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.

A brown block of flats stands on white wishbone risers against a moody sky

Seagulls exploded by the Westferry Deathray over Newfoundland Wharf

Out of focus seagulls over an illuminated high rise building. The bird look like exploding Starros

The last days of Robin Hood Gardens

A worker in a hard hat looks on as the last remaining multi-storey segment of a council housing block is demolished

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.

A kestrel takes off from a fence, flying towards a white and orange block of flats.

Photographing the sunset on the Royal Docks

A group of men check their cameras as they stand on the side of a dock photographing the sunset.

Insect learning centre, Stratford

Education house for learning about insect: domed like a cycle helmet with glazed panels, in front of a mid-rise office-block

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

Black and white photo of a heavily stickered on-street telecommunications box beside a black bollard, against a stucco wall

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