I threw a UK-themed eve for my friend who’s just moved here Flags cut from M&S bags, served beans on toast & Welsh cakes from my great-grandmother’s recipe, music was Handel/Elgar/Fat Les, Mr Bean on TV all night like it’s an art film, quiz on what “butters” means Recommend 🇬🇧

only recently have i understood that my parents still being (revoltingly) in love is a huge privilege. no drama at xmas, no awkward step-parents, no neuroses about getting married myself my fundamental outlook has been shaped into: love & family are nice. I'm so lucky.

My friend's father has exceed cancer prognosis life expectancy several fold. Tumours (amazingly) were still shrinking + preparing for immunotherapy. But we have a major problem: access to experimental drugs. Anyone w/contacts to German **CatalYm** plz DM for compassionate use.

this now means that Reform UK has a 1:2 ratio of ghost experts to MPs

after years of awkward Instagram posts of ministers reading pieces of paper in conference rooms, it seems like politicians might finally be getting the hang of reaching voters through social media i wrote about that, and the UK's bad vibes crisis, below 👇