Kevin Murphy-Steele

My last session on the rooftop bar in my hotel at Lisbon

Loved my hotel in Lisbon (the PortoBay Marques), but my wall contained a daily reminder of the funicular railway that crashed last week.

In #Lisbon right now on holiday for the first time and seeing the steep gradients the streetcars have to negotiate up the Bairro Alto it makes the consequences of last week's crash all the more real.

Goodnight Toronto! Standing on Yonge St just next to the Eaton Centre.

If a Tory-Reform pact happens, then my guess is that will cause a Lib Dem surge among centrist Tory voters who have no political home anymore.

After Labour's gains in Scotland last year, Sarwar is naive to think Holyrood '26 is in the bag. Soft nationalists who lent their vote to Labour to ensure a Tory drubbing in Westminster will go back to the SNP, whilst some hardline unionists will be hoovered up by Reform.

I love to see trolls getting checkmated

NEW: French far-right leader Marine Le Pen was banned from running for public office after a court found her guilty of embezzling European Parliament funds.

A Paris court also sentenced Le Pen—who was leading in the polls for the 2027 French election—to 4 years in prison, with 2 years suspended

The same photo taken from the same spot roughly today. Not a trace that there was ever a railway station here.

America, this is how it's done. The French far right political fraudster Marine le Pen has been found guilty of embezzlement by a court and disqualified from holding public office. The French aren't afraid of holding power to account. Former President Sarkozy was found guilty of corruption in 2021

It wouldn't be until 1992 when they made a convertible version of the Audi 80 that the company (albeit in its later/current incarnation) would build an open top car again.

Nice walk in New York City last night on our first night of our Easter break

Especially when you can easily be looking at another hour to get to the centre of London....

Two hours end to end from getting on a plane GLA-LHR counting ATC delays, taxi delays and then getting parked on a remote stand and getting bussed to the terminal. If you aren't connecting on, why would anyone suffer this over the train with the illusion that it is "faster"??

Elon Musk claims "the leftists" are bad-mouthing his company. This isn't true. It's ordinary car buyers who are fed the fuck up.

Is it just my imagination or does Facebook deliberately put the right wing comments on those random topics it puts on your feed to the top?

Proof that the rhetoric of the right never changes.

How is Elon Musk a 'great American'?? He's South African 😂

The world's a mess. Can we stop the treadmill I want to get off...

Last time I came back from overseas to LHR the security was understaffed, they couldn't operate the Fast track lane which just led to even more chaos and confusion. It left me thinking "welcome home"

March 1st always brings a bit of optimism as it means that winter is now slowly transitioning into Spring. Boy we need it with all these dark political events happening around us.

The late Scottish comedian Janey Godley with her iconic Trump is a cunt sign as he arrived at his golf course in Ayrshire.

Scotland, let's do this times 100,000 when the Putin loving Orange balloon visits Scotland. It's what Janey Godley would have wanted, now more than ever.

I am privileged enough to get into the Gold Lounge at Heathrow you get a brilliant view of the entire airfield and you can watch the planes landing and taking off

Frantic train and tube journey to try and get from Hampton Court back to Islington before the rugby started but we made it (more or less)

Amazing day at @blairgowrierfc.bsky.social taking photos for the @mndoddie5.bsky.social cyclists en route up north on their latest tour Rob Wainwright signs our Seat for Doddie which we are auctioning.

Well the decision has been made. This year's late summer holiday is booked for Canada rather than the USA. We will of course be doing our usual NYC trip in March but what will America look like by even then???

The Petticoat Lane area in East London sums up beautifully the wealth gap in the UK. Shuttered shops, graffiti everywhere and a run down council estate just two blocks away from all the power and wealth of the Square Mile.

Dundee didn't escape the storm...a tree came down in the main University of Dundee campus on Friday thankfully nobody was hurt

It didn't seem to be a total rot box as the most recent ones were, so that makes it a candidate for saving alone.

Watch: Trump's reaction as pastor asks him to 'have mercy' on migrants and transgender children This is the heartbreaking moment a pastor asked Donald Trump to "have mercy" on migrants and transgender children.

A bishop just called out Trump and Vance to their faces at church.

This was their reaction 👇
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