Flying Tiger - this is the Crossrail Place branch - gimcrack ground zero.
I can be a bit slow on the uptake. The people who get het up about “declinism” are the same people as “classical liberals” who rail against the “woke” and decry “cancel culture”.
The Tapping of the Purple Reader is the essential ritual of East London travelling people.
Public address speakers paired together on the lampposts at Hackney Central station.
Passenger on the train has a “specially selected” mozzarella and sun dried cherry tomato wood fired sourdough pizza - cook at home - on her lap. The most prominent aspect of the packaging is the Union Jack.
Hackney is gridlocked this morning. The average British car is the size of a small bus these days. Nevertheless most have just the driver.
The immigration “debate” in the UK is always radioactive. With their small boats stunting the Tories have gone the full Chernobyl. How do they shut it down when it explodes?
Saw this on my walk to the Hackney office today through sleet and snow. It explains why so many exterior light-fittings in England are round.
Tory “libertarians” overcome cognitive dissonance by believing free enterprise only applies to people they went to school with or who pay them off. Small-boats people-trafficking needs to be profoundly financialised before it becomes a global British success story to be turbocharged via deregulation
Rishi Sunak ‘extinguishing the right to seek refugee protection in UK’
Shameful. All the more so because this “law” is merely a political stunt by the Tories.