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Managing Derren Brown. Own views & RT does not mean I agree. YOLO/Politics/Gooner/Photography/WOKE
Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April
“But the message we really want to get across is that it remains our firm belief that transgender women are women, and that doesn’t change.”
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
“But the message we really want to get across is that it remains our firm belief that transgender women are women, and that doesn’t change.”
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
December 3, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April
“But the message we really want to get across is that it remains our firm belief that transgender women are women, and that doesn’t change.”
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
“But the message we really want to get across is that it remains our firm belief that transgender women are women, and that doesn’t change.”
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Trump’s Pardon Power!
Trump is all for pardoning criminals
This is from today’s NYT Morning email
Trump is all for pardoning criminals
This is from today’s NYT Morning email
December 2, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Trump’s Pardon Power!
Trump is all for pardoning criminals
This is from today’s NYT Morning email
Trump is all for pardoning criminals
This is from today’s NYT Morning email
GB News urged to cut ties with contributor accused of racism
Rightwing activist claimed Commons deputy speaker Nusrat Ghani should be barred because she was born in Pakistan
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Rightwing activist claimed Commons deputy speaker Nusrat Ghani should be barred because she was born in Pakistan
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
December 2, 2025 at 11:04 AM
GB News urged to cut ties with contributor accused of racism
Rightwing activist claimed Commons deputy speaker Nusrat Ghani should be barred because she was born in Pakistan
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Rightwing activist claimed Commons deputy speaker Nusrat Ghani should be barred because she was born in Pakistan
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Pioneering chef Skye Gyngell, has died of Merkel cell carcinoma, a rare skin cancer, aged 62, was the first Australian woman to win a Michelin star, an early supporter of the slow food movement, and a champion of charities
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/no...
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/no...
December 2, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Pioneering chef Skye Gyngell, has died of Merkel cell carcinoma, a rare skin cancer, aged 62, was the first Australian woman to win a Michelin star, an early supporter of the slow food movement, and a champion of charities
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/no...
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/no...
#BrexitDisaster
Britain’s departure from the EU has all but ended the industry in the Menai Strait.
Since Brexit, mussel production has collapsed from about 10,000 tonnes annually to just five tonnes in 2022, representing just 0.05% of the previous total.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Britain’s departure from the EU has all but ended the industry in the Menai Strait.
Since Brexit, mussel production has collapsed from about 10,000 tonnes annually to just five tonnes in 2022, representing just 0.05% of the previous total.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
November 30, 2025 at 11:37 AM
#BrexitDisaster
Britain’s departure from the EU has all but ended the industry in the Menai Strait.
Since Brexit, mussel production has collapsed from about 10,000 tonnes annually to just five tonnes in 2022, representing just 0.05% of the previous total.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Britain’s departure from the EU has all but ended the industry in the Menai Strait.
Since Brexit, mussel production has collapsed from about 10,000 tonnes annually to just five tonnes in 2022, representing just 0.05% of the previous total.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
What Chicago’s fight against ICE can teach us all about how to resist oppression
A harrowing US podcast documents a community’s struggle against immigration raids – and warns us about herd mentality
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A harrowing US podcast documents a community’s struggle against immigration raids – and warns us about herd mentality
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 30, 2025 at 11:21 AM
What Chicago’s fight against ICE can teach us all about how to resist oppression
A harrowing US podcast documents a community’s struggle against immigration raids – and warns us about herd mentality
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A harrowing US podcast documents a community’s struggle against immigration raids – and warns us about herd mentality
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
November 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
GB News urged to cut ties with contributor accused of racism
Rightwing activist claimed Commons deputy speaker Nusrat Ghani should be barred because she was born in Pakistan
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Rightwing activist claimed Commons deputy speaker Nusrat Ghani should be barred because she was born in Pakistan
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
November 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
GB News urged to cut ties with contributor accused of racism
Rightwing activist claimed Commons deputy speaker Nusrat Ghani should be barred because she was born in Pakistan
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Rightwing activist claimed Commons deputy speaker Nusrat Ghani should be barred because she was born in Pakistan
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Trump is showing a disastrous lack in mental acuity…
Trump says he plans to cancel most of Biden’s executive orders.
Trump baselessly claims his predecessor didn’t sign off on directives himself due to use of autopen machine
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump says he plans to cancel most of Biden’s executive orders.
Trump baselessly claims his predecessor didn’t sign off on directives himself due to use of autopen machine
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
November 28, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Trump is showing a disastrous lack in mental acuity…
Trump says he plans to cancel most of Biden’s executive orders.
Trump baselessly claims his predecessor didn’t sign off on directives himself due to use of autopen machine
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump says he plans to cancel most of Biden’s executive orders.
Trump baselessly claims his predecessor didn’t sign off on directives himself due to use of autopen machine
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I keep the picture of Sid by me to remember this influential, comedy giant. The typewriter belonged to Louis Histed (for any magicians looking at this post).
November 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I keep the picture of Sid by me to remember this influential, comedy giant. The typewriter belonged to Louis Histed (for any magicians looking at this post).
Summer in Soho Square
November 28, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Summer in Soho Square
Transport of delight…
November 28, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Transport of delight…
Aesthetics of the London Underground
November 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Aesthetics of the London Underground
There is no escaping this giant of literary exceptionalism.
November 28, 2025 at 12:06 PM
There is no escaping this giant of literary exceptionalism.
The BT Tower, from Warren Street looking down Conway Street, Fitzrovia
November 28, 2025 at 12:00 PM
The BT Tower, from Warren Street looking down Conway Street, Fitzrovia
The BT Tower taken as a window reflection in Warren Street, Fitzrovia
November 28, 2025 at 11:57 AM
The BT Tower taken as a window reflection in Warren Street, Fitzrovia
The former Holy Trinity Church, in Marylebone.
November 28, 2025 at 11:55 AM
The former Holy Trinity Church, in Marylebone.
Net migration to the UK has fallen by more than two-thirds to 204,000 in a single year, the lowest annual figure since 2021, according to the latest official statistics.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
November 28, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Net migration to the UK has fallen by more than two-thirds to 204,000 in a single year, the lowest annual figure since 2021, according to the latest official statistics.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Jack Shepherd obituary
Versatile actor, director and playwright who found television fame in the detective series Wycliffe
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Versatile actor, director and playwright who found television fame in the detective series Wycliffe
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
November 27, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Jack Shepherd obituary
Versatile actor, director and playwright who found television fame in the detective series Wycliffe
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Versatile actor, director and playwright who found television fame in the detective series Wycliffe
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
He sleeps all the time — during the day, during the night - he's a sleeper...
November 26, 2025 at 12:18 PM
He sleeps all the time — during the day, during the night - he's a sleeper...
Authors of this “peace” plan include Trump’s special envoy & real-estate associate Steve Witkoff, son-in-law Jared Kushner, & Kremlin sovereign-wealth manager Kirill Dmitriev. None were authorized. None represented the USA in any formal capacity.
dianefrancis.substack.com/p/trump-tric...
dianefrancis.substack.com/p/trump-tric...
November 24, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Authors of this “peace” plan include Trump’s special envoy & real-estate associate Steve Witkoff, son-in-law Jared Kushner, & Kremlin sovereign-wealth manager Kirill Dmitriev. None were authorized. None represented the USA in any formal capacity.
dianefrancis.substack.com/p/trump-tric...
dianefrancis.substack.com/p/trump-tric...
They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity
Trump’s wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent: the Maga evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggression
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Trump’s wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent: the Maga evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggression
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
November 23, 2025 at 7:28 PM
They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity
Trump’s wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent: the Maga evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggression
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Trump’s wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent: the Maga evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggression
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Blackpool's electric tramway was the first of its kind in the British Isles, with its first section opening in September 1885.
November 22, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Blackpool's electric tramway was the first of its kind in the British Isles, with its first section opening in September 1885.