Terry Stacy MBE (he/him)

It’s been a long journey, but we got there four years later. Thank you to all those involved “We did it” so proud to be your chair.

I don’t usually post things like this, but it’s only fair to give credit to my coach. Yesterday I made a withdrawal from my crypto profits, and today I was able to purchase a car quite remarkable. Grateful for the progress, thanks to @NikolinaSabljc for the guidance.

Honest truth, I used to think crypto was proper risky business, just another gamble. But my mentor @NikolinaSabljc flipped the script. Her guidance and a bit of discipline turned £1000 into over £52k profit in just a few hours. Massively grateful. We did it! 🙌

Sunday

The Bridge of Aspirations in Covent Garden has wild geometry. WilkinsonEyre used 24 square frames, rotating each one just a fraction of a degree to hit a full 90-degree twist over Floral Street. It manages to mimic the rotation of a dancer without being cheesy.

What a cracking photo of #Tooting Bec tube station and its wonderful chandelier, designed by architect Charles Holden in 1926! Thanks to @LondonSuburbia (Instagram) for sharing! #Balham

The Catford Cat: The most prominent "curiosity" in this area is the giant 14-foot fiberglass Catford Cat sculpture. Installed in the 1960s to promote the newly built shopping centre on Rushey Green, it is one of London's most iconic and peculiar pieces of public art.

The new EHRC Code of Practice is not fit for purpose. It does not provide clear guidance, it does not do enough to protect everyone from discrimination and harassment and it is not compatible with longstanding British values. @EdwardJDavey and Marie Goldman have written to Bridget Phillipson. ⬇️

Pride is political 🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride Durham and thank you to Durham Miners Association who have helped make today possible 🏳️‍🌈 thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/26103821.…

The shadow from this tree

New Grainger Market interior - wow!

Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman chasing a car on a skateboard is peak cheesy 70s TV perfection.

Berlin

Alan Hollinghurst (b. 26 May 1954) is an acclaimed English novelist, poet, and translator best known for his deeply textured prose exploring gay identity, aesthetics, and British social class. He achieved widespread literary fame by winning the 2004 Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty, which became a historic milestone as the first work of gay fiction to receive the honor. His next novel, The Stranger's Child, also made the 2011 Booker longlist. Credited with helping gay-themed fiction cross over into major literary recognition, in addition to The Line of Beauty (adapted on BBC Two in 2006 as a three-part series starring Dan Stevens) and The Stranger’s Child, his novels include The Swimming-Pool Library (1988), The Folding Star (1994), The Spell (1998), The Sparsholt Affair (2017), and his latest, Our Evenings (2024). Born in Gloucestershire in 1954, Hollinghurst attended Magdalen College, Oxford, where he studied English and wrote a master's thesis on iconic gay authors like E.M. Forster. He initially began his career as a poet and worked as the deputy editor for the Times Literary Supplement from 1982 to 1995. His style frequently draws comparisons to Henry James, characterized by a sharp sense of irony and a focus on the heavy price of social ambition. Alan is openly gay, and he is widely regarded as one of the most prominent figures in contemporary gay British literature. In 2018, he was briefly involved in a romantic relationship with the writer Paul Mendez, but has since said, "I'm not at all easy to live with. I wish I could integrate writing into ordinary social life, but I don't seem to be able to. Now (for my writing) I have to isolate myself for long periods." Through his literary work, this award-winning author (the Newdigate Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, the Stonewall Book Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction) has been instrumental in integrating explicit homosexual perspectives and historical gay narratives into the mainstream literary canon.

You mean after @LibDems and @EdwardJDavey did?

Arsenal parade information: arsenal.com/news/champions… (3/3)

Very sad to hear that Flick Rea, one of our longest-serving London councillors, has passed away aged 88. From meeting her in the 90s to my last campaign trip to Camden earlier this year, she never stopped smiling, campaigning, and being the amazing Liberal she was.

It’s Crazy to me that when I came out as being gay was still considered a mental disorder.

PETER MITCHELL worked as a truck driver in Leeds in the 1970s, photographing the city during his rounds. The only telephone box on the Estate: Quarry Hill Flats - Leeds (1977). Heralded as the future of modern housing a year after this photo was taken they were demolished.

Homeless accommodation around a garden .Holmes Road north London