This tree is an interloper in the reeds

Kettles are important for me - they are always in view in the kitchen, and are the first thing you’ll use when entertaining visitors. This one is from Ottoni Fabbrica.

Immigration is not the UK’s problem. Using immigration to drive growth and offset the impact of an ageing population while leaving capital formation to “the market” is the problem, and that is entirely on the ruling class.

Yesterday a Labour prime minister insulted my community, my coworkers, my friends and my family by blaming immigrants for 40 years of failed neoliberal policies. Today I call on Labour politicians and party members to reflect on why they went into politics, and to take action before it is too late

Less than a year in Labour throws in the towel. Labour knows its policies won’t deliver affordable housing, cut waiting lists or generate inclusive growth so it’s time to blame the immigrants.

Keir Starmer promises net migration will fall ‘significantly’ by end of this parliament

Starmer’s government is not just an unprincipled government, but government without principles.

No 10 rethinking winter fuel payment cut after Labour slump in local elections

American capitalists pine for slavery. European capitalists long for a return to colonialism. But what all capitalists really, really want is rent.

Who are the “key voters” who support the impoverishment of families? What use are politicians without principles?

Ministers privately ruling out scrapping two-child benefits cap

Waitrose Canary Wharf just doesn’t care.

The celebrity coot in Eden Dock at Canary Wharf looks after her chicks.

What is a the strategy here in the UK? To make things so shit that assisted dying is the best of the bad options?

Here’s a little tip. If you’re making a pasta sauce with chilli, garlic and tomatoes and the tomatoes aren’t as sweet as you’d like, add a pinch of ground cinnamon and dial back a little on the chilli.

Basildon town centre.

Seagulls exploded by the Westferry Deathray over Newfoundland Wharf

The last days of Robin Hood Gardens

I saw this bird by Hallsville Road in Canning Town on Saturday. It was too quick for me and flew off before I could get a good photo. I think it’s a kestrel.

Photographing the sunset on the Royal Docks

Insect learning centre, Stratford

US trade officials scour the globe for more eggs as woke, cultural Marxist, leftists push up prices egging Teslas.

A stickered telecommunications box in Hackney

How do you tell Labour and Tories apart? Both are dogmatically neoliberal with apparently no clue how to address Britain’s serious structural problems. One way is to remember that Tories scapegoat immigrants first and “feckless benefits cheats” second. For Labour it’s the other way round

How do we raise the money to defend our country and preserve our values in an ever more dangerous and uncertain world?

By ditching our values and creating a society that is not worth defending.

Starmer decries ‘worst of all worlds’ benefits system ahead of deep cuts

Keir Starmer is so not the prime minister the UK needs during the breakdown of the post-war liberal order. A man completely lacking in vision, despite regular donations of spectacles.

Starmer slashes aid to fund major increase in defence spending