Fascinating blog and paper from Martin Stanley 🇺🇦 on what evidence to the Grenfell inquiry reveals about the state of the civil service today. grenfellenquirer.blog/2023/01/01/gre…

Looks like yet another canary in the mine for the UK’s struggles to build key industries post #Brexit. Time will tell… bbc.co.uk/news/business-…

This is horrific. Ugandan MPs pass bill imposing death penalty for homosexuality theguardian.com/world/2023/mar…

I’m sad about Paul O’Grady. I hoped I might meet him one day to tell him what an inspiration he was to me: how I loved gloriously loose & effortless his shows were, how he proved you could be political in a light ent space and that you could do all this & be really, really funny.

Interesting side note re ULEZ: ‘London is one of the only cities in the world that does not receive government funding to support the operating costs of its transport network.’ From bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-e…

This by Antoinette Sandbach seems like a classic example of the Streisand effect… bbc.co.uk/news/uk-666487…

‘People are not tropes, they’re poems — infinite in their particulars.’ Beautifully expressed, Eboo Patel. deseret.com/2023/10/11/238…