Like so much this government does, who the fuck is this for?
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Like so much this government does, who the fuck is this for?
13) Jawbone- Monica Ojeda (Ecuador πͺπ¨)
Was fortunate enough to win a bit of money on the greens at 5/1, bet on the basis of "lol ofc starmer won't let Burnham stand"
Overall it's not surprising the greens won in that if you wanted to beat reform and you wanted to stick the finger up to Labour there was one way to vote
One wonders how the by-election would have gone if Reform had picked eg a local pub landlord
The tube is on a generational run of bad adverts at the moment. Don't miss out
Been there before. Respect
"heh, look at these guys" I mutter, as I tuck into my second pint of "Hop Bastard" with my three year old
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On one hand hoppy craft beer is now cringe, on the other hand Britain was built on blokes from the home counties using productive work as a convenient mask for alcoholism
Was off work this afternoon as I had a hospital appointment for my daughter. Afterwards I took her to my local and was in awe at the 2 separate blokes doing teams meetings at 4.30 with hoppy ipas next to them. Respect.
12) Britain BC- Francis Pryor
11) The Truce- Mario Benedetti (Uruguay πΊπΎ)
10) Hour of the Star - Clarice Lispector (Brazil π§π·)
What an odd little book
9) One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Colombia π¨π΄)
I thought I struggled with magical realism, but I loved this. A confusion of 100 of the same names at times, but I think that's rather the point. A book like an iceberg
The Shoreditch Works application has taken 4 years and 9,000 pages of documents. Hackney Council has concluded what this project needs is⦠more documents.
Fun symmetry in how Restore are to Reform and the Tories as Your Party are to the Greens and Labour
Support π Proper πJournalism
8) The Corsair- Abdulaziz Al-Mahmoud (Qatar πΆπ¦)
A totally competent story of seafaring 19th century gulf geopolitics and piracy. I have a feeling the translation could have been better?
"Yes, I suppose the news should just be a dispassionate list of all the events that have occurred the world over during the day. That would be good. Except of course, it would take forever!"
7) Lanark- Alasdair Gray (Scotland π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ)
Wonderful, chaotic. Need to sit with this one a while and organise my thoughts about it
Logo for the Scotland For Nuclear Energy campaign.
Today we're part of the launch of Scotland For Nuclear Energy - a coalition of communities, businesses and campaigners calling on the Scottish Government to lift the ban on new nuclear power in Scotland.
More information and coverage of the launch below.
Would you say a 9,054-page planning application for an office block and some flats is:
A) Too long
B) About right
C) Not long enough
If you answered C, congratulations! You could work at Hackney Council.
This is a must-read.
A forensic analysis of a planning application (and a report from planners recommending its refused).
Kafkaesque is over-used, but it is the perfect description of the process so far for the extremely popular Shoreditch Works scheme.
Exactly!
It's nice to have people talking about you
'maybe another stepping stone on the way to a different settlement, eventually, one day with the EU' Vs 'the v recent ambassador to the US and former cabinet minister may have done a misconduct in public office' AND more NHS strikes coming AND 2 other big political stories
Not true though, is it?
ha very true
Britain is a very centralised country. Britain is also a very expensive place to build new infrastructure.
Are these two facts linked? @alonlevy.bsky.social, one of the worldβs top experts on infrastructure costs doesnβt think so. Hereβs why I disagree.
open.substack.com/pub/samdumit...