My friend Rohit is standing again as a Labour councillor in Canning Town. I used to live there until the council chanaged the ward boundary! I’d vote for him if I still lived there! Rohit is a good guy and a great councillor who really works hard for local residents.
Okay - broke my left shoulder, because air pushes back.
Tip for the political classes: you don’t get to be the “adults in the room” by running around shouting “we’re the adults in the room”.
Ollie Robbins thrown under a bus, reversed over, then his remains hitched to the back bumper and dragged down the road for good measure.
Starmer accuses Robbins of obstructing truth about Mandelson vetting
The argument that you can’t get rid of the Prime Minister during a time of international instability when you got rid of the FCDO perm sec during a time of international instability because he knew more about what was going on than the PM.
Okay, so with a 15m wing-pack (trust me, this is painful to wear and unwieldy), I have to get up to 30 km/h before I’m toes over the water. I can do this with a tow. And, folks, 75 metres across the dock in ground effect is extraordinary! But I can’t do this from a cold start, even if I lose weight.
Crucial Track for 18 April 2026
"Alech Taadi" by Khaled
There are many reasons to love the movie the Fifth Element. This song is one of them.
Maybe Keir Starmer wasn’t told either that in fact he himself had failed vetting, which is why no one is telling him anything.
Keir Starmer says it is unforgivable he was not told Mandelson failed vetting
The prime minister said he was “furious” about what had happened, as he insisted he had not known that security officials had initially recommended that Mandelson be denied clearance.
I think the great political divide of our times is between the complacent class who think that everything’s more or less okay, and the rest of us who know it isn’t.
Crucial Track for 03 April 2026
"Listen to the Fog" by DJ F
20 years ago now, before tech got fully evil, I was in a record store in San Francisco, and someone pushed a CD into my hand: "my partner recorded this".