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.

Rain bouncing off an exterior luminary

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

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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.

The whole display has crashed at EY, Canary Wharf.

Looking through a window full of reflections at a large digital signage screen that has crashed at EY, Canary Wharf.

Crossrail (the Elizabeth Line) is an engineering marvel. But they never take account of passengers when designing rail infrastructure.

Passengers separated by a tape barrier for crowd control on the Elizabeth Line in Whitechapel, East London

Tory Migration-go-round Explained

The Tories won’t fix public services, healthcare, housing or infrastructure. If they did, you wouldn’t believe that “the country’s full”. And the Tories won’t fix small boats and asylum processing delays. If they did, you wouldn’t blame migrants for the state the country’s in.

This art piece in Crossrail Place at Canary Wharf is made up of LED tiles. The art itself is maybe a little condescending, but the motion is interesting.

Photo of a screen-based art exhibit at Crossrail Place, London that shows a dramatic, imaginary Londonscape with moving figures above and below ground

Almost 45 years in, and I thought that neoliberalism would have its “reflections on forced collectivisation” moment. But nope. It’s it’s not going to happen, is it?

The pilot hen is the moorhen who’s always leading the other water birds to the food. This time, she’s jumped out of Telehouse Pond as is zipping along on land towards me.

a moorhen on the grass having jumped out of a nearby lake to find food

One of the interesting things about the Windsor Framework is that it is not, say, the Barnsley Framework.