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The guy was such a bellend that my body language must have been explicit. He told me I may as well have been wearing a ‘vagina closed’ sign 😑 I said, ‘Well I am now’ 🙂

47% of people think immigration is primarily illegal. There were 4% irregular arrivals in March

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

I just happened upon it and had a lovely wee morning there.

Go to Museum of the Home in Dalston. It's lovely.

Moi aussi! 😀

Amazon review of Pride and Prejudice, left by carlton p morgan on 30 July 2010: "Just a bunch of people going to each other's houses"

Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate

Missed others…

Great. Have a ball, young 'uns!

I once mistakenly addressed a consultant as Dr to which he drawled ‘have I been demoted’ 👀

She’s just the greatest, bar none 😍

Reminds me of the upper west side in New York. Beautiful part of town.

A colleague was at the Amalfi coast recently and I asked if she recommended it. She said there were fabulous hikes. Me: 😑.

Plan to scrap two-child benefit cap ‘dead’ after welfare retreat A calamitous week for Keir Starmer’s government is said to have rendered the proposal, which would have cost £3.4 billion, unfeasible

Note No.10 is starting work on its new narrative: “We can’t stop the two child limit ‘cos they made us u-turn on disability benefits.”

Child poverty v disability poverty is not a contest. Labour is responsible for its choices and solutions - not disabled people. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Fab! Mixed bag comme toujours #scotland ☺️

Lovely! Market? Lunch?

Morning! Where you off to at this hour? 😊

That's incredible, I find it hard to believe that humanity could ever ignore a problem first identified many years ago for ages and ages until it results in an enormous but avoidable conflagration that threatens everything

I don’t blame them. You don’t have to approve of Palestine Action’s methods to see this as a recklessly stupid move by the government. Shredding the definition of terrorism to deal with common vandalism can only weaken the fight against actual terrorism.

During our meeting in New York today, Zohran Mamdani produced a large handsaw and cut a circle around my chair, causing me to fall through the floor to the level below. "Why are you doing this?" I pleaded with him. "Because I'm muslim and communist" he replied

I think they have surprised even themselves with how shit they’ve been and pleased virtually nobody. But it does make me feel hopeful that they’ll improve.

She says they ❤️ her 😑

Ooh, she’s going on LBC with Lewis shortly 👀

Brad Lander, Unfiltered and Unplugged He didn't win the Democratic mayoral primary… but he won a lot of New Yorkers' hearts.

"They lit $20 million on fire, and all it did was boost Zohran's numbers. And in no small part because they corrupted their own souls by supporting a person they know to be a corrupt, abusive asshole. What are they gonna do now?"

@bradlander.bsky.social, the man you are.

(via @hellgatenyc.com)

Yes, inexplicable considering his background and what I thought were his politics.

Yeah, I mean the apology was welcome but the profound dismay most people I know felt cannot be easily reversed. Also the white paper intro was unforgivable.

One of my tutors got me some flamazine the following Monday 🫣

I got as sunburnt as a person can get one day in that beer garden back when it was the Physician and Firkin and I was a student staying in Longmore Nurses Home. Good times.

This is in the Prado, right? The darkest art gallery I’ve ever been to. The drowning Labrador one is so grim 😔

Natasha Bertrand, whom Trump is seeking to get sacked for exposing the limits of the Iran bombing, is an outstanding journalist.

Follow her at @natashabertrand.bsky.social