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The folly of Right To Buy.

THE TRIAL | Official Trailer | STUDIOCANAL International YouTube video by STUDIOCANAL

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The Trial (1962) was Welles' best film and is one of the best films of all.
It popularised the now overly-familiar 'Adagio in G minor' which had been published in 1958 by a musicologist but had already featured in Last Year at Marienbad (1961).

Bluesky Reaches 38M Users, Though Post Volume Is Declining Bluesky’s growth momentum has slowed, but it is still growing.

Bluesky now has 38M users - still growing but at a lot slower rate and daily post volume is declining with c700K daily now but such was 800K in May 2025.

Threads has 350M users. X has 600M users.

www.socialmediatoday.com/news/bluesky...

The cultural offer is low in Stratford town. A cinema & a theatre shut and the one time theatre/venue next to Stratford High St station is long silent. It's welcome news that the Prince Charles Cinema is looking to move here (to the ex Picturehouse?) but where are the indy theatres & music venues?

'happy peaceful era'
By David Szauder
#videoart

If mansion owners paid a fair council tax, local authorities wouldn’t be in such a mess | Simon Jenkins Angela Rayner’s proposed reforms are ill-conceived and fail to address the system’s inherent unfairness, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

'If mansion owners paid a fair council tax, local authorities wouldn’t be in such a mess.'
Simon Jenkins

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Clive Branson, Bombed Women and Searchlights, 1940

Brighton beach

A chimera for Conservatives wanting to win.
Boris Johnson (24%) is the clear preference amongst 2024 Conservative voters to lead that party after Kemi Badenoch leaves. Rishi Sunak (12%) is third favourite after James Cleverly.
conservativehome.com/2025/08/07/t...

DATA REVEALED: What media people in the UK are consuming in 2025 Often times, it’s not the attention grabbing lines that are the most useful from Ofcom data and 2025’s Media Nations report is no exception. I’ll talk about the findings around YouTube that got mos…

'DATA REVEALED: What media that people in the UK are consuming in 2025'
Includes monthly - 84% use social media, 68% listen to live radio on a radio set, 53% read a printed book.
danslee.co.uk/2025/08/04/d...

Lemons, oranges, & pomegranates in a wan-li bowl, 1630. Beautiful bounty from Jacob van Hulsdonck of Antwerp, whose day is today.

Herne Bay Cartoon Festival
1- 14 August

THree house terrace, Manchester Grove, Isle of Dogs

Pendower Estate, Newcastle

Semi-detached housing Scotforth Estate, Lancaster

Semi-detached housing, Stanmore Estate, Winchester

The 1919 Housing Act - the Addison Act - received the royal assent on this day 106 years ago. 176,000 council homes were built under its terms and its standard of high quality housing set a benchmark for decades to come (Examples from Poplar, Newcastle, Lancaster and Winchester)

Andrew Teale does good election previews. Here for Thames View ward, LB Barking & Dagenham with sketch (Bobby Moore, lightermen) to candidates, incl well-known Tory, Andrew Boff, GLA member & ex Leader, LB Hillingdon. And Greens' Paul Powlesland known locally for campaigning for better River Roding.

Stunning gothic interior of León Cathedral, Spain, dating from 1302, aka ‘House of Light’, with its nearly 1,800 square metres of stained glass windows

Government - there is a simple message you are not communicating.

An asylum seeker is paid £49.18 weekly for food, clothing, etc. If they are provided with meals, they are paid £9.95 weekly.

There is mass ignorance about this; many think the amounts are very much higher and more stuff is covered.

www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2025/news/re...

Big news for local papers & big savings for local government; Gov set to scrap rule councils must buy license ads in local print papers
One Ed told me their title folds straightaway without what's a council subsidy. Papers would close. Big bun fight looms

As Jay pointed out to me his reference to Leytonstone like so was a joke. Apologies.

Are Henley & Partners’ millionaire‑migration reports fabricated? Henley & Partners’ 2025 Wealth Migration Report says 16,500 UK millionaires will leave this year.

Claims wealthy fleeing from UK just will-o'-the-wisp?
Tax Policy Associates / Dan Neidle questioning whether Henley & Partners’ millionaire‑migration reports are fabricated. They are the source for many news stories that the wealthy are fleeing the UK. open.substack.com/pub/taxpolic...

Jay Rayner, like all big London food writers, shows his tongue doesn't stretch beyond Shoreditch. 'I'll go to the country's very extremities to review restaurants. But Leytonstone.'
Anyone can see best Malayalam, Nigerian, etc food is east of the Lea - Newham, Redbridge, WF, etc

'Anti-Social Behaviour' is often the reason given to withdraw services.

City of London Cemetery, Aldersbrook Rd, shut Rabbits Rd entrance a few years ago. Summer closing now changed to 5pm from 7pm. Wildlife photography now banned. ASB reason given for all.

It's as quiet as the grave when I visit.

Zurich

North Circular Road (Edmonton) - today

The billionaire and the tax evading gift shops Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital manages a row of high-profile shops at Piccadilly Circus. So why does his team keeping renting them to students who vanish without paying millions of pounds in taxes?

'The billionaire and the tax evading (West End) gift shops"
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