Big fire in Canning Town this morning

Smoke billows over the rooftops, obscuring construction and high rise buildings

The election campaign really shows up the dire state of British political journalism.

Paula Vennells sure was paid an awful lot of money for not having a clue what was going on during her tenure as CEO of the Post Office.

Paula Vennells breaks down as she tells Post Office inquiry she was misled

In 10 years time who will deliver the lattes once AI has made human labour obsolete?

I love economists. Always so cute in their naïve, incelish smugness, and always so reliably wrong.

You’d think that if the UK government really wanted to “stop the boats”, they’d stop the City laundering the proceeds of the ticket sales.

It’s almost as if everything that politicians back is a bad idea. This is your cognitive elite in action.

Also, and incidentally, does anyone know why construction sites in China are always fenced in blue?

Small modular reactors don’t add up as a viable energy source

A glitch in the Matrix

A wall-sized LED displaying a digital artwork at Canary Wharf has developed a glitch with the scene split in the middle - the scene itself is a dreamlike London skyline with small figures whizzing around in invisible Tube trains

Have I got this straight? A lawyer who is defending Trump for the money is using an attack line of accusing a porn actress of doing it for the money.

Here’s where we’re at in Britain. The Tories are high on their own supply, but they don’t know how fucked-up they are because their friends in the propaganda wing (that is what is often called, without irony, “the media”) keep offering them another toke from the bong.