Chris Milsom

Color photo from THE GODFATHER of Diane Keaton sitting at a table wearing a huge hat and a red dress.

RIP Diane Keaton

RIP Diane Keaton, 79, one of a kind

RIP Diane Keaton, who has died at 79, here reinventing fashion in Annie Hall (1977)

This one hurts. Immense versatility and quintessentially herself throughout it all…

BREAKING NEWS
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.

#NobelPrize

60% of voting intention for progressive parties. 3 out of 5 panellists firmly of the right. Woeful

If a news organisation is making -200% margin after five years, it is not a commercial operation and should be assumed to have a different purpose.

A terrific speech that turns pain into something more positive and powerful. Thank you for your eloquence and campaigning Sarah: keep on keeping on

Now *that’s* a letter

In @thetimes.com letters page today

A powerful paragraph from Macpherson, 1999

'The nature of them must surely make us all determined that ... by all available means, society does all it can to ensure the minds of present and future generations are not allowed to become violent and maliciously prejudiced'

(But we could do better)

After 32 years & six months, one of those who killed Stephen Lawrence acknowledges his participation in the murderous gang in public for the first time (having been convicted in 2012), during a public parole hearing.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Heseltine was the first Tory MP to publicly criticise Enoch Powell after Rivers of Blood in 1968. Let him cook

"Castle carvery now has a children's soft play area located inside at a cost of only £3.50 per child.On both occasions the meat has been very tender & fresh."

This is a very sinister review.

And *such* confidence

Good to see the Conservative Party committed to keeping the deficit down by *checks notes* spending £2 billion giving tax breaks for private education, creating a massive new deportation force and pledging to maintain pensioner benefits.

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

Foolish. It’s actually a job Powell could do rather well I think: and miles better than the incumbent!

The Scarlet Pimpernel Secretary of State

This ban is absurd

Of course the absurdity of it all is that Powell would have happily remained at the table had she not been sacked! A rebel insurgency she is not. Surely a straight swap for Nandy on the cards?!

"We have only a few years to save the West and we must do these by preventing the widespread study of Western literature, thought and art. I am right-wing." Thank-you for attending my TED Talk.

"You go to some places like Handsworth.. parts of Dewsbury, Bradford, Leicester, where you see.. a single ethnicity.. we don't think that's healthy thing"

Kevin Hollinrake is MP for Thirsk and Malton, which according to the 2021 census is 98% white.

The state knows what is best for your kids. The Tories have travelled a long way very quickly.

An essential read

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

I'll bite. What is the benefit we gain from politicians being able to 'thoughtfully' say in private 'blacks, British Bangladeshis, British Pakistanis, British Indians, mulattos....all the same, and clearly from the look of them not-integrated?'

What a question. As if it's the language that is the main problem, rather than the sentiment.

Israel seems more important — and less desirable — than ever for British Jews Amid rising antisemitism at home, our lifeboat abroad seems less attractive

Superb piece from @stephenkb.bsky.social - brilliantly written. Captures the prevailing mood among the Jewish friends I have. Also contains the immensely under-reported fact that: "Since 2013 neo-Nazis have tried and failed to kill us four times and extreme jihadis have tried and failed two times."