La beauté de la piscine art-déco à Roubaix, construite entre 1927 et 1932.

What on earth is happening in our country? People dressed up in quasi blackshirt style uniforms having the gall to tell us to be moral. Just sod off the lot of you. PS they’re 30 years too late. The sex more or less disappeared from SoHo years ago!

Reform up in arms at language they say may incite violence against politicians. They brought onto their stage the woman who said "Set fire to all the fucking hotels full of the bastards for all I care. While you’re at it take the treacherous government and politicians with them".

A speech for the ages. Leadership in the face of division. 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Monet painting water lilies

This is an independent coffee shop this morning in Camden Passage, Islington. A perfect location, beautifully done inside, friendly service from the actual owner and yet there’s only me and one other person here. The big chains like Starbucks etc are rammed with people. So next

Where I live in London, churches and synagogues sit side by side with mosques and same-sex couples walk arm in arm in the streets. Doesn't look much like sharia law to me.

In London, hate will never win.

Ignore the haters. London is the 🐐

.@SadiqKhan is not trying to impose Sharia Law on London. This is a Mayor who marches with Pride, who stands up for difference of background and opinion, who’s focused on improving our transport, our air, our streets, our safety, our choices and chances. Proud he’s our Mayor.

There’s cool and then there’s these two.

Bill Maher delivers a brutal message to those on the left who don’t care about the assassination of Charlie Kirk. This interview happened just after the shooting and you can tell Bill was shaken. “This is a shit day because a guy who sat there got shot today.” “And I can’t

John Singer Sargent, Staircase in Capri

Yesterday in London was a wake up call. Progressives in all our political parties,trade unions, religious bodies & civil society groups need urgently to start talking together about the campaign needed to tackle the rise of the far right & the organisational form that should take

I've written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join me in condemning Elon Musk's dangerous remarks inciting violence yesterday. As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.

Believe it or not, I had an old school friend on today’s marches in London. He sent me some photos from the crowd. We went to middle school together and grew up on the same Eastern District council estate in Northampton. I asked him why he was there. He gave me two answers:

When a million people marched in London for a Peoples Vote, I don’t recall it making the headlines - but then we didn’t beat up the police

It is worth watching the full Union debate Charlie Kirk had with rather brilliant opponents who have not celebrated his brutal and terrible murder.

This is the radicalised mass base of Reform and the Tories - wearing our country's flag as a badge of white identity. Learn the lessons of the 1930s - to defeat them needs a militant democracy, radical change and a narrative of hope ✊🚩

The first episode of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy was originally broadcast on this day in 1979. This BBC2 screening was swiftly followed by a two part omnibus repeat on BBC1 during Christmas 1979.