Ms Lesley Smith

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba... Brilliant for Harry Kane but also for Saka. Well deserved recognition.

The BBC weather man after Newsnight is wearing a (rather tight) T shirt although the women still seem to wear fairly formal (and sometimes bodycon) dresses. Why are women maintaining sartorial standards while men appear to have stepped out of the bar for a moment?

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

This is excellent!

Not sure why Europe hasn't upped the pressure on Putin by saying that Russia's frozen assets will be used to fund Ukraine in stages until a ceasefire holds. Yes there are legal problems, but European security surely trumps them.

It really IS a triumph. Science is the absolute fucking suds.

The reason for offering Andy Haldane a job in No 10 or 11 was clearly to keep him from broadcastinga constant running commentary on what the government is or should be doing. ..

Oh my DAYS

[older woman, overheard on the upper east side] "well I'm trying but I've spent my whole life in New York, I just don't know how to walk slowly"

L: Fancy cat bed woven from artisan wool. R: Fancy cat in chosen bed.

@danielsugarman.bsky.social how is a pina colada (disgusting) three times the value of a Negroni (delicious)? And 33 times the value of an also delicious Margarita?

There is a bishop crisis? Seems to have been on the news all day. Shades of Barchester. Easy to appoint the wrong person…

Barack Obama just delivered a blistering rebuke of Trump's actions against Ilhan Omar. This is worth reading in full.

The more that members of the Trump administration talk, the more it sounds as if Plan A to stop the war was to coerce Ukraine into capitulation and Plan B was to keep repeating Plan A until it worked. When it became apparent that wasn't going to happen, they were out of ideas.

Feel a lot of pride about the way Britain has responded to Trump's attacks on Ukraine, repeatedly launching big symbolic demonstrations of solidarity when things are at their most tenuous.

Today's lesson for Europe: if your national security relies on US oligarchs' tech, they'll cut you off when you most need it.

Zelenskyy: “I thank His Majesty King Charles III for the audience. It is important for me to have the opportunity to personally thank him for his unwavering support for Ukraine. We appreciate all the assistance provided by the United Kingdom.”

I would like this pope to last quite a long while please

Why on earth does this BBC piece on Burnham telling an interviewer the UK security services confirmed Russian interference in the Brexit referendum require a response from a pro Brexit pressure group? It's literally our Prime Minister telling us about election security. It's nothing to do with them.

Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played

Is this real? If so, Trump has struck a deal for Russian oil. If this goes ahead, the US will be funding Russia’s war machine as it murders children, tortures, rapes and murders Ukrainian people as part of its genocidal war

Trump's foreign policy is not isolationist. On the contrary, his ideologues want to build an international empire run by far-right political movements who serve American crypto, mineral and tech companies, many with links to the president. Read more here: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Important, alarming and depressing stuff. But true.

John Meadocroft at the IHR, London in person and online, Tuesday 6 October at 5:30pm. Free and open to the public, but please register in advance.

Russia has bombed a school basically every single day this week, so for those people who say "if this was happening in Ukraine, it would be on the front pages every day", how many times have you seen that on the front page of even one of your national newspapers this week? Zero.

I’m off to gig at Camden School for Girls! We’re fundraising to help save Ancient Greek there - they’re an amazing example of classical education in the state sector. If you’d like to help, I’ll put the donation link below (and in my bio). And look - a good omen! 💛

I wouldn’t be where I am without the wonderful Greek provision at Camden School For Girls. I was so lucky it was my local school, and it’s so so important we keep these pathways open for state school kids. Please consider flinging a few quid their way of you can

Clearly trying to steal the fuel out of B1-B bomber to put in their 37mpg diesel Range Rover Evoque.

De Gaulle Part 1 and Part 2 both excellent.

I don’t think so

I'm so psyched for this new rom-com from the great Paul Mayhew-Archer, co-writer of Vicar of Dibley and (more importantly by far!) co-host of our podcast, Movers & Shakers. It's a story about living with Parkinson's – which also happens to be the strapline of our show!

Do go to the NHS App and make sure you’ve got your organ donation wishes correctly registered. There’s been a sharp decline in donors (is it part of the general trend of health fuckwittery?) so please update both the NHS and your family. www.organdonation.nhs.uk/news/nhs-ann...

BIG NEWS for any pedestrians fuming at e-bike riders Lime have permanently banned a rider caught cycling on the pavement. City of London police says:

Whispers: There isn’t a “right” to work from home. Employers decide how many people they need to run their business and where they want to hire them. Good employers should be sensible and considerate about accommodating their workers’ needs where practical. Dictating where you work is not a right.

Ovarian Cancer Action, the charity I’m fundraising for, aren’t on Bluesky, so in a moment I’ll post some stuff from one of their Facebook posts. But in the meantime, this graphic is why I go on about it so much…

This whole month is Gynae Cancer Awareness Month. I tried to find some good social media assets to download but ended up with this screenshot from Eve’s Instagram so I’m sorry it’s a bit cramped and small. Much more here: eveappeal.org.uk/information-...

Terrific review. Congratulations. Buy @jonnelledge.bsky.social ‘s book people. The Economist says you should.

Why do cats do this?

This is also worth a read from Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg, another great rabbi Glad to see so many Masorti rabbi’s countering the unrepresentative narrative we’ve seen from seen quarters - the community is not a monolith jonathanwittenberg.substack.com/p/be-on-the-...

Michael Rosen nails it again, re Ed Milliband apparently not being ‘Jewish enough’ for some people.

“The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you’re someone. You hear them shouting “Heil, Spode!” and you imagine it is the Voice of the People.” Bertie Wooster

Really struggling with Pakistan's U19 cricket team coaches having to confirm their particulars with a Reform councillor to get him to disperse the mob gathered outside their hotel. We're in a very bad place and we're doing nothing about it.

Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.

Don’t think Emma Barnett and Kemi Badenoch shouting at each other is adding to the sum of human knowledge (although Kemi, while annoying, is winning by miles). Emma B just sounds shrill and ineffective. BBC Today

Are Beyonce’s covers the best covers ever?

Antonia Senior talking to a rapt crowd about her new book exposing the evils of the Cambridge five, “Stalin’s Apostles” at #QueensParkBookFestival

Canadian PM Mark Carney: I’ve met Putin in the past, multiple times. He only understands strength and directness. And the message would be simple: get out of Ukraine, give back all of Ukraine to Ukraine, end this war, which is killing more than 30,000 of your people every single month.

@sathnam.bsky.social and Alex Kadis talk about George Michael at Queen’s Park book festival (with an adoring crowd).

At what point does a British by-election get awarded to the silver medalist, à la Ben Johnson and Carl Lewis? Asking for a friend of a friend, i.e. me. #Clacton