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The British establishment has crashed again.


The UK grocery industry, which receives a massive government subsidy in the form of in-work benefits for its workforce, still will not pay a living wage.

Black and white photo of a large, illuminated sign-board showing a female grocery worker, advertising the charity Grocery Aid that helps impoverished grocery workers in the UK. It is night time. Behind are high-rise buildings and a data centre.

I wonder how British populist right politicos and their propaganda wing in the media would sell an American invasion of Greenland and the end of Nato. Wartime nostalgia? Comeuppance for cheese-eating Euro-surrender monkeys?


Speaking to fellow advisers before Christmas, [Downing Street Chief of Staff Morgan] McSweeney said this would not be a “year of promises” but a “year of proof”, when public services would begin to improve and bills start to fall.

The proof in this case is the proof of the moonshine that McSweeney is necking.

Keir Starmer to woo voters and MPs with new year plan to cut cost of living.


Good thing social media didn’t exist when Nigel Farage was a schoolboy at Dulwich College - or his party would be demanding he be stripped of his citizenship


Did I miss the calls to strip Lucy Connolly of her British citizenship after her Southport tweets?


The wind blows a bin out at Heron Quays

A plastic bin-bag is blown out of its holder.

Stratford Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park

Looking south down the Lea towards the Accelor Mittal orrbital and some cod-brutalist edifice