something powerfully depressing about "seeing your friends" and "cooking food" apparently being seen as "making life harder" I hate it here!

Now we watch as half the people who complain that ‘kids have nothing to do’ suddenly come up with reasons why the late-night youth club shouldn’t be in *their* bit of the borough.

Mamdani is not just filling the potholes with the crew. He's creating a visual and personal reminder of the dignity inherent in all of these anonymous government jobs.

www.thetimes.com/travel/inspi... How about "valuable new development unlocked" as a better characterisation?

friendly reminder: lots of people don't have this weekend off, specifically so you can enjoy your weekend off, be very fucking nice to pub and restaurant and retail staff we are Not Having A Good Time and do not have a four day break coming up

There is an imagined working class, that largely no longer exists and a modern working class that the political class rarely interact with outside of service provision.

Son of a bus driver. The Mayor knows the rules.

A favourite things is watching a kid get on the DLR in London and run to the front seat, so they can pretend to drive it. It never matters who is sitting there. EVERY adult gets up and concedes that seat. As humans, we recognise and are bound by a sense of joy and wonder. Above everything else.

Urban infrastructure is fantastically complex. Excellent long read by @londonermag.bsky.social www.the-londoner.co.uk/how-to-desig...

Lam’s determination to just avoid talking about any real problems is almost impressive. No, people aged 25 to 35 in the underground economy are not putting pressure on the NHS. What a waste of her one and only life.

Matt Goodwin doesn't think the banknote story has got enough attention. Weird to think he used to be a vaguely serious person.

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit

A procurement crisis absolutely everyone saw coming but which the Department of Health and MoD will now have to tackle, with zero good outcomes – as they've both now signed contracts and have technical reliance on Palantir.

this post deserves to be presented to you by having an index card moved down word by word with photos taken of your face after every new reveal

And Matt Goodwin who DID NOT win

obviously today is a huge embarrassment for Matt Goodwin and for Reform, which is something that we absolutely ought to celebrate, but we must also remember it's a huge embarrassment for Morgan McSweeney and Maurice Glasman and all the Blue Labour weirdos, and that's important to celebrate too :)

This post is the single best advert for the fact that proper local journalism matters. If Jim’s team hadn’t put the pieces together quickly, this wouldn’t have been stopped.

The more Reform UK male politicians obsess over sex the more convinced I become that being rejected by women is the true engine of the party

Top tip: to avoid having the British Union of Fascists logo on the side of your mock-up train, don't use horrible text-to-image AI slop instead of actual designers and artists. www.scotsman.com/news/transpo...

O'Hara as Cookie Fleck, limping wildly into the arena at the climax of Best in Show. Incredible, subtle physical comedy. Every second she is on screen is a dream. Unparalleled.

the good news for Kemi Badenoch is that she's actually being handed on a silver platter an opportunity to partially detoxify her party without needing to do anything other than appear non-toxic the bad news is that she is Kemi Badenoch

Transit for the win.

Not the guy with the yellow folder breaking

Having a proper Mandela Effect moment at Suella defecting to Reform, something I would have sworn blind had happened a year ago.

What I love about this is either you've seen the Trump post and a London mayoral candidate is tying themselves to a figure who is almost universally reviled in London OR you haven't and it reads as threatening to put London into an ice age

going to use "at my most enigmatic and expansive" to describe the next time I have a few too many wines

London* gets its first Reform MP: Andrew Rosindell. *Admittedly Andrew dislikes being part of London so much he has repeatedly campaigned for his constituency to be moved into Essex.

I'll say it again: watching Robert Jenrick do "cunning politics" is like watching a toddler hide behind a cushion. "Where's Robert gone? THERE HE IS! Oh no! Where is he? THERE HE IS!"

Quite frankly, it’s outrageous that Mark Carney is cutting Statistics Canada. If he was Stephen Harper or Pierre Poilievre, I feel like this would be getting a lot more backlash. Carney of all people should know the importance of high-quality data and information about the country.

I cannot stress enough that homelessness is caused by policy levers primarily at the provincial level. And AMO's new report shows it: homelessness in Ontario rose 8% last year, with 85,000 people becoming homeless. 20,000 were youth and children. Horrifying. globalnews.ca/news/1161124...

The FT got is architecture critic Edwin Heathcote to write about data centres and it's wonderful. www.ft.com/content/7692...

'Another Warrington has hit the North-West'.

Again, "I only make CSAM for money" would not help an ordinary person's defence, but would aggravate their sentencing.

11 days from now marks one year since this guy got away with doing a Nazi salute on live TV. Since then, he - the world's richest man - has gutted govt programmes causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children and turned his microblogging website into a child porn generator. Consequences!

no one wants to hire me. because my whimsy is a liability

Elon Musk chatbot repeatedly making CSAM on demand should be one of the single biggest stories right now and it's effectively a collective shrug instead

this is how every outlet should refer to X

I understand the pressures on the BBC, but Radio 4's coverage of the Minneapolis shooting is an example of "bad balance". It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder". The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.

There is a great blog by @thebeautyoftransport.com which looks in detail at transport design, including this post on Hackney Wick

Going to start asking men who play hockey "Oh cool - because of Heated Rivalry?"

I've long wondered what would happen if all the women at the next big academic conference fancy-matched the dress code of the average male in attendance---like, if jeans, a sport coat, sneakers, and hair I rolled out of bed with work for you, they work for me

Doesn’t feel coincidental that all of the ‘women’ in the advert look to have barely reached adulthood. If that.

A new year’s wish that we all start framing paying taxes as positive and patriotic contribution to a better world for all. Thank you Anthony Joshua! I’ve just paid mine too. They were quite a lot less than yours, but for some reason most historians don’t earn £68.5m.

Not now, haunted Victorian shoes

I think the people who make a technology that makes nudes of children should be put in jail. this should not be in any way controversial

Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower

Goodness me, it’s like someone rewrote The Twelve Days of Christmas with sex pests www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Funny animal videos no longer being trustworthy just fucking sucks all around. I love the wonder of animal behavior and what it says about the experience of being alive. It's because it happened in reality that it's so fun. It's not fun if it was just made up. There's no wonder there.

Honestly impressed at Starmer and Nandy's commitment to not doing their job. This guy is literally talking about his wife, his children, her, and her children, and they do nothing!