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
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.
TIL that “May the 4th” for English speakers doesn’t generally refer to the 五四运动, but some sort of lame Star Wars joke. I feel stupid.
Great day for London. Nasty, divisive culture-wars politics comprehensively rejected. And the swifts are back.
Rentier Capitalism by Brett Christophers: an unputdownable read
Bubble tea in Stratford
My hometown: dancing under the overpass
Drift down to the beach
A community event in Custom House (from some years ago)
Surprise to see this coot here on the pavement at Poplar Marina
There’s a colony of wagtails at Westfield in Stratford. They’ve bounced back since the pandemic.
Critters
Down to the spine
Park light at Canary Wharf
Dreamy dusk at the Docks
Blue flag, blue sky
Mountain sunrise