Crumpled white t-shirt with printed logo like the London Underground symbol: ‘lesbians and gay ment out and proud, never going underground’.
Having a clear-out at Mum’s. My t-shirt from 1988. #clause28. My big belly wouldn’t fit in it now but the slogan has never been bettered imho. Except now we would be more inclusive of course. #LGBTQ+
I've seen almost every interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social
This one is up there with the best ever
Calm, self assured, principled
A masterclass in comms imho 💚👌🏽
Graphic with the headline “London is the greatest city in the world” set against a bright view of the River Thames with the Shard, Tower Bridge and the city skyline. The text celebrates what makes London special: regularly voted the number one city in the world, incredible diversity with over 300 languages spoken, world-class transport, world leader in finance tech and life sciences, best museums and galleries many free to visit, world-leading nightlife, food sport and music for every taste, host to the world’s best sporting events, home to seven Premier League clubs, globally-ranked universities, a city where you can be yourself and love who you love, and a place for everyone.
I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again.
Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐
People need to understand who and what # Farage is.
I could hear this speech again and again
#Farage #FarageIsaFraud
As a child, we would visit Mum’s friend whose husband was among other things a brilliant inventor. As well as building a ride-on mower with a Morris Minor engine, he had developed a plan to store heat in a huge tank of sand for domestic heating. 50 years later mainstream technology is catching up.
Spring statement in SE London:
❌ No cash for DLR to Thamesmead
❌ No cash for Bakerloo Line to Lewisham
Sir Sadiq Khan has warned that the Labour government risks "levelling down" the capital
greenwichwire.co.uk/2025/06/11/d...
www.theguardian.com/environment/... Having worked with housing developers, I know ONLY mandatory measures will succeed - all environmental planning conditions are treated with disdain and something to work around or evade, in my experience. Come on Matthew Pennycook, you know you can do better.
The UK’s disability art scene is a source of international pride. At Graeae, we have been “getting disabled people into work” since 1980. 👇
graeae.org/resource/gra...
Painting of WW2 planes flying above a devastated landscape but with a dustbin full of recycling
Hans Schwarz, teenage Jewish refugee from Nazi Vienna, was sponsored by Cadbury to attend Birmingham Art School. Here’s a student poster of his. #VEDay80
Sheila Hancock: My VE Day was nothing like our image of it today. I hope we can honour what it really meant
Growing up in rural Norfolk in the 70s I was often bemused and frustrated by what appeared to count as ‘news’ in the local papers. I now get the same sinking feeling from the BBC News app
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” George Orwell 1984
“I was 16, gay and bullied for it. Then my father wrote to the Guardian …”
A black and white aerial view of a crowd. You need to zoom in to see that they are people, they just look like dots at first. I’m the top left quarter.
On this day in 1988, 20,000 LGBTQ people and our allies marched through the streets of Manchester to protest Section 28, which tried to stifle all mention of our lives.
At the time it was the largest gay rights gathering ever.
Pic: The crowd seen from the top of the Town Hall.
#LGBT+HistoryMonth
www.which.co.uk/news/article.... Among some helpful advice here is an absence of understanding how we work with traditionally-built (eg solid walls, lime mortar) houses to allow the all-important breathability when insulating. A bit surprising from Which.
'Many of us...have a feeling that we are living in a country where fanatics, hooligans and eccentrics have got the upper hand.'
British Ambassador to Berlin, 1933.
The UK does have a ‘special relationship’ – but it’s with Europe
💯 This is exactly what the for-profit media does! Profits over everything.
Follow Matt Wuerker
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Jaunt Belt icon from TV’s Tomorrow People
When you wake up for a hugely busy last day at work before Christmas, but all that’s in your head is a theme tune from 50 years ago 😭
Kenny and Viv certainly came to Queer Up North in Manchester, 1996, but I’m not sure it was in Kiki and Herb guise.
Singer, Prince Rogers Nelson
Color portrait of Émilie du Châtelet. She has papers spread out before her and holds a compass to them with her right hand. Her left elbow rests on the table and her hand is propped against her cheek. She is wearing a green dress with a green bow at her neck, and white frilly sleeves.
Émilie du Châtelet, who hypothesized conservation of energy, established kinetic energy as distinct from momentum and proportional to (speed)², and combined work by Newton and Leibniz with her own original ideas in "Institutions de Physique," was born #OTD in 1706. 🧪 👩🔬 ⚛️
Portrait: M. Q. de La Tour
Woolwich Arsenal station has the BEST carol singers. Primary kids redefining gusto (sorry, didn’t clock which school). Really brightened my morning.
Box of vintage glass baubles
Christmas begins with Gran’s decs
What a grievous loss for the BBC and us the audience.
Brilliant journalist, and such a fine person and role model
www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...
I wish 😭
