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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.

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.

Interesting piece in the Guardian today on Danish politics from Rune Lykkeberg. It nails elite populism. There are lessons here for Labour’s centre-right leadership here in the UK.

Denmark’s unique political model is in crisis – I blame the boomerang effect

What they were doing was populism for the elites that substituted the legitimate ideological conflict between left and right with an imagined picture of reasonable grownups in the centre and the ridiculous children on the extremes

For my run across the Royal Docks, I’ve been studying the coots.

Dancers at the Newham Civic Awards, 4 March 2026

Three dancers, moodily lit from behind.

Councillor Amar Virdee at the Newham Civic Awards, 4 March 2026

A young man in a black suit with a black turban is waiting in the wings, holding his speech, waiting to go on stage, lit by purple lighting from the stage.