Trinity Buoy Wharf

Straightforward fascist ideology running throughout, as illustrated by this passage

Absolutely thrilled to be the first guest being interviewed at the live launch of Zeteo UK at the Barbican. Details here! zeteo.com/p/live-in-lo...

London 2018

Peter Oborne’s account in the preface to this of the current debauched state of The Spectator is excoriating. Anyone who has given up X certainly no has business buying this Islamophobic rag. cfmm.org.uk/wp-content/u...

The maddest building I’ve seen since ‘The Line’… except this one got built! The Badaevsky Complex in Moscow puts 9-storey blocks of apartments on 35m-tall steel legs, suspended above a park and historic brewery Architect: Herzog de Meuron

John Boyer has created The Plato Reader to accompany his Aristotle Reader which is a free website which makes the corpus available in both Geek and (public-domain) translation and also makes the texts fully searchable. This is so useful. johnhboyer-sys.github.io/plato-reader/

💛 look at her JOY 🪄 animals deserve freedom 🔆💛💚💛🌿

This remarkable before-and-after look at Utrecht shows that great cities aren't transformed overnight. They evolve through steady, people-first decisions that reclaim space from cars, add greenery, and make everyday cycling safer and more enjoyable. READ @bicycledutch.bsky.social: buff.ly/cYsimzy

From Stephan Zweig's The World of Yesterday.

What a sentence.

Chelsea 2009

Meta is contaminating public water supplies with deadly bacteria. Cupriavidus gilardii is resistant to multiple antibiotic agents (even Carbapenems) and can cause fatal human infections.

Victoria Park

And for some context about what American gun laws mean. Each year, more Americans are killed by toddlers accidentally discharging guns in the home than the total number of murders in the U.K.

At least 70% of the UK population are going to be rooting for Count Binface. He will be the most popular politician in modern British history.

Nothing says 'man of the people' quite like a politician calling a by-election at public expense on the issue of whether or not he should have the right to secretly take donations from Thai-based crypto billionaires and a convicted fraudster

Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

Here's my full interview with CNBC, covering my bear case against generative AI, OpenAI's questionable finances, AI's lack of ROI, and how all of this is a symptom of the tech industry running out of hypergrowth ideas. It's great to see the mainstream media discussing this. youtu.be/TtmPccUTDP8?...

Hackney

Keir Starmer routinely states UK took no part in the war on Iran. DeClassified reports this is not true. www.declassifieduk.org/uk-played-hi...

Victoria Park

"A philosopher who is content to believe that the notion of knowing what it is for a proposition to be true is purely formal and insubstantial is powerless in the face of the most arrant nonsense."

Bethnal Green 2010

Did you know it's highly likely you and your family live in a deregulated Free Zone? There are 91 of these zones, and counting, in the UK. Please read my Substack for in-depth analysis on the duopolys' rollout of free zones. substack.com/@europeanpow...

#OtD 27 Jun 1938 rent strikers in Stepney, East London fought bailiffs with shovels, rolling pins, and saucepans in what was one of many militant struggles of tenants in London's working-class areas at the time stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9922...

when i was on the same sex marriage beat 2007-2015, it was so hard to convince americans of a long eality: u.s. muslims were consistently more for lgbtq rights that u.s. evangelicals. in general, u.s. muslims belive in equal (& secular) civil rights while u.s. christians believe in theocratic govt

Labour has closed more safe routes, including family reunification than Tories did They haven't opened new safe routes, they have rejigged existing ones to put the onus of sponsorship on individuals and community groups rather than the state Work and study routes exclude families. 1/3

I’m not saying the debate in the U.K. has moved to the right, but Ed Miliband is basically seen as Pol Pot for aiming for a climate target first agreed to by…I think Theresa May’s government? Definitely Johnson’s. And this chat is going on during the middle of a record-breaking heatwave

It is worth noting that the current government does not want to invest in high quality housing that can be temperature managed effectively, but rather to remove regulations and create a more developer friendly environment. How do we think that will play out?

Nice video from Eli on why Tesco’s problems with VMWare foreshadow much greater problems to come for companies that integrate OpenAI or Anthropic into their systems. youtu.be/ZZijE6yQtx0?...

This week's post: Why governments should not be in hock to the bond market mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2026/06/why-... Policy based on fears about the bond market, or worse about what journalists are writing about that market, will be bad policy. This has become one of Andy Burnham's first tests.

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

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“Do not be surprised that Leibniz should appear on more than one side of this argument. That is the prerogative of a mind open to anything or everything.”