Charles Anthony

I now live in a place where they really (really) call them cheeselogs. Sfunnyold world, innit.

We’re still enjoying it…

It’s racist, it’s extremist and it’s immoral The right is still calling for deportations, and the government is still being cowardly about it. Also: London’s first green belt; some notes on a shark; and some news, on my next book.

"The idea of deporting people with settled status is disgusting, and anyone proposing it should be immediately drummed out of polite society. Breaking promises made in good faith to our friends and neighbours is racist, extremist and immoral."

I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.

[Turns to camera, raises eyebrow]

On this day 1971, boxer Muhammad Ali visited Tesco at Stretford’s Arndale shopping precinct to promote Ovaltine.

“My left bollocks”

Fire extinguisher next to a statue of Joan of Arc

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

City of London, from Waterloo bridge - silhouetted, with oranges and blues in the sky, and clouds edged with orange

City Skyline

Another in the “Chaz still likes his new office’s location” series

The Man with the Golden Bollocks
Dog Bollocks Afternoon
Rosemary’s Bollocks
Bring Me the Bollocks of Alfredo Garcia
Bollocks Everywhere All At Once

Wow. I‘m not sure which part of this is weirder: that they think Starmer’s rep might be worse than theirs, or that they might be right.

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

I wish (a bit) - No, my office has moved from Wimbledon to Waterloo - and so I’ve been getting off trains/tubes early, doing a 30m walk into the office

Big Ben, bathed in an orange morning light. Just gone 7.15; the rest of the Palace of Westminster in shadow

Morning Light.

Yes, I quite like working in town.

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

A sign saying "I'm not interested in competing with anyone. I hope we all make it."

*taps sign*

Light grey/blue to orange sky, behind a silhouetted city-of-London skyline, the Thames in the foreground, with a series of barges and working boats snaking along the centre of the river

Dawn over the City of London, from the middle of Waterloo Bridge

Pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no. — Harvard Gazette Geneticist explains recent analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement.

“The big perspective change from ancient DNA study is that people living today are almost never the descendants of the people in the same place thousands of years before”

news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

It very much is.

Keena ✅ Haggis ✅ Roti ✅

Sounds great to me

Linked In Notification: your were found by people from these magazines - Hello! Magazine

I’m not *entirely* convinced I’m the sort of person they’re looking for…

My wife just told me about a thing where people are colouring in England flags to make them look like slices of Battenberg cake, how marvellous

@thebugle.bsky.social @zaltzcricket.bsky.social @natogreen.bsky.social This was lovely.

On the one hand, Boooo! a month of hiatus - on the other, Hoorayyy! A collection of refreshed and revitalised Bugle Hosts

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@amyfluidgoth.bsky.social @legalweasel.co.uk literally heard it 3 hours ago at The Reading Biscuit Factory (indie cinema in Reading)

Hope that nothing too bad is found. Or, that they find what they are looking for and some answers…

*Lady Bracknell voice* “A HAM-bag?”

I must have missed the Supreme Court ruling that declared Marks & Spencer a women-only space

Hallo friends! If you’re seeing this please give it a bit of love for the algorithm.

Hey! I’m in London! I’ll be at Soho Theatre 6-9 August doing my very silly show A Passion For Passion and in Edinburgh after then.

🎟️https://www.alicecomedyfraser.com/upcoming-gigs

a black cat jumping out of a bag that has a black Puma logo on it

Just as the prophecy foretold

An array of India groceries: Fresh naan, dried Kashmiri chilli’s, green chillies, onions, spinach, cumin seeds, cardamom pods

I have been daaahn the “Exotic”.

The Exotic Superstore is their own name, not ours; a fantastic Asian supermarket on the Oxford Road, just 5m from our front door.

I do have to say the name in Kathy Burke’s voice, though.