One of the most memorable things from 🌹 Labour's 🌹 conference was the Labour Friends of Palestine and Middle East event, packed with MPs where Ambassador Hussam Zomlot and Ed Miliband spoke movingly on importance of two state solution and of listening to one’s mother As a mum I throughly agree👇️

Thanks all writing in on proposed Troubadour theatre structure to be built on substantial % of Ealing Broadway area’s sole park. Reply to my letter to Ealing Council says no final decision made To have your say, official petition closes 4th Oct and needs about a thousand more names to get debated

Ealing hosted Popeyes global summit where examples of best practice / menus from all over the world were shared in training and tasting sessions with staff across continents Heard of their skills work including Popeyes University! They’re opening a UK branch a week currently

It is right that the UK has introduced a toughed package of sanctions and trade ban with illegal Israeli settlements signalling a shift of approach from simple condemnation after the highly disturbing E11 plan The cost of impunity is settlement violence and Netanyahu's expansion, this must stop

The UK with 11 nations including France and Canada responding to unprecedented settler violence, has banned trade with illegal settlements to keep the two state solution for Palestine and Israel alive Me on the announcement of Ed Miliband's significant policy shift which I witnessed in Parliament:

Spent yesterday in Holborn and St Pancras at campaign launch for inspirational Sagal Adi Wali taking on door knocking on same day. Event was huge with hundreds of Labour activists encompassing a diverse range of people - even MPs from Scotland!

Biodiversity loss ballooned under the last Tory government with nature suffering and many species of flora and fauna put at risk In Ealing central and Acton Thames Water dumping raw sewage in the river Brent are imperilling our precious ecosystems as I set out in a packed debate in UK Parliament

Had a ticketing horror when trying to get gig/ sport tix only to find a huge wait/ mark up? My debate on the subject happens Weds night to tackle the subject. Please contact me - ideally email [email protected] if you have any experiences you’d like to to share with the nation

The disgrace that is Thames Water shames us all with its serial incompetence that we users foot the bill for I questioned new PM at his first appearance before MPs to ask that he nationalises this failing private company so us the billpayers come first, NOT their fatcat bosses:

Exactly what I’ve been saying ad infinitum weekly in the Parliamentary DCMS committee: The triumph of the Gibbisation of BBC??

Desperately sad news. As chair of the Universities APPG who worked for years in the sector I know this type of academic tale is not a first but the media attacks were relentless and the ultimate end unprecedented. Rest in power Jason, thoughts and prayers to your family in this tragic situation

Good and constructive meeting with @oldoakparkroyal leadership Lots on the agenda: HS2 ltd, data centres and the activities going on in film studios locally. Plans to better the “Taste of Park Royal” event we did in January @HouseofCommons also afoot

Well done all involved in Ealing Blues Festival including Misty in Roots With a combined age of, well into the hundreds I imagine they still “have it” and certainly rocked last night!