Palestinian citizens of Israel are now attacked daily by Jewish Israeli hooligans, who almost never face consequences. The Kahanist police looks the other way. Thr latest story is a 9 month pregnant mother, pepper sprayed in Jaffa.

⚽️ Women's FA Cup 3rd round, Sutton Utd 0 Chatham Town 3: second disappointing result of the weekend, Sutton's women bowing out to higher ranked opponents whose players looked faster, fitter and better organised. In addition to their goals, the visitors struck the bar twice.

⚽️ FA Trophy R3, Walton & Hersham 4 Sutton Utd 1: our heaviest defeat of the Agutter era, against a team two tiers below us, but who'd only lost twice all season. Two second-half penalties, the second accompanied by a red card, sealed our fate. We were light in attack due to injuries and suspensions.

🐦‍⬛ Here's another short video of Pink-footed Geese at Cley Marshes yesterday. These birds flew right overhead, presumably to roost, as I was waiting for my bus back to Sheringham.

🍺 Marlborough Arms, Norwich: from the beer city that keeps on giving, another hitherto unvisited suburban pub slips into the Good Beer Guide. A rather messy interior is relieved by nice brick features and old ceramic signs. Mostly strong stuff on cask, but the 3.8% Tindall Liberator hit the spot.

🐦‍⬛ Cley Marshes, Norfolk: there's nothing quite like the spectacle (and sound) of many hundreds of Pink-footed Geese in flight. Brent Geese and Wigeon were also around in numbers, with a few Avocets and Marsh Harriers in the mix. Out at sea were a Razorbill, a Red-throated Diver and Grey Seals.

⚽️ FA Cup 2nd round, Sutton Utd 1 Shrewsbury Town 2 after extra time: deservedly 1-0 up on 90 minutes, against an EFL side reduced to ten men, we then lose a goal and a man in stoppage time, that twin fate repeating itself in extra time. Football can be very cruel.

⚽️ I'm watching the World Cup draw show and rapidly losing the will to live.

"The price of some foods hit by extreme weather are rising more than four times faster than others in the average shop...the price of butter, beef, milk, coffee and chocolate had risen by an average of 15.6% over the year" Climate change is not a problem for our grandchildren, it's today's crisis

Gaffer's post matcher from the Gateshead home win. #suttonunited www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AFn...

Lewis Simper, you nasty little man. 😍

⚽️ Sutton Utd 4 Gateshead 2: our third straight league win, achieved after going behind, and without a recognised striker, two goals early in the 2nd half (one a stunner from midfielder Lewis Simper) putting us 3-1 up, our fourth a late solo effort from home-grown defender Jack Taylor. Up to 17th. 🙂

My latest column on Wimbledon Park expansion, and the All England Club's legal stalemate 👇 www.wimbledonguardian.co.uk/news/2565002...

🍺 Trinity, Borough, London: pub with an eye-catching frontage, right by Borough tube station, taken from Greene King's clutches by Fuller's. The Christmas party season is already underway here. The Hophead passes muster. This visit completes Gtr London's entries for me in the 2026 Good Beer Guide. 🙂

🍺 Rockingham Arms, Elephant & Castle, London: busy (aren't they all?) Wetherspoon pub on the ground floor of a 1960s building that once housed the DHSS, now doubtless serving modern-day claimants. The Salem (Batemans) Dark Fruits Porter is rich, with damson notes and faint bitterness in the finish.

🍺 Bugle Horn, Charlton, London: rambling old pub in Charlton Village, where taciturn blokes lurk on bar stools, though some livelier customers have now arrived. Much less appealing than the last pub, but the Marston's Pedigree, not often seen in the capital these days, is satisfyingly robust.

🍺 Lord Herbert, Plumstead Common, London: comfortable, street corner local with a relaxed ambience and island bar, the walls decorated with portraits of rock musicians, old ceramic signs and pro-Palestine posters. The Wye Valley HPA is on top form; I'm staying for another. 🙂

⚽️ Here, Mike and I tread through Truro and gaze ahead to Gateshead.

Highlights from Truro away. youtu.be/TYSMRcgrTV8?... #suttonunited

Gaffer's post matcher from Truro. youtu.be/MxGvKxVyqxA?... #suttonunited

⚽️ Truro City 2 Sutton Utd 3: our first league away win of the season, and a vital one, against the division's bottom side who came back from 2-0 down to 2-2, our late winner (Wimbledon loanee Kai Jennings's second rocket of the game) coming two minutes after their equaliser. We're up to 19th. 🙂

🍺 A visit to SW Cornwall isn't really complete without a return to the legendary Blue Anchor brewpub in Helston. The Middle (5%) is above average.

🍺 Moth & the Moon, Falmouth, Cornwall: cosy, cultured pub with mixed seating and a nice mix of customers drifting in and out. Big shout-out for the Tintagel Pendragon, a stunning beer (4.5% and 4.5 NBSS), so good I had to stay for a second. Experiencing this reminds me why I keep drinking cask ale.

🍺 Verdant Brewing Tap Room, Penryn, Cornwall: modern beer hall, adjacent to the brewery on the almost-inevitable industrial eatate, with a mostly young crowd (plus kids and dogs) in this Friday teatime. The Burnthouse porter (4.6%) is satisfingly rich, with hints of coffee and dried fruit.

🍺 Knowles of Norwood, West Norwood, SE London: named after the hardware store that once occupied the building, and now run by Portobello Pub Co, this smart and expansive bar is rather a contrast to the down-at-heel shops nearby. The locally brewed Gipsy Hill Bandit is chilled and hoppy.

Another tale with ale.... chrisdyson55.blogspot.com/2025/11/no-h...

After another week of banging on about immigration, Keir Starmer's ratings fall to their lowest ever level. At what point do Labour strategists start to think that maybe this isn't quite the winning strategy they believed?

🦊🐦‍⬛ This rather handsome Red Fox greeted me on Wandle Meadow this morning. Birding highlights were four Fieldfare and a Redwing up in the trees.

Labours immigration policy will backfire spectacularly. They'll lose even more centrist and progressive votes, and gain nothing back from Reform. This is political suicide.

Earth is cooking! Apart from far east of Russia only “sizeable” landmass cooler than average is European in Northern Hemisphere.

Another day - another pogrom. Dozens of settlers attacked two villagers, torching houses and vehicles. This happens daily now.

🍺 Lady Ottoline, Bloomsbury: named after a society hostess associated with the Bloomsbury Set, an eclectically furnished pub with wooden floorboards and upstairs dining room. Most customers in the bar are women. My Wimbledon Common is murkier than it should be, but tastes as it should.

🍺 Duke, Bloomsbury, London: characterful, art deco pub with original features, both bars offering (uncushioned) wooden booths for more intimate drinking. Against my initial impulse (for Harvey's), I ordered the Greene King Fireside, actually pretty decent, and feeling right for a chilly evening.

Does a win affect your mood? YES! 🥳 We cover the massive jump out of the relegation zone, Junior’s first goal & the happy buzz at the ground! Hear the full episode for post-match analysis, plus our predictions for the Truro game! episode.suttonpodcast.com/251116 #SuttonUnited #SuttonPodcast

🍺 Beer Merchants Tap, Hackney Wick, London: warehouse-like bar and bottle shop with bench seating, where I'm the oldest customer by around 35 years. There's only one cask ale on but it's a goodun, Skylark Stout from Uckfield's Three Acre, whose beers often make it from East Sussex to the capital.

🍺 Duke of St Albans, Kentish Town: over the road from Parliament Hill, and seemingly a magnet for the North London set, this place was buzzing early this Sunday evening. With bar flies obstructing my view, I missed the revived Boddingtons on handpump, opting instead for the so-so Vale Tickety Brew.

🐦‍⬛ Crews Hill, Enfield, N London: singing Song Thrush. Spring is on its way! 🌱

⚽️ Sutton Utd 2 FC Halifax Town 0: our most emphatic league wn so far this campaign (against a club that won 3-0 here last season) featured a first senior goal from academy graduate Junior Eccleston and a penalty save by our keeper. 7 points from three games and we're out of the relegation zone!

🍺 Pottle, Beeston, Notts: micropub with much packed into a small space. The hazy My Poor Brain from Derbyshire's Pentrich brewery is robust and fruity. Guvnor tells us that they'll be moving to bigger premises next year.

🍺 Horse & Jockey, Stapleford, Notts: on a GLC Real Ale trip to Nottingham and this place, a former CAMRA national Pub of the Year finalist, is worth the extra bus journey. 13 beers on handpump, including The Crow And The Bees dark mild from Sheffield's Blue Bee brewery. A few other old guys are in.

🐦‍⬛ River Thames at Crossness, SE London: a few Wigeon were among the other ducks at the outfall, Black-tailed Godwits had gathered en masse with a scattering of Redshanks and a dozen Dunlin. To the west, an adult Yellow-legged Gull loafed on the shoreline near a probable 1st winter bird on the water.

Temperatures at 1.5km above London will be going from +8C tomorrow to -5C early next week. Well below average. Certainly going to be noticeable sudden cooling after what will have been warmest first half to November on record.

🍺 White Swan, Aldgate, London: lovingly preserved by Shepherd Neame, a pub just outside the City limits where the Master Brew is in fine fettle. The guvnor, who no longer drinks, asks me to sample the Whitstable Bay before it comes on. I was the sole customer, but others are now drifting in.

What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC. This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting. iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...

Thus far the average max at London Heathrow has been 16.2C +5C above already warmed 1991-2020 monthly average high. So the outlook will be a shock - expecting widespread frosts into early next week with temperatures more typical of January values. Feeling even more chillier as it has been so mild.

Can the U's still make the playoffs? 🤔 Guest Claire has a very compelling argument with a legendary story about a handshake! "Aggie looked me in the eye and he told me we were making the playoffs. And he shook my hand on it." 🤝

🍺 Northumberland Arms, Brentford: rather desolate-looking pub, west of the River Brent, with a modernised interior and two of the three handpumps partly hidden behind a pillar. Three blokes at the bar discuss trips to the western USA. I can't fault my pint of Oakham Original Pale Ale.

🍺 White Swan, Richmond, Gtr London: yet another pub I'm returning to after a long absence (I recall it being a Courage house in the 80s), this cosy, C18th hostelry, up a back street from the river, serves a decent pint of Surrey Hills Shere Drop. Clientele are decidedly middle-aged and middle class.

Shrewsbury tie on the goggle box and 60k banked for the privilege. Nice. #suttonunited www.suttonunited.net/news-shrewsb...

⚽️ Sutton Utd 2 Eastleigh 1: beneath a supermoon and fireworks we grab only our second league win of the season, the first half graced with two fine home goals, the rather rocky second seeing us give away our umpteenth penalty this term and spurn chances to get a third goal. We are off the bottom!