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


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


These are my principles. If you don’t like them I have others.

Starmer and Lammy absolutely craven on Trump today.


Sir Neville Starmer and his foreign secretary are flying out to Washington to meet the Musk-Trump co-presidency at the MAGA Laager. Will they be back with a piece of paper bringing peace in our time?