A truly awesome book! ❤️
@lucygobag.bsky.social continuing my mission to read every @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social book, devouring this and thought immediately of you. Have you come across it? Awesome, obvs.
(Not finished yet, keep half-expecting to see your name actually 😆)
Perfect panic buy for Mother’s Day 😆 ❤️
Yikes
Thank you from me and from Mabel - have an amazing time at your home launch tonight x @nazshahbfd.bsky.social
Rush out and buy Naz Shah’s book at once
Ooh thank you for sharing here ❤️
It’s always a surprise winner 😆
Well that is just lovely - thank you Ben ❤️
I really appreciated the wit, wisdom and humanity in the opening lecture at the Peninsula Trainers’ Conference by @lucygobag.bsky.social - it was blistering! I particularly valued learning new words and the richness of their specific meanings thank you!
Influencers sold the world a fantasy Dubai – and now it’s gone in a puff of missile smoke | Gaby Hinsliff
Oh thank you - will read with great interest
It must be utterly exhausting to be a good constituency MP with social conscience at the moment. Just a steady stream of cases with a general theme of state collapse in various new and imaginative ways
This is grave
BREAKING: The Met police has apologised to the Commons speaker Lindsay Hoyle for sharing with Peter Mandelson’s lawyers that he had passed on information that the former UK ambassador planned to flee the country.
The Met are treating it internally "as a serious protocol breach"
As I suspected here it sounds like the Met Police *spectacularly* screwed up here.
It's absolutely amazing they're demanding to overrule parliament on disclosing documents around Mandelson'sappointment while making errors this basic and grave.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
‘We’ve been paying for happy endings for Andrew for years’: the inside story of a royal disgrace, by his biographer
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A County Court judgment on an unlawful eviction claim (locks changed while tenant and children were on holiday). Landlord files hopeless defence then fails to take part. Damages of over £50,000. Thanks to Radhika Shah of Harrow Law Centre for the note of judgment.
nearlylegal.co.uk/2026/02/evicte…
So many people I love are negotiating so many kinds of crises.
Some personal, medical, professional, some collective and political
All compounded by the sadism and destructive policies, & programs of this regime.
Some PR advice for the Andrew-stricken royals – try something that look less like a $12m cover-up | Marina Hyde
Terrific paper from our colleagues @hazcenter.bsky.social develops ideas of disaster literacy based on experience, yet is critical of overstating youth agency in the face of sociomaterial inequalities: should inform disaster planners everywhere @cabinet-office-uk.bsky.social @lucygobag.bsky.social
The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit
Indeed. A party invite for public officials, to be held in Mayfair no less, by a company that has recently been awarded a £240m public contract.
The competition would be livid - had there been any.
We owe it to Epstein’s victims and to British democracy to demand historic change | Gordon Brown
Managed retreat is again the third item on BBC News - we will need to have much bigger conversations about this
