David Boothroyd

Congratulations to the marketing geniuses who registered yourparty.uk which say "This is Your Party" and have "Your Party" on page titles which invite people to "Sign up to Your Party", when of course "It's not called Your Party".

I'm so pleased we were able to make this happen. Style of Our Own is in the old Ted Baker store on Regent Street until October. theguardian.com/football/2025/…

Taking action to stop cars driving on to Westbourne Green open space, @CityWestminster has installed bollards on the path - removable for emergency services. Thanks, Parks Team!

Westminster Council and the new owners deserve a lot of credit here The council for honouring their promise to keep a #Cafe here And the new owners for sticking with proper cafe food and prices Good to see it busy on the first full day after reopening

NEWS: The leasehold sale of the Regency Café in Pimlico, Westminster has just been announced, for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 1946, the Regency has developed a cult following as one of the dwindling number of greasy spoon caffs in London. Over past three decades it has…

Labour Westminster Investing in Fairer, Greener, Safer Neighbourhoods – NCIL Spring 2025 - Westminster Labour westminsterlabour.org.uk/ward-news/chur…

We've told Worcestershire County Council's monitoring officer that a councillor who said he hoped no "heathens" were present at a recent meeting has breached rules regarding respect and equality. secularism.org.uk/news/2025/07/n…

For nine years @Tim_Roca was a councillor in a neighbouring ward to mine, and then last year he became my mum's MP, and I want everyone to know he's been an absolute star in both roles

Should we be depressed, or encouraged, that an MP's crackpot Christian nationalist speech this week has largely been ignored?

Danny Kruger is entitled to his beliefs. I don't share them but recognise his right to hold them & I feel no need to try to convert him It is, however, depressing that he can't reciprocate. Instead he wants to destroy & banish my beliefs & those of millions of other British ppl

"Why can't we return to the old Attlee Labour Party?", said the left. The monkey's paw twitched ...

The walking Lord Mayor walks again!🚶This time he'll be in Westbourne Green tracking the history of the area from its rural beginnings to an artery of the industrial revolution and into the present day. Secure your place here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-walk-with-…

I suspect the reason it's been field-removed to make it 25 fps is the pretty constant microphony* seen on cameras closest to the stage. But for me, that was fundamentally part of the broadcast. #LiveAid40 * Microphony is seen as coloured lines on vision, caused by loud noise

Yes #LiveAid40 was a enormous engineering feat - you know what impressed me? The fact that they managed to broadcast INTERLACED VIDEO so it was actually 50 fields per second unlike the field removed rubbish that's currently on BBC Two

Homes aren’t Hotels! Too many homes across the Cities of London & Westminster are being lost to illegal and disruptive short-term lets. I’ve met with the platforms, raised it in Parliament, and now I’m launching a Commission to take action.

Charles Bradlaugh, in a debate at Liverpool on 4 July 1876.

As the NHS reaches its 77th birthday today, we want to celebrate connections starting centuries before the NHS was created when Dr John Addenbrooke left us £4,500 to found Addenbrooke's Hospital, which we opened after his death. Find out more: caths.cam.ac.uk/history-of-med… 📸@CUH_NHS

Ballot data has come through now. Killingworth turnout: 30.3% Total votes: 6,623 Longbenton and Benton: 24.72% Total votes: 7,562

🚨URGENT: After 45 years serving thousands of children in #TowerHamlets, the Attlee Centre is facing closure. Our lease expires in May 2026 & @TowerHamletsNow won't commit to renewing our vital peppercorn rent. We need your help to #RenewAttlee 🚨shorturl.at/IuSuX

So 42 and 49 Labour MPs ended up voting against the whip on the two votes