Should you ever find yourself sarf of the river in need of a decent lunch, you could do a lot worse than Marcella on Deptford High Street. Good food, interesting wines, friendly staff.
Principled Tories? Uh-uh. No. Nope. There are none.
Relief for Rishi Sunak as Rwanda bill passes first vote in Commons
Here’s the thing about neoliberals: they would rather “go fash” than tax the rich and build affordable housing
Political and financial journalists should be clear as to whether they are writing about the “market” or “Mah-Ket”, the infallible god of the Neoliberals.
The idea that Sunak and the Tories gave two tosses about the jobs of hospitality workers is laughable. Property portfolios of city centre landlords more like.
A lasting legacy of neoliberalism is that in place of solidarity it has created a culture of belligerent victimhood.
The obvious, rarely stated.
Policy is more responsive to preferences of the well-heeled than of the worse off, and people know this - but it [is] a blind spot for most politicians
Next UK election set to be most unequal in 60 years, study finds
The people who build and operate TikTok are ghouls.
How will Labour leader and earnest Thatcherite Keir Starmer outdo the Tories’ cruel “no families for foreign care workers” proposal? Indentured labour?
Christmas Menu - first of the second thoughts
For Christmas Day, I’m thinking a starter of wild mushrooms preserved in olive oil, silken beancurd with chopped capers and dukkah, lamb’s lettuce alongside the friselle salad.
The original: Christmas Menus 2023 First Draft