Never even liked tennis anyway.

I keep thinking how 3 little girls were killed & more were hurt & traumatised, & instead of talking about their precious lives, we are being forced to focus on violent entitled white men burning cars & towns, who don’t give a shit about women’s & girls’ safety.

I have never forgotten telling man after man in cell after cell how long they would get in prison for the 2011 London riots. Once enthusiasm for lobbing bins at police has waned, once your pals have been arrested, once the booze & adrenaline subside - you realise. Then regret.

Elon, forgive me, but there is no excuse for being such an utter berk about this. I’m white and a Christian. No one is chucking bricks at my church or telling me to go back to where I come from. I’m concerned about attacks on the communities that are actually *being* attacked.

Beware of any Christian movement that demands the government be an instrument of God's wrath but never a source of God's charity, mercy, or compassion.

Rudi Boss? You sir are unfamiliar with cats

I went looking for the original source of the Einstein quote "Imagination is more important than knowledge". I thought it'd take 30 secs, just out of curiosity. But then I discovered this incredible interview in "The Saturday Evening Post". Here's a tiny excerpt. The whole

Serving curatorial realness fr. #museum #history #royalarmouries #genz #armsandarmour

Did you have a terrific birding trip to Iceland in May, but then lose your SD card with your 3,700 bird photos in Norfolk? I have it!

"Bowen: Huge Beirut strike leaves West powerless as Israel chases victory" According to the BBC, the West doesn't want Israel to defeat Hezbollah but is "powerless" to stop it. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

She'll come back at a critical moment as Sue White.

In October 2009, following a reception at 10 Downing Street, in celebration of the POWERLIST’s list of 100 most influential Black Britons, as we were leaving, some of us ended up in the Cabinet Room, and this photo was taken. Joseph Harker reported… theguardian.com/theguardian/20…

🇺🇸 The American Firesale: Everything Must Go!

masterclass in why the oxford comma matters from The New York Times

The Lebanese government has failed to keep the terms of the ceasefire deal, and the BBC headline is "Deadline for Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon expires, but troops will stay" bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

America right now.

Israel: Recognising Palestine as a state after 7th October is handing Hamas a victory! Starmer: No it isn’t! Israel: Yes it is! Starmer: No it isn’t! Hamas: YES IT IS!

Word of the day is ‘tamalou’: a French name for an older person who no longer greets their friends with ‘how was your holiday?, but with ‘t’as mal où ?’, ‘where does it hurt?’. There follows an enthusiastic account of aches and pains and doctor’s appointments.