A couple of key right wing terms:
Declinism: the opinion that a bonfire of regulations and tax cuts for the rich is not an industrial strategy.
(Plan for) growth: the belief that industrial strategy consists of deregulation and cutting taxes for the rich.
Every right wing talking head: “Rant, rant, woke this, woke that, rant bathrooms, woke deep state. Why are the left wing establishment declinist wokerati arguing about woke and not delivering our ‘plan for growth’?”
If you are over 50, the writing on the labels of food packaging is too tiny.
What an odd hill Mark Rowley has chosen to die on. Chopping logic over “systemic” vs “institutional” prejudice is way more political than the term “institutional” itself.
Casey report: Met chief accepts review diagnosis, but will not use term ‘institutional’
I’m looking for a houseplant. Nice display in M&S at Crossrail Place - but they’d sold out of the plants I’d had my eye on. I’m passing through Stratford tomorrow on my way home, so may take a look in the shops there.
The area south of A13 between Silvertown Way and Freemasons Road was called Cherry Island. Here is our sakura analog.
Pigeons on the quasi-portico of Canary Wharf Underground Station
I got up late so my early walk to Canary Wharf this morning was a dash to the Custom House Elizabeth Line station.
Passing through the Custom House portal to Canary Wharf lives up to its sci-fi name. Two Londons couldn’t be more divided if they were in parallel universes
Manor Road between Canning Town and West Ham, with its temporary pedestrian crossing chicanes, narrow, uneven footpaths, and poor drainage is the pedestrian’s nemesis.
