Brilliant final of #UniversityChallenge Amol is a fantastic host - warm, enthusiastic and nicely impressed by how flipping smart the contestants are. Lovely.

Listening to this feeling Christmassy, so just venturing back on here to say Happy Holidays to you and yours - hoppe you have a lovely day 🎄

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🎁✉️📮 It’s the last posting day before Christmas, so Lord Parkinson visited @thePostalMuseum to learn about how Royal Mail has delivered festive cheer down the centuries — and to post a special Christmas card🎅🏻🎄

Listening to Billy Bragg on the Adam Buxton podcast.

'Socialism is organised compassion'.
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A very smart, thoughtful, funny interviewee

Christmas has started - I've cracked open the Quality Street and watched #SomeLikeItHot

I'm on Bluesky- laurawright1000. See you there?

Such an enjoyable evening, reminding us that great housing for all was once an aspiration and not just a ludicrous fantasy.
10 years since Concretopia! Thank you John Grindrod for the stories and the brutalist solidarity ❤️

I DONT NEED FANCY CAMERA WORK - show me the feckin Argentine tango you immense idiots
#Strictly

Oh. Didn't vote after all 🤦‍♀️

Big, big respect to my local MP Helen Hayes 💙🌹 - I know you'll have given it a huge amount of thought, and thank you

'The supreme court judgment had hardened his resolve for the Rwanda plan to proceed.'

What, the one saying it was illegal, immoral and breached numerous human rights treaties?

Rishi Sunak to bring in emergency law after court’s Rwanda ruling theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/n…

These disgusting people....

Dominic Cummings tells Covid inquiry foul-mouthed messages about colleague weren’t misogynistic – UK politics live theguardian.com/politics/live/…

Why wouldn't you show the footwork all the way through an Argentinian Tango? The goddamn swirling camera on #StrictlyComeDancing drives me mad

Here's my extremely talented and extraordinarily handsome husband talking about his exhibition at Hastings Contemporary, which I encourage you to see soon!

Watch “Roland Hicks - The Fourth Wall at Hastings Contemporary” on #Vimeo vimeo.com/875627489

Thrilled to be the new Chair of Wysing Arts Centre.

Very much looking forward to working with a great group of people and cultivating the freewheeling imagination!

Last beach paddle of the year?

How anyone can get upset or flustered by seeing two men dancing together is beyond me.
Why wouldn’t you want this joy in your life?
#Strictly

Listening with huge admiration to Dame Steve Shirley CH on radio 4 - a life of achievement, generosity & compassion.

We were so lucky at The Postal Museum to talk to her about her time at the GPO - film in link.

Happy Birthday Dame Stephanie! 🎉

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The 'motorist' constituency doesn't even exist. Everyone who drives is also a pedestrian and often a cyclist. You might as well say you're on the side of dishwasher owners or candle fanatics. Christ everything is so stupid.

Thought for the day:
'An advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use public transport' - Colombian politician, Enrique Peñalosa
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