2/ Compare that to Trump - him & his followers are the ones who aspire to a theocracy, intolerant of other religious beliefs or those with no religion. Besides, when was the last time Trump saw London up close? He flew in & out of the Ambassador's resident last week by helicopter!

3/ Given the near-wipeout of the Tories just over the border in Kent at May's local elections, this will be a by-election result that sends the shivers down the spine of the Bromley conservatives with May 2026's all out elections fast approaching. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Ke...

2/ In 2022, Labour came second in this ward. At the General Election, the Tories held on to the Bromley & Biggin Hill constituency (which includes this ward) by just 302 votes over Labour. Reform were third, but did get over 8,000 votes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromley...

The racist right hate London because it defies their portrayal of diversity as bad. And @london.gov.uk is the embodiment of that diversity - a football mad, liberal, inclusive, multi-faith Mayor who happens to be Muslim. How frustrating to racists who make out all Muslims hate our values & culture

And the Telegraph would have hated Virginia and the Bloomsbury Group. Liberal decadence and votes for women hardly the Telegraph’s thing back in the 1920s and 1930s. I imagine the Bloomsbury Group would have felt very at home in a liberal, tolerant, diverse modern London.

Amazing to think that she *would* have recognised it right up to 4 May 2016 though