Acton mainline saga making if often impossible to get on Elizabeth line rumbles on. Am quoted in this: TfL urged to increase trains at Elizabeth line station where elderly woman fainted on packed carriage mylondon.news/news/transport…

Preparing for our big “jumble sale” in a couple of weeks. What we do without new stuff from @GOODS4GOODUK used stuff from neighbours and our storage Big Yellow?

Amazing new Syrian sweets and pastries shop just opened in Acton High Street. A wonderful place with a cafe upstairs opening in a couple of months. Good to see the old Barclays Bank building back in use.

In the 90s - before propaganda campaigns like this and when people thought London was portrayed accurately in movies like 'Four Weddings' and 'Notting Hill' - London's murder rate was double what it is now. It is more dangerous to live in any major city in the US than in London.

Lovely to meet BishopSarah at WestLondonSynagogue this morning (though we had done Shabbatots with 1yo and couldn’t stay) and recall the joint campaign with #RabbiJulia and EASE Ealing & Acton Support Enterprise to get 7 day evictions for new refugees reversed in late 2023. #RefugeesWelcome

London murders have fallen to 89 in the last 12 months. The lowest rate on record.

London murders have fallen to the lowest on record. Knife crime, too, is falling fast. What's going on? My look at what the data does (and doesn't) say. comment.press/lm2

I just spoke to my brother, who is in southern Gaza. He was driving back to where he's staying in the evening, when he was surrounded by Hamas's masked gunmen, who raised their weapons at him, asking him for ID & if he had guns on him. He let them search his car and answered all

Former Boris Johnson advisor Katie Lam says that multiculturalism has failed and you need just one culture for people to live in harmony A descendant of immigrants, she now serves as a Conservative MP Should add that Katie Lam's paternal grandmother was a 13-year-old refugee

Can hardly move after organising this. Even if it was a bit of a triumph. Just as well can relax for the next few days… What do you mean 3 grandchildren 6 & under for the next 24 hours? Send gin…

Well, well, well. “‘Lawless London’ is safer than it’s been in decades” observer.co.uk/news/national/…

Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community. Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.

If we don’t act now, many child refugees will be left in war zones or unsafe camps, away from their mums and dads. Email the Home Secretary now to stop the suspension of refugee family reunion – it just takes a minute >> act.safepassage.org.uk/email-home-sec…

For the vast majority of people (except Ukrainians and Hongkongers) there is NO WAY to claim asylum in the UK without coming by small boat The only way to stop people making dangerous boat crossings to the UK is by creating safe and managed routes Govt's plan is delusional

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 Clear and unarguable. Thank you Carla.

Pleased to have contributed a number of bags/hours to this amazing total. Helps with getting the steps in too…

The Cambridgeshire train stabbings are absolutely horrific - and beyond traumatising for the passengers. Some are using these attacks as evidence that the UK is in the grip of violent anarchy. That's not true. Violence has, thankfully, been plummeting for many years.

Nick Robinson is exactly right: ‘…there is genuine concern about editorial standards+mistakes. There is also a political campaign by people who want to destroy the organisation that you are currently listening to. Both things are happening at the same time.’

Hear, hear.

Ready for the BAFTA screening of Wicked: For Good (never post pic of grand-children but this seemed pretty safe!!)