As they invented co-working spaces, there should be also an offer for #nap spaces. #London is so big that most of the times going back home for a couple of hours isn't feasible. 😴🧑💻
8 May 1557: Anne Locke [née Vaughan] arrives in Geneva #otd at John Knox's invitation with her 2 infants. While there she translated some of Calvin's sermons to #English. She returned to Cheapside #London in 1559
7 May 1630: William Herbert 3rd earl of #Pembroke is buried in Salisbury cathedral #otd On 9 April, aged 50 years & 1 day, he'd laughed at a fortune teller's prediction that he wouldn't see 51. At 8am the next morning he collapsed & died at Baynard's Castle #London (NPG)
5 May 1666: Anselm Crowder OSB dies #otd during a General Chapter of #Benedictines being held at a house in a street called the Old Bailey #London#otd (BM)
5 May 1642: Daniel O'Neill escapes the Tower of #London#otd by tying sheets & a tablecloth together. Once over the wall he dressed in female clothing to avoid detection.
Khan secured a historic third term even as his Tory opponent spread lies over ULEZ, the policies she derides as "woke", & other right wing talking points.
#England Democracy has spoken: despite the violent attacks on the ULEZ, LTN, 15-Minute City, the car-friendly Conservatives suffered their worst defeat for a long time. #London Sadiq Khan re-elected for a 3rd term.
Cities want to be more healthy, and green with a #happyproximity
4 May 1622: James Hamilton is created first Viscount #Clandeboye#otd He was a planter, supporter of radical #Scots clergy in #Ulster during the 1630s and before that, #London agent (1600) of James VI (NTCW)
Labour's Sadiq Khan has won a third term as London mayor.
Mr Khan, who increased his share of the vote, said it was an honour to be re-elected and thanked Londoners "from the bottom of my heart"
While #SadiqKhan won the #election for #LondonMayor, beating #Tory candidate #SusanHall, after a very fractious campaign, the quote of the day belongs to one of the minor candidates standing, #CountBinface (no relation to #LordBuckethead), who still beat the #BritainFirst's #NickScanlon and said,
"It looks like I have defeated Britain First in an election.
“Come on, you have to cheer about that…down with fascism, up with Ceefax, what can I say?”
Londons Bürgermeister Khan für dritte Amtszeit wiedergewählt
Es ist ein historischer Wahlerfolg: Als erster Bürgermeister Londons hat sich der Labour-Politiker Khan eine dritte Amtszeit gesichert. Für Premier Sunak und seine Konservativen sind die englischen Kommunalwahlen ein Desaster.
She ran an appalling campaign that belonged in the 20th Century. Tory HQ seemed to know they had a dud on their hands right from the start. They are in collapse.