Lucy

it was obvious from the moment the attack happened that this was not only a tragedy for Israel but was going to become a tragedy for Palestine, and I still remember who was cheering it on.

I was a caseworker for 2 different London MPs and the workload was relentless.That was 15 years ago so god knows how much worse it is now. MPs are expected to be a combination of legislator, social worker, local councillor and immigration lawyer (while being told they’re lazy and to stop whinging).

You mean you CAN’T fund adult social care by cutting grants to lesbian migrant theatre cooperatives?

Great to work with BBC Verify to evidence how the 90 day rule for short-term lets in London is being routinely broken. Mandatory registration with 90 night tracking underpinned by the use of Unique Property Reference Numbers (UPRNs) to stop bogus listings can't come soon enough.

Are they actually aware of what the ‘fa’ stands for?

I mean… yes?

Real, sadly.

Can’t wait to watch my pension crater in value.

Petty, joyless bastards (and I bet when they’re not ruining things for children and their parents they’re the ones bewailing the falling birth rate).

What the ACTUAL fuck

This. Activists who won London councils for Labour, sometimes against huge odds, are being taken for granted by a national party who are happy to celebrate the wins but not willing to do anything to support them for the long haul.

It's so incredible how low homicide rates are in Europe. The UK, with a population of 70 million people, had fewer than 600 murders in 2023.
www.connexionfrance.com/news/double-...

Thinking of the victims of 7th October today.

Most people will say Riders but I don’t think it’s as good as many of the later ones (and has aged worse). Try Polo, The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous, or (my favourite) Appassionata.

if that HIGNFY Euan Blair fuckup had been about a right-winger it'd have had full front-page scandal coverage in the Mail followed by frontpage coverage across the board for the next week, days of "BBC in crisis" headline coverage by the BBC, and parliamentary questions about Tim Davie's future

This kind of chat is absolutely what she would have wanted.

I’m gutted. I know it sounds mad, but at her best she was one of the closest things we have to a modern-day Dickens.

Knickers at half mast today everyone, for Jilly Cooper x

It's hard to know how best to mark the death of Jilly Cooper - there is no Concorde to bonk on and I don't have a horse to go and pour out my feelings to in the stables while being groped by an aristo. Perhaps just a glass of fizz and a bracing walk with an unusually sensitive dog.

Jilly Cooper 😭😭😭

This just a few weeks after many of Robinson’s supporters were doing Nazi salutes and shouting Nazi slogans at his march in London. Absolutely insane stuff.

There ain’t no episodes after Season 8, and there never were.

What do you mean ‘2000’? The Simpsons ended on 18th May 1997.

This is grotesque.

I didn't know until we buried my mother, so probably most people here don't know: Jewish cemeteries strongly recommend that you get insurance for the headstone.

Because the cemeteries are so often desecrated, the gravestones smashed.

Hey scumbags, Jews in Manchester have fuck all to do with Palestine or Israel. Commenting beneath news stories about dead British Jews with 'what about Palestinians?' is just fucking antisemitic bullshit. If you think Jews are your enemy, you are the enemy.

Jews are not Israel.

Recorded incidents of antisemitism rose to their highest levels in the last two years. The conflict in the Middle East after the Hamas attack in October 2023 + the Israeli military assault on Gaza has affected antisemitism + the safety of Jewish people in Britain (CST)
cst.org.uk/research/cst...

You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.

It is shameful that British Jews aren’t able to feel safe in their own country. How are we still in this position in 2025?