Miranda Green

Hampstead’s retro cafés fight back against a revamp [FREE TO READ] London life is a muddle, but not all locals want to see things tidied up

Wrote this for @financialtimes.com re pasta at Parliament Hill cafe that is no more - and what the handover to a chain says for local accountability. Lido eatery is still holding out against eviction but who knows (with EM Forster and a bit of Jane Jacobs because why not?) as.ft.com/r/68e51f80-3...

truly an under reated gem of the PSB catalogue!

some fights might be way more complicated that 3 way

YouTube video by VGK MUSIC VIDEOS Eighth Wonder ft. Patsy Kensit – J'ai Pas Peur

Can't beat Patsy's dreadful accent or her pluck here (though the English version is much better www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-PY...) www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8S8...

Why are fertility rates collapsing? Gender roles A big part of female graduates’ decision to have children depends on how they expect their husbands to behave

Brilliant Martin Wolf 'mini series' on baby drought - one on gender roles www.ft.com/content/e1a7... and today's follow up argues the scares need much greater scrutiny www.ft.com/content/0ae2...

by Tim the uncrowned king of Essex

I don't actively use it but if you google a name for example, you get a mad mishmash of some people with that name, and if one of them has popped their clogs and the real one isn't very high profile, there you go.

Why are fertility rates collapsing? Gender roles A big part of female graduates’ decision to have children depends on how they expect their husbands to behave

it's part two in his mini-series - www.ft.com/content/e1a7... was last week's also excellent

the one on the left looks like a total riot

gemini regularly tells me that people are dead when they are not, for instance - really can't trust any of it

Ridiculous and genuinely INFURIATING - the main facts were reported in the FT exclusively in 2023! and then Jim has been consistently pursuing the story ever since!

Good evening, Jan @janjonesauthor.bsky.social & thank you, albeit somewhat belatedly on my part, I'm afraid. We went out quite early this morning & #SixNations has intervened on our return! With the time moving on, maybe "The Evening News" by Brynhild Parker from 1931 might now be appropriate!

Mandarin mayhem Podcast Episode · Political Fix · 13/02/2026 · 31m

Mandarin mayhem!

Latest episode of Political Fix has just dropped

Feat @stephenkb.bsky.social @greenmirandahere.bsky.social & @chris-smyth.bsky.social

This week we discuss the Whitehall briefing wars, gender politics in No 10, & if govt will lurch leftward

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"Palestine Action’s campaign and pursuit of criminal damage is designed to intimidate the persons and businesses targeted so they end their commercial relationships with Elbit. Palestine Action is not engaged in any exercise of persuasion, or at least not the type of persuasion that is consistent with democratic values and the rule of law."

Significant that the High Court ruling is still, in places, quite damning of Palestine Action. It emphatically rejects that the group is engaged in "civil disobediance", for example.

It just finds (compellingly) that proscription was still wrong, despite that.

Nigel Farage has been making the incorrect claim that "one million people living in this country don't speak any English at all"

Facts here 👇

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...

the whole applying a sledgehammer to a prone human body thing is what put me off that particular storyline

I'd be dead thrice Rob! (see you on a cloud!)

I have a two word opinion on this topic and it trumps everything else: medical science

bloody hell that's good

and all of them such lovely people

no no Mark, it's ok for *the right people* to work from home - it's the rest of us that can't be trusted not to spend the time filing our nails or whatever

The City should not have a monopoly on the chancellor’s ear Consumer protection is being downplayed in favour of relaxing the rules for financial services

In which Meg Hillier pulls no punches in her disapproval of the Treasury and the chancellor over deregulation of financial services and the balance of risks - www.ft.com/content/8172...

I love both ex wives. they make it. but good that they dropped all the 'aren't we hilarious' gurning that crept in to the previous series. it's ridiculous and therefore best played straight.

did not see that one coming

Look, I fully understand that there is a lot going on that I should be engaging with this evening, but also the new series of The Lincoln Lawyer is some of the most enjoyable bubblegum TV in a really long while and the cast are acting their little socks off - recommend.

Today would have been Brynhild Parker's birthday as she was born on 10th February 1907. Attached herewith are her paintings of "Saloon Bar(1931)": "Appledore(1932)": "Islington Street Scene(1935)" & "Windy Day on Marine Parade, Southend(1930)"ex the collection at the Beecroft Gallery, Southend #botd

evergreen as they say

"The clamorous owl that nightly hoots and wonders

At our quaint spirits. Sing me now asleep."

#ShakespeareSunday #SuperbOwl

A timely warning here...

Scotland faces its own revolt on the right An unprecedented surge for Reform in May’s Holyrood vote will challenge the nation’s self-image

... and a great Chris Deerin piece on what's at stake in Scotland come May's elections www.ft.com/content/1cd0...