@chimpman.bsky.social We all know that Kent begins at the South Circular

So tiresome isn't it? Proper "one weird trick" vibes.

Reminded of Miliband's best line

Not a great location either...

Check out this 4 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove 4 bedroom detached house for sale in Geoffrey Road, London, SE4 for £1,299,995. Marketed by Truepenny's, Dulwich

Have you seen this?
www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

Trevor Phillips said on Sky News this morning that "everybody in the country who could read a newspaper" knew in advance of the Mandelson appointment that he was problematic

is this the same Phillips who interviewed Mandelson on October 08 2023 and didn't ask any questions about Epstein friendship?

@secondmentions.bsky.social "unshakable comrade-in-salad"

"Girona is Spanish for gravel, actually..."

Tremendously depressing read. Also: proper reporting.

open.substack.com/pub/londonce...

Yh, don't have any gravel, still want one

The kids staying away from school Absenteeism that rose dramatically during Covid-19 has failed to return to pre-pandemic levels. The costs are mounting

as.ft.com/r/a36cdb5f-0... The kids staying away from school

Is this because gravel bikes are cool?

I mean, apart from the whole "not tropical, has winter" thing, sure.

Pure late stage dot-com vibes with a dash of Tulipmania.

What Woke took from us, exhibit 346.

She was quite into espresso aged about 5, which raised a few eyebrows...

Me: "No Gitanes until she's 10."

Yup. I said "Try an olive" and caught her in an amenable mood.

She did and said, "Quite nice actually."

The eldest has just started eating olives.

Late-stage middle-class parenting achievement unlocked.

A Top Boris Johnson Aide Says The UK Will Have A “Special Relationship” With Viktor Orbán’s Hungary After Brexit Tim Montgomerie praised the "interesting early thinking on the limits of liberalism" by Hungary's authoritarian government at an event hosted by a right-wing think tank.

Spare a thought for Tim Montgomerie whose dreams of a special relationship with Orban are dashed. Gone is the 'interesting early thinking on the limits of liberalism'. He'll have to carry the torch himself. www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/...

Tell me you live in a house full of girls without telling me you live in a house full of girls

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Reform UK donor linked to sanctioned Iranian conglomerate A churchwarden behind a £200,000 gift to Nigel Farage’s party is the director of a company cited in French intelligence memos

A tiny firm - so small it doesn’t have to publish audited accounts - with £81k in cash made 7 donations totalling £200k to Reform UK.

We now know the firm has had long-term dealings in Iran, including a €145m deal with the Iranian state-owned telecoms company.

Reform have more questions to answer.

15 women were willing to come to testify in court on behalf of the FT.

That included 3 whose allegations had not previously been reported.

An ad for bbwjobs.com but the letter spacing is extremely tight, so the second b look like an l and o instead.

keming. not even once.

I'm with @stephenkb.bsky.social and have a soft spot for the Canary Wharf. But that's because I lived in Stepney from 2004 to 2013 and the Wharf and Wapping were where we went to get our middle-class fix in those long ago, pre-gentrified times.

Headline: “Is Kanye West the David Bowie of his age?”

No, I don’t think he is.

Yh, this. I found his books borderline unreadable so didn't read them. When he became problematic, well...

No so easy with "The Ghost" which is a rather good film.

"What's mine is his"

I knew it was bad but really didn’t appreciate it was quite this bad

as.ft.com/r/db911dd6-f...

LOL😹