Today's re-read and chuck out

Stay calm. Keir Starmer is using "calibrated language" (or 'wibble' as it is known). The Norway letter is genuine apparently, so we are doomed

Show us the Sheephouse Wood bat deflector

Dear god indeed. He should write back using crayons. But surely we can be clever enough to bamboozle this idiot?

Trump write to Norway PM as Adrian Mole (dear God this is worrying)

Startling stat this morning on birth collapse

Greenland's seafood industries rely on foreign labour, just like ours

18 December 1883 was the date on the Factory Inspectors 'Schedule Certificate' that meant in 1884 my then 10 year old Great Grandmother Jane Wild was old enough to finish full time education & go to work in Rochdale's cotton mills. #family #history #rochdale ↘️ flic.kr/p/2kyS142

A corker. Reminds me of the impressive repurposing of old industrial buildings in Plagwitz, Leipzig. But they have the advantage of footfall from a major city. Has Sleaford got enough going for it to turn this into anything better than an edge of town housing estate - another Poundbury, God forbid.

My hobbyhorse. Sleaford Bass Maltings, A brownfield site the size of Greenland. Yes, fire was 1976, so that's half a century semi-derelict now completely derelict, begging to be converted to flats

£7.5m to work up plans for Stocksbridge and Barrow Hill (govt being reticent when they should be trumpeting)

Newry evolves as cross-border commuter city for Dublin

Superexploited workforce

Entry through the kitchen. Weird....

Pipe down, you cynics! Office letting market fully behind govt rail plans (possibly)

Greenland and Denmark show United Front against Trump threats to invade

A new Reform UK front organisation is launched. Mayor of Lincolnshire vituperative against urban life on Facebook, but nothing to say on demand responsive vans versus timetable bus routes, well it is complicated

Those gasholder flats behind Kings Cross shaped to fit

Today's re-read and chuck out

First ad showing East West all the way to Cambs made me laugh

Turns out Britain sending one soldier, a single reconnaissance officer, to Greenland

I will only attend this dinner party if that Australian beef wellington lady is doing the cooking.

Mr Inadvertent Seating Arrangement loses at musical chairs

It sends out exactly the right afterthought/sketch on the back of envelope vibe. All we need to know about the seriousness of Labour's intentions on transport and infrastructure.

Somehow the map perfectly reflected the reannouncement

Maccabi football hooligans are not indulged at home

Redundant prestige Caracas Shopping Mall on Satellite View, long repurposed as fearsome prison

UK "firmly on track" to meet clean power targets for 2030, following record offshore wind auction. news.sky.com/story/price-...

Plaid extends commanding lead for Senedd elections [ITV opinion poll] Greens third for first time. Wales trending left

Bohemian potential of Marseille to do a Berlin, Shoreditch. Chunky buildings. Rents. Vibe. Not all hype www.irishtimes.com/abroad/2026/...

Mansion tax and private jet levy

Waymos coming to the Smoke, changing very little, we too can enjoy these talking points and minor delays www.ndtv.com/world-news/w...

Japan Foreign Minister endorses mild stimulant at bilateral today

The wetland-loving fishing cat needs tender care

“America cannot leave that future in the hands of regimes that despise our values and seek to undermine our security,” So tell us what you really feel about NATO and the EU...

Annexation brutal historically resonant word ...

Randy Fine thehill.com/homenews/hou...

Warm horses Conservative Chair, Nadhim Zahawi defects to Reform UK

Improve on this please

You OK hun?

good work though

US Consulate (opened June 2020) has closed

Tory leader calls Greenland grab, collapse of Nato "a second order problem" which has caused us much bleak amusement over Sunday. Contra Bruegel, 500 Danish and allied soldiers, all in the capital, would do this job ..

Painting by Charles Oppenheimer. ‘Monday Morning, Kirkcudbright.' Oil on canvas. Measurements H 54.3 x W 69.7 cm.

After a week of "CSAM being created and pumped out on the SM platform used by the gvt: good or bad?" head scratching, inviting on a man sacked in disgrace for his close connections to a child abuser & trafficker including his lovely birthday messages about visiting "yummy" nonce island, is wild

This would have been satire at one point.

List of right wing horrors picked as guests for BBC flagship today, not even one presentable left, liberal, or worthwhile guest. Any notion of balance or even old-fashioned tokenism absent

My latest column: Labour’s reforms are an admission that privatisation of children’s homes and foster care in England is here to stay, and why the rush to regional care cooperatives must be challenged. open.substack.com/pub/martinba...

Reading about Red-Pilled and Glow-Up, having to ask the precise meanings

Nato falls silent on Greenland