New blog post, …And Thanks For The WildFish simonicity.com/2026/04/19/a...

Record Boat Day 🕶️

There is always a Yes Minister episode.

I remember when every Saturday was record shop day. The Southampton trail: Subway, Virgin, Henrys, HMV, then the bargain bins at Smiths and Woolies. Yours?

Disgusting habit, spitting

Is that the time? 🤔

I’ve finally started to read a book I borrowed from my late father-in-law 20 years ago. Seemed topical. I’m left feeling that any incoming world leader should be given a compulsory reading list, with this on it - and with a pre-inauguration test. How could we forget the lessons of history, so soon?

New blog post, Back To The Future: New Town Planning simonicity.com/2026/04/12/b...

🎵 Don’t need this pressure on Don’t need this pressure on You go down, down Pass the talk of town You go down Greek street Then its underground Well it’s Soho life For this mobile knife It’s the place to shoot Saturday night beetroot 🎵

Trying to remember what I must have bought 🤨

About right…

Give him a break this is literary genius.

Starmer could of course call Trump privately now with the message that if he doesn’t immediately switch course the king and UK air bases are now out of bounds and forget about the World Cup. Who knows what’s happening behind the scenes but sleepwalking into this will never be forgiven.

I made a playlist or last nights Obscure Pet Shop Boys performance at the Electric Ballroom. So good! #petshopboys open.spotify.com/playlist/2tz...

First night of Pet Shop Boys “obscure” residency this week at the Electric Ballroom.

My Cat: Open the Fuckin’ Wet Food, you crazy bastard, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah.

A huge new dining room you say? Well this is a little too on-the-nose...

Well Leeds at Wembley would have a reassuring ring to it 🤞#saintsfc

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

He thinks it’s his special day or something. Oi! 🐇

New blog post, Further Measures To Discourage LPA Refusals Of Large Housing Schemes…Activated simonicity.com/2026/04/05/f...

✊#saintsfc 🟡🔵

I’m just a planning lawyer rather than any sort of planning expert but you are an SME developer maybe you will find this recent chat of interest. Most professional podcast studio I have been in for sure. Thank you Omer Mehmet for the invite. youtu.be/b705EerDCDs?...

Golden retriever runs 15 feet after owner mimes throwing tennis ball

I can’t believe it’s not Butter. I’ve enjoyed this earlier novel by Asako Yuzuki just as much as much - now published in English translation.

Cruel game 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

New blog post, “The Government And The Mayor Now Expect Boroughs, Developers And Delivery Partners To Make Full Use Of These Measures To Approve And Build The Homes That Londoners Urgently Need” simonicity.com/2026/03/25/t...

Am even crosser now than back then tbh.

What’s most enraging when you read accounts like this (aside from the employment horrors)? Facebook, Twitter etc could at one time have taken an enlightened, path. Rather than seen now as insane power gluttons, their dull creators, whilst surely still hugely wealthy, would have been global heroes. 🤷‍♂️

New blog post, The Law Is An… Assets of Community Value Further Proposed Changes Announced simonicity.com/2026/03/22/t...

The US-Israel war on Iran has emitted 5 million tonnes of CO₂ₑ in its first 14 days. The world currently has 0.6 million tonnes of novel and permanent CO₂ removal (CDR) capacity annually.

Jesus, they weren’t bloody joking.

Not a cloud in the sky. Cat called Nimbus tho.

In Berkhamsted we always do, always have.

Oh look a new frontline appears in this war driven by greed and self-interest. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

If you thought VAR was slow… Obviously the right outcome. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Money laundering is a global scourge but current AML processes aren’t working. What are we all missing? This book is brilliant.

Drop albums, not bombs.

New blog post, Save The Date: Live Event 1 June 2026 simonicity.com/2026/03/15/s...

Another war crime but hey. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

🎵 Dreamed a dream by the old canal …that we might beat Coventry at lunchtime 😇 #saintsfc 🤷

Very much recommend this astonishing brave documentary. What a bloke. What a wasted generation of innocent brainwashed children. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

The America I admired is dead.

Hormuz solution: don’t use oil.

Illustrated

I first heard Herman Düne in the depths of the first lockdown, on clubhouse if you remember that. His voice and world-weary, optimistic songs were a reminder of a world then gone. Great finally to see him live tonight in Hackney.

An hour online queuing for First Aid Kit tickets at RAH this morning, through, tickets chosen and then blocked as a bot! Grrr…

This is the warning on the blood pressure monitor my dad just got. Exceptional work. Anybody know what the fuck it’s supposed to mean? Last line is especially ominous

New blog post, Planning Committees That Refuse Planning Applications Against Officers’ Advice: 5 Impending Procedural Protections for Applicants simonicity.com/2026/03/08/p...

Visited by a couple of mandarins this morning