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Every woman and girl deserves to feel safe in our city.

That’s why we have invested £233 million to stop perpetrators and expand support for survivors, but there’s still more to do.

Together, we can build a city that's safe for everyone.

Morning sunrise at Bamburgh beach and dogs having a post swim sniff on the sand

Sniffs at Bamburgh beach, Northumberland. There winter days are bringing some lovely colourful sunrises

#landscapephotography
#seascape
#sunrise

Sure, sex is great, but have you ever cracked open a new notebook and written something on the first page with a really nice pen?

Short-fused racist has tantrum at BBC for asking him about being a racist bully at school. Then tries to claim that Reform was given £9M by crypto billionaire, Harborne, for “absolutely nothing in return”.

That’s all that sorted then.
Racist *and* corrupt.

news.sky.com/story/politi...

Good morning.

The press love a list and the best of's, don't they.

Arbiters of style and what our 'reading ' habits should be.

If you're able, read whatever you like and if you can buy books from bookshops, please do.

And support your local libraries too!

@thebookseller.com

Saved by Stoppard Sir, In 1993 my wife and I went to see the first production of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard (obituary, Dec I), and in the interval I experienced a Damascene conversion. As a clinical scientist I was trying to understand the enigma of the behaviour of breast cancer, the assumption being that it grew in a linear trajectory spitting off metastases on its way. In the first act of Arcadia, Thomasina asks her tutor, Septimus: "If there is an equation for a curve like a bell, there must be an equation for one like a bluebell, and if a bluebell, why not a rose?" With that Stoppard explains chaos theory, which better explains the behaviour of breast cancer. At the point of diagnosis, the cancer must have already scattered cancer cells into the circulation that nest latent in distant organs. The consequence of that hypothesis was the birth of "adjuvant systemic chemotherapy", ", and rapidly we saw a striking fall of the curve that illustrated patients' survival. Stoppard never learnt how many lives he saved by writing Arcadia. Michael Baum Professor emeritus of surgery; visiting professor of medical humanities, UCL r.

Alt text version. Thanks for sharing Harry.

This

Those who study History cannot stress enough how often we see this incremental stripping of minorities' basic rights & the implementation of policies in which the endangerment to a group's wellbeing is normalised by the society around it.

This is evil. Children - babies - will suffer as a result.

"In the solitude of a book, we find ourselves a little more willing to be vulnerable to having our mindset challenged." - Nick Raines

The main difference between people who want to ban books and me:

They would feel threatened by that quote.

I feel *energized* by it.

‘Enduring’ legacy of Damilola Taylor hailed 25 years on from killing Family of tragic Damilola, 10, join forces with Sir Mark Rowley and Sir Sadiq Khan to fight knife crime across London

25 years ago, London lost a bright, caring 10-year-old boy to an act of senseless violence.

The Damilola Taylor Trust continues to transform young lives for the better and has turned unimaginable heartbreak into an enduring legacy for young people across our city.

IT'S WEDNESDAY!

It's the budget busting #buyastrangerabook day.

The grooviest of all the days.

I'll give out TWO books.

FOR FREE.

If you'd like one, let me know.

Also, if you'd like to #BuyAStrangerABook too, let me know.

It's a thing! Look.

biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi...

UK only

Did u know?As the Xmas season approaches,it's easy to slip into buying huge amounts of plastic- in food containers/presents/Christmas decorations.Every year,I forage for gems from nature & with my daughters, we make our own festive wreaths. Always fun,different & eco. Let the wreathing begin. 🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍

There's nobody in the world exactly like you.

You are a unique individual.

A one-of-a-kind.

Just like everyone else.

Monochrome photograph of a white woman standing over a desk with reel to reel recording equipment

Delia Derbyshire (1937- 2001) UK musician/composer, pioneer of electronic music, working at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop 1960s, she created the arrangement of the theme music for UK science-fiction TV series #DoctorWho
#WomensArt

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

“If you go back a million minutes, you reach 2023. Go back a billion minutes, you reach the Roman Empire — that’s the scale of inequality we’re living with.”

Zack Polanski on #BBCLauraK discussing inequality and why a wealth tax should be in the budget

I have updated my long thread on Nigel Farage's history of racism in the light of the new revelations of his teenage racist years. You'll want mind bleach afterwards.

Got here safe. Weather is crap.

Most English have no idea about their own country's history, full stop.

Covid inquiry live: ‘Inexcusable’ delays under Johnson led to 23,000 deaths Lockdowns may have been avoided if Boris Johnson’s government had acted faster, damning report finds

Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage.
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...

Since Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah became the first person in the UK to have air pollution listed as a cause of death, nationwide progress on air pollution hasn’t happened fast enough.

I urge everyone to back Ella's Law – a healthier, fairer future for Britain’s children is at stake.

The Government Has Cut Air Pollution Funds to Councils by 99% as Illegal Levels of Pollution Shorten Lives New data shows just £1.5 million was given to councils in England in the past year to tackle air pollution - down from a high of £225 million in 2021

The Government Has Cut Air Pollution Funds to Councils by 99% as Illegal Levels of Pollution Shorten Lives

New data shows just £1.5 million was given to councils in England in the past year to tackle air pollution - down from a high of £225 million in 2021

Ancient woodland without bluebells

Ancient woodland with bluebells

We knew exactly what we wanted, even though the woodland estate agent made no reference to them. Big mistake

There is a reason ancient woodland has areas devoid of all plant life in November, because this is what it looks like in April

All it took was someone to love them 💜

They make games and movies like they used to. So many of them. Same with books.

But the mechanisms you learned about them were totally gutted and changed to only amplify shit that's already popular.

It's still there! You're just mostly on your own to find it.

Teenage knife deaths 11 year low in London

I'm sure the Londinistan guys will be delighted to read this... really good news... they'll be talking about something else altogether now... sure of it... because they were genuinely concerned weren't they

A man I met high in the Peak District who, due to crimes he would not disclose to me, had been turned into two conjoined Sycamore trees by a coven of witches and condemned to spend eternity waving his useless branch hands at the cold, cruel sky.

THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent trees I have met on walks.

You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.

I hate having to defend this government — but some people really do have goldfish memories.
Did everyone just forget Boris Johnson’s scandal-soaked, lie-filled premiership?
Andrew Neil has been covering politics for 55 years, but so often he sounds like he was born yesterday!

When half the internet doesn't work because of a failure of a single vendor, that vendor is a utility, in the same way that power, water, and, back in the day, the phone companies, are/were utilities.
3/5

Did u know? It's lovely when you get to spend time with your wild garden family.Yesterday, my compost heap robin took full advantage of the couple of hours I spent in that part of the garden. He's getting very confident now,coming up so close to me,pecking up small morsels I uncover as I work.🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍🐦‍⬛

Heat-pump homes put less strain on grid than expected, study shows Analysis of new-builds in Birmingham suggests all-electric homes not only use less energy but vary in peak usage

Heat-pump homes put less strain on grid than expected, study shows

Analysis of new-builds in Birmingham suggests all-electric homes not only use less energy but vary in peak usage

www.theguardian.com/environment/...