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.

The crows are running around on the roof. I can hear the distinctive hopping gait.

The crow on “crowverlook” duty on the Star Lane office today watches in solitude.

A crow watches from the rooftop of an office building

Gosh @help - am I doing the photoblogging challenge wrong?

Tower Blocks and grey skies on the Trelawney Estate this morning in Hackney, London

It’s London “nope” weather in Hackney this morning.

The crazy thing about neoliberals is that they love markets right up to the point that someone tries to create a market in their ideas. Biden has been forced to confront neoliberal madness head on

Highbrow media are setting up Sunak v Starmer as a battle of the centrist dads. Never was a frame so improbable. Sunak is a “state capacity libertarian” and Starmer a “reforming” Christian democrat. A right-wing battle far from the failing systems of country crashing into penury.

Picture of a blue shipping container holding builders materials and tools at a regeneration site in Canning Town, East London, UK

Some tools in the can. Looks pretty secure.