21 Mar, 2023: What an odd hill Mark Rowley has chosen to die on. Chopping logic over “systemic” vs “institutional” …
20 Mar, 2023: I’m looking for a houseplant. Nice display in M&S at Crossrail Place - but they’d …
19 Mar, 2023: The area south of A13 between Silvertown Way and Freemasons Road was called Cherry Island. Here is …
18 Mar, 2023: Pigeons on the quasi-portico of Canary Wharf Underground Station
17 Mar, 2023: I got up late so my early walk to Canary Wharf this morning was a dash to the Custom House Elizabeth …
17 Mar, 2023: Passing through the Custom House portal to Canary Wharf lives up to its sci-fi name. Two Londons …
16 Mar, 2023: Manor Road between Canning Town and West Ham, with its temporary pedestrian crossing chicanes, …
16 Mar, 2023: “Nat has herpes” is scrawled all over East London. Should I feel sorry for Nat, or does this have …
16 Mar, 2023: You have got to wonder about the folks who take their dogs to shit outside the school gates.
16 Mar, 2023: In sum, seems like a budget to keep self-interested Tories onside. I guess it presages a ratcheting …
16 Mar, 2023: Hmm. Seems like the Tories have given back around 2/3 of the recent corporation tax hike in tax …
16 Mar, 2023: Imagine if the Tories had given wealthy savers the same pension tax breaks, but required the money …
15 Mar, 2023: You need a lot of patience to drive down Morning Lane in the, uh, morning. I walk - and there …
15 Mar, 2023: Fiscal rules Your budget day reminder that outside of political discourse there’s no such thing as fiscal rules. …
14 Mar, 2023: The unimaginative build-it-by-numbers regeneration strategy is to throw up high-rises around public …
13 Mar, 2023: This is Canary Wharf Station on the Elizabeth Line. It has no direct connection with Canary Wharf …
12 Mar, 2023: Against the grey afternoon sky the silver leaves sprouting from the tree growing out of the taxi …
11 Mar, 2023: Flying Tiger - this is the Crossrail Place branch - gimcrack ground zero.
11 Mar, 2023: I can be a bit slow on the uptake. The people who get het up about “declinism” are the …
10 Mar, 2023: The Tapping of the Purple Reader is the essential ritual of East London travelling people.
9 Mar, 2023: Public address speakers paired together on the lampposts at Hackney Central station.
9 Mar, 2023: Passenger on the train has a “specially selected” mozzarella and sun dried cherry tomato wood fired …
9 Mar, 2023: Hackney is gridlocked this morning. The average British car is the size of a small bus these days. …
9 Mar, 2023: The immigration “debate” in the UK is always radioactive. With their small boats stunting the Tories …
8 Mar, 2023: Saw this on my walk to the Hackney office today through sleet and snow. It explains why so many …
8 Mar, 2023: Tory “libertarians” overcome cognitive dissonance by believing free enterprise only …
8 Mar, 2023: www.theguardian.com Rishi Sunak ‘extinguishing the right to seek refugee protection in UK’ …
7 Mar, 2023: The whole display has crashed at EY, Canary Wharf.
6 Mar, 2023: Crossrail (the Elizabeth Line) is an engineering marvel. But they never take account of passengers …
5 Mar, 2023: Tory Migration-go-round Explained The Tories won’t fix public services, healthcare, housing or infrastructure. If they did, you …
5 Mar, 2023: This art piece in Crossrail Place at Canary Wharf is made up of LED tiles. The art itself is maybe a …
4 Mar, 2023: Almost 45 years in, and I thought that neoliberalism would have its “reflections on forced …
4 Mar, 2023: The pilot hen is the moorhen who’s always leading the other water birds to the food. This …
4 Mar, 2023: One of the interesting things about the Windsor Framework is that it is not, say, the Barnsley …
3 Mar, 2023: The crows are running around on the roof. I can hear the distinctive hopping gait.
3 Mar, 2023: The crow on “crowverlook” duty on the Star Lane office today watches in solitude.
2 Mar, 2023: Gosh @help - am I doing the photoblogging challenge wrong?
2 Mar, 2023: It’s London “nope” weather in Hackney this morning.
2 Mar, 2023: The crazy thing about neoliberals is that they love markets right up to the point that someone tries …
2 Mar, 2023: Highbrow media are setting up Sunak v Starmer as a battle of the centrist dads. Never was a frame so …
1 Mar, 2023: Some tools in the can. Looks pretty secure.
27 Feb, 2023: On changing the brushes on the motors when the battery is flat Leave politics aside a sec and ask yourself, who is being feather-bedded when businesses are …
25 Feb, 2023: Okay. So, thanks to Geofency and Pipedream, I can annoy you all with my arrivals at and departures …
25 Feb, 2023: Sense of Wonder There’s this sci-fi trope where our time-travelling hero in the past lets the future know when …
24 Feb, 2023: Are Tories blind to structural problems? Does their privilege lead them to really, truly believe the …
19 Feb, 2023: I like Yubico YubiKeys - sound idea for improving online personal security, I think. I own a couple. …
19 Feb, 2023: Bought some nice-looking russets from the local M&S, but they’re rubbish: flavourless and …
19 Feb, 2023: I generally avoid vegetables with trademarks, but Kalettes(TM) are seriously tasty. I braise them …
18 Feb, 2023: Alexa seems to like chicken.
18 Feb, 2023: Putting ANPRs on pelican crossings and fining every driver who runs a red light would seem to be an …
18 Feb, 2023: Is it that graffiti is not art, or that all that art is is pissing on lampposts?
18 Feb, 2023: Road racer’s engine is louder than the sirens of the police chasing after down the A13
16 Feb, 2023: I’m leaving Stratford International on the DLR from platform 2. Have literally never seen a DLR …
12 Feb, 2023: What are the Americans shooting down? De-orbiting Teslas?
12 Feb, 2023: A brief musing on political centrism I’ve struggled with the concept of political centrism. I’ve found its positioning as …
8 Feb, 2023: Uttering sound bites while wearing a high viz jacket is not an industrial strategy.
5 Feb, 2023: Reading Liz Truss’s piece in the Sunday Telegraph, I can only conclude that the UK political …
3 Feb, 2023: Elon Cohaagen cutting off the oxygen in Venusville is fiction, right?
3 Feb, 2023: Reading about power outages and trees exploding from the cold, and the best we’ve got is the …
2 Feb, 2023: Dockhunt: closer to that journalistic slip of the tongue than the UK chancellor of the exchequer.
2 Feb, 2023: Not sure how public sector workers contribute to the “wage/price spiral” given their labour isn’t …
2 Feb, 2023: The workers being lowered into the sewer are all Irish. This is England! We expect foreigners to …
2 Feb, 2023: What is your worst walk? Mine is Canning Town to the Greenway via Manor Road. Nasty in all weathers.
31 Jan, 2023: The BBC’s review into its taxation, public spending, government borrowing and debt output is …
19 Jan, 2023: Newham Council would like people to drive less and walk more. It’s a laudable aim even if, as we …
15 Jan, 2023: I have some thoughts and comments about reforming NHS bureaucracy. I tried referring myself to Keir …
13 Jan, 2023: www.theguardian.com The UK may avoid a recession for now but it won’t feel like it for many …
8 Jan, 2023: www.theguardian.com Hedge funds holding up vital debt relief for crisis-hit Sri Lanka, warn …
4 Jan, 2023: With his sleight of hand promise to cut inflation, Rishi Sunak sure does think his core vote needs …
4 Jan, 2023: Seems to me that the people lacking numeracy skills to prosper in the workplace are the Tories. …
3 Jan, 2023: Finished reading: Rentier Capitalism by Brett Chistophers 📚- one of the most insightful books I read …
3 Jan, 2023: Could a politician or policy wonk explain the difference between “turbocharge” and “supercharge” …
1 Jan, 2023: I managed an average of 11.6km a day of walking or running in 2022. Not the 12km a day I was hoping …
1 Jan, 2023: The verdict is in. Anyone who voted Leave was duped. I hope once the Tories are out of office, …
1 Jan, 2023: Oh-ho! Discovered a mandarin negroni stollen that somehow didn’t get eaten.
16 Dec, 2022: When a poor person slips on the ice, does anyone who matters hear them fall?
16 Dec, 2022: Ungritted pavements in Custom House
16 Dec, 2022: Ungritted streets in Canning Town
13 Dec, 2022: Imagine being so cynical and cruel that you choose a performative immigration and asylum policy over …
9 Dec, 2022: Temporary if poorly fitted and not working eInk display on the Elizabeth Line
3 Dec, 2022: I’ve run this timeline over and again and the only place neoliberal “meritocracy” ever ends up is …
25 Nov, 2022: Apparently “Singapore on Thames” is gone, and Britain will “become the next …
25 Nov, 2022: It’s interesting that the Tories say of Brexit that we “voted to change our trading relationship …
23 Nov, 2022: New micro post on the MarsEdit 5 beta. I like the “throwing it out there” aspect. Like …
22 Nov, 2022: Couldn’t get a micro.blog window to show up on the app until I delete the cache. Odd. Anyway, …
19 Nov, 2022: Enjoying The Peripheral on Amazon Prime Video. One thing puzzles me, though. Why are the inhabitants …
18 Nov, 2022: Theory: the people elect politicians to regulate the markets Practice: the markets pay off …
17 Nov, 2022: There’s a distinction between riches and the return to riches. Redistribution isn’t taking from the …
14 Nov, 2022: With only weeks to Christmas, the value destruction leaderboard looks like this: Elon Must Liz …
13 Nov, 2022: www.theguardian.com The cowardly state beholden to “the markets” is back.
12 Nov, 2022: Don’t people like Elon Musk cause real problems for meritocracy’s true believers?
12 Nov, 2022: Leafing through dismal opinion polls this morning, three words characterise Tory supporters: …
7 Nov, 2022: “Smart Home” technology would be a lot better if it actually worked.
7 Nov, 2022: All they have got, the TINA neoliberals, the handmaidens to the rentier class, is racist …
6 Mar, 2022: Currently reading: How the World Really Works by Vaclav Smil 📚: Man likes chicken.
5 Mar, 2022: Not really needing my vegan burgers to have added artificial blood.
30 Jan, 2022: Lagrange is a nice Gemini browser, with an opinionated UI. Amfora is a good looking Gemini client …
30 Jan, 2022: I stumbled across Project Gemini, a lightweight internet protocol pitched somewhere between Gopher …
20 Jun, 2021: Currently reading: Failures of State: The Inside Story of Britain’s Battle with Coronavirus by …
30 May, 2021: www.theguardian.com PM weds at “secret” ceremony with friends. It’s in all the papers. Words used to …
9 May, 2021: Picnic, early May 2021 To Eat Baby potato salad with steamed green beans, lettuce and tomato, mint, quails eggs, capers …
9 Jan, 2021: An important day for pigeon science In the colder weather, the plants on the balcony are wilting. At the beginning of the week the pair …
12 Dec, 2020: Signs of the times What does this sign mean? Today, I learned it means: GET OUT OF MY F*ING WAY YOU C*NT. LOOK AT THE …
15 Nov, 2020: Sometimes during lockdown I put my coffee in my travel mug.
8 Mar, 2020: A (pedantic) note on King Coot twitter.com/furtherfi… The Community of Coots are too ornery and independent to want anything …
1 Sep, 2019: Moral cesspit? Welcome to Tory Britain. …
31 Aug, 2019: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/aug/31/help-to-buy-loans-benefited-more-rich-than-poor-hous …
29 Aug, 2019: Memo to self: O&M and AOV. Don’t ask.
28 Aug, 2019: Is it ever wise to look at micro.blog clients at two minutes to midnight?
4 Jan, 2019: Footling with collaborative writing apps instead of, you know, writing.