Many years ago, a large repro of this #painting A Bar at the Folies-Bergere, by #Manet hung on the wall outside my classroom at #Wallington High School for Girls. Original is in #CourtauldGallery. So lucky to have been introduced to great #art at my school. #education www.wallingtongirls.org.uk

Trump honoring himself again at public expense. Can’t help thinking of this one:

This terrific #mural painted on to the window of estate agents in Watford. Homage to the #WorldCup painted by #Artist Dodeco. #art www.dodeco.co.uk/gallery/wind...

Anne Frank was born #OTD 1929.

Here is an example of another bot follower. Note the disproportionate amount of people they have followed and the bland AI description, designed to mimic liberal opinion. Don’t be fooled! Report and block.

Just had another one!

Anyone still think that #Trump is not crazy? Or tells the truth? He avoided the draft five times, yet now claims he would’ve won the #Vietnam war quickly. . This is the man who thinks he deserves the Nobel peace prize yet has begun a war he doesn’t know how to end. #Iran

Anyone else notice how actor James Lance, formerly Uncle Vanya at #OrangeTreeTheatre & also Trent Crimm in #TedLasso, resembles man in the Joseph Wright 'of Derby' painting on show (see their poster) at The National Gallery, #London? (Detail from 'An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump', 1768.)

A carpet of #bluebells in Whippendell Wood, ancient woodland in Watford, Hertfordshire. More still to bloom. #WildflowerHour

Saturday 28 March in London: peaceful Protest against the rise of the far-right. More photos in previous posts. Thanks everyone who was with us and to #TogetherAlliance for organising it so well. #Solidarity with #NoKings.

Saturday in London: peaceful #Protest against the rise of the far-right and in solidarity with USA #NoKings. Thanks to #TogetherAlliance for bringing together thousands of people. #RefugeesWelcome

Thanks to #TogetherAlliance for bringing many thousands of people together at the march in London last Saturday, 28 March 2026. Peaceful protest against the rise of the far-right & in solidarity with the No Kings demonstrations across USA on the same day. #RefugeesWelcome

Thank you, #TogetherAlliance for bringing people together at the march in London last Saturday 28 March 2026. Peaceful protest against the rise of the far-right & in #solidarity with the #NoKings demonstrations across USA on the same day. Let’s make #RefugeesWelcome

#HopeNotHate #StrongerTogether @togetheralliance.bsky.social #togetheralliance

This is Mark. Love his placard - my dad was in the battle of Cable Street. Fighting fascists then and now. #StrongerTogether

#TogetherAlliance @togetheralliance.bsky.social the march in full swing now

@togetheralliance.bsky.social the march has started! #StrongerTogether #TogetherAlliance #makerefugeeswelcome

Hello Sweetie, sorry - I’m afraid you’re right. Though I think shelters might encourage the dogs to choose who takes them home, this is AI and got us all fooled. This photo is the giveaway: look at the mashed up lettering on the dog’s coat.

Lobbied for #MigrantRights Mass in #Parliament yesterday, With #Twickenham #MP Munira Wilson & Ruth Durant, Director of #Richmond’s EAL Friendship Group Centre. #MakeRefugeesWelcome Thanks @praxisprojects.bsky.social who campaign for migrants & refugees to live in UK with safety, dignity & respect.

Yes. Why we must stop Reform. @dailymirrornews.bsky.social

Thank you @aurorametro.bsky.soc for the organising the #book event at Books on the Rise. Privileged to meet & hear #playwright Martin Sherman discuss his play #Bent and his life, growing up in the USA in 1950s & 1960s. #gay #rights #civilrights #Stonewall #Woodstock #LGBTQ #feminism

Acerbic review from Xan Brooks in @theguardian.com - the critics are providing more entertainment than the #film: “two hours of #Melania feels like pure, endless hell “ - snippet of article below, in case you can’t open the whole thing (that is worth reading).

Thank you, London Wildlife Protection for rescuing a trapped pigeon at Richmond station this morning. #bird #hero

Thank you, @38degrees.bsky.social for my tote bag celebrating 77 years of or wonderful #NHS I ❤️NHS

(Photo: PM’s proud boast on X) Shame on you, #KeirStarmer. I hoped for a nobler calling from you & #Labour Party. Why not join Reform, as you compete with Farage. Teams of uniformed enforcers swooped on a few innocent darker skinned people in #Richmond recently. Sickening. No human being is illegal.

#ISpy on a #Tesla near me … stickers on the car of a regretful owner.

#ISpy #Richmond - sign outside #Watcho jewellers. Is this an example of pessimism? Or optimism?

Brilliant headline 25th July from Scottish newspaper The National, as felon #Trump arrived in #Scotland @scotnational.bsky.social