It was the LGBT Consortium conference today and I was asked late on to do something there.

More later, but it was staggering how Michael Cashman MEP stood out compared to everyone else. In his fifteen minute speech, the b-word never once passed his lips (and he skipped lightly over the not so good bits of Labour's record on LGBT rights). He even managed to rename LGBT History Month, when asked a question about it, to 'Lesbian and Gay History Month'. Oh, and homophobia only affects lesbians and gay men, apparently.

The name of the organisation he's so proud of having helped found? Stonewall. You'd never guess…

Someone's published a map of how many steps it takes to walk between inner London tube stations:

You'd think they'd get one of the basic tourist gotchas right – it does not take 822+1,275 steps to get from Queensway to Bayswater… That route probably involves walking to Notting Hill Gate, turning round, going back past Queensway and up the road to Bayswater! I'm a bit dubious about Euston to King's Cross St Pancras being under seventy steps less than Euston Square to Kings X too, plus they're ignoring the District / Hammersmith and City version of Edgware Road, thus meaning you can't see what they reckon it would take to walk the Circle Line.

A more useful map would show the number of steps needed to make the changes at the various interchanges. Some are trivial 'cross the platform' ones, others are hikes in themselves.