With the tragic memory of the Synagogue murders on Thursday, I gave a speech at the tooting Islamic Centre on Visit My Mosque day. tootingpaul.wordpress.com/2025/10/05/v...

Dreadful, we must not allow this hate to spread. There is nothing to support acts like this, continued killing is exactly what must stop and communities must feel safe. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...

The next Mega Skip Day takes place from 9am this Saturday 27th September, in 7 locations around #Wandsworth, including #Tooting. More info, including details of what you can bring and when & where the skips will be open, via Wandsworth Council: wandsworth.gov.uk/mega-skip-days #Putney #Battersea

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Awful, awful, awful and we look on.

A complete 50 year disaster. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A quarter of population staving. If it was UK, that would mean 17.5m starving. Can you imagine that? Yet Netanyahu and his disgusting right wing government, are allowed to carry on regardless. The protesters in Israel want him gone and so should we. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

My Speech at Wandsworth Full Council. We cherish our open spaces, so all can use them, in their own way. tootingpaul.wordpress.com/2025/08/02/w...

My Speech at Wandsworth Full Council. We cherish our open spaces, so all can use them, in their own way. tootingpaul.wordpress.com/2025/08/02/w...

Barbaric. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Famine in Gaza, something I thought was consigned to previous centuries, that I learned about from books and family, when I weas very young and was horrified. Now it is happening under the world's eyes. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Congratulations Kerry, All Ireland winners...................again!! LAST 10 MINUTES OF KERRY V DONEGAL 2025 ALL IRELAND FOOTBALL FINAL GAA youtu.be/W4xbuOHdnTM?... via @YouTube

Congratulations the incredibly resilient Lionesses, who just wouldn't be beaten. England beat Spain on penalties to retain Euros | Euro 2025 Final highli... youtu.be/B5EaeVxlGLo?... via @YouTube

In a land of plenty, there are children who like this. This is inhumane and we must see action. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Let that sink in for a sec.

1,000 STARVING people estimated killed, while seeking food, a hell on earth. This is 2025, when did civilisation start trekking backwards? Surely now, the rest of the world must act? www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Great to be at Springfield Park for the grand opening of facilities and the park. Great to see the London Mayor, MP and Council Leader in their patch and so many of the NHS staff, celebrating.

Terrible tragedy. Poor little girl, thinking of family. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Lovely day at BATCA's Broadwater Road Funday. Unveiling of blue plaque for Constance Cummings-John, who became a councillor in Sierra Leone at 20 and later Mayor of Freetown, later coming to live at 20, Broadwater Rd in Tooting until her death in 2000, being Burntwood, Boadwater &Fircroft Schools.

Visited the truly impressive, Barn Elms Sports Centre. Tennis, rugby, football, mini-soccer, Gaelic games, beach volleyball, a gym and a council owned rowing club, all here on the banks of the Thames. Would be great to see more facilities, as the borough lacks sports pitches

Joint third in London and the UK. Wandsworth's not a bad Environment to be living in!! www.wandsworth.gov.uk/news/news-ju...

Celebrating Mindworks UK move to their new HQ in Central Wandsworth. With supremos Sahar, Miranda and Mary-Lou and fellow TCKer; Gulshan.

Celebrating Clean Air Day in Wandsworth with our brilliant Air Quality team.

Spoke at Trade Union Clean Air Network event in Camden. Really interesting & timely Clean Air Day event. Detailing the issues around health, pollution & Indoor pollution & working conditions. We are acting in Wandsworth to improve Air Quality; outside, in homes & the work place

Thoughts with those who perished and all families and friends who have had people on the flight. Truly awful. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Never liked touts, ticket price inflation is exclusive and denies true fans some fantastic experiences.

About time is right, but without taking the commodification out of housing, this curse on our society will remain.

Casework Surgery at Tooting Library again this week. 3 cases, one I couldn't help with as I needed to know the person for 2 years, 1 was a repeat case that was fraught with language issues and another with unresolved piping problems.

Study on London 20 mph limits shows: - collisions ⬇️ 35% - casualties ⬇️ 36% - fatal/serious injuries ⬇️ 34% - child casualties ⬇️ 46% - child deaths ⬇️ 75% - walkers, cyclists, motorcyclists killed/seriously injured ⬇️ 28% etsc.eu/20mph-limits...

DEAN: What's the tariff on bananas? LUTNICK: Generally 10% DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8% LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America

To those celebrating

So nice to be invited to open the Stag Beetle Loggery at Fishponds Playing Fields yesterday. The fields are a wonderful balance between sports and bio-diversity. Well done to Friends of Fishponds,, but also Enable who brought this into being.

VOLUNTEERING OPPORTUNITY: applications for @homestartwands.bsky.social's autumn training course (starting September) are now open, with an info session on Tuesday 17 June to find out more about the role & to meet other volunteers: www.homestartwandsworth.org.uk/volunteer #Tooting #Wandsworth

Good move www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

We have a new Wandsworth Mayor! We'll done Sana, you were magnificent, so many firsts and the youngest ever Wandsworth Mayor! I'm sure Jeremy's second term will be brilliant, but we'll miss the first Hijab wearing, Shia Muslim Mayor and her big smile! Great to run into so many friends also.

How could anyone do this? End the siege. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Owners of 236,500 properties in England and Wales worth £64bn are hidden behind opaque trusts. Appeasement of the rich facilitates corruption, illicit financial flows. Compare this to how govts treat the poor. Soon their bank accounts will be snooped on.

Average asking price for UK home hits new high of almost £380k Median wage £30,252, net pay £25,301. What chance of buying a home, paying rent, surviving retirement? Scarcity of social housing, affordable homes. Years of real wage cuts, profiteering create insecurity.

2/2 ..devices, they would allocate resources efficiently (Laissez-faire economics). This theory revealed itself as an efficient killing machine, which transfers wealth to the top & literally starves the rest of the population of resources. This theory prevails today! Must change.

1/2 Thursday was Famine Memorial Day, when over 1m Irish people were allowed to starve to death, while food was shipped out of the country for English consumption. This was "allowed" because England had a government at the time convinced that if markets were left to their own...,

More upward transfers of wealth, leaving addiction and further poverty to poorer areas. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

It's our wonderful Mayoress' birthday, so time to celebrate at the Pump House in Battersea. Plenty of sunshine to bathe the celebrations, but plenty of warmth, as usual, from Sana Haider Jafri also!