David Ogden 🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Shame they can't do solar at the same time.

GB News comment about LGBTQ+ including 'paedos' in breach of Ofcom code A GB News presenter saying “full inclusion of LGBTQ+ persons” at a church would “include paedos” breached the Broadcasting Code, Ofcom said.

We're pleased that the loathsome comments carried by GB News, which equated being LGBT+ with being a paedophile, have been found in breach of the Ofcom code, following 71,000 complaints collected by @goodlawproject.bsky.social. pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/new...

Beautiful sunny day on the Hill. Max of 20.0ºC on the dot. Probably the last of the 20ºC days this year. Very little rain for the Southeast forecast for nearly the next two weeks. Not ideal.

I think the stories were more believable in, a quality newspaper, the Sunday Sport.

Rachel wearing very flimsy looking apron, mask and visor in NHS setting

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.

Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.

What, Michelle? 🧵

CDC website switches back to monkeypox. The name change is just woke vs anti-woke nonsense, but I've always used both terms. In medical communication, it's confusing to change terminology without a very good reason.

www.cdc.gov/monkeypox/in...

Won’t last long! 😉😆

Quick search. This is what Reform would have you pay for healthcare under and insurance-based NHS. Who’s in? #healthinsurance #NHS

He said on radio that ‘The Puritans were fun’. Trying his best to prepare us for Christian Conservatism. Deep joy!

Worse, later in the interview, he reveals he is going to be writing Reform's manifesto. Clearly, with Christian Conservatism at the heart of it. So you want a theocracy, coming to a Government soon?

Danny continues, '...so I’m very, very hostile to critical theory, the arguments around race, around sex and gender that I think are, deliberately or not, aimed at the destruction of the things that make our society healthy' 2/3

Danny Kruger MP (defect to Reform) being softly interviewed on the BBC Political Thinking. We learn that society is under grave threat from 'woke' ideology, which is 'a combination of Christian heresy, repudiates inherited associations taking an axe to the root of our country'. 1/3

Let’s hear it for TLAs - the shorthand most HIV clinician’s use in MDT meetings!

Very steampunk, Sir! Dapper or what? 😍

It's amusing that Sir Sadiq Khan lives rent free in Donald's head. #sharialawnow

Letters found on eBay cast light on UK families who benefited from slavery Researcher Malik Al Nasir bought historical documents while investigating his family history – and began building an archive A bundle of letters discovered for sale on eBay by a man researching his roots has cast new light on the lives of prominent British families who amassed a fortune from slavery. Documents detailing the affairs of 19th-century families linked to Sandbach, Tinne and Company, a business that dealt in enslaved people, cotton, sugar and coffee, were being traded online by collectors of rare stamps and postmarks. Continue reading...

Letters found on eBay cast light on UK families who benefited from slavery

Burnham's pathway to the Leadership I read Labour's rulebook - and here's what I found

I took a look at Labour's Rulebook to see whether there was a viable pathway for Burnham to displace Starmer. open.substack.com/pub/jolyonma...

The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money review – a devastating picture of the biggest spending scandal ever This rigorous look at the Tories’ ‘VIP lane’ for PPE suppliers during Covid raises questions about the motivations of those involved – ones that are almost too disgusting to contemplate

This should have been a moment of profound national learning - about the corruption that serves our elite - but the Cabinet Office which ran the VIP Lane sought to close the discussion down and Labour unaccountably let them. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Reform will apparently pledge today that they'd abolish indefinite leave to remain - including retrospectively, to people already granted it. Obviously this is a moral abomination but it is also a practical and legal impossibility.

A radar image of Northern France and Southern England showing red colours associated with an area of thundery rain and showers moving NNE from just East of the Cherbourg Peninsula

A risk of some heavy rainfall in showers and longer outbreaks of rain heading up from France expected in East Sussex and Kent by 08:30 - models showed this feature further East last night.

Rising Christian nationalism: a threat to us all Scenes on Saturday of Christian preachers denouncing ‘Secular Humanism’ from the main stage of Tommy Robinson’s radical right Unite the Kingdom rally in London may have been surprising to see on the s...

We need to be very clear about this.

Rising Christian nationalism is a threat to us all.

humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...

Cancelled Disney+ sub in the light of their weakness against censorship of Jimmy Kimmel. Here in the UK we can show support while their leader is on our shores.

Today we publish our new policy briefing for our study examining the feasibility of pharmacy #PrEP delivery - www.bristol.ac.uk/policybristo...

It offers a vital opportunity to make #HIV prevention more equitable, less stigmatized & more embedded in people’s everyday lives

#STI #STISky 🛟

A small funnel cloud hangs below a line of dark cloud above the coastal city with the church in the foreground

Funnel cloud spotted this at 10:35 just south of Sitges. Showers expected today but more problematic Northeast of Barcelona. #sitges #funnelcloud

A selfie taken on the beach of a silver fox wearing sunglasses with tattoos on each shoulder and arms

A street in Sitges city with alternate Sitges flags bearing the coat of arms (superimposed on a St George's Cross) with the Catalan flag (yellow and red stripes) between three-story buildings.

Always great to return to the hospitality and sovereignty of Sitges in Catalonia, Spain.

Too dry for the garden and what rain we had didn't make much difference. Humidity was high from June which made it feel much hotter. I've used aircon at home for the first time. If this is now a 1 in 3 Summer in the current climate I am more tempted to move away to a coastal area.

Possibility of flooding from lively thunderstorms now reaching Southeast Devon and Southern coast of Somerset.

Please, if you are worried about vaccines, chat to an NHS doctor or nurse or look on the NHS website for excellent, evidence-based info: nhs.uk/vaccines.

Vaccines stop diseases like mumps, measles & meningitis killing our children.

Vaccines save millions of lives every year. 3/4

I am, thank you. I hope all is well with you?

I would have liked to read the @bylinetimes.bsky.social piece on the conference, but they didn't allow them to attend. Free speech?