In a country where the health system is treated as a pseudo-religion and people are regularly demanded to make sacrifices for it, people being pressured into ending their lives in order to "help the NHS" is not a far-fetched scenario. So no, fears of the worst are very valid.

New Women's Budget Group report reveals the devastating toll of austerity on women, with the poorest facing a 21% drop in living standards. If Labour doesn't act now, vulnerable women will be significantly poorer towards the end of this parliament. Full report wbg.org.uk/publication/wh…

These photos are so joyful.

The interview linked here. We don't send these men to prison because we've made a choice not to. The argument that there are too many men while having no deterrent is spurious : imprison, tag, make it absolutely clear what we stand for.

Train cancelled after squirrels board and ‘refuse to leave’ telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/09/1…

A year ago the Holkham with the Norfolk Rivers Trust & Charles Rangeley Wilson embarked on a project to reconnect an ancient chalk stream back to the floodplain This is the result, amazing what you can achieve when you work collectively allow nature some space

I much prefer the latter type of cake, too, and boy, do Hungarians know their onions, I mean cakes.

Saw quite a few films in this cinema in the 90s, so no longer in PPR, but the first decade of seismic change. I think I saw the execrable Godzilla (the Matthew Broderick one) there.

Jeremy King, London's best restaurant proprietor and patron saint of solo diners

Attended one of the legendary boozy lunches of the Private Eye today. There I was, enjoying the Britishness of it all: satire, political gossip, Al Murray - DKMS.ORG.UK 🇺🇦 banging on about Arnhem...before all goes quiet and Ian Hislop ask loudly: 'I wonder what Katja thinks about the war?' 🤷‍♀️🇬🇧🇩🇪

Good morning! #Roses

It’s always a joy when a wonderful book is turned into a brilliant film.

Instagram began introducing new restrictive accounts yesterday for users under the age of 18 to address growing concerns about social media's impact on youth.(…) it comes as parent company Meta faces a lawsuit from 33 states alleging its platforms harm children's mental health.

I passed the British Invisible Mending Service on a walk from Oxford St to Bloomsbury last weekend. If this were a children’s book, this would 💯 be the magical creatures’ urban stronghold. 💔 Breakup elves. All the help you need when you have to spin straw into gold overnight.

At the cinema to see Prima Facie. So looking forward to it.

“Tour de force” is the only adequate description for this play. Jodie Comer is astonishingly brilliant and I urge you to catch it while you still can.

Good morning! #Roses

I miss fresh rugbrød (Danish rye bread) so much. This is a perfect breakfast.

Achingly chic Eastern European babooshka look, 2024 edition. (Alexa Chung for Barbour)

Ha ha! See similar maps for tea (herbata) and coma (śpiączka - a nice tongue twister to boot). Polish is so easy!* *I know it’s not.