Simon

Archive screenshot from the Sex Matters website reading: “Tim Allan Trustee Tim Allan’s career has spanned working as a senior advisor in 10 Downing Street for Tony Blair, running corporate communications for BSkyB and founding a communications consultancy, Portland, which grew into one of the most highly regarded global reputation-management consultancies. Since selling Portland, he has become an investor in the communications consultancy sector.”

Keir Starmer’s new director of communications isn’t just the founder of Portland Communications – which represented Qatar, Russia and Kazakhstan – he’s also come straight from the board of the anti-trans charity Sex Matters.

The government is heading in a dark direction.

Ouch

Too right! Since about 1991 here. You must have been an early veg convert

Same!

Interestingly here in Northamptonshire the new council just waved through a contentious solar park application on land not allocated in the local plan.

Bizarre!

It’s great

Not pineapple intolerant?

I am seeing him on Thursday

Should go full Freddie Mercury really.

These people are fucking unhinged. How can you believe this.

Amazing, I did the hoovering today… I never knew.

Oh Dave xx

No, I didn’t have a starter.

Which app?

Looking great

Apparently it’s a sort of Sir Humphrey tactic… you suggest something so politically impossible that the Treasury looks elsewhere.

Let me know what you reckon… haven’t seen it yet. All in a single shot per episode. Clever, but why?

@isntdave.bsky.social Is that Freddie Mercury’s microphone? Galileo, figaro… etc

Pre-work spin.

It’s not easy. Been single five years now since my partner met someone else. It’s a relentless grind but kept going by running.

Can we sneak up while their eyes are closed?

Happy birthday! X

Best not attempted in my southern RP!

What’s the correct parlance?

Same!

What an odd way to run a business!

"First, they came for the queers, but nobody knows that because we're not in the fucking poem" stuck with me and is rattling around my head this week a lot louder than normal.

Not good!

Keep the magic secret, young Matthew.