What will Labour sacrifice for its housing targets? A standoff in south London is putting it to the test | Anna Minton In Peckham, developers unwilling to meet affordable housing quotas are facing down residents and the council, says author Anna Minton

What will Labour sacrifice for its housing targets? A standoff in south London is putting it to the test | Anna Minton

Pitiful

No one is screaming. Pochin is racist. Farage is racist. Reform’s policies are racist. Indulging the “legitimate concerns” excuse is just emboldening them towards ever more vicious extremism. That tide only turns when people call them out and shame them. In conversations. Online. On air. Every time.

Nothing else has worked – so Starmer and Reeves are finally telling the truth about Brexit | Rafael Behr It is the right way to go, but taking the long way round to such an obvious point has cost Labour precious time and credibility, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

As his landmark Brexit has proved, Farage is a fraud.

Nothing else has worked – so Starmer and Reeves are finally telling the truth about Brexit | Rafael Behr

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The bridge and the mountain 💚

The solitude of the mountains

My choice for the Nobel Peace Prize this year:

Chef José Andrés and the World Central Kitchen.

Now more than ever, I urge Londoners to stand united in our rejection of hatred.

So utterly tiresome and wasteful. What a miserable git

If they want people to work and pay tax, how can they find time to volunteer as well

Reform MP backs up Nigel Farage claims that migrants are coming for your birds.

🤣

After the far right’s march on our streets, Londoners must show Trump we reject his politics of fear | Sadiq Khan These are dark times, but those who seek to divide us will not win. The capital’s soul and spirit are as inclusive and optimistic as ever, says London mayor Sadiq Khan

After the far right’s march on our streets, Londoners must show Trump we reject his politics of fear | Sadiq Khan

Wow, this is the president who will arrive in the UK tomorrow to be honoured with a state visit.

Not in our name!

Join the march and rally against Trump and his far-right extremist ideology in London this Wednesday.

2pm Portland Place

5pm Parliament Square

#stoptrump

I know many people, particularly from London's diverse communities, are feeling extremely worried following the events this weekend. It takes me back to how I felt growing up in the ’70s and ’80s, when far-right political parties marched on our streets. The leaders of the far-right are once again attempting to hijack our flag, with minorities being intimidated and fear, hatred and division being sown. As Londoners, and as proud Brits, we must unite to reject the far-right – just as we have many times before. But it’s going to take a huge effort from us all – from people of all races and backgrounds, who are willing to stand up for our British values of equality, inclusion and mutual respect. As Mayor, I'll continue to do everything I can to challenge the far-right and all those who peddle the politics of fear and division. I urge other politicians and Londoners to do the same. MAYOR OF LONDON, SADIQ KHAN

We must unite against those who seek to divide us.

Weirdos

‘As Union Jacks are appearing, even in this corner of rural Gloucestershire, this book carries a different flag. Stories of a greater Britain.’

@horatioclare.bsky.social's ‘We Came By Sea’ tells migrants’ stories with humanity, writes Sue Brooks www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/we-c...

Reform MP says they will negotiate with the Taliban.

Best fess ever

Great! Just as we now have tonnes of the stuff in #burgesspark thanks @lb-southwark.bsky.social

A landscape in silhouette - black against an inky blue sky. We see the outline of a church tower in front of a river, with trees and a few houses. Overhead in the starry sky there is a meteor shower

The Night Sky, 1965
The #Perseids
Artist: Robert Ayton

Hands off our allotments | We Own It Recent media reports have pointed out that Angela Rayner has permitted the sell-off of eight allotment sites since taking office. We believe that one allotment sold is one too many.

It doesn't matter if it's the Conservatives or Labour allowing 8 sites to be sold off every year. Even if a few might be replaced, some won't.

One allotment sold, and lost from community use forever, is one too many.

Lawn mower?

Isn’t a sausage roll just a pie in 3 dimensions?
Perfect match

The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women

The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit

Mm, Khans London…

The open day is the best fun! Huge machines, wobbly conveyor belts, suction tubes. Willy Wonkaesque

In Honor of Joanna Macy, 1929-2025 I write while staying in one of the great forests of British Columbia, a forest in which the inextricability of life from death is gorgeously evident. Several kinds of fern spring from this soil, some...

Macy once wrote, "It is good to realize that falling apart is not such a bad thing. Indeed, it is as essential to transformation as the cracking of outgrown shells. Anxieties and doubts can be healthy and creative...because they permit new and original approaches to reality."

You must have something in your eye

Farage should never be interviewed without being forced to answer for failures of Brexit. That the man whose lies fuelled Brexit vote which has cost UK Billions & who said Liz Truss budget was “best Tory budget since 1986” could be trusted on *anything* is mind-boggling #bbclaura