Big concern about the fragmentation or collapse of Iran altogether, especially with Trump backing the Kurds.
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Big concern about the fragmentation or collapse of Iran altogether, especially with Trump backing the Kurds.
Flicked on Question Time to see how the Iran debate went down. Audience are overwhelmingly against joining Trump, and the Economist's Shashank Joshi has been great on the flaws in the US/Israel's action and its potential consequences.
bad news: 3-1 down at half-time
good news: six play-off spots in the championship next season
Completely mad proposal from the Commons to hide the names of MPs staff who have parliamentary passes which could prove invaluable to vested interests looking to buy access to Westminster. Staff members taking hospitality + freebies would no longer be identified.
There's also the bit at the start about "casual visitors spending their whole lives here wondering why they never went home" which captures experiences of the majority of London in one way or another.
Discovered his brilliant Postcard from London episode during Covid. So good in so many ways. Great cameos by Victoria Wood and Alan Coren too.
Sure you could watch Alexander Armstrong hoof his way round India to pay his kids' private school fees, or........ www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkN3...
The next few years will feature so, so SO many columns and Substacks by people claiming that things were going well and Labour just needed to 'stick with Morgan's plan'.
Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
The wooden overhangs on the roof on the platform adds to the toy station effect. The fact that now and again you'll have a steam train on the London-bound platform is also a bonus!
Our electoral model is predicting a chaotic set of results: • Labour to lose at least 1 in 3 councillors. • Labour to lose control of at least 11 local authorities. • 10 local authorities to have no majority party (No Overall Control). • Reform to control at least 3 local authorities. • 9 local authorities controlled with majorities of fewer than 10.
London local election predictions. campaigns.cavendishconsulting.com/hubfs/London...
Suspect it won't end up like this, but the idea of Camden going into No Overall Control is speaks volumes, given their massive majority.
Clock tower? What clock tower?
St Pancras Clock Tower shrouded in morning fog. 04/03/2026. London, UK. Photo by Simon Lamrock.
St Pancras Clock Tower shrouded in morning fog.
#photography #fog #weather #london
Sir Robin Wales, longterm Labour leader of Newham council, has defected to Reform UK.
‘The camera is my weapon of choice’: Gordon Parks’ era-defining shots of segregation – and those who defied it
Telegraph censured for fabricated story of banker’s struggle to pay school fees
If you want to know how the British print news industry ends (which is, de facto, amazingly still what supports most newspaper websites) it's the distribution channels getting banjaxed. When you lose "TG Jones" etc even people who want a paper can't get one. That'll be the real start of the ending.
I count five flourescent colours of pen on Stride's notes. It's almost like protest art that belongs in the Tate Britain.
Safe to say Mel Stride is not having a good time responding to Rachel Reeves' spring statement. His first five minutes of indignation drowned out by Labour MPs. Even his felt tip pen notes can't save him.
The implicit argument of so much of this stuff is that there is no legitimate role for Muslims in public life.
Anyway, read a selection of mine and @georgegreenwood.bsky.social's investigations into the Definitely Not Geopolitical Dubai property market here:
www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...
"The trade was not that you were getting exposed to geopolitics when moving to Dubai."
David Cameron, 2011: “I am not a naive neocon who thinks you can drop democracy out of an aeroplane at ten thousand feet.”
Kemi Badenoch, 2026: “The only reason not to back this war without caveat is if you’re looking to get support from the Mozzies!”
GBNews presenter being told she’s not British.
There are now almost twice as many public electric car charging points in the UK as there are petrol/diesel fuel pumps, a government analysis has found.
Obviously it's not a perfect like-for-like comparison given recharging/fuelling times, but symbolically important.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
John Curtice is now reporting that this is the Conservative's worst performance in a by-election in the party's history...
399 constituencies would switch Labour > Green on this vote swing if repeated in a general election. (John Curtice on BBC)
Seismic. Stunningly so, and now Starmer faces multiple very difficult questions
If the Greens do win in Gorton and Denton, there will be a *lot* of Labour MPs looking nervously over their shoulder, and imploring Starmer and No 10 to show a bit of political leg to all those voters peeling off from the left.
