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🚨🚨 under a quarter of tickets left for the Outsiders Arts Club's first anniversary on November 24 in Vauxhall 🚨🚨 come join us, maybe buy a painting, listen to an interesting talk, grab some exclusive OAC merch (!) 🚨🚨 outsidersartsclub.com

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Please don't leave Halloween pumpkins to rot in your garden, or dump them in the countryside. Eating mouldy pumpkins can make hedgehogs, birds and other animals poorly. Instead, dispose of pumpkins in a covered compost bin or council food waste bin. More: littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/5-i...

We’re getting hammered up here, rain and wind all night, wind seems to be worse this morning, though so far only one bird box and a small willow blown down. Our garden is pretty sheltered, though if you look at the large oak and willow on the left you can just see how strong it is.

Pippa Dyrlaga is a paper cutting artist and print maker based in England #womensart

Over-assessment of students (or anything in fact) is like constantly digging up a sapling to check its root growth.

A shout out to Citizens Advice. They send workers at our foodbank every week, where they offer far more than sticking plaster solutions. Clients leave looking years younger than when they arrive.

The warzone that is King's Cross Station at 10pm. Oh the humanity. I expect 15 Tweets before bedtime saying how you can't venture out on London's streets in safety after sunset.

Pensioner poverty has halved in the past 30 years, as the shadow work and pensions secretary Helen Whately claimed. But how much of this was down to the Conservatives? Almost all the fall she’s talking about happened under Labour.

#Womensart .. thank you for following! ❤️ Have a great Friday xx

One million Londoners reached. Thousands fewer victims of violence. Our @london-vru.bsky.social is helping turn the tide, with hospital admissions for young people injured in knife assaults down 55% since 2019. This shows what prevention can achieve, but there’s more to do.

Second in my new sporadic In The Garden series, I sit down with Claire Ratinon in East Sussex at the end of the heatwaves www.wildway.info/p/gardening-...

OUTSIDERS ARTS CLUB FIRST ANNIVERSARY NOVEMBER 24 TICKETS ON SALE TOMORROW tell your mates! outsidersartsclub.com

eBay users! Don't ignore today's email, even though it looks like a boring standard update to the User Privacy Notice. They want to use your data to train AI models. If you click the link over the words "the right to object", it takes you to a page with a toggle button letting you opt out.

This week, dozens of libraries across the capital are offering free NHS support sessions, helping residents book appointments, manage prescriptions online and build digital skills. Check with your local library to find out what’s available.

When did the BBC description of Tommy Robinson change from ‘far right activist’ to ‘political activist’? Because that’s how he’s described on Radio 4 now

Diwali on the Square is one week away. This free celebration brings Londoners of all backgrounds together in the heart of our city with live music, dance, and delicious food. Join us in Trafalgar Square next Sunday 25 October, 1–7pm. Everyone is welcome.

Went to see this guy talk last night. Utterly captivating, hopeful, inspiring. Yes it makes you sad for what came after him, but as he kept saying, things can change and they can be better again.

So they're at it again 🙄 Torturing valid HMRC data to create wildly misleading headlines, designed to invoke fear and anger about immigrants. Same old, same old... (and you'll see just how old shortly!) 🧵1/28

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Being a trans man in the UK: your colleagues don't have to treat you as a man, you can't use men's facilities, if you look too much like a man you can't use women's facilities either, on your deathbed the NHS will put you in a "third space" of some kind, whatever that is (probably not great).

Am *very* excited about tomorrow's Democracy for Sale interview, all about crypto buying politics in the US - and the UK Can anyone spot who our special guest is?? Subscribe to get video straight to your inbox: democracyforsale.substack.com

🚨BREAKING: With the threat of federal election interference looming large over the midterms, Senate Democrats plan to send more than 100 congressional staff to observe voting sites in nine states — the first program of its kind for the upper chamber. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Naomi Smith on Russian interference in our democracy. 🚨 "So we don't need to question whether or not there is Russian interference in our democracy. There palpably is."

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

Diwali on the Square returns to Trafalgar Square on Sunday 25 October. Join in for one of the biggest celebrations of the festival of lights outside India, with traditional dancing, activities for all the family and delicious food. It's free and everyone is welcome.

This a million times. People of colour being dragged on to debate maniacs about imaginary labels & race science is an abomination. proper ‘how German are you’ Nazi shit Note that people like me with white migrant parentage never asked to defend our identity Englishness. Is. A. Made. Up. Thing

I’ve updated my books pages www.jackwallington.com/gardening-bo... to help people find them all in one place

Stratford is one of Europe’s great regeneration success stories. It’s ready for its next chapter - European rail links. I’m proud to say I’m working with the government to deliver new cross-Channel trains from East London. The benefits would be felt far beyond our city.

Hey folks. In total honesty my tour is NOT selling well. I’ve sold 30 tickets in a 400 seater in Birmingham, and not much more elsewhere. If you like musical comedy, if you like standup, then please come see my show! And spread the word! The Rachel Parris Songbook tour starts in Nov! Link in bio! 🎶

The Met’s biggest crackdown of its kind is working: phone theft in London is at its lowest level in four years. We're catching thieves, dismantling criminal networks and making it harder to profit from stolen phones. www.lbc.co.uk/article/phon...

📢 Tories have pledged to abolish Natural England & Environment Agency. A year ago I flagged both as highly exposed to political interference. They've been weakened by yrs of cuts & loss of autonomy. Abolition removes scrutiny but doesn't fix problems christinapagel.substack.com/p/abolishing...

NEWS: New York City just recorded the fewest shootings, shooting victims, and murders in recorded history through the first nine months of the year. Major crime is down 6.6% citywide, the largest year-to-date drop in 17 years, with declines in all five boroughs. 1/

I just received the amazing news that Grower Gatherer has been named a finalist in this year’s People’s Book Prize! It’s a book award voted for entirely by the public. Please spare a minute to vote and help spread the word about these easy edible perennials! 🥬🌱 peoplesbookprize.com/2026-books/g...

Our statement on the recent Green Party of England and Wales motion 'Zionism is Racism'. europeangreens.eu/news/egp-pos...

Ofcom rules say broadcasters cannot use politicians as newsreaders, interviewers or reporters in any news programmes. So why is Nigel Farage allowed to host his own primetime show on GB News? Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action ⬇️

Letter printed in The Times today

My speech from the conference debate on 'Zionism is Racism’ motion

🟡 Print Edition Jason Arday and the Story Behind the Story of the Times’ ‘Impossible Data’ The newspaper of record failed to distinguish between corrections and retractions in the work of the late Cambridge University academic, fuelling the media firestorm that engulfed him.

Heard a good French Caribbean cover band play Bob Marley’s Redemption Song last night, and my immediate thought was how is it even possible to write a song so hauntingly beautiful?

We are so proud to be welcoming a fourth baby podcast into the family! It continues our outrageous trend of getting people who know what they're talking about to talk about things of substance. Give this episode a listen and its creators the encouragement they deserve. #HDYSAPLE

Trying to think through the learning of a week in Beijing it is to be less worried about the economics and far more about the politics globally and domestically. That I suppose is always the likely outcome of a massive productivity shock.

This is a poor take that suggests Owen Jones doesn't know much about Russia in the 1990s, including Russia-US or wider Russia-West relations in the 1990s. By giving only one part of the story, he is repeating the Russian political elite's self-serving line that it was all the West's fault. Long 🧵