Leading up to Christmas I am going to share some of my memories from over the years, some favourite food and drinks, plus some music you might enjoy.  My Christmas memories… In early 1965 a film wa…

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Our community has hailed the return to Erasmus as a long-overdue win for young people and UK–EU ties, while warning it is only a small step towards repairing the wider fallout from Brexit

When are you most creative and most productive as a writer? Write a description of that place, noting the time of day, which of your senses are appealed to during that span, if you use pen and pape…

At least eight MEPs elected for Ukip or Brexit party now known to have been focus of efforts by jailed Nathan Gill Three more British MEPs from Nigel Farage’s bloc are alleged to have “followed the script” given to a colleague who was being bribed by an alleged Russian asset, according to prosecutors, as a police investigation into the affair continues. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has named Jonathan Bullock, Julia Reid and Steven Woolfe, saying they followed the script provided to Nathan Gill by Oleg Voloshyn when giving interviews to 112 Ukraine, a pro-Russian TV channel in March 2019. Continue reading...

World AIDS Day at Stonewall, Alison Bechdel on making ends meet, Houston van art, NYC’s latest eyesore, Christ and kink, and the family behind Elf on the Shelf.