my theory: social media has whipped up impatience, scorn, hatred, anger, polarisation and frustration with anything other than immediate results

Happy new year comrades!

Have you accidentally photographed a gang in the process of dumping a body?

Thames bridge, New Year’s Eve

Happy New Year, via the Thames right now

This is very stranger things, if you’re into that show!

tree, Bushy Park

airplane

tree, Bushy Park

I stood at the M&S till next to the guy from Blue (the band behind the hit single Lockdown) during one of the Covid lockdowns

i was the moderate position. now you're about to find what comes next

The Conservative Party is simultaneously arguing people shouldn’t be jailed for social media posts directly calling for violence, but also that people’s citizenship should be revoked over social media posts they don’t like. Make it make sense.

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"Following the Ukraine-US meeting, Trump lauded Putin, saying the Russian president “wants to see Ukraine succeed”. This is becoming farcical giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

If anyone tells you journalism matter to people, to individuals, show them this. Everyone wants a reader like Bruce in their working lives. He sounds brilliant.

interviewed Paul Nowak of the TUC last week at this unusual building near the British Museum

Crime has collapsed since the 1990s. We are living in a happier world. But because mainstream politicians and journalists don't tell the truth, the liars run riot. Piece from me about how Trump and Farage exploit bogus fears of a migrant-driven crime wave comment.press/crime1228

Really would love a longread on trends in municipal architecture and what drives them - why *is* this the in look for 2020s metro stations?

London Underground

My kids describe the Lizzy line as ‘What Star Trek would have looked like if they’d had a budget’….

London Underground

This is beyond Christian nationalism. Imagine worshipping Trump.

Miniature musical instrument makers admit defeat as violin size requirement for story is declared "too small to build."

this is a beautiful homage by my friend and colleague Claer Barrett to recently-departed FT reader Bruce Dalton, which she read at his funeral last week

This is literally what the Telegraph campaigned for.

tiny violin for this particular billionaire

Sir Sadiq Khan, London’s mayor, has claimed that President Donald Trump continually attacks the British capital because he is “jealous he hasn’t got any global cities in the US that can compete with London”. www.ft.com/content/2e88...

Sir Sadiq Khan, London’s mayor, has claimed that President Donald Trump continually attacks the British capital because he is “jealous he hasn’t got any global cities in the US that can compete with London”. www.ft.com/content/2e88...

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

might be imagining it but it feels like engagement and follows have suddenly picked up again on Bluesky this month

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can't they even give this woke nonsense a rest at Christmas? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Happy Christmas

I love this country and its traditions, perhaps none more so than how Smithfield butchers are treated like rock stars on Xmas Eve

Absolutely A+ 5pm on Christmas Eve stuff from LinkedIn here, nice work

Sunrise promise at #Bamburgh beach,#Northumberland that turned into lots of clouds shortly afterm. I lovecl these moments in time. #landscapephotography #UK #sunrise

in zombie movies why does no one ever escape on a bicycle?

"LABOUR CLIMBDOWN SHRINKS SHARE OF FARMERS FACING INHERITANCE TAX TO 15%" @marinovik.bsky.social / @pickardje.bsky.social for @financialtimes.com Full Story: t.ly/epHDu Fewer farmers will start paying #InheritanceTax in #April2026. #FinancialTimes #TomorrowsPapersToday #IBPAPERS

we ask the question: why are Labour MPs and ministers still using X when its owner has vowed to destroy them? www.ft.com/content/5b0e...

big U-turn on farmers' inheritance tax slipped out just before Christmas: "a married couple will now be able to pass on up to £6.3mn of agricultural and business assets before paying inheritance tax," says Moore Kingston Smith. "This represents a tax saving of £1.2m compared to previous threshold."

beautiful day out there

The very rarely-seen #journalese quadfecta. This is a back bench at the top of its game.

Half Ma’am Half Brisket

A #HolidayRobin for the Solstice. This scruffy little guy was (I think) just coming into adult plumage in September 2023. #birds #photography

It’s all so pathetic isn’t it

My entire X timeline is anti-EU posts from people I don't follow. Even if I change it from 'for you' to 'following', it switches back to 'for you' each time I open the site. X is being weaponised against the EU. And unfortunately X is still the public square for European journalists & politicians.

Jim's photograph really looks like a live action remake of Plague Inc where you're discussing how the virus has mutated Total Organ Shutdown spontaneously whilst outside the sound of rioting gets louder.

This is not transparency. #EpsteinFiles

Severance s3 just landed