Here’s a little tip. If you’re making a pasta sauce with chilli, garlic and tomatoes and the tomatoes aren’t as sweet as you’d like, add a pinch of ground cinnamon and dial back a little on the chilli.
Basildon town centre.

Seagulls exploded by the Westferry Deathray over Newfoundland Wharf

The last days of Robin Hood Gardens

I saw this bird by Hallsville Road in Canning Town on Saturday. It was too quick for me and flew off before I could get a good photo. I think it’s a kestrel.

Photographing the sunset on the Royal Docks

Insect learning centre, Stratford

US trade officials scour the globe for more eggs as woke, cultural Marxist, leftists push up prices egging Teslas.
A stickered telecommunications box in Hackney

How do you tell Labour and Tories apart? Both are dogmatically neoliberal with apparently no clue how to address Britain’s serious structural problems. One way is to remember that Tories scapegoat immigrants first and “feckless benefits cheats” second. For Labour it’s the other way round