of taking my anger out." How can anyone say that?

Interesting read, reminding me of how, if you're well-connected, doors do open up for you.

This 👇

Hmm. Can't help noticing that I don't sell anything if I never mention my prints. Could there be a connection? Buy a print. Here's one here look. marswasrubbish.etsy.com/uk/listing/1...

This one makes me look like a right little ray of sunshine #singlelife archive.is/zWo60

Only 36% of people aged 50-66 feel they have a good understanding of workplace support available to them, and this drops to 31% for Disabled workers. It's time to bridge the gap. Employers can make a difference by clearly communicating available adjustments and fostering inclusive environments.

So for the next Rapture I'm going to go to the most religious town in America and leave little piles of clothes outside random houses before everyone wakes up.

The catering at this rapture is terrible

Support Bookseller Crow in Crystal Palace following Jon’s sudden death
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We don't have Tylenol in the UK. Does Tylenol have a late night chat show?

Anybody in the Stevenage area have available an accessible room or studio flat to rent? My daughter is starting a PhD next week and the flat that we hoped she be in by now looks like it is going to fall through. Thanks

Anyone in #Glasgow tomorrow (24th September) interested in two stalls tickets for An Evening with Racing Icons Mika Häkkinen & David Coulthard. Stalls tickets, £55 each but open to offers. Thanks!

Now free from behind the paywall: What evangelicals in my extended family have taught me about how the MAGA Right creates myths and folk heroes. www.altrightdelete.news/p/the-ballad...

Also, if you read @paulmason.bsky.social's How To Stop Fascism, the short answer is for the left to fight fascists not each other.

Trump borrows Paula White's grifty "seed of faith" fundraising rhetoric just after publicly disavowing a core Christian teaching. www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

🚨NOW 427 DAYS since our nuclear test veterans - national heroes in their eighties - requested a meeting with Prime Minister Keir Starmer to discuss how he will honour the commitment Labour made to their campaign for justice and compensation in opposition youtu.be/hSQNLn2Ocr8?...

‘The Guardian today launched a new collaboration with luxury fashion brand Lingua Franca, and theguardian.org, underscoring the importance of independent journalism’ www.theguardian.com/gnm-press-of...

On the dilemmas facing America's mayors, for Monocle. monocle.com/affairs/poli...

Today is the feast of St Sossius.

my partner has been watching Death Comes to Pemberley on Amazon prime and says their subtitles must be AI now

"He's not so strong." Arab-Israeli politician Jamal Zahalka tells @krishgm.bsky.social he believes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will "surrender to pressure", if faced by an international coalition to stop the war in Gaza. Read and watch here:

Also, I applied to work in a care home and was rejected. I don't mind wiping up bodily fluids and treat people respectfully - what kind of people actually get hired?

People are making Rapture jokes like there's no tomorrow

Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has donated $70 million to the UNCF, the largest private provider of scholarships to minority students.

Dickie Bird joins a list of dead public figures which includes Richard Briers, Linda Smith, Shane Warne and Harry Gration and others. People who loved what they did and couldn't believe that they got paid to do it.

Speaking as a doctor, I can assure the American public that it’s safe to take Tylenol while reading the Epstein files.

This makes me happy as the way I broke it up was intentional in terms of thinking of some of the minds that may be drawn to it

"it's too much liquid" going into the baby, instantly up there with the injecting bleach moment.

It is possible to cherish the BBC as an institution while also saying that BBC News is failing very badly, day after day, in its duty to inform and that it always fails in a right-wing direction. It desperately needs to recover its integrity

Live Radio 4 Bookclub recording in Glasgow on Friday with the legendary @nivenj1.bsky.social John Niven for his 2008 debut Kill Your Friends. If you wanna be in the audience, message me and I’ll put you on the list. Should be a cracker!

And ones like Kate Winslet's directorial debut, where older characters are a key part of the plot because they die.

Sue Mitchell being brilliant, yet again. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Grim

Sarah Thomas wants you to know what it’s like to be the parent of someone with SEND: special educational needs and disabilities

Christ. I thought my sister's GP was appalling. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

SCOOP — Part of the reason Disney/ABC may have rushed to sort things out with Kimmel is because tomorrow they have a planned price increase for Disney+ streaming, a Disney source tells me. With subscriptions hemorrhaging since last week, they couldn’t risk losing more users with this announcement.

Conservative White Christians Will Worship Anyone But Jesus During the last ten years, seeing White Evangelicals build idols out of people whose lives and public work are the antithesis of Jesus is something we’ve grown accustomed to. open.substack.com/pub/johnpavl...

Oh my gawd. www.wikihow.com/Be-a-Punk

BBC push alert tomorrow: ‘The Rapture is here. Why this could be good news for Reform UK’

Me on my way to the rapture

“No, that was ‘Smack my bitch up’ by The Prodigy” #FaceTheMusic

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It's the American Dream! (By which I mean, market forces always win)

Our farmers are losing out on a great soybean harvest because of Trump’s trade war. We have the best beans in the world, we need to sell them.

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